PoR Week 34 - Our Own Petit Tour de France

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This week, the guys at Press on! Rallysport fanned out over France to try and collect more points and move up the standings.

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Bryan put in yet another stellar performance at the Course de Cote de Licques of the France Hillclimb Cup. He finished 8th overall, and was faster than his Hungarian nemesis kikiny, who has a stranglehold on the Group N lead. But, he narrowly missed out on the N4 win once again, this time by a margin of 0.41 seconds. For the year, Bryan is now 4th in Group N and tied for 5th in class 4 in the Hillclimb Cup.

Both Bret and Aaron competed in France Tarmac Cup rallies this week. Bret had ups and downs at the foggy and damp Rallye de Vallees, but scored his 4th straight top 8 finish since moving to the N1 class. Aaron was back with us after some computer troubles, but was still having some problems with the new virtual co-driver we sent him out with. Getting used to a new notes system during a rally is never fun, and unfortunately the result was a bent Peugeot 205 and a DNF at the Rallye Coeur de France.



Steven, Rick, and Jerry hit the only gravel rally of the week, the Rallye Terre des Causses. This was the 5th round of the France Gravel Championship. Steven was looking for a little better luck than he had in earlier rounds and he got it. Despite a mistake that dropped him a couple of places in class R2, he collected 162 points to lead the stable for the week. Rick had a very solid rally, finishing 19th of the 96 entrants in the top A8W class for World Rally Cars and 38th overall. Jerry set some very quick times on Leg 1 of the rally, but a crash on the fast and tricky Diamond Creek II caused his retirement on Leg 2.



This week there are a lot of points up for grabs. Steven and Jerry are at the WRC Rallye Deutschland, where the action should be very challenging and fast. Aaron and Rick head back to Madagascar for what is probably the premier RSRBR gravel championship. Justin is slated for the Rallye du Mont Blanc of the France Tarmac Championship. Hundreds of hairpin turns await, and I'm sure Justin is looking forward to each of them. Finally, Bryan and Bret plan to head to the Pondron Hillclimb Cup event, where weather looks like it will play a decisive role. Best of luck to all on what should be a challenging week!