News from France

[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

[vino_93]

Quentin Gilbert will do Rallye Le Touquet with a C4 WRC 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

[WRCKE]

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

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

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

[Tom206wrc]

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

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 he showed so much talent in Citroën last year(in R1 but especially in R3/Var)he could be the favourite overall

[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, ...

[Juha_Koo]

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

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.