Belgian Rally News

[mas-racing]

[tommeke_B]

Young Irish driver Stephen Wright is planning to compete with an R5-car in the Belgian championship this year! Last year he became quite competitive with the 208 R2.

[tommeke_B]

Regulations for BRC are officially out now. Some changes:

9 events are on the calendar, 8 best results count for the championship. Who enters in all 9 rounds get 9 extra points for the championship (not for the category-championships). (For info: the points for championship consist out of points scored per event 10-8-6-etc general + 10-8-6-etc. in class, so a driver can score up to 20 points per event. If you're 5th and you win your class you still get 14 points).

First 15 on the start-list should be be RC2 or RGT cars registered for the championship. From 15 to 20 it will be the 5 first drivers in BRC junior standings, after the last junior there will be a 2 minute gap. So first WRC should have number 21...

Also Rally2 goes from 5 to 7 minutes (10 minutes for last stage of the day), which makes it nearly impossible to get in top 10 after retiring on first leg.

[tommeke_B]

Bertrand Grooten confirmed first 4 rallies of BRC with Citroën DS3 R5 from D-Max. So it's the 3rd DS3 R5 who will participate in the Belgian championship. He used to be a talented driver but last years he did only one-shots.

[Tom206wrc]

Return of Polle Geussens in BRC and at the 208 Cup

[tommeke_B]

http://www.autonews-magazine.com/blog/?p=43169
Kris Princen doing BRC with support of Peugeot Belux!

[tommeke_B]

Livery for Princen. Reminds me to the Peugeot Italy colors.

[Tom206wrc]

I just discovered the news about Kris Princen !!!! I'm too happy, at least as happy as when I learnt Paolo Andreucci was the new Peugeot Italia factory driver in 2009


To me the best candidate in the belgian championship vs Fast Freddy

[vino_93]

Great news for Belgian champ (and by the way, for Ypres too ) ! I think I'll come back to TAC this year

[tommeke_B]

Patrick Snijers will do full BRC with a new Porsche 997 GT3, including Ypres. Could be interesting to see a battle between Delecour and Snijers there...