First competitor at 1:32 | First Historic at 5:19 | Results and lots more timestamps below
A 2nd pass on SS Busseboom for this 50th edition from the (Short) Rally(sprint) van de Monteberg! This location is called "7 Zussen" ("7 Sisters"), referring to the 7 consequent square corners, most of them just between fields without ditches.
The stage is 6.25 km long and was, again, won by Davy Vanneste (1), driving a fully evolved Citroën C3 Rally2. He sold his own Citroën C3 R5 at the end of last year and now rented this one at DG Sport. He completed in 3:32.7, 3.5 seconds before the next Rally2, Jos Verstappen (3), driving a same car. But he was only 3rd: the second fastest was Stefaan Stouf (10, Ford Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4) only +1.6 after Vanneste. 4th on this stage was the 2nd Historic, Bjorn Syx (7), driving his brand new BMW M3 E30 (M.A.T.S. chassis #031) for the first time today. The top 5 is completed by Steve Bécaert (2, Ford Fiesta Rally2), who finished in +6.4.
Rest of this stage's top 10:
6. Jeoffrey Lerminez (6, Ford Fiesta R5), +7.2
7. Paul Lietaer (8, Opel Ascona 400), +7.4
8. Kurt Boone (16, Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI), +8.7
9. Piet Declercq (18, Škoda Fabia R5), +10.5
10. Thierry Deconinck (19, Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X), +10.9
After this stage, Vanneste is leading by 35.6 seconds on Verstappen, followed by Bécaert on +39.0.
Rest of the Historic top 5:
12. Christophe Merlevede (11, BMW M3 E30), +13.0
13. Didier Vanwijnsberghe (12, BMW M3 E30), +13.1
Stouf is leading the Historic standings for now (and P5 overall), now followed by Syx who is battling hard with Lietaer, they switched positions here and are now on resp. +8.5 and +8.7.
A complete results list can be found here: https://www.ewrc-results.com/results/...
Hot moments and small mistakes:
2:16 Steve Bécaert drives besides the road after corner 7 (filmed through trees)
8:21 Kurt Boone hot moment in corner 5
15:27 mistake Thierry Cokelaere (32, BMW 1M) in corner 3, he almost spins but there are no ditches so he continues through the field
16:09 hot moment for Jamie Brown (34, Ford Fiesta Rally4), entering the second corner slightly too fast
20:33 Glenn Rogiers (43, Opel Kadett C) rather wide in corner 3
23:37 hot moment for Christophe Pittelioen (94, Renault Clio) in corner 5
29:35 Eric Deprez (60, BMW E36 M3) almost spin in corner 3
32:22 Koen Decaestecker (67, BMW E36 M3) show with the handbrake but slight hot moment in corner 5 where he slides a little too wide
33:04 68 Devy Demuynck (68, BMW E30) mistake in corner 3, also visits the field (same as Cokelaere)
36:57 G;enn Vermeersch (77, BMW 325i E30) goes round in corner 1 (out of sight), great handbrake show in the others!
49:55 Bjorn Huygelier (111, Ford Escort MK2) a little too fast in corner 2
1:00:21 Harm Boutte (137, Volkswagen Polo GTi) completely off into the field in corner 2
And unfortunately there's also a big mistake from my part in this video, I missed Didier Vanwijnsberghe, my camera wasn't recording... It was the first car where the person in front of me sat down so I had a good view and it was a nice run, shame!
Other remarkable events:
13:48 The cars are being held up at the start by Manuel Merlevede (27, Peugeot 208 R2), apparently his front suspension broke out of nowhere and a wheel disappeared...
13:54 148 Koenraad De Waele (148, BMW E87) is the first car that restarted after the road was free again, but can't drive at speed for some reason...?
25:37 problems for Wim Carton (53, Ford Escort RS Cosworth) or did he stall the engine after corner 6?
Some BMW / RWD show... The list above was already pretty big, but I made a small selection:
27:34 as usual, however not with his usual car, nice show from Ashley Vercruysse (55, BMW 130i)!
28:54 Didier Spillebeen (58, BMW 325i E30) also nice show (also as usual) :-)
31:21 Dennis 'PowerWheels' Declerck (64, BMW E36 M3)
34:08 Nick Synaeve (69, BMW E30)
38:08 Brent Boudrez (78, BMW E36 Compact)
45:50 Mike Callens (100, Opel Manta i240)
52:11 Niels Schoenmakers (113, Opel Manta B) handbrake in every single one of the 7 corners!
And an honourable mention for:
59:43 Youri Vancoillie (134, Volkswagen Polo GTi) rather fast in corners 2 and 5, at least for this start position!
1:02:51 Jeffrey Derycke (144, Fiat Tipo) pretty clean, he also drove the 60th time here.
I think they deserve a better start position next time! (And some others too, but I can't mention everyone, YouTube only gives room for 5000 characters in the description :-))
Thumbnail: Kurt Boone
Enjoy!! I have one video left from the last stage, but I'll first post my last video from Routes du Nord that was held the day before in Northern France.
Chapters for YouTube:
0:00 Course cars
1:32 Rally
1:04:33 Stage finished
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