Part 1 of Day 1:
http://www.pitstoptv.info/pitstop/?page_id=430
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Part 1 of Day 1:
http://www.pitstoptv.info/pitstop/?page_id=430
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Originally Posted by Madeira
Apparently Racing Lions will also run a 206 S1600 in the CIR with a certain Guerra as driver(don't know him at all) ;)
It's about to be official !!!! Patrick Henry will drive a whale(from Bozian) on the french tarmac rallies championship this year !!!! :D
He will join Jean-Marie Cuoq and David Salanon, both on whale too, to offer them a really amazing fight for their money !! :up:
Can you give me some information about this year rally Hella or any contacts with organizer?
Any pictures from this event?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
Let me talk you all thru everything new that’s up in our upcoming rallying season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josti
First things first: Let me correct this list above, as it isn't quite right. At this point the entry for the Dutch Rally Championship 2007 isn't closed yet, so it's hard to say who's got championship aspirations and which drivers just drive some events for fun. It’s seems like it’s gonna be one great season again though, with a lot of competitive cars in all classes, probably 10-15 World rally Cars at least and a couple of foreign drivers.
The biggest news is the fact that Peter van Merksteyn (drove a Kadett GSI in the early nineties) has bought himself a Focus RS WRC 06, arriving next summer. He’ll be making his debut with this car in Germany (the WRC round). After that he’ll continuing his outings in the Focus with participations in selective rounds of the WRC. While he’s got himself this amazing car, he bought his son (Peter van Merksteyn jr.) a brand new Mitsubishi Lancer evo 9 Group N. I guess (just my point of view) junior will gain some experience this season in the Evo, before taking the wheel of the Focus in some events in 2008. Meanwhile the daughter of Van Merksteyn senior will make her debut within a few weeks in Emmeloord (Tank S Rallysprint) behind the wheel of the Lancer Evolution, formerly owned by Jasper van den Heuvel. To be more precise: The car Van den Heuvel drove in last years Wales Rally GB (Evo 8 Gr N). Beside his World Rally Championship aspirations, Van Merksteyn sr. is also expected to drive some selective rounds of the Dutch Championship. Still not enough confirmed about that yet, so I can’t give you any more details.
After rallying for one year in Germany, former champ Erik Wevers gets back to his roots, driving in the whole Dutch Championship 2007 with his familiar Corolla WRC. Rene Kuipers and a yet unknown other driver will also participate with one of Wevers Sport Corolla WRCars in the upcoming season. I’m glad to see these ‘oldies’ again, as the Corolla’s still look pretty nice and can be quite fast too. Although I think they can’t match the speed of the Subaru WRC’s in 2007. After ‘losing’ the title in 2006, Mark van Eldik will give it another try this year. He will start the season with his Impreza WRC S10 and is expected to take the wheel of a S12 WRC in de second half of the season. Another familiar Subaru driver (Dirk Boers) finally got rid of his Impreza WRC99 (beautiful car, but really not that reliable) and got himself an Impreza WRC S7 for the upcoming season. I guess it’s still no match for Van Eldik’s more recent Impreza, but you’ll never know..
Martin van Iersel is another Dutch driver who bought himself a new Subaru toy. After driving an Impreza STI N12 last season, he got himself the ex-championship winning Impreza WRCar driven by Hans Stacey a few years ago. He’ll start 2007 with an evo 9 group N though. Before letting it out on the stages he wants to gain some experience with the WRC first.
From overseas we can expect a lot of fun watching the Kumho Rally Team this year, as they will enter two spectacular cars for the full Dutch Championship 2007. Guy Woodcock, who’s not a stranger to us Dutch rally fans anymore, will drive his Ford Escort Maxi Kitcar, while former national English champ David Mann could be an outsider in his Impreza WRC99. David Turnbull and Graham Coffey are two other foreign drivers to watch, as both of them will also drive the full championship in their Impreza WRCars (S7 and S8). Paddy White (West Euro Cup -Focus RS WRC05) and James Sparrow (Escort WRC) will drive selective rounds of the Dutch championship.
After his big Crash in last year’s Nederland Rally, Willy Kepser has started to rebuild his Escort WRC. He’s expecting tot return on the stages before the summer. After being badly hurt, his co-driver is finally making good progress. A few other Dutch drivers are working on a WRC project as well, but still didn’t come out with their plans yet. It wouldn’t be nicely if I gave there ‘secrets’ away, so I have to update you about that later. For sure is that we can expect a few WRCars which we didn’t see on the Dutch stages yet. Beside all those WRCars (I forgot to mention Haverkate’s Octavia WRC evo 3) a lot of drivers will start with other group A material. For example Piet Van Hoof, Arjen de Koning, Noortje van Gennip and Dirk Garvelink already registered for the Championship with their Mitsubishi Lancers.
The first round of the Dutch Championship will take place within two weeks. More information about this event can be found on the official website: http://www.tanksrally.nl.
Danish driver Martin Johansen will debut his Suzuki Swift Super 1600 in this event, while Hans-Erik Weng (driving a Lancer group N) is another foreign guest to look forward to. Johansen will have some strong competition, as Jan de Winkel (Renault Clio S1600), Ronald Koops (VW Polo S1600), Hans Weijs sr. (VW Golf 4 KC), Patrick Veenhuizen (Huyndai Coupe KC evo 2), Paul Allerts (Ford Fiesta S1600) and the earlier named Guy Woodcock also give it a try in de 2WD class. Weng should be expecting competition from Hans Weijs jr, Mark Steijger, Anton van Limpt, Peter van Merksteyn jr, Martin van Iersel, Johan Faes (all Mitsubishi) and Marco Schapers and Nelis Verkooijen (both Subaru).
Also some bad news from our country: The Hellendoorn Rally (Former Golden Tulip Rally) most likely will not be run in 2007.
I’ll give you an update as soon as possible.
Sure! Rallylink.it never disappoints ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by PJRevs
http://www.rallylinkserver.com/cgi-b...ltiberina_2007
Grossi's Punto S2000 can be seen here:
http://www.rallylinkserver.com/cgi-b....jpg&img=8&tt=
It seems that neither Grossi nor Andreucci finished the event. Final results of Rally Valtiberina can be found here:
http://www.tempionline.it/2007/rally...erina/GENE.HTM
Interesting !!!! Ex-Peugeot Spain driver David Nafria will run this season in the french 206 Cup !!!! :)
Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
Ardenne Blue Rally:
http://www.vrtnieuws.net/nieuwsnet_m...dex.shtml?play