Belgian Rally News

**gianni123** · 30th June 2019, 15:58

**dodge33cymru** · 30th June 2019, 22:44

Got back to North England at 5am this morning, burnt to a crisp but had a really good few weeks.

Thanks for all your superb videos and photos; seems like I was stood right by a couple of you.

Might not have been the most competitive at the top end, but Breen was superb out there and he and Abbring added the bit 'extra' on top of the BRCs.

For the first time I got to see quite a lot of the historic event this year - Shakedown was a bit disappointing but guess that's to be expected when it's two or three days before the event starts. Cycling the Gent-Wevelgem hills and then to the shakedowns from my hotel was a lot of fun though (although I failed at the steeper Kemmelberg...).

However, the schedule and stages lent themselves to some great stage hopping - loved doing my planning and found some great spots after choosing poorly last year. Section near the end of Dikkebus, the end section at Watou and a fast bit in Kemmelberg were favourites. In the end, on Friday I saw three passes of the top modern cars and one of the historics and on Saturday I got three of each and still made the 8pm ferry.

I wasn't a fan of the Masters concept, but fear Hyundai will consider it a big success. I'm a bit worried about how the event will fare over the next few years if they can't convince many of the top Belgian runners to compete as I don't see the British championship providing too many more entries. Would be great if they could persuade the German or French championship to participate, but that's just wishing aloud.

Anyway, had a lot of fun and not sure if I'll be able to return next year - hope to though!

**HaCo** · 1st July 2019, 12:28

Originally Posted by mousti

They will fall like flies.

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And they did :-( :-)

Any video footage out there of Guigou's off? I was looking forward seeing some Renault action as well this weekend, pitty they almost left the scene.