Belgian Rally News

[tommeke_B]

Tomorrow night and saturday there's the Spa Rally, 2nd round of the Belgian championship. Live results should be found here: http://www.sparally.com/nl/node/44

Bob De Jong already crashed on shakedown... 11 R5 cars left, also Mini RRC (with WRC wing), 2 Fabia WRC's and a few GT's. Marc Duez is entering a Porsche 997 GT3 from Romain Dumas. Some good FWD cars as well, interesting entry is Gryazin with a 208 R2.

De Jong...

[JTGANG]

Tomorrow night and saturday there's the Spa Rally, 2nd round of the Belgian championship. Live results should be found here: http://www.sparally.com/nl/node/44

Bob De Jong already crashed on shakedown... 11 R5 cars left, also Mini RRC (with WRC wing), 2 Fabia WRC's and a few GT's. Marc Duez is entering a Porsche 997 GT3 from Romain Dumas. Some good FWD cars as well, interesting entry is Gryazin with a 208 R2.

De Jong...

wow !!! seems pretty big crash for Bod De Jong....Cannot even recognize the DS3...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

That is one heavy frontal impact !

[tommeke_B]

Edit, nice compilation from shakedown which includes the footage of Cherain I posted earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYzoMGQc4-U

[Mirek]

Does anyone know what happened to Cherain and Demarschalk? Nicely suprised by Bouche!

[Jarek Z]

According to this:
http://rajdy.autoklub.pl/news/pojedy...ardenach,66779
Cherain withdrew after some problems with brakes and rear wheel. He's not on the same level as Loix and Princen anyway, is he?

[Jarek Z]

I think Loix is going to win it. He has 23 seconds over Princen after SS10. Still 7 stages to go.

Very bad rally for Gryazin. He is 56th overall.

[Mirek]

According to this:
http://rajdy.autoklub.pl/news/pojedy...ardenach,66779
Cherain withdrew after some problems with brakes and rear wheel. He's not on the same level as Loix and Princen anyway, is he?

Cherain used to be faster. Don't know what's wrong with him this year.

I think Loix is going to win it. He has 23 seconds over Princen after SS10. Still 7 stages to go.

Very bad rally for Gryazin. He is 56th overall.

Gryazin retired. He did some decent stages but lost huge time on others. Anyway in 2WD Hermann with his crazy Punto is different league than anyone else.

[Mirek]

Gryazin continues, there was some mistake in the timing system when he was mentioned as retired for a while. He just set a great time in SS14 fastest of all FWD even ahead of crazy Hermann.

[Mirek]

Looking at the results it's certainly not just a curious detail that Spa stages are close to Czech ones... 5 Škoda 4WD on start and all of them in top 8!

1. Loix (Fabia R5) 1:41:21,6
2. Princen (208 T16 R5) +39,9
3. Verschueren (Fabia R5) +2:31,5
4. Bouche (Fabia R5) +3:03,0
5. De Cecco (208 T16 R5) +3:33,2
6. Dilley (DS3 R5) +5:11,7
7. Allart (Fabia WRC) +5:43,4
8. Cunin (Fabia WRC) +8:48,0
9. Albert (Evo IX A8) +9:07,3
10. Martin (Evo IX A8) +9:19,1

Cherain (Fiesta R5), Demarschalk (DS3 R5) retired, De Jong (DS3 R5) crashed on shakedown.