So first day of race in Le Touquet.
First : Brunson is off. Anew, after Côte Fleurie ... seems not at ease.
So Cuoq is logically leading.
Quite surprise to see Roché 2nd, at only 30". I didn't expect him so close. It seems he matches very well with the Fiesta. Hope to seem him doing the whole season.
Salanon 3rd ... he is for sure a fast driver, but he doesn't like Le Touquet. I thought he would be largely 2nd, but no. Let's see tomorrow ...

In R5, Amourette is amazing. He is leading in front of Martin. Amourette was a top guy in Saxo Trophy just after Loeb passed. He had an official drive in S1600 championship, but whereas Loeb turned pro, he turned amator and never had more chance. Probably if his career happened now, he would have had a chance in JWRC. But that was another time.
He still remains faithful to Citroën, and was a top guy with a C2 S1600, and then with R3. Le Touquet is one of his favourite race (he won it in 2002), but for his first with a 4WD, against Peugeot official car, that's really good.
Martel is a good 6th. He confirms his progression. Tanghe with the old Celica is 7th

Michel with Porsche (of Nantet's team) is leading 2WD, with a small margin on Guigou (Clio IV R3).
As planned, Rossel is easily leading CRT.
Great fight between Bernardi and Fostier in Adam Cup, with Rémi Jouines third. Nothing surprising there too.
In CRTJ (which is French Junior Champ too), which is starting his second year there, is easily leading. Nothing exciting on the podium, as they are all repeating. But Anthony Fotia, 4th, is doing his 2nd rally only. His father was a good driver in the south part of France in the 90's.

Classification after day 1 :
1 Cuoq (C4 WRC)
2 Roché (Fiesta WRC) 33"
3 Salanon (Fiesta WRC) 39"
4 Amourette (DS3 R5) 1'29
5 Martin (208 T16) 1'34
6 Martel (207 S2000) 2'14
7 Tanghe (Celica ST205) 2'16
8 Ragues (DS3 R5) 2'25
9 Leandri (208 T16) 2'30
10 Beaubelique (Fiesta R5) 2'31
11 Michel (997 GT3) 2'41
12 Mauffrey (208 R5) 2'51
13 Rouillard (997 GT3) 3'01
14 Guigou (Clio IV) 3'04
15 Nantet (997 GT3) 3'10
...

Junior (DS3 R1)
1 Pellier
2 di Fante 37"
3 Masse 53"
4 Fotia 1'22
5 Astier 1'30
...

CRT (DS3 R3) :
1 Rossel
2 Dubert 43"
3 Hauswald 1'59
4 Defert 2'06
5 Monnin 4'47
...

Adam Cup :
1 Bernardi
2 Fostier 13"
3 R Jouines 38"
4 N Rouillard 1'16
5 J Jouines 1'28
...

Top crews missing :
Brunson (Fiesta WRC) : off road, SS2 (was leading)
Depoortere (Impreza WRC) : excluded
Bayard (Corolla WRC) : mechanical, SS6 (was 18th, lost time SS1)
Pruvot (Impreza WRC) : mechanical, SS5 (was 9th)
Raynal (Fiesta R5) : mechanical, SS5 (was 20th)
Millet (DS3 R3) : off road, SS2 (was 3rd CRT)
Garcia (DS3 R3) : mechanical, SS3 (was 3rd CRT)
Knof (GER, DS3 R3) : off road, SS6 (was 3rd CRT, great drive for this german I didn't know)