"The RNT Rally Challenge is a great initiative for young people to show their talent and have a real chance to prove their abilities."

Neuville knows what he is talking about, 11 years ago it was he who took the wheel ...

"The organization was not quite the same, but in the end I was selected from 120 participants as the winner of the challenge at the time and that's what started my career."

Today, 12 victories and 5 titles of vice world champion later Saint-Vithois is a reference, an example for those kids who dream to walk one day in his footsteps.

For Tom Rensonnet: "It's a great pride for us to be able to work with him so he can look at us, judge us, give us tips to improve, it's just amazing."

Tom and the others want to impress the members of the jury ... at the wheel of cross-car because first, these small bombinettes of 130 HP conceived by Neuville himself.

Then place to a real rally car ... It is in Francorchamps as part of the most beautiful circuit in the world that they must show their speed and show off their talent ... The candidates multiply the passages in special, improve their times being aware that it is their future in motorsport that is played.

"Luck is there, luck does not come often and it is now that we must seize it".

They were nearly 500 at the beginning of the adventure. After 3 months of selection, after these 2 days of testing, there remains only one, a talent that will have to be shaped.

"Talent is something that has been given, you have to have a certain basic talent to then be able to make a career in this sport that is quite complex and that requires a lot of work then.It is not only talent that will help you to make a good career, talent is the base but then it's a lot of work, work, sacrifices, that makes you have a long career in the world of rally ".

Tom Rensonnet, a 21-year-old marketing student, was chosen. He is offered a season in the Belgian Rally Championship, perhaps the beginning of a great adventure and destiny at the Neuville.

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