Belgian Rally News

[Duvel]

Jos Verstappen just won the East Belgian Rally with 0.5 seconds advantage in front of Cherain. Very impressive progress for him in the past 1.5 years since his first rally!

Jos is doing really good the last rally's indeed! If he does BRC next year, he's a force to be reconed whit!

Potty again whit a mistake.

[Devillersvideo]

Potty become the younger belgian rally champion (old record was Patrick Snijers in 1983 ! )

Best of video of the last rally in Spa
https://youtu.be/XxzAiM9y4GI

[Tom206wrc]

Vincent Verschueren, Emile Breittmayer and Adrian Fernemont in Citroën for 2024 BRC ;)

[Tom206wrc]

The Citroën C3 is becoming the most popular Rally2 car in the belgian championship, at least for the rally van Haspengouw next week :D :cool:

http://rallylovers.be/nb/13403/Wartique-Polo-Syx-C3-en-Bux-Hyundai-ook-in-Haspengouw-rally

[Duvel]

The Citroën C3 is becoming the most popular Rally2 car in the belgian championship, at least for the rally van Haspengouw next week :D :cool:

http://rallylovers.be/nb/13403/Wartique-Polo-Syx-C3-en-Bux-Hyundai-ook-in-Haspengouw-rally

Nice entry list!

3 names pop out for the fight for victory in my opinion.

Potty, knows the car, knows the stages, fast out of the box!
Cherain, also knows his weapon, and the stages, hope he is well awake from stage 1
Verstappen, the one doing probably the most km's in that car, but also he has to be on top of the game from start!

After them ,Verschueren, Fernemont, Reynvoet, Bux,..nice fight for top 5 places lets hope!

curious what Boonen can do whit the RS now

Emile BREITTMAYER / Citroën C3 Rally 2
Niels REYNVOET / Citroën C3 Rally 2
Jimmy D’HONDT / Citroën C3 Rally 2
Adrian FERNEMONT / Citroën C3 Rally 2
Maxime POTTY / Citroën C3 Rally 2
Vincent VERSCHUEREN / Citroën C3 Rally 2
Sebastien INCARDONA / Citroën C3 Rally 2
Bjorn SYX / Citroën C3 Rally 2
Kurt BOONE / Ford Fiesta Rally 2
Tom BOONEN / Skoda Fabia Rally 2
Frederic MICLOTTE / Skoda Fabia Rally 2
Thibaud MAZUIN / Skoda Fabia Rally 2
Jan PETERSEN / Skoda Fabia Rally 2
Richard PEX / Skoda Fabia Rally 2
Jos VERSTAPPEN / Skoda Fabia Rally 2
Bastien ROUARD / Hyundai i20 Rally 2
Cédric CHERAIN / Hyundai i20 Rally 2
Gino BUX / Hyundai i20 Rally 2
John WARTIQUE / VW Polo Rally 2

[Tom206wrc]

Shakedown Rally van Haspengouw ;)
Already difficult conditions... :mark:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL5LK_ETVek

[dupanton]

The class of 2024 is ready for the battle tomorrow!

Livestreams: https://www.facebook.com/belgianrallychampionship and https://www.youtube.com/@RacingAction/featured
https://www.ewrc-results.com/results/85630-rally-van-haspengouw-2024/

https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/429658415_737015375223185_2100315948082093504_n.jp g?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=dd5e9f&_nc_ohc=26q6CDblXpUAX9S0pMP&_nc_ht=scontent-bru2-1.xx&oh=00_AfDqVlaMOBxPdhy_TGl9n9R8mYoLuu75cWh57lYq5SXV IA&oe=65DD44CF

[dimviii]

Frederic Miclotte must be the fastest co driver
watch his times at ss 1 and ss2
https://www.ewrc-results.com/results/85630-rally-van-haspengouw-2024/?s=451512

[wwbroe]

Victory goes to Cedric Cherain, he was in the fight for podium since very first stage. Potty lost about half a minute with an off on stage 3. Before the last loop of stages Cherain was comfortabel in the lead with nearly half a minute advantage on the rest of the podium contenders Reynvoet, Potty and Bux.
However Cherain made a mistake on stage 10, loosing 17 sec and had puncture on stage 11 so the lead was reduced to just 5,3 sec to Potty and Reynvoet just behind. Bux was another 4 sec further. Everything to be dicided on the last stage, the powerstage. This one was won by Verstappen and Potty was 2,3 faster than Cherain, but Cedric took the overall victory after all. Third podiumplace went to Reynvoet, fourth Bux and fifth Verstappen, who lost too much time in first loop to content for victory, but had a strong finish and ended at 16 sec of Cherain.
It was a very nice and difficult rally to start the season, especially with the road conditions. Good work by organisers as well.

[Jarek Z]

Conratulations! We have the first winner of the new challenge! :)


https://motorsport.hyundai.com/new-i20-n-rally2-european-challenge/

Not sure this will persuade many crews to change to the i20 but...

[Duvel]

Nice rally to start the season.
The battle on the top was close, whit Cherain well deserved winner! The field is good here, whit i think 9 cars able to set top 5 times all rally (Potty, Cherain, Reynvoet, Bux, Miclotte, Ruard, Fernemont, Wartique, Verstappen, Verschuren).

I hope all these drivers wil keep there program running all year! We could see great battles in next rally's.

I was mecanic over there, i can tel you the cars where realy dirty when they came in service..

[Devillersvideo]

A new victory for Jos Verstappen in Belgium ;)
70° Rallye des Ardennes

https://youtu.be/WLdAhgr3UGI

[dimviii]

Jos faster till ss 9

https://www.ewrc-results.com/results/85631-rallye-de-wallonie-2024/

[dimviii]

https://youtu.be/FtNH7gtRVpw

[Jarek Z]

Interesting. Jos Verstappen seems to be getting better and better at rallying. He was leading Rallye de Wallonie, against top Belgian rally drivers, already by 40 seconds, until the moment when he got 2 punctures and had to withdraw from the event.

Niels Reynvoet won the rally:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/results/85631-rallye-de-wallonie-2024/

[Jarek Z]

https://youtu.be/FtNH7gtRVpw

Spectacular jump from another angle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4ibQgHr3h0

[dimviii]

Interesting. Jos Verstappen seems to be getting better and better at rallying. He was leading Rallye de Wallonie, against top Belgian rally drivers, already by 40 seconds, until the moment when he got 2 punctures and had to withdraw from the event.


impressive pace at 52 years old.
also everybody with same tyre(michelins)

[Devillersvideo]

Resume of the Sezoensrally 2024 with a lot of gravel section with "tarmac spec" cars.
Snijers was back on the Porsche GT3 :D

https://youtu.be/iakv_yen-68

[Savage Beast]

Ypres Rally 2024 with crazy jumps; https://youtu.be/ybj7gNg7kow

[Tom206wrc]

Will be a nice final at Spa this coming weekend :)

Wonder if Tom Rensonnet will do well for his first in a Rally2 :confused:

[Sal yet again]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6jeMc13IEI

Turn the volume up and listen to that Porsche! Cherain might have been a minute off Verstappen in Wallonie but what a spectacle.

[dupanton]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6jeMc13IEI

Turn the volume up and listen to that Porsche! Cherain might have been a minute off Verstappen in Wallonie but what a spectacle.

He was leading untill he lost 2 minutes with an electrical glitch.
So the new Porsche 992 is very well born, although Cherain is a very good driver with a lot of experience on these stages and the rallye suits the Porsche. I don't think he can fight for the victory on many rallies.

[Jarek Z]

Look at that :)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AsmFhEylZkM

[Jarek Z]

Here is a comparison between Cherain and Verstappen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HB3TdwRIG8

[Sal yet again]

Look at that :)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AsmFhEylZkM

Maybe I'm old fashioned however sights and sounds like that make me happy..

[Jarek Z]

Maybe I'm old fashioned however sights and sounds like that make me happy..

They make me happy too, but I don't know if it has anything to do with being old fashioned :)

[Jarek Z]

And what makes me sad is the situation at 2:09 :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zLS2HDrCBg&t=129s

[Jarek Z]

Verstappen wins the third Belgian championship rally in a row:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/results/90985-sezoensrally-2025/

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Ypres Rally 2025 with Hayden Paddon... and Dani Sordo in a Porsche !

https://www.ewrc-results.com/entries/90986-ardeca-ypres-rally-2025/

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Lefebvre has now leads ahead of Paddon and .... Sordo set some fastest times in the Porsche !!

[saco0o]

Latvala out =[

so good to see porsches and alpine rallying! no abarth today tho.
RGT is such a cool class. i miss them in erc