News from France

[vino_93]

It'"s only a rumor I guess, for the moment nothing officially announce.

[dimviii]

[Tom206wrc]

German Phillip Knof(winner of the 2014 Citroën Racing Trophy Junior in Germany) on the pre-entrylist of nex week Rallye du Touquet: do you know if he runs in the french Citroën Racing trophy too this season

[vino_93]

So, Loeb in Epernay is confirmed. He will be codrived by Sandra Rebout, the sister of his wife. Séverine Loeb will codrive Dominique Rebout, husband of Sandra Rebout.
If you want to fight with Loeb, you can still enter the event (180 entries accepted). The rally is in the vineyards in Champagne, quite a nice event. It's the first round of the French 2nd Division champ.

This week end, only one event in France : the Rallye Régional de Vaison la Romaine.
Small win for Frédérik Casciani, with Mégane Maxi Kit Car :

Good second spot for Paul Clier (BMW 318). Third is Lanciani, with a 206.



1 Frédérik Casciani (Mégane Kit Car)
2 Paul Clier (BMW 318 Compact) 4"
3 Christophe Lancioli (206 Evo) 11"
4 Grégory Fontalba (Clio R3) 20"
5 David Ferraro (Clio F2000) 27"
...

Not a good race for the two 207 S2000, driven by Jean-Luc Morel and Franck Lions. Morel (1) had some mechanical troubles at the beginning of the race, and finished only 14th, whereas Lions (2) was leading before retiring.

[Tom206wrc]

Official entrylist Rallye du Touquet
http://www.rallye-sport.fr/liste-des...-touquet-2015/

By the way, Rally Corsica WRC will be part of the french tarmac championship as replacement for Limousin another great news

[vino_93]

For Corsica, will it be as the Grand National, with only two days of stages counting, or will the crews run all the race ?

[vino_93]

Belgian Eric Cunin enters Epernay, with a Fabia WRC !

[tommeke_B]

Mauffrey tested the 208 R5.

[Tom206wrc]

Salanon is today at the Rallye régional Baldomérien with a Fiesta R5
It's not really a test for Touquet next week, because he will drive a Fiesta WRC there, not an R5

[vino_93]

So, this week end was a big one in France. It races more or less everywhere
Rallye National de Haute Provence (as its name says, it's in Provence) :
Easy win for Eric Fanguiaire, who rents for this race a Fiesta WRC in Italy. He doesn't have an serious opponent, and win by 2' on the Clio R3 of Belhomme (first race with this car). Third is Ciaramito with a Clio S1600. I have to notice the presence of Henry Massaad, lebanon driver, with a Clio RS R3T.


1 Eric Fanguiaire (Fiesta WRC)
2 Eric Belhomme (Clio R3) 1'56
3 Stéphane Ciaramito (Clio S1600) 2'23
4 Laurent Eydoux (Lancer VI) 2'37
5 Michel Farnaud (Saxo KC) 3'12
...

And a victory for Delecour, with an Audi Quattro, in VHC !


Rallye National de la Vienne (center of France) :
Quite a better field of car. Frédéric Martin rented an old Impreza WRC to FJ, Jean-Charles Beaubelique did a warm-up for Le Touquet, and Jérôme Galpin did his local event (he was a good driver in the beginning of the 00') with a FJ car (FJ is his family team). Cosson, good national driver with Porsche (ex hillclimb master), was here too.
Finally, and logically, Beaubelique won, by a few seconds on Cosson and Galpin. The other are far away.

1 Jean-Charles Beaubelique (Fiesta R5)
2 Anthony Cosson (997 GT3) 29"
3 Jérôme Galpin (207 S2000) 44"
4 Philippe Rageau (Mégane F2000) 3'38
5 Thierry Boisdron (Mégane F2000) 4'26
...

Rallye Régional Baldomérien : in Rhône Alpes, close to Saint-Etienne.
As always in Rhône Alpes, good field of car. Salanon started, as said Tom, 2 207 S2000 (Monnet and Philippot). In total, 140 cars started.
Salanon of course won, but Monnet did a great job and lost only 30". Pascal Berard, last winner of Clio Cup, finished 3rd.

1 David Salonon (Fiesta R5)
2 Arnaud Monnet (207 S2000) 30"
3 Pascal Bérard (Clio R3) 1'15
4 Damien Villeton (Clio R3) 1'20
5 Christophe Villeton (Impreza Sti) 1'22
...

Rallye Régional Cathare : In Narbonne, Languedoc-Roussillon, north of Catalunya.
One S2000, for a Guadeloupe driver, Philippe Ninou. But he didn't played an important role. It was a 2WD fight, with the victory for the BMW 318 of Riso, beating the good Sébastien Virazel (Clio R3) and the S1600 of Clemençon. Rémi Jouines did a warn-up for Opel Cup, but it didn't work really well ...
1 Jean-Alexandre Riso (BMW 318 Compact)
2 Sébastien Virazel (Clio R3) 2"
3 Benjamin Clemençon (206 S1600) 19"
4 Jean-Paul Guedj (Clio R3) 21"
5 Alain Hamza (Clio F2000) 25"
...


Rallye Régional du Pays Ajaccien : here we are in Corsica, close to Ajaccio.
As usual, a lot of big cars rented in Italy (1 Fiesta R5 for Santoni, 3 207 S2000 for Aguzzi, Lanfranchi and Quilici, 2 208 T16 for Succi and Leandri, 1 Fiesta RRC for Micheli). It was impossible to fight with them, even for the good Guglielmi with a Clio R3, who finished 5th.
Santoni won by a big margin on Aguzzi and Leandri, a disappointing 3rd.

1 Paul-Antoine Santoni (Fiesta R5)
2 Tony Aguzzi (207 S2000) 36"
3 Jean-Matthieu Leandri (208 T16) 39"
4 Jean-François Succi (208 T16) 51"
5 Pierre-Antoine Guglielmi (Clio R3) 51"
...

Rallye Régional du Pays Avallonais : here we are in Burgundy.
More than 100 entries, with 4 207 S2000 for Bouhot, Lecki, Dapoigny and Deroy. Other top contender is Reutter with a Porsche, or Daniel Fores with a 306 Maxi !
Reutter quite easilly defeated the S2000. Great drive by Nicolas Grosjean, 4th with a 106 S16.

1 Paul Reutter (997 GT3)
2 Etienne Bouhot (207 S2000) 21"
3 Laurent Lecki (207 S2000) 36"
4 Nicolas Grosjean (106 S16) 1'05
5 Daniel Fores (306 Maxi) 1'07
...