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[HaCo]

Looked at the times of the other stages, you must be right. Fabulous time from him then!!! Wonder what he encountered on ss2 where he lost 13 mins?

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[EightGear]

Some electrical problem for Abbring on SS10, car was running on 3 cylinders some times. He stopped and lost 20 seconds. SS11 went better, still in the lead. Service now.

A shame that Maurin had a puncture, the battle for the overall lead is over now.

[wwbroe]

Chérain is setting amazing times also, coming close to Abbring now. Also great performance by DeMaerschalck but he lost a lot of time with an off on stage 2.

[vino_93]

According to twitter:

Graham Quinn (@GQuinn27) heeft getweet om 1:38 PM on za, mei 11, 2013:
Our S12b slid off the road and out of the lead in Rally Limousin..Tricky conditions.Next stop Corsica test with the MINI and @steph_sarrazin
(https://twitter.com/GQuinn27/status/333184249131839488)

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Good for Maurin. I'm starting to like French championship more and more. Also every evening resume of the rally, including cups. Well done ffsa, FIA can learn from that!


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oh for sure no, FIA don't have to take our championship in example.
First of all, look at the repartition of the rallies in France ... well, it's a joke. On 9 rounds, you have only 1 in the North (Le Touquet), and the 8 other are in the South East part of France. Limousin is a bit in the Center, but for the rest ... when a new round has to be chosen, they choose Mâcon, which is very closed to Lyon, whereas there are beautiful races in all part of the country, as in La Rochelle.
And for sure the calendar could be better organized geographically speaking, because beautiful races are not all in South East. Using coeff 5 rallies in French Cup to do a rotation, and it could be perfect, including all parts of France.

In a second way, there is some stupid coefficients. On 9 rounds, two are coeff 1. WHy Coeff 1 ? Because the organizers aren't in good term with FFSA. The Rallye Lyon Charbonnière had coeff 1, but he has the best entry list for the moment in French Champ, and is one of the favourite rally of all drivers...

Then, we can talk about the way to do the classification. I have no problem with point for classes. It's good for drivers who can't afford big cars. But ... it is done by the most stupid way. When in a class there is less than 3 drivers involved, points are divided by two (logic, it's easiest to win your class when you are alone), except if you are in the Top 10 of the rally. As you know, a driver has to registered to take point in championship.
But ... to know how many cars there is in a rally, FFSA counts all cars taking part to the event - and not only the one who subscribed for the championship.
So since the beginning of the year, Gatti is taking all points in A7 category as he is the only one from this category, and other drivers entered races, but aren't registered.
So he has 30 pts, and will have 20 more this week end ... and you can have a guy in another category, alone too, but with only 2 times less points than him, because there wasn't other cars starting the rally outside of the championship ...

Then, subscribe to the championship ... is that logic ? Amateur drivers have to paid, and it costs a lot for them. Instead of running less and less km, maybe delete this would attract more amateur drivers.


So yes our championship is quite good, he has nice trophies, good drivers, etc etc ... but there is a lot of things to change.

[vino_93]

epic battle in Opel Cup. Jouines is leading by 1"5 ahead of Bonato before the last stage
http://www.ewrc-results.com/results....assivière-2013

[MartijnS]

Abbring extended the gap in the final two stages and wins Really good rally again + 7th overall

[mousti]

I think Cherain made a mistake of had a flat tire on the penultimate stage and with that losing the 2nd place on the final stage to Lefebvre

[Kielder]

Really a difficult corner...

[tommeke_B]

This time Eric Brunson didn't want the stage to be stopped to get his car out, apparently

[vino_93]

All classification of french championships :
main champ : eWRC-results.com - Season 2013 rally
Amateur Trophy : eWRC-results.com - Season 2013 rally
CRT : eWRC-results.com - Season 2013 rally
Peugeot : eWRC-results.com - Season 2013 rally
Opel : eWRC-results.com - Season 2013 rally
Twingo R2 : eWRC-results.com - Season 2013 rally
Junior : eWRC-results.com - Season 2013 rally
CRT Junior : eWRC-results.com - Season 2013 rally