PoR Week 43 - Strong team effort yields big points and advance in standings

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All eight Press on! Rallysport drivers scored points in week 43 of the Rallyesim Championships, leading to our third highest points total of the year.

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Aaron landed the team one of its two podium finishes of the week and also broke the century mark in scoring with a 2nd place in N1 at the Rallye Team S06. He now stands in 3rd place for the year in class N1 in the Madagascar Championships. Greg also competed at the Rallye Team S06 this week and continued his string of impressive results. He continues to sample the various forms of the FIAT Punto, and this time it was the turbo diesel R3D. Greg fnished 7th in class R3 and 76th overall.

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Steven led the scoring this week and captured the second podium, with a 2nd place finish in class A7 at the Vierhouten Pallets Netherlands Rally. He drove his Peugeot 207 R3T, which was sporting a new "Dutch" paint scheme, to 40 place overall, scoring 168 points.

Last week's action took Rick and Jerry to the Criterium des Cevennes of the France Tarmac Championships. Both put in solid preformances in very competitive classes. Rick competed in N4 with his Prodrive Impreza, and came home 7th of 30 entries in class and 91st overall. Jerry's weapon of choice was the Citroen Xsara WRC 2004 and he put together a consistent rally to finish 19th of the 82 entries in the top class and 64th overall.

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In France Cup action, PoR had three drivers competing in three different classes in the Rallye de Serrains. There was a big field for this one with 403 crews attempting to conquer difficult foggy conditions. Bryan drove his Prodrive Impreza to 40th overall and 6th in N4. Justin was back in the A8 Mitsubishi Evo 9 and posted a 14th place in class and 85th overall. Bret continues to improve in the N3 Peugeot 306 S16, finishing 15th in class against some stiff competition.

On the strength of all 8 drivers scoring, we ended up with 638 points - placing us 11th for the week. We also managed to competely erase the lead of our nearest competitor in the stable standings, moving us into the top half of the table for the year. Congrats to all on a job well done!