Dan Girtofan's forthcoming participation in rally "Sliven" will be his second in Bulgaria. For the last time, the Romanian was at the start of rally "Bulgaria" in 2008 season, when he competed for the Prista Oil Rally Team and relied on a Subaru Impreza WRX Sti.

In the past few years, Girtofan and his co-driver Tudor Marza have been the main competitors of Simone Tempestini for the championship title in Romanian Rally Championship. The last victory of the crew of Prorally Team Brasov was in the season 2016 when they won rally "Sibiu".

With Dan Girtofan and Tudor Marza, the battle for the first place in rally "Sliven" 2017 seems to be really interesting - they join the extremely powerful crews of Yagiz Avci / Bahadir Gucenmez, Orhan Avcioglu/ Burcin Korkmaz and Plamen Staykov / David Kvarazkhelia.