News from France

7" between Hirvonen and Östberg after SS5 this saturday morning ;)
Chardonnet took the 3rd position from Mauffrey...

Mikko Hirvonen won Rallye Vosgien ahead of Mads Östberg and Sébastien Chardonnet ;)

Brilliant victory of Raphaël Michaud(309 F2000)at the rallye du Suran ahead of Nicolas Althaus(207 S2000, swiss winner)and Nicolas Roux(Octavia WRC) :cool:
Ivan Ballinari(207 S2000)lost everything on a 7km long stage(lost 5' on it) :(
Results rallye du Suran on Nouvelle page 2

In Corsica(rallye de Corté Centre Corse)very tight result for the first leg between Pascal Trojani(whale)and Marc Valliccioni(206 wrc)...1"2 after three 21km long passages :D
Rallyes de Corse - classements

It would be nice to improve site. Rather impossible to read, to find info in my humble opinion :(

Edit: I mean site with french results, not this one :)

Has anybody got links to hi res photos of Sebastien Chardonnet's car?

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Originally Posted by MJW

Has anybody got links to hi res photos of Sebastien Chardonnet's car?

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try here
RHphotograph - Photos de rallye - Rallye Vosgien 2012

plus2rallye.fr - Vosgien-2012

Rallye Vosgien 2012 - Rallye25

Photos Rallye Vosgien 2012 | Rallye-Addict.com

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Originally Posted by tommeke_B

It's common in France that websites look like they are made by a 8-year old kid... Anyway the level of organisation in France is very high, in general! :)

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Hmm, I heard quite an opposite from people who did Rallye du Var as competitors - always complained that it's incredible chaos in organization things...

I was personally only on Monte Carlo and just as a spectator but what I can say is that something like spectator safety doesn't exist there (except just few places with very strict rules). Usually it's like in the 80'...

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Originally Posted by Mirek

I was personally only on Monte Carlo and just as a spectator but what I can say is that something like spectator safety doesn't exist there (except just few places with very strict rules). Usually it's like in the 80'...

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photos were unbelievable from Monte...

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Hmm, I heard quite an opposite from people who did Rallye du Var as competitors - always complained that it's incredible chaos in organization things...

I was personally only on Monte Carlo and just as a spectator but what I can say is that something like spectator safety doesn't exist there (except just few places with very strict rules). Usually it's like in the 80'...

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I'm from Picardy (North of France). I was near to Nice some years ago for some hollidays, and go to see Rallye de l'Escarène (with the Col du Turini for example in stages). I was very shocked by the lack of security there ... compare to what I see in my region, it's incredible ! People seemed to be crazy ... crossed the road with baby when a car arrive, placed in dangerous corners ... and nothing is done to change it ! Wheras in North all is controlled, you can't go where you want, there's lot of security measures ... it's very different from where you are in France.

Rally France is great tarmac rally and should stay that way.

Will be heading over to Rally Du Var from Ireland as Keith Cronin should be competing , doesnt seem to be much information about where the rally is based etc , had anybody any information as we would like to book flights etc ?