First competitor at 02:01 | Timestamps to mistakes below
The first stage of the 50th Station Le Seau Monteberg Rally. The stage was 10.52 km long and was won by Davy Vanneste (1, Citroën C3 R5) in 5:23.1, 2.7 seconds before Steve Bécaert (2, Ford Fiesta Rally2) who had to rent another car last-minute for this rally, because of engine failure in Rallye de Wallonie last week-end on his own car. 3rd was Jeoffrey Lerminez (6, Ford Fiesta R5) on +5.1.
Jos Verstappen (3, Citroën C3 Rally2), after his mistake here, still finished 4th on +6.8, more or less the time he lost here! And 5th, the first Historic, Bjorn Syx (7) who is driving his new BMW E30 M3 for the first time here, on +9.4.
Roger Hodenius (5, Citroën C3 Rally2) was 6th on +10.0, before the next Historics Stefaan Stouf (10, Ford Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4, +10.1 o/a, 0.6 after Syx) and Paul Lietaer (8, Opel Ascona 400, +10.5 o/a, +1.1 after Syx). Cedriek Merlevede (31, BMW E30 M3) was 9th overall on +11.9 and 4th Historic (2.5 after Syx), followed by Didier Vanwijnsberghe (12, BMW E30 M3, +16.7, +7.3 after Syx) and Kurt Boone (16, Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI) on a shared 10th spot.
Complete results can be found here: [ Ссылка ]
Mistakes:
03:13 Verstappen enters the corner a little too fast and stalls. He restarts and stalls again, losing over 5 seconds what can have cost him a stage win!
07:16 THUMBNAIL crash Pieter-Jan Maeyaert (9, BMW M3 E30) he completely misses a corner, apparently due to the brakes not working properly, and dives nose first into a ditch. Luckily the car jumps over instead of rolling! He can get off and continue but something is probably broken or bent and also the front brakes seem damaged (at least I think that's what the squeaky sound is but I have no idea really). He arrived at the finish on +1:36.9 but retires at the end of the stage. (At the end of the video I took a look to the place where he went off)
08:20 Stouf who could see himself approach to Maeyaert, spins. (I was trying to film Maeyaert's bent nose but you can see the end of it)
50:34 Wouter Gevaert (99, Opel Manta A) in the ditch. The codriver could push the car out alone and they could continue! He finished in 7:14.8, around 45 seconds slower than his usual stage time.
1:05:09 Jeroen Deschamps (128, Honda Civic) goes straight in th brake zone where also Verstappen and Stouf made a mistake.
1:08:04 Michiel Verlinden (136, Suzuki Swift Sport) small crash, goes straight into a field, also in the same brake zone but he does not steer into the other road like the others did. I did not see it but he also hit the electricity pole with the left side of the car.
Some more timestamps from the 2nd half
51:45 100 Mike Callens (Opel Manta B) with the handbrake
52:08 101 (Geoffrey Bennett, Ford Escort MKII) a little too wide
59:26 113 Niels Schoenmakers (Opel Manta B) also with the handbrake
1:00:28 119 Peter Desmedt (Citroën Saxo VTS) gets overtaken by 120 Leander Sintubin (Citroën Saxo VTS)
Have fun with the video! Next: SS6 Busseboom 2, but I'll first post SS1 Merville 1 from Rallye des Routes du Nord last Saturday.
(chapters for YouTube)
00:00:00 Course cars
00:02:01 Rally
01:15:50 finished
01:16:19 crash location Maeyaert
