News from France

A really interesting battle in France indeed, almost as interesting as in Croatia. 4 top drivers in a margin of 7 seconds. Although it's quite strange that a WRC driver can't beat a Super 2000 car.

[vino_93]

There was, this week end in Picardy, a beautiful Off Road Rally event. It is part of the OffRoad Rally Championship. Buggy are incredibly powerful, fast, and spectacular. If you can see this, go ! It is difficult to describe, maybe there will be nice video online :)



My pictures :
http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2013/photos/rallye_tout_terrain_jean_de_la_fontaine_2013/tbr_rallye%20jean%20de%20la%20fontaine%20381.jpg



http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2013/photos/rallye_tout_terrain_jean_de_la_fontaine_2013/tbr_rallye%20jean%20de%20la%20fontaine%20715.jpg



http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2013/photos/rallye_tout_terrain_jean_de_la_fontaine_2013/tbr_rallye%20jean%20de%20la%20fontaine%20087.jpg

eWRC.cz - Fotogalerie Rallye Tout-Terrain Jean de la Fontaine 2013 Thomas Bruno (http://www.ewrc.cz/ewrc/fotogalery.php?events=10779&fotograf=277)

[vino_93]

Arnaud Augoyard will be back in French Championship, entering the Rally des Vins Mâcons with a Punto S2000, runned by Msr. :)
He was a fantastic driver with the 306 Maxi some years ago, and he was official Renault driver with clio S1600 in 2006.
eWRC-results.com - profile Arnaud Augoyard (http://www.ewrc-results.com/profile.php?p=2260&t=Arnaud-Augoyard)

[Wim_Impreza]

What happened with Jean-Marc Manzagol (+3'30" in SS4) in the Ronde de la Giraglia?

Nice fight for the victory between Charles Zuccarelli (206 WRC) and Pascal Trojani (307 WRC, +0"6 after the first day).

[Kielder]

Loeb and his wife may start in Rallye du Var. He himself wrote it on his web: Article Rallye du Chablais (http://www.sebastienloeb.com/rallye-du-chablais-la-chronique-de-severine/)

[tolis]

Lebanese champion Roger Feghali will drive a Peugeot 208 R2 in Rallye du Rouergue!

[Kielder]

Maurin won the Rallye des Vins-Mâcon.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BM05CRvCcAIEjSN.jpg:large

[MartijnS]

Hans Weijs will drive a DS3 WRC at Terre de Langres!

[dimviii]

what a photo!

[Kielder]

Big crash of Pierre Lafay in Vins-Mâcon. Fortunately, crew & spectators are OK. As spectator, sometimes you can't say you're absolutely save.


http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x10xx9g_rallye-vins-macon-2013-sortie-de-route-megane-crash_auto

[EightGear]

I've got a question: Is there anything motorsport-related going on in the area of Annecy in July? I'll be there around that time and was wondering about it, you never know. :)

Thanks in advance.

[vino_93]

Annecy in July it is more the Tour de France than motorsport ... but I'll look :)

[vino_93]

So in Rhône Alpes for rallies you have :
Rallye de Saint Marcellin, 5 and 6 july. it's around 1h30 from Annecy, in Saint Marcellin
Rallye de Saint-Marcellin (38) (http://www.rallygo.com/go/epreuves/article.php?storyid=1092)

Rallye de la Drôme, 20 and 21 juillet. it's around 2h from Annecy, in Saint Jean en Royans.
Rallye de la Drôme (26) (http://www.rallygo.com/go/epreuves/article.php?storyid=1106)

The 5 july you have too another event, but 2h30 for Annecy (Côte Roannaise, close to Lyon)

In Hillclimb, you have the 5 juillet the race in Vuillafans. It's 2h30 from Annecy, but that's French Championship (and one of the most famous event)
Course de Côte de Vuillafans-Echevannes (25) (http://www.rallygo.com/go/epreuves/article.php?storyid=134)

You have a slalom in the same department !
That's in Ville-la-Grand (in suburbs of Genève, close to Annemasse) : Slalom de Ville-la-Grand (74) (http://www.rallygo.com/go/epreuves/article.php?storyid=868)
it looks like it's not a so bad slalom (I mean, it's not a race btw tyres in a parking !)

After for the rest :
Trial 4x4 Montriond (1h30 from Annecy). 21/07
I've no idea of what it is ...

and I think that's all :)

[EightGear]

Yes, on the day I leave Annecy, the Tour the France is coming there. :p

[EightGear]

Thanks a lot! Really appriciated! :up:

[vino_93]

If you need help to have more information, don't hesitate to send me pm ;)

[vino_93]

Two libaneses guys will start Rallye du Rouergue : Roger Feghali with 208 R2 :cool: and Rapheed Aca'a with same car !

Entry list for Terre de Langres (this week end) : RALLYGO.com » Documents (http://www.rallygo.com/go/documents/visit.php?cid=185&lid=4812)
with Mohamed Al Mutawan from Citroën programm in United Arab Emirates !

[tolis]

Two libaneses guys will start Rallye du Rouergue : Roger Feghali with 208 R2 :cool: and Rapheed Aca'a with same car !

Entry list for Terre de Langres (this week end) : RALLYGO.com » Documents (http://www.rallygo.com/go/documents/visit.php?cid=185&lid=4812)
with Mohamed Al Mutawan from Citroën programm in United Arab Emirates !
It's not Rapheed Aca'a, but Rasheed Ala'a!

[Wim_Impreza]

Tolis, your inbox is full. Please can you delete some messages? :) Thank you.

[tolis]

Tolis, your inbox is full. Please can you delete some messages? :) Thank you.
Sorry! Done!

[Tom206wrc]

Fantastic entrylist in Lanres tis week-end :bounce:

[MartijnS]

http://sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1000806_403860286393639_127635557_n.jpg

[vino_93]

Van Loon is supporting him ? Really good thing if he can help him to come back to the highest level of racing :)

[EightGear]

Basically all major Dutch national drivers are supporting him, which is good to see. :)

[fegh]

It's not Rapheed Aca'a, but Rasheed Ala'a!

Ala'a Rasheed is Jordanian, he drives in MERC and WRC for Motortune racing a Lebanese team

[Tom206wrc]

Didier Auriol back to rally next month at the wheels of a 207 S2000 in Rouergue(tarmac championship) :eek: :up:

Edit: car from the Barroso team ;)

[Tom206wrc]

To follow Langres from today saturday Langres (http://www.brennusinfo.fr/2013/Langres2013/Langres.aspx) ;)

[Tom206wrc]

Weijs Jr already in front after SS1(21km)but Lionel Baud in is wale not far(5") ;)
Cuoq already +24" :s
Weater rainy and wet, slippy roads :mark:

[Tom206wrc]

Baud faster tan Weijs on SS2...takes te lead ;)

[EightGear]

Abbring 4th overall on SS2, beating everyone else in the 208 Cup by more than 20 seconds. :D

[Tom206wrc]

Baud off road SS10 :mark: Weijs Jr takes lead in front of Cuoq and Jacquot...

[darkstar]

abbring is stunning!

[br21]

abbring is stunning!

and he lost some time on ss1 because of puncture.
also he lost lot of time on ss5 because car in front of him was blocking the road, his time from that stage should be revised.

[darkstar]

yes, read that with ss5 on facebook.

[EightGear]

Would have been a top 3 time overall otherwise on SS5.


" Time on SS5 is 'corrected' but this is the story: was leading by 38 sec (after SS4) and extended the lead by 10 sec (on SS6) , that's 48 sec in total. After correction I'm leading by only 22 sec now in stead of at least 48 sec. Keeps it exciting!"

[Tom206wrc]

Entrylist Rallye du Rouergues ;)
Rallye-Sport.fr : L'actualité du rallye en France et dans le Monde (http://www.rallye-sport.fr/liste-des-engages-rallye-du-rouergues-2013)

Finally no Didier Auriol :mark:

[andre93]

Information about Aguzzi's 207 s20000 at rallye du Prunelli??

[Kielder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHts84l2V6Q

[fegh]

Roger feghali second in R2 only 6s behind Cedric Robert, in his first ss in the 208.
Ss2 canceled due to an accident and car on fire, hope the crew is ok.

[tommeke_B]

Rallye du Rouergue 2013 - Show de Germain Bonnefis (Megane RS N4) [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp9Y2IKySU4) a Mégane Gr.N can be spectacular... :p

[Andre Oliveira]

JF Mourgues was testing PH Sport's DS3 WRC (JM da Cunha last weekend car) with Giraudet. What rally he will do?

[vino_93]

Cévennes, home event :)

[tommeke_B]

@vino_93: I'm visiting Terre de l'Auxerrois next week. French gravel championship, including 208 cup, DS3 cup, adam cup, ... :) But on forums it's quite strange, nothing is found about it? I know forum-rallye.com and forum-auto.com (sport section), are there any more popular French rally-forums where I could find some info? :)

[dupanton]

A very poor site they have, no info at all... No entrylist.
But we (=mousti and I) are going anyway! :) First "Terre de France" for us!

[mousti]

Tuesday evening entries were getting closed, but no list yet.. Besides Belgian(s) and Dutch crew(s) there should be also entries from Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and the UK..

[vino_93]

@vino_93: I'm visiting Terre de l'Auxerrois next week. French gravel championship, including 208 cup, DS3 cup, adam cup, ... :) But on forums it's quite strange, nothing is found about it? I know forum-rallye.com and forum-auto.com (sport section), are there any more popular French rally-forums where I could find some info?

That's all the problem with gravel. As FFSA don't care about it, organizers don't have money ...

You have the two most important forums, so sorry ... :) In fact, forum-rallye is more or less the only now. But I'm not really sure about his quality ... :)
But you couldn't find maps, because they are secrets, in order to prevent illegal recce. You have to go to the centre of the rally.

For entry list ... we have to wait :(
But first part of it was published (A to M).
In WRC : Baud (307), Beaubelique (Focus), Carbonaro (C4), Chieusse (307), Cuoq (C4), Hennion (DS3), Lapouilles (Impreza)
S2000 : Jacquot (207)
R4 : Bruyneel (Impreza)
R3 : Colney (DS3), Daumas (DS3), Demaerschalk (DS3), Dubert (DS3), Giordano (DS3), Maurage (DS3), Meo (DS3), ...
R2 : Abbring (208), Abelli (208), Cherain (208), Comoli (208), Consani (208), Gago (208), Lefebvre (208), Margaillan (208), ...
N4 : Feraud (Lancer X), Houssin (Lancer Vi),
A8 : Deveza (Impreza GT), Fouques (Impreza 555), Gillouin (Impreza GT)
etc ...

Quite comon for the moment.

I hope you will enjoy. I'd like to go there, but it'll not be for this year, again ... :(

[tommeke_B]

Thanks! Pitty Chicherit isn't there, I thought he wanted to go for a full championship. Nice to see some relatively recent WRC cars in French gravel rallying... :) Pitty FFSA doesn't invest more into the gravel championship, it has a big potential in my opinion.

[mousti]

Chicherit lost 2 sponsors just before Langres and didn't start already there and I don't think we will see him back there.. Also no Charles Martin I think..

Also leader in the CRT, Robert will start there, also Mordacq in a Sauvan Evo X. I've got a list of entries but not full because it ends after 'Ma...'. Hopefully seeded list will come out soon.

[mousti]

Seeded list for Auxerre:

http://www.asa-auxerrois.com/docum13/terre/engages_1_2013.pdf

[dupanton]

No Robert!?

[mousti]

No Robert!?

Robert is first seeded DS3, nice that Vigion and Amourette driving there too, both quite fast.

Edit: Robert forfait because of logistics with DS3's for WRC Finland..

[EightGear]

Quite a shakeup in the 208 Cup after Terre de l'Auxerrois.

Both Abbring and Lefebvre chose this rally to use their 'joker' which would double the points they would score there.

Abbring retired on SS3 with a broken engine while he was 2nd behind Noel Tron (who crashed on SS3). Lefebvre took the lead but was in second position today, yet he still won because the leader, Matthieu Margaillan crashed 200 meters from the finish of the last stage!

So, before the rally Lefebvre was 36 points behind Abbring in the standings, but now he will be in the lead by 7 points because his points count double and he won most stages which earns him 3 points as well.

[dupanton]

Really enjoyed my first "Terre de France", I'm surely go back in the future! Fantastic roads, nothing like we know in Belgium :)

Cuoq wasn't spectaculair, but obvisiously the fastest. Baud, Chieusse, Deveza etc. were really impressive!

In the 208 cup, Abbring, Tron, Martin, Lefevre, they were all full attack all the time. A pity Tron and Abbring had to retire. Margaillan drove very clean but fast, stupid he crashed in the end with a 40s lead...

The DS3 cup wasn't as spectacular as the 208 cup. Vigion and Dubert were visibly fastest, Demaerschalck only impressed me on the last stage.

Later today I will post some pictures!

[tommeke_B]

Also had a great event. It's a unique championship indeed, quite strange that it gets only little attention, apparently FFSA doesn't want it to grow too much... Seen very spectacular things (as always on French gravel), especially the commitment of the drivers in trophies is stunning. The level of the 208 Cup is crazy, can't wait to see them again...

My photos are online on www.rally-image.be (http://www.rally-image.be)

http://rally-image.be/foto/0374/images/001.jpg

http://rally-image.be/foto/0374/images/015.jpg

http://rally-image.be/foto/0374/images/043.jpg

http://rally-image.be/foto/0374/images/013.jpg

http://rally-image.be/foto/0374/images/054.jpg

[tommeke_B]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1074340_612081745479968_518235720_o.jpg Interesting photo. Jean-Marie Cuoq his tyres (or what's left from it) after a loop of 3 stages on saturday... :)

[tommeke_B]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BZ7U7Qqbe8&feature=youtu.be :vader:

[dimviii]

:vader:

[tommeke_B]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201618672297596&set=vb.1502247011&type=2&theater Same place with Lefebvre (who won 208 Cup), not sure if people who aren't on facebook can watch it.

[mousti]

Close to the limit?? lol :D

Probably on last stage I think, he went there flatout!

Also Lefebvre on the limit there..

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201618672297596&set=vb.1502247011&type=2&theater

[dupanton]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/s720x720/954658_494828867262926_265606917_n.png
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/q71/s720x720/971739_494828927262920_1647619354_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/s720x720/16580_494829130596233_362796770_n.png
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/q82/s720x720/1000896_494828663929613_1027145640_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/1003319_494828770596269_1039960685_n.png

More on http://www.facebook.com/tacrally

[gianni123]

Video online Rallye Terre de l'Auxerrois


Rallye Terre de l'Auxerrois - 2013 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euwMTPxiCcs)

[OldF]

Does some privateer have a DS3 WRC or is it something similar?

[tommeke_B]

Does some privateer have a DS3 WRC or is it something similar?

This car was run by PH Sport, not owned by the driver. Van Merksteijn will also drive a DS3 WRC in a national event, but in The Netherlands (Hellendoorn Rally).

Some onboard-compilation from Demaerschalk, very impressive driving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlMeoSIiKB0&feature=player_embedded

[vino_93]

Does some privateer have a DS3 WRC or is it something similar?

All DS3 are kept by Citroën. They only allow PH Sport to have these cars ... I think we will have to wait some long years before seeing a "private" DS3.

[Mirek]

I heard a rumor about one private DS3 WRC which if true will appear soon.

[mousti]

Just guessing, but Tomas Kostka?

[Mirek]

No, not in CZ (but I don't rule out Kostka may drive it one day in the future).

[tommeke_B]

No, not in CZ (but I don't rule out Kostka may drive it one day in the future).
More than one day, in Germany in a few weeks. :)

[Mirek]

I meant that one particular car I heard about not any DS3 (although it might be that one, I don't know :D ).

[dimviii]

Now i am waiting Pluto to say that he knows who is. :D

[tommeke_B]

Arzeno will make his comeback. He's driving the 3 remaining events of the French 208 Cup (Mont Blanc, Antibes and Condroz). Welcome back! :)

[vino_93]

He will start this week end the rallye du Gap Racing, who has a nice entry list, with 6 S2000 !
First time in France, there will have two Fabia S2000. And one for Matthieu Margaillan, who was leading 208 Cup in Auxerre before retiring. There is too Nicolas Latil, last winner of french cup.
And Guigou with a Mégane N4 ! :)

[Mirek]

Matthieu Margaillan is the one who bought car from Jan Černý?

[vino_93]

Yes !
And Ganguet bought it in Slovakia.

[Fiat-131-Abarth]

I heard a rumor about one private DS3 WRC which if true will appear soon.

Have they sold or will they sell a DS3 WRC to Felice Re?

[Mirek]

Yes !
And Ganguet bought it in Slovakia.

Slovakia? I don't remember any Fabia S2000 from Slovakia (many have Slovak plates though but that is only because of insurance I think). But I don't follow them anymore :)

[tolis]

Slovakia? I don't remember any Fabia S2000 from Slovakia (many have Slovak plates though but that is only because of insurance I think). But I don't follow them anymore :)
ex-Beres maybe?

[vino_93]

Yes !
And Ganguet bought it in Slovakia.
I just havce more informations : the SKoda of Margaillan will be run by AFC Racing (the team who ran the 207 of Vigion in Limousin f.e.), and it seems BDS (team of Baud) have another Fabia. Maybe the one from Ganguet ?

[Mirek]

ex-Beres maybe?

Styllex never had any car. They used second car of Odložilík.

[vino_93]

Slovakia? I don't remember any Fabia S2000 from Slovakia (many have Slovak plates though but that is only because of insurance I think). But I don't follow them anymore :)
ok, so that's only plate !

@tolis : you the car I'm talking about, it's you who show me the picture :D
I've my files with all S2000 / WRC in France, but unfortunetaly not on this computer, so by memory I can't refind the exact car !

[vino_93]

Just refind !
It is this car : eWRC-results.com - Rally cars history (http://www.ewrc-results.com/carinfo.php?cid=3&car=74)

[Mirek]

Aha, that's car from JM Racing. Thanks

[tolis]

ok, so that's only plate !

@tolis : you the car I'm talking about, it's you who show me the picture :D

So, it's JM car that Saliuk used in the last rallies.

[Tom206wrc]

Matthieu Margaillan bought Jan Cerny's ex-Skoda Fabia S2000 and will run it this week-end at Gap Rally :)
His main opponents in Gap will be Latil and Barneaud, both in 207 S2000...

[HaCo]

A critical view on what seems the current situation in the French gravel championship:
http://feedly.com/k/17lOULu
Verstuurd van mijn ARCHOS 80G9 met Tapatalk

[tommeke_B]

It has been like that for years... Not only on gravel, on tarmac also. 2 years ago in "Terre de Langres" we drove a stage on Friday, so before official recce. There were many signs of recce, such as huge cutting. Normally nobody is using thos roads, they are too brutal for a normal road car also... Concerning tarmac championship I heard similar stories from people who competed there. One codriver recently told me "The French are the biggest cheaters you can imagine." In Belgium people know about illegal recce, in France they don't. Same is happening in The Netherlands but there they manage to keep it quiet too... ;)

[Tom206wrc]

This week-end is Rallye terre de Lozère, next round of french gravel championship ;)
Bienvenue sur le site de Brennus Informatique (http://www.brennusinfo.fr) for live results

Today should be published entrylist of Rallye du Mont-Blanc next round of french tarmac championship(held next week) :cool:

[Tom206wrc]

In Lozère after yesterday's leg one, Lionel Baud is leading in front of Manu Gascou and Jean-Marie Cuoq ;)
Great performance from Vincent Dubert 6th overall and leading CRT/2WDs :up:

FFSA | Rallye Terre de Lozre - 2013 (http://www.ffsa.org/res_rallye.php?id=2001&catCourse=ral)

[vino_93]

It has been like that for years... Not only on gravel, on tarmac also. 2 years ago in "Terre de Langres" we drove a stage on Friday, so before official recce. There were many signs of recce, such as huge cutting. Normally nobody is using thos roads, they are too brutal for a normal road car also... Concerning tarmac championship I heard similar stories from people who competed there. One codriver recently told me "The French are the biggest cheaters you can imagine." In Belgium people know about illegal recce, in France they don't. Same is happening in The Netherlands but there they manage to keep it quiet too... ;)

Even in French Cup illegal recce are done... in some part of France, as in Rhône Alpes (but not only there) it's local sport.

[Andre Oliveira]

Greiffenberg (http://ewrc-results.com/profile.php?p=4968&t=Philippe-Greiffenberg) with DS3 WRC at Mont-Blanc

Rallye Mont-Blanc Morzine 2013 - results eWRC-results.com (http://ewrc-results.com/startlist.php?e=6649&t=Rallye-Mont-Blanc-Morzine-2013)

[Tom206wrc]

Three stages started/finished in Mont-Blanc ;)
PatricK Soft (http://www.patricksoft.fr/)

[br21]

Interesting battles in Mont-Blanc. In general classification and in cups

[Tom206wrc]

Abbring took the lead of the 208 Cup after both Lefèbvre and Consani experienced punctures on SS5, but his margin is very small for tomorrow saturday(top 5 within 10") ;)

[vino_93]

Well, I just read a new french regulation about rally taken by our government. It's more or less the same as in czech ...
"all areas others than "authorized zone" (=spectator zone) must be considered as forbidden"
new FFSA regulations

well ... smaller rallies will more or less disappeard with this rule which will see spectators leaving the roads :( More and more people are really fed up with the more and more strict regulation, and it continues ...


If I've time, I'll see this in a small rally close to my parents house. If not, I'll wait 2014 ...
Let's see ...

[Tom206wrc]

Oh no !!!! Puncture for Abbring in SS7 Mont-Blanc this saturday morning: lost 6 minutes and all chances of podium :mad: ;(
Millet in the lead of the 208 Cup ahead of Martin(Abbring's teammate in Saintéloc)and Consani...

[vino_93]

Good to see Millet back in the top !

I hope Abbring will win the championship and have an official drive with peugeot next year ... but some mistakes are done now, it can be decisive for the end of the year :/

[Andre Oliveira]

Rallye Mont-Blanc Morzine 2013 - results eWRC-results.com (http://ewrc-results.com/final.php?e=6649&t=Rallye-Mont-Blanc-Morzine-2013)

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1269387_388554391273809_474157063_o.png

[irish_tiger]

What car is Consani doing Rally France in ?

[Fly]

Peugeot 208 R2

[vino_93]

A nice video I just find :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4JH-slka6c

[vino_93]

Eric Brunson will stop his season in French Championship, as the titlle look impossible for him.
Moreover he is selling his Sub. He said he know which car he will buy, waiting money from the Sub. Rumors are talking about a DS3 WRC or a C4 WRC !

[Fly]

Peugeot 208 R2

Sorry, Citroen DS3 R3T for Consani.

http://www.rallyedefrance.com/tableau-daffichage/

[Tom206wrc]

Andrew Fenwick on provisional podium after first loop of stages in Rallye du Béthunois(northern France) ;)
Steve Hendy 5th overall...

http://www.ffsa.org/res_rallye.php?id=2 ... Course=ral (http://www.ffsa.org/res_rallye.php?id=2281&catCourse=ral)

[Tom206wrc]

Swiss championship settles in France this week-end, running the Rallye du Suran ;)
Entrylist, results etc on http://www.ffsa.org/res_rallye.php?id=2 ... Course=ral (http://www.ffsa.org/res_rallye.php?id=2279&catCourse=ral)

[Mintexmemory]

Bonjour Gars

Looks like I may be going to Rallye Bourgogne next year (for a number of complicated reasons). Anyway its position in the French schedule has been creeping towards the start of July for the last 6 years. Does anyone know yet if it will be held on weekend of 5/7 or 12/7 in 2014?
Thanks

[Tom206wrc]

Robert Kubica ultra favourite in the Rallye Vosgien this week-end :cool:
It's a training before Rallye de France WRC ;)

http://www.ffsa.org/res_rallye.php?id=2 ... Course=ral (http://www.ffsa.org/res_rallye.php?id=2287&catCourse=ral)

[vino_93]

Bonjour Gars

Looks like I may be going to Rallye Bourgogne next year (for a number of complicated reasons). Anyway its position in the French schedule has been creeping towards the start of July for the last 6 years. Does anyone know yet if it will be held on weekend of 5/7 or 12/7 in 2014?
Thanks
Rally will be run the 12 and 13th july 2014 :)
For the moment, no information. As it is an important event, I suppose date are sure, but sometime in french cup it can moves.

[Jarek Z]

Robert Kubica ultra favourite in the Rallye Vosgien this week-end :cool:
It's a training before Rallye de France WRC ;)

Yes, it was an easy victory. Kubica won all of the stages and of course the whole rally:

28. RALLYE NATIONAL VOSGIEN
1. Robert Kubica/Maciek Baran (PL) Citroën DS3 RRC 1:19.44,3
2. Quentin Gilbert/Isabelle Galmiche (F) Citroën DS3 R3T +4.18,3
3. Jean-Nicolas Hot/Christiane Nicolet (F) Subaru Impreza WRX STI +4.56,5
4. Sébastien Chardonnet/Thibault de la Haye (F) Citroën DS3 R3T +5.16,9
5. Eric Mauffrey/Marielle Grandemange (F) Nissan 370Z +5.46,9
6. Quentin Giordano/Kévin Bronner (F) Citroën DS3 R3T +7.07,3
7. Steve Mourey/Julie Romain (F) Peugeot 206 S1600 +7.21,8
8. Alexis Couturier/Emeline Faivre (F) Renault Clio R3 +7.22,9
9. Frantz Comoli/Guillaume Duval (F) Peugeot 208 R2 +8.42,9
10. Armando Pereira/Aurélien Petitnicolas (F) Citroën C4 WRC +8.43,9

[mousti]

Robert Kubica ultra favourite in the Rallye Vosgien this week-end :cool:
It's a training before Rallye de France WRC ;)

Yes, it was an easy victory. Kubica won all of the stages and of course the whole rally:

28. RALLYE NATIONAL VOSGIEN
1. Robert Kubica/Maciek Baran (PL) Citroën DS3 RRC 1:19.44,3
2. Quentin Gilbert/Isabelle Galmiche (F) Citroën DS3 R3T +4.18,3
3. Jean-Nicolas Hot/Christiane Nicolet (F) Subaru Impreza WRX STI +4.56,5
4. Sébastien Chardonnet/Thibault de la Haye (F) Citroën DS3 R3T +5.16,9
5. Eric Mauffrey/Marielle Grandemange (F) Nissan 370Z +5.46,9
6. Quentin Giordano/Kévin Bronner (F) Citroën DS3 R3T +7.07,3
7. Steve Mourey/Julie Romain (F) Peugeot 206 S1600 +7.21,8
8. Alexis Couturier/Emeline Faivre (F) Renault Clio R3 +7.22,9
9. Frantz Comoli/Guillaume Duval (F) Peugeot 208 R2 +8.42,9
10. Armando Pereira/Aurélien Petitnicolas (F) Citroën C4 WRC +8.43,9
Don't know where you got the results from but Gilbert won impressive with Belgian co Jamoul and not Galmiche :)

[Jarek Z]

Don't know where you got the results from but Gilbert won impressive with Belgian co Jamoul and not Galmiche :)

Well, as far as I know Kubica won the rally and not Gilbert. There is apparently a mistake in Gilbert's co-driver name, but there is no mistake in the winner's name :)

http://www.forum-rallye.com/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=8027

[RICARDO75]

RALLYE DU SURAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LrzXgh2LMc

RALLYE NATIONAL VOSGIEN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU1EWy7uKRI

[irish_tiger]

Robert Kubica ultra favourite in the Rallye Vosgien this week-end :cool:
It's a training before Rallye de France WRC ;)

Yes, it was an easy victory. Kubica won all of the stages and of course the whole rally:

28. RALLYE NATIONAL VOSGIEN
1. Robert Kubica/Maciek Baran (PL) Citroën DS3 RRC 1:19.44,3
2. Quentin Gilbert/Isabelle Galmiche (F) Citroën DS3 R3T +4.18,3
3. Jean-Nicolas Hot/Christiane Nicolet (F) Subaru Impreza WRX STI +4.56,5
4. Sébastien Chardonnet/Thibault de la Haye (F) Citroën DS3 R3T +5.16,9
5. Eric Mauffrey/Marielle Grandemange (F) Nissan 370Z +5.46,9
6. Quentin Giordano/Kévin Bronner (F) Citroën DS3 R3T +7.07,3
7. Steve Mourey/Julie Romain (F) Peugeot 206 S1600 +7.21,8
8. Alexis Couturier/Emeline Faivre (F) Renault Clio R3 +7.22,9
9. Frantz Comoli/Guillaume Duval (F) Peugeot 208 R2 +8.42,9
10. Armando Pereira/Aurélien Petitnicolas (F) Citroën C4 WRC +8.43,9

What was up with Sébastien Chardonnet ? he could only beat Quentin Gilbert on one stage - the last one ?? very strange i thought he would be faster than Gilbert ?

[Mirek]

I thought that in France Gilbert was mostly faster in the past.

[irish_tiger]

I thought that in France Gilbert was mostly faster in the past.
I think we need Tom206wrc to help us on this one :) ,,,, Tom where are you ?? :laugh:

[tommeke_B]

I'm not the Tom you are asking for but ok... :D
Gilbert is driving home in that event, he is from the region, that may explain the difference. Most of the time they are close. But for example last year in Rallye du Var Chardonnet was much quicker, partly because Gilbert wanted to secure his title in Citroën DS3 Trophy. ;)

[vino_93]

Yes it is Gilbert home event. Whereas Chardonnet is from South-East (I think from Nice, but maybe I am wrong).
Gilbert won it when he drove a Clio Maxi if I remember correctly.

[stefanvv]

Curious video from Mont Blanc:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVrOfpetHTQ

[Frezzy]

my photos of the 65° Rallye Mont Blanc

WebSite : http://s104.photobucket.com/user/Frezzy ... t=9&page=1 (http://s104.photobucket.com/user/Frezzy_fr/library/Rally%20Photos/Rally%20Mont-Blanc/2013?sort=9&page=1)

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/dav.frezier/me ... 511&type=1 (https://www.facebook.com/dav.frezier/media_set?set=a.10201565385112664.1073741865.11186 67511&type=1)

[Andre Oliveira]

Antibes:

Bernardo Sousa / Hugo Magalhães -> Ford Fiesta S2000 (Maurin car)
Diogo Gago / Jorge Carvalho (Son) -> Peugeot 208 R2

[Tom206wrc]

I thought that in France Gilbert was mostly faster in the past.

See currently in Alsace !!! Gilbert is right ahead the Citroën Top Driver field after SS7 :p

[Tom206wrc]

Rather poor entrylist in Antibes :mark:
http://www.rallye-sport.fr/liste-engage ... ibes-2013/ (http://www.rallye-sport.fr/liste-engages-rallye-dantibes-2013/)

Today should be published also entrylist Rallye terre des Cardabelles running in the same time as Antibes next week ;)

[vino_93]

Poorest entry list since a lot of years in french tarmac champ ... :rolleyes:
how smart it is to run both championships the same week end :)

[Tom206wrc]

Entrylist Rallye terre des Cardabelles ;)
http://www.rallye-sport.fr/liste-engage ... lles-2013/ (http://www.rallye-sport.fr/liste-engages-rallye-terre-cardabelles-2013/)

Has swiss champion Grégoire Hotz already driven on gravel in the past :confused:

[irish_tiger]

Why did Cedric Robert not do Rally De France anybody know ?

[PLuto]

Why did Cedric Robert not do Rally De France anybody know ?

Because homologation of DS3 R3T Max was postponed from 1st October to 1st January.

[Wim_Impreza]

Has swiss champion Grégoire Hotz already driven on gravel in the past :confused:

Of course, Hotz did the French gravel championship in 2002 and 2003 in the Saxo T4 cup.

[Andre Oliveira]

Has swiss champion Grégoire Hotz already driven on gravel in the past :confused:

Of course, Hotz did the French gravel championship in 2002 and 2003 in the Saxo T4 cup.

People have a powerfull tool and didn't use :mad:

http://www.ewrc-results.com/profile.php ... goire-Hotz (http://www.ewrc-results.com/profile.php?p=4926&t=Gregoire-Hotz) :angryfire

[irish_tiger]

Why did Cedric Robert not do Rally De France anybody know ?

Because homologation of DS3 R3T Max was postponed from 1st October to 1st January.
Explain - so he was not going driving the same car as the rest of the drivers in the Top Driver ? What is the DS3 R3T Max ?

[Mirek]

DS3 R3T Max is a major upgrade of the car which shall help PSA to keep an upper hand over the incoming Renault Clio R3T.

[Co-driven]

I've seen on British Championship results both DS3 R3T and DS3 R3. Is there any difference between them?

[Mirek]

No, it's same car.

In FIA standards You have several ways to build R3 car:

R3C - 2.0 naturally aspirated petrol
R3D - 2.0 turbo diesel
R3T - 1.6 turbo petrol

[Tom206wrc]

Fantastic start of 208 Cup in Antibes for Kevin Abbring !!!! Only local driver Cyril Audirac is in front of him after two stages... :D
http://www.patricksoft.fr/

[Tom206wrc]

SS4 Antibes cancelled after 3 crews because Gilles Nantet crashed his Porsche against a tree(ambulance on stage) :mark:
Looks like crew is unhurt, or at least they are conscious(transported to hospital) :confused:

[dimviii]

SS4 Antibes cancelled after 3 crews because Gilles Nantet crashed his Porsche against a tree(ambulance on stage) :mark:
Looks like crew is unhurt, or at least they are conscious(transported to hospital) :confused:

https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hph ... 6203_n.jpg (https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1377520_173266026199639_1853816203_n.jpg)

[mousti]

What happened with Boetti, a crash at the finish of stage?

[vino_93]

This week end, it is time for Finale of the French Cup. Hold in Oyonnax (Ain, Rhône Alpes, small city known for his rugby club, close to Switzerland and Genève). Last finale in east part of France for a while I hope :) As next year will be in La Rochelle (West, rugby city too :D ), and 2015 is between North and Corsica.

So 6 S2000 are at the start. In fact 5 + 1 RRC. The car renting by Ludovic Gherardi, the local of the finale, as he is living on a stage ... he made all to secure this victory : subscribing to a small comity (Champagne - Ardennes) in order to secure easy qualification with a small number of rally and renting the most powerfull car he can : a Fiesta RRC, from an Irish team (Keltech Motorsport).
He has no really contenders, except maybe other local Jérôme Chavanne. With a 207 S2000, renting from BDS Racing (ex Delta Racing). He finished 6th on Mont Blanc with it, but it will be hard to fight against the RRC ...

Other top contender is Michel Giraldo with an old 306 Maxi. The 306 Maxi will live its last final next year. Here Giraldo hopes to finish on podium ... as he won 8 events with it this year !

4 other S2000 are here in Oyonnax : first for corsican driver Paul Alerini, codrived by Cyril Audirac (winner of 208 Cup in Antibes). Quite surprisingly he is for the moment at ease on stages, as Normandy driver Romain Martel. This young guy drove all around the France to learn experience, and prepared the final going in Mont Blanc and Suran (part of Swiss champ, even if it's run in France). If these two rallies were difficult for him, things have been happening quite well for him, as he is easily leading the other 207 S2000 coming from Normandy, the car of Sébastien Alemany. First time here, and lot of difficulties for him, as roads are really different from what he knows.
Last S2000 is the 207 of Jean-Luc Roche, father of Pierre. he lost lot of times, and the final will be difficult for him ...

For the rest, we have a lot of good guys, coming from all around the France. We can see good battle in F2/14, where Auvergne's Thomas Badel is leading local Raphaël Michaud. S1600 driver Patrick Magnou is doing well, as usual, whereas in N4 Mickaël Lobry is trying to break Romain Salinas (winner of Twingo R2 Trophy 2012) and David Mollas.
In R, the surprise is coming from Mickaël Crepy, leading with his C2 R2. Julien Brunero, Pascal Berard and Damien Dorseuil (this one from la Réunion) are trying to catch him with Clio R3.
And in GT, Murat Dogral take a small advantage on Jean Pascal Besson.

You can find leading entries (and later full entry list) here : http://www.ewrc-results.com/startlist.p ... onnax-2013 (http://www.ewrc-results.com/startlist.php?e=13344&t=Finale-de-la-Coupe-de-France-des-Rallyes-Oyonnax-2013)
And classification after day 1 : http://www.ffsa.org/res_rallye.php?if=C ... typeCoupe= (http://www.ffsa.org/res_rallye.php?if=CUMUL_4&if1=ES_4&if2=CUMUL_4&idEpr=4&typeCr=Conseil%20G%C3%A9n%C3%A9ral%20de%20l'Ain&id=2314&catCourse=ral&typf=oth&typRes=tem&typeCoupe=)

[rallymen123]

Pictures online
Hoppeland Rally 2013
http://www.bvrallypics.be

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg25/rallymen123/sized_IMG_9695_zpsd736d0fb.jpg (http://s244.photobucket.com/user/rallymen123/media/sized_IMG_9695_zpsd736d0fb.jpg.html)

[mas-racing]

video of the Hoppeland Historic Rally 2013 ( France ) : http://www.mas-racing.be/nl-17836-11078 ... -2013.html (http://www.mas-racing.be/nl-17836-11078-hoppeland-rally-2013.html)

http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q695/freddyzonnebeke/startfotohoppeland2013Mobile_zps10a53f3e.jpg (http://s1354.photobucket.com/user/freddyzonnebeke/media/startfotohoppeland2013Mobile_zps10a53f3e.jpg.html)

[millbrook]

a few more pics from the Hoppeland Rally

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/6817/l5ps.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/20/l5ps.jpg/)
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/3117/o5he.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/33/o5he.jpg/)
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4436/6iir.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/20/6iir.jpg/)
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/1356/ug1y.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/62/ug1y.jpg/)
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/7316/weq3.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/18/weq3.jpg/)

[Tom206wrc]

What happened with Boetti, a crash at the finish of stage?


He took the wrong way in direction of the finish(he thought the arrival of stage was earlier) :s

[vino_93]

This week end, it is time for Finale of the French Cup. Hold in Oyonnax (Ain, Rhône Alpes, small city known for his rugby club, close to Switzerland and Genève). Last finale in east part of France for a while I hope :) As next year will be in La Rochelle (West, rugby city too :D ), and 2015 is between North and Corsica.

So 6 S2000 are at the start. In fact 5 + 1 RRC. The car renting by Ludovic Gherardi, the local of the finale, as he is living on a stage ... he made all to secure this victory : subscribing to a small comity (Champagne - Ardennes) in order to secure easy qualification with a small number of rally and renting the most powerfull car he can : a Fiesta RRC, from an Irish team (Keltech Motorsport).
He has no really contenders, except maybe other local Jérôme Chavanne. With a 207 S2000, renting from BDS Racing (ex Delta Racing). He finished 6th on Mont Blanc with it, but it will be hard to fight against the RRC ...

Other top contender is Michel Giraldo with an old 306 Maxi. The 306 Maxi will live its last final next year. Here Giraldo hopes to finish on podium ... as he won 8 events with it this year !

4 other S2000 are here in Oyonnax : first for corsican driver Paul Alerini, codrived by Cyril Audirac (winner of 208 Cup in Antibes). Quite surprisingly he is for the moment at ease on stages, as Normandy driver Romain Martel. This young guy drove all around the France to learn experience, and prepared the final going in Mont Blanc and Suran (part of Swiss champ, even if it's run in France). If these two rallies were difficult for him, things have been happening quite well for him, as he is easily leading the other 207 S2000 coming from Normandy, the car of Sébastien Alemany. First time here, and lot of difficulties for him, as roads are really different from what he knows.
Last S2000 is the 207 of Jean-Luc Roche, father of Pierre. he lost lot of times, and the final will be difficult for him ...

For the rest, we have a lot of good guys, coming from all around the France. We can see good battle in F2/14, where Auvergne's Thomas Badel is leading local Raphaël Michaud. S1600 driver Patrick Magnou is doing well, as usual, whereas in N4 Mickaël Lobry is trying to break Romain Salinas (winner of Twingo R2 Trophy 2012) and David Mollas.
In R, the surprise is coming from Mickaël Crepy, leading with his C2 R2. Julien Brunero, Pascal Berard and Damien Dorseuil (this one from la Réunion) are trying to catch him with Clio R3.
And in GT, Murat Dogral take a small advantage on Jean Pascal Besson.

You can find leading entries (and later full entry list) here : http://www.ewrc-results.com/startlist.p ... onnax-2013 (http://www.ewrc-results.com/startlist.php?e=13344&t=Finale-de-la-Coupe-de-France-des-Rallyes-Oyonnax-2013)
And classification after day 1 : http://www.ffsa.org/res_rallye.php?if=C ... typeCoupe= (http://www.ffsa.org/res_rallye.php?if=CUMUL_4&if1=ES_4&if2=CUMUL_4&idEpr=4&typeCr=Conseil%20G%C3%A9n%C3%A9ral%20de%20l'Ain&id=2314&catCourse=ral&typf=oth&typRes=tem&typeCoupe=)

so that was an easy victory of Gherardi, ahead of Chavanne and Giraldo. No surprise.
Badel finished fourth with Clio Williams F2/14, just before of 207 S2000 of Alerini and Martel ! Good victory for Salinas in N, 8th overall. After a difficult beginning of rally, he took the advantage on Mollas and Lobry.
13th and 14th, we have winners in R and GT : Pascal Berard and Murat Dogral.
http://www.ffsa.org/res_rallye.php?id=2 ... typRes=tem (http://www.ffsa.org/res_rallye.php?id=2314&&catCourse=ral&&ia=fin&&typf=clfin&&typRes=tem)


official videos :
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x165c6 ... ape-1_auto (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x165c6r_finale-coupe-de-france-des-rallyes-a-oyonnax-etape-1_auto)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x166qo ... ape-2_auto (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x166qo5_finale-coupe-de-france-des-rallyes-a-oyonnax-etape-2_auto)

[Wim_Impreza]

...The 306 Maxi will live its last final next year.

That is a real pity, as it sounds so good and it is - in my opinion - by far the most beautiful Peugeot ever.

[Tom206wrc]

Nicolas Bernardi tries a 207 S2000 this week-end at Rallye des Mont-Dôme(before that he tried an Abarth Grande S2000 on two past events) :D

[vino_93]

My pictures from Rallye Régional de la Porte Normande.
http://www.easypict.org/image.php?id=0.3274337409529835

http://www.easypict.org/image.php?id=0.25533377937972546

http://www.easypict.org/image.php?id=0.9758885493502021

http://www.easypict.org/image.php?id=0.6838316437788308

http://www.easypict.org/image.php?id=0.3683664598502219

http://www.easypict.org/image.php?id=0.38523815106600523

http://www.ewrc.cz/ewrc/fotogalery.php? ... tograf=277 (http://www.ewrc.cz/ewrc/fotogalery.php?events=13438&fotograf=277)

And classification here : http://www.ewrc-results.com/final.php?e ... mande-2013 (http://www.ewrc-results.com/final.php?e=13438&t=Rallye-Regional-de-la-Porte-Normande-2013)

[vino_93]

Maurin is officially french champion 2013 as cuoq didn't enter cévennes.

For 2014, he will not start french tarmac champ. For the moment he still don't know. His goal is to do 5 or 6 events in WRC or WRC2; or maybe the french gravel champ.

[Tom206wrc]

Start Critérium des Cévennes in about 30 minutes ;)
http://www.patricksoft.fr/

[vino_93]

It seems that François Padrona would like to run one of his Mini WRC (which are in First Motorsport) for swiss driver Jérémie Toedtli in French tarmac championship 2014.

[Tom206wrc]

Today saturday starts the Rallye du Vaucluse, last round of the french gravel championship :)

News from this event both Lionel Baud(2nd in championship behind Cuoq)and Jean-Manuel Beuzelin will drive Ford Fiesta WRC !!! :)
Jean-Michel Raoux for the first time in a Skoda Fabia S2000 ;)

http://www.mks2.fr/

[vino_93]

We can notice to Doux in Xsara WRC, Méo in DS3 WRC, ... :)
After first loop + 1 stage :
1 Cuoq (C4 WRC)
2 Méo (DS3 WRC) 36"
3 Baud (Fiesta WRC) 38"
4 Chieusse (307 WRC) 54"
5 Pellerey (207 S2000) 1'12
6 Jacquot (207 S2000) 1'24
7 Doux (Xsara WRC) 1'39
8 Durieu (Lancer IX) 1'47
9 Gillouin (Impreza 555) 1'50
10 Falco (Lancer IX R4) 1'59
...
12 Beuzelin (Fiesta WRC) 2'17
...
16 Besson (307 WRC) 3'12 (former Baud's car)
...
18 Tron (208 R2) 3'55 1st 2WD
...



i didn't notice it, but last Critérium des Cévennes, Jean Ragnotti with an Alpine A110 1800 would have finished ... 19th in the modern field !
Still fast :bounce:
http://www.ewrc-results.com/final.php?e ... ennes-2013 (http://www.ewrc-results.com/final.php?e=6650&t=Criterium-des-Cevennes-2013)
http://www.ewrc-results.com/final.php?e ... s-vhc-2013 (http://www.ewrc-results.com/final.php?e=13666&t=criterium-des-cevennes-vhc-2013)





And I've an announce to do : In the next Rallye du Var will be organized an M3 E30 Trophy. Initially done for the last year of the M3 in France, but finally FFSA choosed to homologate the car a little more.
So I need your help to find and put in touch drivers of M3 and the organizer of the trophy !
Renaud Verreydt should have start, but as he destroyed his car in Condroz he can't :(
Unfortunately I learn it a bit too late, as entry closure is monday, but another event will be run in 2014 for another experience like this ! (as lot of french can't start the Var too)
So if you know drivers who have such car, please give me something to contact him ! :)

[Tom206wrc]

Belgian driver David Bonjean on entrylist of next week's Rallye du Var in a Ford Fiesta R5 !!! :eek:

[Tom206wrc]

By the way it's official: Renault won't continue the Junior Twingo R1 in french(tarmac)championship...and strongest rumours are about Citroën to take the 2014 and + seasons with the DS3 R1 ;)

[vino_93]

Why does Renault stop ?
And will the 2013 winner have his official drive ? Axel Garcia is one of our greatest rising star ... he deserves it.

[Tom206wrc]

Czech drivers Tomas Pletka and Egon Smekal on the way to Rallye du Var too(both with DS3 R3) !!!! :D

[Tom206wrc]

Official entrylist Rallye du Var :bounce:
http://www.rallye-sport.fr/liste-des-en ... -var-2013/ (http://www.rallye-sport.fr/liste-des-engages-rallye-du-var-2013/)

[Tom206wrc]

Pics from today shakedown in Var ;)
http://www.rallye-sport.fr/photos-rallye-du-var-2013/

Kevin Demaerschalk seriously crashed his DS3 R3...now he will probably be forfait(the front of car completely smashed with the engine outside) :mad:

[dimviii]

http://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/14/82/87/95/14792610.jpg

[wwbroe]

http://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/14/82/87/95/14792610.jpg

Seeing this picture, i don't think he will be able to take start of rally. :(

[tommeke_B]

For me Kevin Demaerschalk is the fastest young driver in Belgium, no doubt about it... But I think this crash really ruined his carreer, he made many mistakes this year, it's a big question if people from RACB (who support him) think it is acceptable or not.

[Tom206wrc]

After today's leg(3 stages)of Rallye du Var, Julien Maurin is leading ahead of Romain Dumas and Pierre Roche...

Extraordinary performances from local driver Patrick Magnou(best time SS1 in a 206 S1600)and the Rallye-Jeunes Laurent Laskowski(leading the DS3 R3 army)and Eric Camilli(puncture in SS3 unfortuneately) :bounce:

http://www.patricksoft.fr/

[vino_93]

Swiss driver Alain Blaser will start 7 rally on 8 in french championship, with a 307 WRC from Baud.
http://www.ewrc-results.com/profile.php ... ain-Blaser (http://www.ewrc-results.com/profile.php?p=4974&t=Alain-Blaser)

He will skip Le Touquet.

[Tom206wrc]

Surprise: David Salanon would switch to a Ford Fiesta WRC in 6 rounds of french tarmac championship :confused:

Another rumour: maybe a Citroën DS3 WRC for Paul Chieusse(running a wale until last year)in gravel championship :confused:

[dupanton]

Surprise: David Salanon would switch to a Ford Fiesta WRC in 6 rounds of french tarmac championship :confused:

Another rumour: maybe a Citroën DS3 WRC for Paul Chieusse(running a wale until last year)in gravel championship :confused:

A pity those 307WRCs will disappear... After Baud who switched to a Fiesta. They where both so spectacular in Auxerre last year...

[vino_93]

Baud 307 will still do gravel championship, but with Besson. Of course he is as good ...

[Tom206wrc]

First french rally of the season was run last week-end in Jura(Ronde du Jura)on snowy roads and was won by Jérôme Chavanne in his Mitsubishi Lancer GrN(three Mitsus on the first three positions) ;)
Great run by Thomas Guyot in his Lancia Delta to take the 4th position
Winner of 2WDs was Jean-Paul Monnin in his usual 207 R3(8th overall)...

[tommeke_B]

Eric Brunson sold his Subaru S12B WRC to another driver in Northern-France. Brunson should reveal his new car (Fiesta? ;) ) soon... :)

[vino_93]

do you know who buy it ?

[Tom206wrc]

Eric Brunson sold his Subaru Impreza WRC and bought a Ford Fiesta WRC ;)

[WRCKE]

Eric Brunson sold his Subaru Impreza WRC and bought a Ford Fiesta WRC ;)

ex nonikov wrc

[Juha_Koo]

Jukka Korhonen in Touquet... http://rallyedutouquet.fr/la-finlande-r ... u-touquet/ (http://rallyedutouquet.fr/la-finlande-representee-au-touquet/)

[Tom206wrc]

Eric Brunson will test his new toy at the Rallye de la Côte fleurie(Normandy)next week ;)
By the way, a nice entrylist with 3 WRC, 4 S2000 and big number of GrR 2WD cars... ;)

The same week-end will be Rallye des Routes du Nord(northern France)do you know if there'll be some british and belgian drivers there :confused:

[vino_93]

Yes belgian crews will be there.
Bart Maes with Octavia WRC, Filip Pyck with Lancer Evo IX (due to change of rules in Belgian champ), Stephaan Vanneste with Clio RS (N3), Filip Barbier (Lancer IX), Piet Declercq (Lancer Evo VIII), and Bjorn Hamiaux in Historic race.

Disappointing entry list for RDN. Usually it's great event, but this year ... clearly La Côte Fleurie has better entry list. Around 80 entries in modern, whereas these last years it was more than 100.
Bayard should win easily, but Salaun with his new Sub (S5 WrC) could be a good contender, if he takes it right.
Some Adam R2 guy will be there : Pierre Marché, who makes his come back, and Jean-René Perry.

In La Côte FLeurie, 4 WRC : that should be easy win for Brunson with his Fiesta. Other guys with WRC are Reydellet with a poor 206 WRC, nothing to expect ... Old José Barbara with his Mini. Not sure if he'll start. Nothing to expect too, not really at ease with this car. 4th is Hervé Knapick with his 206 WRC, maybe the second place for him (rallycross specialist doing some rally).
Interesting in S2000 : Sébastien Alemany and Romain Martel, who fought last year in Normandy league with their 207. With the same car there will be Stéphane Pustelnik, really fast driver - but first race with his new car (ex Saintéloc), and Maxence Maurice, unknown driver who run only on this rally.
And the 5th is Pierre Ragues, sportscar driver (Signature, OAK, Alpine ...) with a Fabia S2000.

Other interesting entries are Arnaud Macherey (DS3 R3), Mathias de Sousa (first race with Sub R4), Michel Morin (last race with Lancer R4 before switching for Fiesta S2000 ex Betti), Michael Bourgeois (Lancer Evo VIII), Eddie Lemaitre (Clio R3), Anthony Cosson (Mégane RS, he ran one of the first Porsche GT+ in France), Arnaud Gautier (Mégane RS, former french cup winner) and of course Cédric Robert with Evo VII :bounce:

[vino_93]

Quentin Gilbert will do Rallye Le Touquet with a C4 WRC :bounce: It's the car of Armando Pereira, rich gentleman driver from the same part of France as Gilbert, who decided to help him by giving him his WRC for this event :)
It's important to notice that gentleman driver for this part of France helped a lot Gilbert : Laurent Viana (well known in Slovakia) helped him financially speaking, now Pereira, ...

[Tom206wrc]

Jean-Marie Cuoq also entered the Rallye du Touquet with his C4 WRC ;)
http://rallyedutouquet.fr/spectateurs/engages

[Tom206wrc]

I've read on another forum that Young Belgian Arthur Tanghe(son of Claudie)would enter the french 208 Cup :confused:

[WRCKE]

I've read on another forum that Young Belgian Arthur Tanghe(son of Claudie)would enter the french 208 Cup :confused:

the first rally from arthur is le touquet rally with fiesta R2 or the 208 cup ,claudie starts also with his m3 compact

[Tom206wrc]

If you want to follow Rallye de la Côte fleurie with Brunson testing his Fiesta WRC... ;)
http://www.ffsa.org/res_rallye.php?id=2 ... Course=ral (http://www.ffsa.org/res_rallye.php?id=2346&catCourse=ral)

Start SSS at 8.00pm this evening...

[Tom206wrc]

After 3 stages rallye de la Côte fleurie, as expected, Eric Brunson is leading by a big margin ;)
Surprise to me is the endurance/Le Mans driver Pierre Ragues who is 4th overall in his Skoda Fabia S2000 :eek:

[Tom206wrc]

Finnish driver Jaro Kinnunen on pre-entrylist Rallye du Touquet :eek:
I guess it's a one-shot(like for Jukka Korhonen)rather than an entry in the french 208 cup :confused:

Belgians in french 208 cup are two for the moment: Cédric Chérain and Cédric de Cecco ;)
Swiss driver Jérémie Toedli too...

But the more pleasant surprise to me is Eric Camilli entering the 208 Cup this year :D he showed so much talent in Citroën last year(in R1 but especially in R3/Var)he could be the favourite overall :eek:

[vino_93]

That'll be really interesting to see what Camilli will be able to do.

I don't know what the goal of the two finnish ... if it's a one shot, for sure it's the most difficult choice. Lot of muds, probably rain, ... :bounce:

[Juha_Koo]

Finnish driver Jaro Kinnunen on pre-entrylist Rallye du Touquet :eek:
I guess it's a one-shot(like for Jukka Korhonen)rather than an entry in the french 208 cup :confused:

We will see, Kinnunen has said that he is not driving Finnish championship this year and that he will announce his plans in the near future.

[Tom206wrc]

Finnish driver Jaro Kinnunen on pre-entrylist Rallye du Touquet :eek:
I guess it's a one-shot(like for Jukka Korhonen)rather than an entry in the french 208 cup :confused:

We will see, Kinnunen has said that he is not driving Finnish championship this year and that he will announce his plans in the near future.


In fact, watching attentively the entrylist, Kinnunen is really among the articipants of 208 cup(written on the left of the entrylist page) !!! :)
Would be very interesting if it would be his program, because it's really nice seeing new faces from Young drivers from outside France to run this competition :cool:

[SpeedEstRacing]

my vidéo of tests Quentin Gilbert in C4 WRC which préparing Rally Of Touquet :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82dmsLZg3aY

and

Test Armando Pereira in DS3 WRC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSZ8LWaeeV0

[Tom206wrc]

British friends from the forum, just have a look at the rallye du Touquet entrylist(just updated today saturday) !!!!!
CHRIS INGRAM on a 208 R2 in the Peugeot 208 Cup !!!!!! Unexpected :eek: :D :bounce:

[PLuto]

British friends from the forum, just have a look at the rallye du Touquet entrylist(just updated today saturday) !!!!!
CHRIS INGRAM on a 208 R2 in the Peugeot 208 Cup !!!!!! Unexpected :eek: :D :bounce:

It is not so unexpected, he wants to improve his skills on tarmac...

[Tom206wrc]

British friends from the forum, just have a look at the rallye du Touquet entrylist(just updated today saturday) !!!!!
CHRIS INGRAM on a 208 R2 in the Peugeot 208 Cup !!!!!! Unexpected :eek: :D :bounce:

It is not so unexpected, he wants to improve his skills on tarmac...


In fact I thought he was too linked to Renault to drive something else than a Twingo ;)
What was unexpected to me wasn't his presence in Touquet but in a 208 R2 :)

[Tom206wrc]

Claudie Tanghe(BMW)and Arthur Tanghe(Ford Fiesta R2)on the newly updated entrylist of Touquet ;)

[vino_93]

Armando Pereira just bought a DS3 WRC ! It's the first indivual driver to have it. Nothing to expect from him, he is quite calm gentleman driver ...
But he is too a good helper for young guys. In 2000 Loeb should have use his Mégane for the Rallye Alsace Vosges (but Fréquelin didn't want), and from some years he is helping Gilbert. This year he will invest more on him : he'll give him his C4 WRC for Le Touquet, and and said in an interview he will organize another ride for Gilbert, with the DS3 in a French Championship round, if it's possible (according to calendar) :)

[Andre Oliveira]

Portuguese influence;) good guy

[stefanvv]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhmfEOtIrYE
Historics - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39_GOZ24d0k

[SpeedEstRacing]

stéphane lefebvre tests today an Peugeot 208 R2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9marueRoCg

[mousti]

Ingram's deal was not secured yet this weekend, so not sure if he will start of not. He will continue with Twingo in JERC and hopes the upgrades help him to gain some speed.

[RICARDO75]

Nice Rally Addict video from Peugeot - Michelin Test with Lefebvre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvQxf3nBK9Q&feature=em-uploademail

[Tom206wrc]

Official entrylist Rallye du Touquet ;)
http://www.rallye-sport.fr/liste-des-en ... quet-2014/ (http://www.rallye-sport.fr/liste-des-engages-rallye-du-touquet-2014/)

[Tom206wrc]

Finally Chris Ingram is on the starting list of Rallye du Touquet ;)

Start first leg today friday morning at 10.00am...
http://www.patricksoft.fr/

[Mirek]

Bonato with Adam R2 wow on stage 1!

[Mirek]

Bonato with Adam R2 wow on stage 1!

[Hartusvuori]

Lefebvre on SS1... whoa! 9th o/a.

[Tom206wrc]

Ingram 5th in 208 Cup after first loop :D
Lefèbvre leading in front of Martin, Chérain and de Cecco ;)

[Susiraja]

Ingram 5th in 208 Cup after first loop :D

Sorry for Ingram to roll the car. He was showing good speed until he rolled. I'm very impressed with Jaro Kinnunen's pace in his first tarmac rally. On the last stages of the day his sec per kilometre difference to the fastest guys in the 208 cup has been very good. Hopefully the pace increasing trend continues today.

[vino_93]

After day 1, Maurin has a clear lead. Cuoq had to retire during the last stage of the day. But he has to make caution to Gilbert, who is learning the C4. Brunson had a difficult beginning of rally but now he can hope a podium, reducing the gap on Roche.
Amourette is leading the Michelin Trophy with the DS3 R3. The best northern is Pruvot with Impreza. it's the first time this car is going well. For national events, it can be interesting, as Bayard won too easily the last years ...

1 Maurin (Fiesta WRC)
2 Gilbert (C4 WRC) 31"7
3 Roche (Mini WRC) 1'00"0
4 Brunson (Fiesta WRC) 1'12"6
5 Baud (Fiesta WRC) 2'03"9
6 Pruvot (Impreza WRC) 3'16"5
7 Amourette (DS3 R3) 3'42"9
8 Bayard (Corolla WRC) 3'47"9
9 Nantet (997 GT2) 3'48"2
10 Beaubelique (Fiesta TR5) 3'49"9
11 Martel (207 S2000) 4'10"7
12 Lefebvre (208 R2) 4'10"8
13 Rouillard (997 Cup) 4'15"6
14 Martin (208 R2) 4'20"4
15 Simpson (Fabia S2000) 4'43"0
...

In 208 Lefebvre is leading at home. But Martin is well. Most impressive is maybe Camilli, 4th for his first event with 208, after only one year with DS3 R1 :) between Cherain and Dubert.
In Opel Cup, Romain Fostier is leading, but Pierre Marché who made is comeback is there. Young Florian Bernardi is fighting with Antoine Masse and Jean Jouines for third place. Bonato had trouble but is still there.

[tommeke_B]

Been to le Touquet today. Seen 4 stages (which wasn't so easy to manage this time). Seen some nice action. Great drive from Maurin, it's impressive how much he improved over the years. Gilbert was driving very well for a debut with a proper WRC. It looks like Brunson was struggling to learn the car. But towards the last stages he became clearly faster. Concerning one-make cups in France I think the competition level dropped a bit this year, comparing to the last few seasons. Looks like some drivers moved on to another level or are out of fundings...

Jukka Korhonen was very impressive for me, very fast and spectacular (maybe a bit too spectacular). Although for being a driver from the North, his driving style is quite clean (except for the video below), I'm hoping to see more from him this year. :)

Small video from Korhonen, made by a friend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28GPOpnrEXE

[mas-racing]

video Rally le Touquet 2014 with some small mistakes : http://www.mas-racing.be/nl-19765-12692 ... -2014.html (http://www.mas-racing.be/nl-19765-12692-rally-touquet-2014.html)

http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q695/freddyzonnebeke/startfotoTouquet2014Small_zps7582371e.jpg (http://s1354.photobucket.com/user/freddyzonnebeke/media/startfotoTouquet2014Small_zps7582371e.jpg.html)

[Tofrallye29]

My pics from Le Touquet are here : http://flic.kr/s/aHsjUKvAkU
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3699/13201906193_b97719fe61_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tofrallye29/13201906193/)
Rallye du Touquet 2014 - Ford Fiesta WRC - Maurin (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tofrallye29/13201906193/) par Tofrallye29 (http://www.flickr.com/people/tofrallye29/), sur Flickr

[gianni123]

Video online

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuyHJdD9t2I

[Jeppe]

Take a look of 208 Rally Cup drivers Jaro Kinnunen / Mikael Korhonen onboard compilation from the last weekends stages. Have to mention, that this was 1st ever tarmac rally for Jaro.

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

..and here you can find some of our teams photo feelings from the last weekend. Thank you for the photographers!!

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 594&type=1 (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.667817133283324.1073741838.327864467278594&type=1)

[Tom206wrc]

Pre-entrylist of Rallye des Causses, first round of the french gravel championship and 2nd one of the Peugeot 208 Cup ;)
http://www.rallye-des-causses.org/

This time finish driver Taisko Lario is on entrylist of the 208 Cup, as Jaro Kinnunen ;)
Presence also of swiss driver Sylvain Droxler in the 208 cup, and british Chris Ingram...

[Tom206wrc]

Mattias Adielsson in 208 Cup at rallye terre des Causses too ;)

[Tom206wrc]

Entrylist rallye des Causses with seeded order ;)
http://www.rallye-sport.fr/liste-engages-rallye-terre-causses-2014

[tommeke_B]

Been to Rallye Terre des Causses last week. Amazing event! Very nice stages, and a great competition over there. In the "top-class" the amount of entries wasn't bad, but what made us go there was the presence of the 208 Cup and the DS3 Trophy, and the fact that it is a proper gravel rally (in Belgium we don't have proper gravel rallies). The competition level in the cups (especially 208 cup this year and last year) is extremely high, if you can win there, you must have the potential to win on international level as well. Very nice drive from our Belgian Cedric Cherain. I hope he continues in the trophy (it's not completely sure since he's doing a Belgian campaign with Fiesta R5 too now). @Jeppe: very nice progression from Jaro Kinnunen! Shame I didn't have time to bring a visit in the service park, I'll try to meet next time.

All photos online on http://rally-image.be/foto/0411/, 4 photos below here (that's all I can put in one post).

http://rally-image.be/foto/0411/images/001.jpg

http://rally-image.be/foto/0411/images/049.jpg

http://rally-image.be/foto/0411/images/054.jpg

http://rally-image.be/foto/0411/images/066.jpg

[nafpaktos]

results?

[vino_93]

Easy victory for Jean-Marie Cuoq (C4 WRC). Mathieu Margaillan (Skoda S2000) achieves a great 2nd place, beating the Xsara WRC of Serge Gillouin.
North driver Arnaud Mordacq finished 6th and won group N.
Dennis Millet, former winner of Peugeot Cup (and he did ERC 2WD with 207 R3 the first year of the car) won the DS3 Trophy, beating Cédric Robert and Frédéric Hauswald. Biasion finished 4th.
Charles Martin won 208 Trophy, beating Eric Camilli (Rallye Jeune last year) and Emmanuel Gascou, old fox of 2WD on gravel. Outsiders Cédric Cherain (BEL) finished 4th, Jaro Kinnunen (FIN) 6th, Chris Ingram (GBR) 7th, Mattias Adielsson (SWE) 10th, Jérémie Toedtlie (SWI) 14th and Sylvain Droxler (SWI) 17th.

http://www.ewrc-results.com/final.php?e=16131&t=Rallye-Terre-des-Causses-2014

[tolis]

results?
Everything is in ewrc, why are you asking Christos? :D

[nafpaktos]

Everything is in ewrc, why are you asking Christos? :D
Although i visit ewrc very often i haven't even thought it.

[Tom206wrc]

This coming week-end Rallye Lyon-Charbonnières to follow from friday afternoon on http://www.patricksoft.fr/ ;)

[AP-Racing]

This coming week-end Rallye Lyon-Charbonnières to follow from friday afternoon on http://www.patricksoft.fr/ ;)

Entry list?

[Fly]

Entry list?

1. Click on the picture with the Opel Adam.
2. Click Engagés

[vino_93]

Entry list?

http://www.ewrc-results.com/startlist.php?e=16118&t=Rallye-Lyon-Charbonni%C3%A8res-Rh%C3%B4ne-2014

[Tom206wrc]

Forfait from Eric Brunson in Lyon-Charbonnières for personal reason :(

[vino_93]

great fight in France Tarmac Champ for Rallye Lyon Charbonnières.
Cuoq was leading by 25" on Baud, but he lose time during the 9th stage. During the same stage, Salanon, who is doing his comeback, did a great job and passed Baud. So he is now leading. Four guys are fighting for victory.

Classification after one day and half :
1 Salanon (Fiesta WRC)
2 Baud (Fiesta WRC) 5"
3 Trojani (C4 WRC) 29"
4 Cuoq (C4 WRC) 37"
5 Marty (Mini WRC) 50"
6 Roche (Mini WRC) 1'01
7 Rousset (C4 WRC) 1'55
8 Nantet (996 GT2) 2'28
9 Blaser (307 WRC) 3'17
10 Martel (207 S2000) 3'21
...

Nantet easily lead amator champ, Ragues the ELMS champion is 2nd.
In Opel Cup, Jouines is leading by 15" on Perry and BErnardi. Official Opel driver Kreim is at 40" in 6th place.
In french junior champ, great fight btw Gabriel Lieffroy and Damien Defert.
http://www.ffsa.org/res_rallye.php?if1=ES_8&&if2=CUMUL_8&&idEpr=8&&typeCr=Les%20Noirs%20-%20Mardore%20-%20Thizy%20les%20Bourgs&&id=2430&&catCourse=ral&&typf=both&&typRes=tem

[AndyRAC]

In how many countries do they have an Opel Adam Cup? Can't say I'm surprised there isn't one here in UK....

Interesting to see Pierre Ragues in a Fabia S2000, rather than at Silverstone.

[Ucci]

[
Classification after one day and half :
1 Salanon (Fiesta WRC)
2 Baud (Fiesta WRC) 5"
3 Trojani (C4 WRC) 29"
4 Cuoq (C4 WRC) 37"
5 Marty (Mini WRC) 50"
6 Roche (Mini WRC) 1'01
7 Rousset (C4 WRC) 1'55
8 Nantet (996 GT2) 2'28
9 Blaser (307 WRC) 3'17
10 Martel (207 S2000) 3'21
...
[/QUOTE]

Nantet in front of all S2000&R5 ?? That must be a crazy ride with 911.....

[vino_93]

@AndyRAC : it's an Opel Adam Cup with Cup cars, not R2. Second year here. Germany of course has one, and I think Czech and Belgium (or Switzerland ?) should have one too this year.

@Ucci : no top driver with S2000 in fact. But yes, crazy ride by Nantet. I forgot to say that he is no more driving the powerful GT+ Porsche, but a classic GT10 Porsche. GT+ come from track cars, and GT10 from classic road cars.



So finally victory for Salanon :) Baud had to retire, so we find 2 C4 on the podium. Great drive by Marty, fourth for his first time with a WRC. It's even a long time ago he didn't drive a 4WD car (Monte 2010). Last year he finished 5th in Opel Cup.
Easy win for Nantet in amator champ, whereas Jouines wins in Opel Cup.
France Junior round for Yohann Rossel, new Rallye Jeune FFSA, so it was his second rally. He beats Lieffroy, for his third year in R1, who has a bit more experience that Lieffroy.

1 Salanon (Fiesta WRC)
2 Cuoq (C4 WRC) 31"
3 Trojani (C4 WRC) 40"
4 Marty (Mini WRC) 57"
5 Roche (Mini WRC) 1'14
6 Nantet (Porsche 997 GT2) 4'51
7 Blaser (307 WRC) 6'02
8 Knapick (206 WRC) 6'11
9 Philippon (Porsche 997 Cup) 6'22
10 Raynal (Escort RS Cosworth) 6'50
11 Thoral (Fiesta WRC) 6'53
12 Beaubelique (Fiesta R5) 7'41
13 Bect (207 S2000) 8'21
14 Saunier (Clio Williams) 8'22
15 Carret (DS3 R3) 8'32
...

Trophée Michelin :
1 Nantet
2 Philippon 1'31
3 Raynal 1'59
4 Beaubelique 2'50
5 Bect 3'30
...

Opel Adam Cup :
1 Jouines
2 Perry 13"
3 Fostier 48"
4 Jouines 3'50
5 Bernardi 4'11
...

Junior (DS3 R1)
1 Rossel
2 Lieffroy 17"
3 Defert 21"
4 Jamet 21"
5 Laskowski 26"
...

[AndyRAC]

Cheers thanks. So it seems that more countries are having an Opel Adam Cup. I won't hold my breath for one in UK. People would much rather drive RWD Escorts.....

[mousti]

Is Maurin saving money for WRC-2?

Sent from my HTC Desire X using Tapatalk 2

[vino_93]

Maurin plans were to do WRC-2 + some events in France (Touquet, 2 other on tarmac + one on gravel).
So yes for the moment, he saves money for this. Bu after two retirements, even if his pace was correct in Portugal, I don't know if he will continue or not.

[mousti]

I think with his improvement in pace, I think he should better do some ERC events, he would be very fast in Ypres, way faster than last time..

[Tom206wrc]

According to Rumeurs2rallye website Jean-Marie Cuoq would have bought a DS3 WRC and sold his C4 to Jean-Sébastien Vigion !!!! Hope it's true :bounce:

[Tom206wrc]

Bryan Bouffier with the Hyundaï I20 WRC and Sébastien Chardonnet with the Citroën C4 WRC on Rallye d'Antibes held at the end of this month ;)

[Tom206wrc]

Entrylist Rallye du Limousin
http://www.rallye-sport.fr/liste-engages-rallye-du-limousin-2014/

Poor in number but quite good in quality though ;)
Why no Jaro Kinnunen in 208 cup this time :confused:

[mousti]

No Brunson anymore in French championship this year.

[manthey]

No Brunson anymore in French championship this year.

is there any reason for this withdraw?

[vino_93]

No money ;)

[tommeke_B]

It's not just the lack of fundings. Brunson (and others) have already complained about the French calendar. Except for le Touquet, all events are in the Southern part of France. Closest event from le Touquet is 650km south (Limousin). Rallye du Var has the biggest travel-distance (more than 1100km) from le Touquet. As driver from North, it's very hard to get a project such as the French championship sold to your sponsors. In fact, apart from that one event (Le Touquet), all Belgian events are closer than French, for him. So no wonder he was considering taking part of the Belgian championship last year...

[vino_93]

It's link to money. It costs more to travel to South of France. It's more difficult to find sponsors for events so far from them ...

But for the moment, the first reason is that he can't finance himself, and he planned to attract new sponsors with his new car, but it didn't work. Fault of the championship, fault of bad economic situation ...

Next year a D2 championship will be created. I hope it will be good placed in France, with races in the North and West, where nothing happened now. Whereas there is really great french cup events.

[giù tutto!]

Bonato!

http://www.ewrc-results.com/results.php?e=16119&s=61886&t=Rallye-Region-Limousin-Lac-de-Vassivière-2014

[vino_93]

This guy is really good ... too bad there is no opportunity to do an international carrier with Opel.

Cuoq logicaly leading. These roads are in favour of 2.0L cars instead of new WRC's. But let's wait, Limousin is a difficult race.
Other surprising result is the one of Camilli. Leading Peugeot Cup, by 1" on Lefebvre. Really good.

[vino_93]

In the afternoon, extraordinary times of Maurin. He came back on Cuoq, and is now leading by a confortable margin of 16" on him. Salanon (Fiesta), Roche (Mini) and Rousset (C4) are still at the same place. Bonato were a bit in trouble, but a fantastic time on the 4th stage keep him 6th. Beaubelique is 7th and leads the Amator Trophy.
Camilli improve the gap with Lefebvre in Peugeot Cup, whereas Berfa is 3rd.
JOuines lost time in Opel, and let the lead to Bernardi. Marché is second.

[vino_93]

More difficulties for Bonato today. He lost time and now is far away. Unfortunately he didn't achieve a Top ten, but that was incredible to see him so highly classified.
Maurin easily wins the rally. He controls Cuoq, whereas Salanon was totally out of the game. But it's a new podium for him. Roché is still 4th, and Rousset 5th.

After a great fight, Rouillard finished 6th and wins the Michel Trophy, ahead of Beaubelique and Guigou, who wins the N group.

1 Maurin (Fiesta WRC)
2 Cuoq (C4 WRC) 30"
3 Salanon (Fiesta WRC) 2'26
4 Roché (Mini WRC) 3'37
5 Rousset (C4 WRC) 5'43
6 Rouillard (Porsche 997 Cup) 6'46
7 Beaubelique (Fiesta R5) 6'55
8 Guigou (Mégane RS) 7'16
9 Martel (207 S2000) 7'39
10 Hot (Impreza N15) 8'00

Camilli wins the Peugeot Trophy. Great drive for the Rallye Jeune 2013 - who had a small experience in 2008 where he drove three in Peugeot Trophy, without finishing events, then he did a Suzuki Swift Cup round, and retire. He came back last year by winning the Rallye Jeune selection, he achieved a great drive with his DS3 R1, and finished 6th and 10th in Cévennes and Var a DS3 R3.

[vino_93]

In France we have the ugliest Sub WRC ever seen :
http://www.forum-rallye.com/uploads/monthly_05_2014/post-3598-0-03271000-1399670839.jpg

Owned by Laurent Depoortere, North of France driver

[mousti]

Ugly as hell :o

Previous livery was way better!

[Tom206wrc]

Note the solid 5th in the 208 cup from Chris Ingram in Limousin :)

[Tom206wrc]

Entrylist Rallye d'Antibes(4th round of french tarmac championship) ;)
http://www.rallye-sport.fr/liste-engages-rallye-antibes-2014/

[dimviii]

Bouffier i20 wrc test for Antibes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yp7T5rMNAQI

[Mirek]

This road absolutely doesn't resemble Antibes. This is good for pre-Alsace or pre-Deutschland testing but stages of Antibes are completely different. I doubt this particular test was meant as preparation for that event more likely for others coming.

[Tom206wrc]

After leg one Rallye d'Antibes today friday, Julien Maurin leading ahead of Bryan Bouffier and libanese champion Roger Feghali ;)
http://www.patricksoft.fr/

[dimviii]

http://www.rallye-sport.fr/wp-content/gallery/antibes-2014/antib01.jpg
http://www.rallye-sport.fr/wp-content/gallery/antibes-2014/antib02.jpg
http://www.rallye-sport.fr/photos-rallye-antibes-2014/

[dimviii]

http://www.forum-rallye.com/uploads/monthly_05_2014/post-4440-0-71766000-1401482473.jpg
http://www.forum-rallye.com/uploads/monthly_05_2014/post-4440-0-42910400-1401482479.jpg
http://www.forum-rallye.com/uploads/monthly_05_2014/post-4440-0-75518500-1401482467.jpg



https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AfYf04YdZko

[dimviii]

After leg one Rallye d'Antibes today friday, Julien Maurin leading ahead of Bryan Bouffier and libanese champion Roger Feghali ;)
http://www.patricksoft.fr/

why Bouffier so slow Tom? any problems?

[vino_93]

No, only faster.

Bouffier is "very happy" ...

[manthey]

Bouffier is running with the man aim to storage a lot of data for Hyundai next tarmac wrc races

What a pitty for Camilli..in ss2 (25km) he was the 3rd faster (just 5,2 seconds behind bouffier) in his first time with a s2000 car