In the Pas-de-Calais, the 62nd edition of the Rallye du Touquet starts very strong
The French rally championship has started in Le Touquet. For this new edition, a slightly modified route and the presence of the main local headliners such as Nyls Stievenart, Marc Lance or Adrien Van Beveren,
Five northern drivers are among the 26 leading drivers for this 62nd edition of the Le Touquet rally in Pas-de-Calais. Audomarois Jean-Benoît Houssin and Adrien Van Beveren, Hazebrouckois Hugues Lapouille, Boulonnais Marc Lance and Touquettois Nyls Stievenart.
A 1st round of the French Rally Championship which welcomes 240 crews on a 552.42 km course, aboard C3, Alpine A 110 or Polos.
Note the presence of other regions such as Tom Vanson from Boulogne and Jean-Luc Debove from Calais, as well as C. Robert and François Delecour from Hazebrouck.
Find the complete list of entrants with their numbers by clicking here.
From this first special of the championship, a major surprise with the mechanical abandonment of Yoann Bonato and his Citroën C3 Rally2, victim of a broken transmission.
The other favourite, Nicolas Ciamin, took the lead. As for Adrien Van Beveren, victim of a puncture in the long SS 3, he lost a lot of time.
Penalized by 10 seconds during reconnaissance, François Delecour begins his season at Le Touquet in Alpine. Today is the doubt:
“The rally got off to a bad start, yesterday we already started with a 10-second loss, in the second we were pretty bad on the tires to such an extent that I thought it was a differential problem and we got lost following a grip error. from note to recce, and now I’m going off the road in a field, it’s my fault I was maybe a little tense, we’ll see if we go back…”
New challenge for Tom Vanson entered in the Stellantis Motorsport Rally Cup at the wheel of an Opel Corsa.
Jean-Luc Debove took the start in an Opel Corsa.
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