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[Tom206wrc]

CRAZY entrylist for next week's Rallye d'Epernay Vins de Champagne
http://www.rallye-sport.fr/liste-des...depernay-2015/

[Fly]

CRAZY entrylist for next week's Rallye d'Epernay Vins de Champagne
http://www.rallye-sport.fr/liste-des...depernay-2015/

What's crazy? 3 drivers to watch: Loeb, Giordano, Gilbert? Any other?
Are you going to spectate?

[nafpaktos]

i was reading to motorsport monday that rally touquet is the only round of the championsip that takes place on the north of the country,the other events are on the central-south or south.why this happens?

[EightGear]

I believe Vino has made a post about that some time ago.

[vino_93]

i was reading to motorsport monday that rally touquet is the only round of the championsip that takes place on the north of the country,the other events are on the central-south or south.why this happens?

Yes it's true.
To be honest ... I don't know. There's plenty of nice places in the north / east / north-west, so if FFSA wants, it could ...
There was Rallye Alsace-Vosges before, but it ended with Rallye de France - Alsace.

The rally in the south were in french championship for years. They appear to be some classic event, like Cévennes, Mont Blanc, Antibes, Var, ... so the FFSA don't want to eject one to put another in the place, even if events like La Rochelle (west), Epernay or Vosgien (East) could probably join the french championship if there was a spot.
Moreover, most of the amator crews entering the champ come from South-East of France. What is logic, as all the races are there ... But it's used as an argument to keep all the events in the south. And that's why Macon (close to Lyon, south of Burgundy) had a spot some years ago, whereas La Rochelle was its main opponent (and a really nice place).
Epernay shows that there's a lot of guy from north / east who wants to do national events. But as it's a long way to come to the D1 events ... they will focus on D2. Most of the crews with WRC/S2000 who will do D2 (and play for the title) will only race the northern part of France events (Epernay, Ternois, Dieppe, Bretagne, La Rochelle, ... ), with maybe one spot in the south, as Montagne Noire or Grasse.

And this year, what was the westest event (Limousin) is cancel ... and it's Corsica which takes the spot...

[vino_93]

French cup :
Rallye National du Chablisien : new rally, run in Burgundy, close to Auxerre, and not so far from Langres (which host a gravel round)
The field was low, with only 48 cars starting. Really rare in France to have so less cars. But there was some good drivers : Fores with the 306 Maxi, Guillerot and Fauguet with 207 S2000. Guillerot was unbeatable. After the retirements of Fauguet and Fores, there were spots on the podium for Bardou and Buisson, who did a great race with his small Clio RS.



1 Romain Guillerot (207 S2000)
2 Maxence Bardou (DS3 R3) 1’04
3 Fabrice Buisson (Clio RS) 1’19
4 Jacky Leroy (Lancer IX) 1’42
5 Emmanuel Melocco (207 R3) 2’51
…

Rallye Régional de Printemps : here we are in Lorraine, really close to Nancy.
The field was even smaller than Chablisien … hard time in East. Only 34 crews … This event is in trouble, it’s only the second time it is run since 2010.
2 good crews : Paul Reutter with a Porsche, and Dominique Rebout with 207 S2000. We can talk about Eric Cunin (French, not the Belgian) and Alcaraz. But none of them can fight with the first two, who easily dominated the race. At the end, it’s Reutter who won :



1 Paul Reutter (Porsche 997 GT3)
2 Dominique Rebout (207 S2000) 1”
3 Willy Alcaraz (Lancer Evo VI) 49”
4 Eric Cunin (Clio R3) 49”
5 Jérémy Lanthermann (Saxo VTS) 1’24
…

Rallye Régional des Vignes de Régnié : we go south, between Mâcon and Villefranche sur Saône, in Rhône Alpes but close to the south of Burgundy.
A decent field of cars, 141 starters! Three top crews: Cédric Robert, with a 207 S2000, Rémi Risaletto with and Escort RS Cosworth, and Yves Pezzutti, with a 306 Maxi.
Logic is respected, with these 3 in the first three places.



1 Cédric Robert (207 S2000)
2 Rémy Risaletto (Escort RS Cosworth) 17”
3 Yves Pezzutti (306 Maxi) 33”
4 Pierre-Antoine Rampon (BMW 318 Compact) 1’17
5 Loïc Bisson (Clio S1600) 1’18
…

Rallye Régional des Vins du Gard : just stick to Lédenon, where there’s a track, and between Nîmes and Avignon.
There was a good field of cars, 118 entries. The top crew was Nicolas Liron, running an ex-MRF Tyres Fabia S2000. There was a DS3 R5 for a Laurent Brunel, and I think it was the first DS3 R5 running a French cup event. Other top crews were Jean-Yves Antherieu with an old R3, Raphaël Astier with an Z3, or Vivens, top guy in F2000. No surprise with the success of Liron, in front of Vivens. In the top 5 we can notice a 307 F2000, really rare car.



1 Nicolas Liron (Fabia S2000)
2 Yannick Vivens (206 F2000) 11”
3 Raphaël Astier (Z3 M) 18”
4 Grégory Fontalba (Clio R3) 27”
5 Julien Monteil (307 F2000) 43’’
…

Rallye Régional ASAB : first round of La Reunion championship, but round of french cup too, as all rallies there.
As the rally is regional, the champion, Stéphane Sam-Caw-Fèvre, couldn’t enter with his 206 WRC. So he ran with a Xsara F2000. So it was more or less impossible for him to win against the Lancer Evo X of Bruni or Picard, the Clio R3 of Ramsany, Law Long, the DS3 R3 of Barret, the 306 Maxi of Unia … there was a Fabia S2000, whole new chassis, for Gangate, but he is not so good driver, and the car ended in a deep …
The french-italian Bruni took the win. Ahead him, there was a big battle for podium.



1 Anthony Bruni (Lancer Evo X)
2 Yoann Ramsany (Clio R3) 15”
3 Jonny Picard (Lancer X) 15”
4 Thierry Law-Long (Clio R3) 17”
5 Gianni Barret (DS3 R3) 22”
…

[dimviii]

Sandra,Loeb co driver

[Tom206wrc]

Outstanding international success for the Peugeot 208 Cup this season !!!!

33 entries for next week's Rallye terre des Causses(gravel) with:
-Three Belgians(Guillaume de Mévius, Quentin Collignon, Joachim Wagemans)
-Three Spaniards("Pepé" Lopez, Nil Solans, José Antonio Suarez)
-A Brit(Garry Pearson)
-An Italian(Andrea Carella)
-A Swiss(Jérémie Toedtli)

http://www.rallye-des-causses.org/

[vino_93]

and a driver from Madagascar (Olivier Ramiandrisoa)

[dimviii]

Rebout/Severine Loeb