Thread: Belgian Rally News
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8th March 2015, 19:00 #1041
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9th March 2015, 00:16 #1042
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Just watched the 1st round on Motors TV... nice to see so many drivers in the latest R5 cars this year.
Hope we can see this in the UK next year when the British Championship comes back !
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9th March 2015, 20:58 #1043
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Pics from Rallye de Hannut 2015 online on www.bvrallypics.be
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12th March 2015, 11:55 #1044
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So Spa Rally this weekend...
http://spa.rallyresults.be/spa-rally - Live results can be found here.
Entry list:
6 stages (2x3SS) are run on friday, first at 16h15. The first one is next to the circuit of Spa-Francorchamps, and is also using some roads around it, for me at least half of the stage is way too fast. Second stage is more technical with some gravel part, third is the well-known Clémentine. Less than half of the well-known gravel in the forest is used there, but before that part (last 3km before finish) the stage looks exciting as well, nice roads. On saturday 15 stages (3x5SS) are on the schedule. 2 stages are known from the old "Boucles de Spa", for the 3 other stages you need to go to the Condroz-region, the most Western stages of Spa Rallye are close to the most Eastern of Condroz. So a few stages (in my opinion 2 stages) are very similar to those of Rallye du Condroz. There are a few brutal gravel sections, and drivers are already fearing that punctures could play an important role in this event... Weather should be dry.
http://www.sparally.com/sites/defaul...agés%20BRC.pdf Entry list for modern cars. Most important drivers for top positions are Loix, Cherain, Tsjoen, Princen, Verschueren, Casier, Becx, Grooten with S2000/R5, with WRC we have Van Woensel, Allart and Bonjean. In GT we have Snijers, Lejeune, Vanparijs and Claerhout. This event is the first event of the Belgian 208 Rally Cup as well, so quite a few R2 cars (including Bux, De Cecco, Geusens etc).
http://www.sparally.com/sites/defaul...gés%20HBRC.pdf Entry list for historic cars. Not many drivers but some interesting names. Marc Duez is driving a BMW M3, in FINA colors! The car is similar to what he was driving some 25 years ago. Also interesting is Swiss driver Florian Gonon who is starting with an Escort MK1. Also François De Spa, man from the region, is someone to be watched.
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12th March 2015, 11:56 #1045
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Nice design for Bonjean's S12 WRC.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIVp...ature=youtu.be Nice video from shakedown.
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Great day to look forward to, we are going Saturday, hope there won't be too much abandons the first SS's on Friday. Very very good entry list even better than Haspengouw, I think even ERC would wish an entry like this...
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13th March 2015, 15:13 #1048
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I'm waiting for the first cars to arrive on the first stage, weather is awesome! I'll be posting splits again.
Post your own splits on the net: find RallyStopwatch on the Google Play Store.
Follow posted splits on twitter with #RallySplits hashtag.
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13th March 2015, 15:24 #1049
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This is the link for the splits: https://mobile.twitter.com/search?sr...%23RallySplits
Post your own splits on the net: find RallyStopwatch on the Google Play Store.
Follow posted splits on twitter with #RallySplits hashtag.
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Thanks, great weekend ahead.
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