Belgian Rally News

[focus206]

They are allowed, but they can only score points for their overall result, not for their results in class. All other cars score for both. It's a new rule introduced this season.

So for example, Loix finishes 2nd and Princen wins, Loix will score more points than Princen. (Overall+class vs. just overall)

I believe Princen and his codriver Kaspers just wanted to drive a WRC and didn't really care about the championship.

Thank you for the explanation, well that's too bad, I was thinking we could have had a nice fight until Condroz, but I was looking just as results and not at classifications.

[gianni123]

Video

Criterium Jean-Louis Dumont with lots of water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4eRvG9C47U

[tommeke_B]

REALLY STRANGE RULE.first time i hear such a thing.thanks for the information!so typically wrcars are eligible but essentially are not.

This has been used in Germany (DRM) as well. All in all I think this rule has not done any damage to the championship. Projects like Loix-Skoda and Tsjoen-Peugeot are made possible by this. Also the fights for victories were much more exciting this year than during years when WRC scored for the championship. There was usually only one very good driver with the best car, like Tsjoen-Focus/C4 or Loix-Focus.

This year we've seen amazing efforts from Kobus and Cherain, who often were quite close to Freddy. Regarding the situation they both do a great job! Cherain does not have that much experience with this kind of car yet, he's building it, and Kobus has an older generation car and the Kumho tyres. On top of that you must know that Freddy Loix is driving some top-rallycar (WRC/S2000/R5) almost every week, as testing driver for Michelin and Skoda Motorsport.

Anyway, tomorrow there is the East Belgian Rally. Great entry-list considering the championship-fight is over and considering the region (only very few BRC-drivers are from the region). Of course there is Thierry Neuville, but there are more R5 (Cherain-Fiesta, Tsjoen-208, Swaanen-Fiesta, Verschueren-DS3, Serderidis-Fiesta), S2000 (Kobus) and WRC cars (Princen, Van Woensel, De Jong, Martin) and some GT's, Group N's (with a surprising appearance of Vanden Heuvel) etc.. http://login.webpartner.be/pages/19/..._Nationaal.pdf - Here's the list. Also interesting to see Sander Parn preparing his Rallye de France here.

Live results can be found here: http://www.tac-results.be/index.php/...fter_ss/latest first stage starts tomorrow at 9h31 and last stage starts at 21h33, totalling 13 stages (153km SS).

[Tom206wrc]

Really bad time for Thierry Neuville on SS1 East Belgian Rally(+5' lost over Cédric Chérain first leader)

[Mirek]

Neuville won second stage so it was probably some off or something. Anyway again fantastic time by Stephan Hermann on SS1!

[Tom206wrc]

After SS2 Neuville leading with 22" advantage, it was simply a timing/GPS problem on SS1

[Tom206wrc]

Sander Pärn is completely off the pace in R2 on this event, unlike in WRC where he performs well

[Mirek]

Finish

1. Neuville (i20 WRC) 1:17:35,6
2. Cherain (Fiesta R5) +3:24,7
3. Kobus (Fiesta S2000) +4:59,8
4. Van Woensel (Impreza WRC S5) +5:04,3
5. Verschueren (DS3 R5) +6:03,6
6. Hermann (Punto HGT "Kit Car") +7:48,0 (!)
7. Garcia (Clio R3T) +8:21,0
8. Snijers (BMW 130i) +8:38,5
9. De Ridder (Evo IX gr.N) +8:59,5
10. Burton (DS3 R3T) +9:10,7

Does anyone know what happened to Princen?

[JieM]

Video East Belgian Rally 2014 -> http://youtu.be/QbJm6BNvhKs

[dimviii]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=wiTKqQXbcQQ