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He blocked a Special Stage at Rallye Lyon CHarbonnières after being crashed because he feared that an other car destroy his Subaru WRC. The race director refused to call a tow truc to move the impreza.
Explication entre le Directeur de course & Eric Brunson - David Heulin - YouTube

It's the rule, if the car doesn't block totally the stage, you have to wait the end of the stage to take your car back. I think it could be better to stop the race for 10 minutes than to destroy your car with another accident...

Thank You. That's really strange...

Yep, weard :s

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Originally Posted by titi_62

It's the rule, if the car doesn't block totally the stage, you have to wait the end of the stage to take your car back. I think it could be better to stop the race for 10 minutes than to destroy your car with another accident...

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If the stage would be stopped when somebody has crashed and is afraid of damage to his car then one stage would last the whole day. Every crew would request for a tow truck so that they could get away from the stage and not wait for other cars to finish the stage...

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Originally Posted by Susiraja

If the stage would be stopped when somebody has crashed and is afraid of damage to his car then one stage would last the whole day. Every crew would request for a tow truck so that they could get away from the stage and not wait for other cars to finish the stage...

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I agree, but sometimes the car is clearly in a dangerous place, here Brunson was stopped in a 6th gear section...

Why is Grégoire Hotz on entrylist of next week's Rallye international de Bourgogne Côtes chalonnaise with a 207 S2000 ??? I thought from now on(since last week-end's rally ronde del Ticino)he was Skoda Switzerland driver :confused:
Rally of Burgundy Côte Chalonnaise 6, 7, 8 July 2012

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After SS2 Rallye du Rouergue, Stéphane Sarrazin leading Jean-Marie Cuoq for 4" and then come local driver Jean-Michel Da Cunha and Dany Snobeck(both on C4s - Da Cunha rented the one used by Tsjoen in Belgium)
Best S2000 is Cédric Robert ahead of Freddy Loix and David Salanon(trophée Michelin leader ahead of the Porsches of Nantet and Rouillard)
Retirement with mechanical problem for Bryan Bouffier on SS2 :(

Now I won't be able to follow the rest of the rally :mark: I'll be in holidays for three weeks far from my computer :p :

Cuoq takes the lead from Sarazin after today's second stage. Da Cunho (local driver with C4) is third in front of Snobeck. Then there is the big fight in S2000 with Robert in fifth and Fast Freddy in sixth, coming back at just 3.4 sec of Cedric.

Snobeck went off on SS9, a field and a tractor burnt at this place but they saved the C4 !
In the same stage, Rouillard Porsche's burnt too !

But everybody is okay !

Cuoq (Focus WRC) is first, Sarrazin (307 WRC) second at 21.3s with braking problems and local driver Da Cunha is third at 1min21.
Great fight between Robert and Loix with their 207 S2000, Loix is at 6.5s

Victory of Cuoq ahead of Sarrazin and Da Cunha.
Robert (with gearbox problem on last SS) won in S2000 for 2.8s seconds ahead of Loix