National Rally championships News

[tolis]

Why????

[Ucci]

Why????[/quote]

Due to small number of entries and one major sponsor did not give what he promised....

[Tom206wrc]

Sad news from Italy-first round of Tarmac championship (TRA), Rally Alba is cancelled !!

[urabus-denoS2000]

I'm afraid more bad news for Lavanttal

Slovenian champion Tomaž Kaučič won't drive this rally because of some problems with the team that owns the car and it is a question if he will even defend his championship

[PLuto]

I dont know if it was written here, but Laurent Luyet will start in swiss championship with Grande Punto S2000 from MRT.

[Tom206wrc]

I dont know if it was written here, but Laurent Luyet will start in swiss championship with Grande Punto S2000 from MRT.

Entrylist of next week Rallye Pays du Gier http://www.asadelaloire.com/Document...ges%202009.pdf

Four S2000s on entrylst(all driven by swiss drivers)

[atsiotras79]

On weekend 27-28 March, 2nd round of Greek Rally Championship, Olympiako Rally, and on the entrylist there is the Corsa S2000 of Kaltsounis. Let's hope it starts this time.

Apart from that, Vovos, Papajim, and Kirkos Jnr will have another nice fight!

Too bad Hatzitsopanis will not participate this year in all rounds of the championship.

[Wim_Impreza]

Standings after day 1 Tank S Rally, first round of Rallyclinic Dutch Open (= Dutch Rally Championship), 4 short stages:
1 Jasper van den Heuvel - Lancer Evo 10 (N4) - 14'13"
2 Piet van Hoof - Lancer Evo 4 (A8) - +20"
3 Graham Coffey (GB) - Impreza WRC (A8) +28"
4 Jeroen Swaanen - Lancer Evo 9 (N4) +31"
5 Henk Vossen - Lancer Evo 9 (N4) +39"
6 Evert Bolderheij - Lancer Evo 10 (N4) +40"
7 John Temmink - Impreza WRC (A8) +46"
8 Erik van Loon - Lancer Evo 10 (N4) +48"
9 Gert Huzink - Celica GT-Four (H12) +52"
10 Martin van den Brink - Lancer Evo 9 (N4) +54"

Live results on http://www.rallytiming.nl, official site with news is http://www.tanksrally.nl

[Mirek]

Very bad entry compared to last year on Tank-S rally

I understand why there's no Van Eldik, but how about Wevers, Kuipers's family, De Vinkel, Merksteijn's, Pipers, Abbring or Weijs? They don't start in national championship at all?

[Wim_Impreza]

Last year, the Tank S Rally was a round for the 'Euro Rally Challenge' and this year not. Mark van Eldik is still recovering of his huge crash in Hellendoorn Rally last year and he thinks that Hellendoorn Rally in September will be his first rally of the year. Off course the economic crisis is there too, but the other reason why the entry list isn't good is that mainly all the top drivers (Wevers, René Kuipers and Dennis Kuipers, de Winkel, Piepers, van Merksteijn jun. and sr.), expect Jasper van den Heuvel, will do the 'Euro Rally Challenge' this year.

Kevin Abbring and Hans Weijs jun. do the JWRC. They will probably compete in 1 or 2 rallies in the Netherlands. The Van Merksteijn's do WRC Portugal and Finland, Euro Rally Challenge and some of the bigger national events. Harry Kleinjan won't do a rally this year, probably one or two rallysprints with his old Golf II.

The second rally for the Dutch championship, Sezoensrally in Belgium at the end of May, will be a very big event as it counts for the 'Euro Rally Challenge', Belgian Championship and this year the Dutch championship.