Rallye Breslau 2026 Standings: Who Leads Before the Final Day

After four legs, a night stage and one big surprise in the schedule, the Rallye Breslau 2026 heads into its final day in Zagan with clear leaders in most classes and one fight that is completely open. Berend de Ruiter leads the Enduro class, Remigiusz Wutkowski and Michal Goleniewski control the car field in their Nissan Patrol, and in the SSV class only 4 minutes and 15 seconds separate the Lithuanian crew Olechnavicius/Karuzis from Dakar truck podium finisher Mitchel van den Brink. Here is where the rally stands before the finish under the Breslau Arch.

A new format, and a rally that had to adapt

The 2026 edition introduced the biggest structural change in years, as we explained in our complete Rallye Breslau 2026 overview. Instead of the traditional single base, the rally opened at the Drawsko Pomorskie military training ground in the north and moved south to the sand around Zagan, the region known as the Polish Sahara. The prologue on 28 June set the starting order, the night stage in the Drawsko forests delivered its usual drama, and the plan foresaw the legendary Hannibal marathon stage as the bridge between the two bivouacs on Wednesday.

That bridge never happened as planned. The Hannibal stage was cancelled, and the field relocated to Zagan, where Leg 4 ran as a double special stage (SS5 and SS6) in the sand. Decisions like this are part of rally raid. The Dakar shortens and cancels stages too when safety or logistics demand it, and how a team absorbs such a change often says more about its readiness than any single stage time.

Enduro: De Ruiter in control, Knuiman chasing

The Enduro class is the biggest field of the rally with 50 riders still classified, and it has a familiar face on top. Berend de Ruiter (Husqvarna FE 450, Road to Rally) won the prologue and leads the overall standings after Leg 4 with a total of 8:30:07. Jeremy Knuiman (KTM EXC 450) sits second at 17:48, having taken the fastest Enduro time on SS6 to keep the pressure on. Justin Gerlach (KTM EXC-F 450, JG Racing) holds third at 44:26 as the best German rider.

Behind the podium, Ignas Daunoravicius and Matthew Gird are separated by less than five minutes in the fight for fourth. The gaps at the front are large enough that only a mistake changes the podium, but in Breslau sand a mistake is never far away.

Cars: Wutkowski dominates, prologue winners fall back

In Car Open, Remigiusz Wutkowski and Michal Goleniewski (Nissan Patrol, Wutkowski Motorsport) have built a lead of 21:20 over the Dutch crew Stijn van Erp and Lucas van Geest in their Fiat Fullback Proto. Mindaugas Povilaitis and Slavomir Volkov (Toyota Hilux) complete the provisional podium.

The story of the class is what happened to the prologue winners. Herman Jasper and Mark Laan set the fastest time of the entire rally in the opening test with their Red-Lined VK50, but after four legs they sit fourth at 52:05. Breslau rewards consistency over one fast lap, and this year proves it again.

In Car Limited, Dan Upton and Neil Rogers (Land Rover Defender) lead comfortably after their main rivals lost hours in the Zagan sand.

SSV: the tightest fight of the rally

The SSV class delivers the headline going into the final day. Dalius Olechnavicius and Romualdas Karuzis (Can-Am Maverick X3, Specialist Racing Team) lead with a total of 7:51:01, but Mitchel van den Brink and Nick van Drie (Can-Am Maverick R, Eurol Rallysport) are only 4:15 behind. Van den Brink arrived in Poland fresh from third place in the truck class at the Dakar 2026 and has been fastest on both Zagan specials. One navigation error or one soft dune on the final leg can still decide this class.

Remi Berthelier and Corentin Bon (Can-Am X3) hold third at 27:11. And there is a result we follow with particular attention: Uwe Goetzel and Christof Trautsch, running under the UG Rallyesport / TimeOut Racing banner, sit seventh in this deep SSV field after a clean and consistent week. Exactly the kind of steady performance that wins rallies like this in the long run.

Trucks and Extreme: Dust Warriors and an all-female crew on top

In the truck class, the Van Groningen family crew (Iveco Powerstar, Dust Warriors) leads with 37:24 over the German Tatra of Tom Heuer, Christoph Tum and Marco Richter, who had won the truck prologue.

In the Extreme category, Hardo Mere and Piotr Kujawski (HM7 Proto) control Extreme Car Open, while Extreme Car Limited is led by Anja Hertwig and Cathrin Altenbach in their Land Rover Discovery, an all-female crew showing exactly the kind of resilience the Extreme category demands. The Muellenheim crew (Mercedes Unimog, Bronco Racing) leads Extreme Truck Small by just 6:25, another class that stays open until the last kilometre.

Why Breslau matters on the road to Dakar

Every year the Breslau standings read like a preview of future Dakar entry lists. Van den Brink uses the Polish sand as top level SSV training between Dakar campaigns. Privateers like De Ruiter and Knuiman build the navigation and endurance skills that no test track can teach. And for teams like ours, supporting crews through a week of heat, dust and changing plans is the closest European rehearsal for what awaits in Saudi Arabia in January.

The final leg runs today around Zagan. Official provisional classifications are published by the organiser on rallye-breslau.com, and we will publish the full recap with the winners as soon as the crews pass under the Breslau Arch.

About the Author

Sven Syfrig is the Team Principal of TimeOut Racing, an international off-road motorsport team based in Switzerland, competing in events like the Dakar Classic. As an active rally driver and YouTube content creator, he shares hands-on insights from the cockpit, the workshop, and the world of amateur rally racing.

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