Belgian Rally News

[Fly]

Haspengouw rally will open the 2016 season on the 27th of february. Two DS3 R5 on the list for far: Bob de Jong and Steveny. Several other R5's are expected.
To follow the entries:
http://www.rallyvanhaspengouw.be/ind...ngen-nationaal

[dupanton]

There should be at least 8 R5s doing the full championship, with several others on a limited program. We might have 10 R5 cars on every round, that would be awesome for a small country like Belgium!

[dimviii]

#WRC Yannick Neuville ( @thierryneuville BRO) testing today his new Skoda Fabia S2000

[mas-racing]

[dimviii]

Yannick Neuville testing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WNL...ature=youtu.be

[SpeedEstRacing]

my vidéo of historic rally in belgium, Legend boucles de bastogne: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5oYoYj2yio

[mas-racing]

[dupanton]

Full entrylist for Haspengouw Rally, first rally of the Belgian Championship:
http://trch.be/index.php/deelnemers/startlijst

Vanwoensel is the top favorite with the only WRC car, a Lancer 05.

There are 10 R5 cars:
Loix (Fabia), Princen (208) and Cherain (Fiesta) will be the main challengers for Vanwoensel. It should be interesting to watch the differences between the 3 cars on tarmac, the drivers are quite evenly matched.
Demaerschalk (DS3) should be fast if he will start (not sure if car will be ready).
Verschueren (Fabia) uses his new car for the first time, he will need some time to get use to it.
De Jongh, Steveny, Serderidis, Van Rompuy (DS3), Benoit (Fiesta) are the other R5 cars.

There is a Mini WRC at the start too, but with an RRC restrictor and in RC2. That is a new (and very strange) rule this year, to prevent an easy win with a WRC1.6.

Junior championship will not be very interesting this year (as boring as last year probably).

Historic is better, with several "new generation" historics coming the next rallies: Legacy's, Celica, Sierra, M3 E30, Mazda 323 etc...

Finally there is BMW Cup on selected rounds and there is also a sort of "second division" championship on the same rallies.

[EightGear]

Any normal link to Haspengouw results? The official results page is a total mess.

[EightGear]

So it seems to be working again now.

http://haspengouw.rallyresults.be/mo...gouw-nationaal

Nice fight again between Loix and Princen, just 1.1 between them after 7 stages (of which 1 was cancelled). Van Woensel just in front in the Lancer WRC.