Season 2012 is coming to an end, and also the IRC series too. In the coming season onwards, the IRC will be merged into the European Rally Championship. The season finale was scheduled at the city of Limassol, Cyprus. The event is a mixed surface based rally with both gravel & asphalt sections in the special stages. The event is held since 1970 in various championships, including WRC, IRC & MERC. Since 2010, it has been in the IRC calendar & was last won by Andreas Mikkelsen in Skoda Fabia S2000 car. The event was eventually won by Nasser Al-Attiyah in his new Ford Fiesta RRC, which he will be fielding with two more in the coming WRC season in a WRC addon kit for the same car. Andreas Mikkelsen was pretty much there on his tail until he picked up a puncture in SS10 and dropping couple more minutes but still comfortably finishing in 2nd place. He also let his codriver Ola Floene to drive the last stage of the rally, to give him a feel of the heat of the event on his
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