Yoann Bonato (above) won the second round of the French asphalt championship, the Rallye Lyon Carbonnieres Rhone, heading fellow Citreon C3 R5 driver Johan Rossel.
Rossel snatched second place on the final stage, beating Quentin Gilbert’s VW Polo GTI R5 by 0.8 second.
Quentin Giordano’s Hyundai i20 R5 was fourth, Nicolas Ciamin’s rear drive Abarth 124 Rally was fifth.
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Following the decision of the French federation, FFSA, to allow recent model World Rally Cars to compete on their national level events, comes news that Hyundai Motorsport plan to enter Sebastien Loeb on Rallye Vosges Grand Est (June 14-16) in a i20 Coupe WRC.
In effect, the FFSA’s decision provides an unintentional loophole in the WRC regulation severely controlling the team’s testing time with their cars.
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The Ypres Rally in Belgium is introducing a fourth national competition with international appeal: the Ypres Rally Masters.
The organisers will invite 15 fantastic cars to the start, including the 2017 World Rally Cars.
The cars will be driven over 12 different stages (5 Friday, 7 Saturday) and a distance of 143km against the clock.
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Following the new national legislation enabling pubic roads to be closed for motorsport use in England and recently in Wales, comes news that roads in Scotland will now also have similar opportunities.
With road closing legislation having been in force for a considerable time in Northern Ireland and Isle of Man, this means that the whole country can run special stages over closed public roads without the need for special individual enabling laws.
This is good news for the Jim Clark Rally in South Scotland and the Mull Rally held on a Hebridean island, whose events had been threatened after a tragic spectator accident on the Jim Clark Rally.
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