Ari Vatanen, rally Word champion and multiple legendary Dakar Rally Winner, is going to arrive to Poland, to honour the occcasion of Safety Gala. The Gala will sum up the second editio of „ORLEN. Safe roads” program and is going to take place February 27, in Royal Castle in Warsaw.
Ari Vatanen’s arrival to Poland is going to be a great event, not only for the sport fans. He is not only a great sportsman, Rally World Champion (1981) and 4 time Dakar Rally winner, but also traffic safety activist and a politician. Vatanen is the Member of European Parliament and cooperates with Krzysztof Ho³owczyc in International Trade Committee and Transport and Tourism Committee. This is going to be the first Vatanen’s official visit in Poland. During the Safety Gala he will give an occasional speech and will give one of the Initiatives Competition awards.
During Safety Gala the organisators of the traffic safety action from all Poland will receive Golden Safety Shields and financial awards with total value 525 000 zlotych, founded by PKN ORLEN. In the second edition there were al most 300 initatives sent, in three categories: all-Poland, regional and local.