Dourdou rally: the Toniutti roundup !
One level of the Eiffel Tower above the other competitors, Julien Toniutti left them nothing but crumbs and won the race by largely winning all the stages. Meanwhile, Bruno Schiltz takes the lead over Velardi for the championship… Story.
Dourdou Rally page 4: Day stage
10:00 am, Saturday morning: it starts again for four loops or eight specials, but they will not be the only ones to define the classification. Indeed, with its layout strongly focused on navigation, this edition of the Dourdou has a taste of "old-fashioned" rallying by giving great importance to the road course.
Many more or less "charming" CP (Passage Controls) are also installed on the course and gardening (looking for the required route) will be legion! The hourly penalties are plummeting: nearly fifty drivers took penalties during the night stage (out of 128 starters) and they are 54 on the day stage (among the 127 starters of the second stage).
As for the stages, Julien Toniutti does not make a quarter and offers himself, as at night, the best lap times on all the stages! From the first passage through Golinhac, he was ahead of Bruno Schiltz by 3.78 seconds and Christophe Velardi by 5.29 seconds, setting a remarkable time of 2.28.22.
Kevin Cheylan (Ducati 939 Hypermotard), shy during the night stage which he finished in 10th position, is in ambush and obtains here the fourth time in 2’33.62, barely a tenth behind the champion of France Elite in title, Christophe Velardi.
At Mouret, the first passage of the day, the resistance tries to react and the second fastest time behind Julien goes to Christophe Velardi who approaches 1.23 seconds behind the untouchable Toniutti (1’49.36 against 1’50.59).
As for the first stage, 20 minutes are allocated for assistance between two loops, then it starts again for the second of the day.
Golinhac: Julien is still ahead with almost the same gap as in the first daytime lap, within a hundredth of the second fastest time, which goes to Bruno Schiltz (3.79 seconds). The third time is obtained by the Ducati 939 Hypermotard of Kevin Cheylan which climbs slowly in the classification…
On the second lap of the day on the Mouret special, Christophe Velardi and Bruno Schiltz placed second and third respectively, one 1.59 and the other 1.71 seconds behind the absolute master…
Behind, the fights are raging in the categories: in Rally 3 between Nicolas Derrien (Suzuki 400 DRZ) and Romain Cauquil (KTM 390 Duke) who crumple the bun with strokes of tenths or even hundredths (in this second passage of day to Mouret, Nicolas slams 2’00.56 against 2’00.58 for Romain).
Too bad, however, for Nicolas Derrien who had fallen in the first special of the rally during the first stage, losing a good fifteen seconds that hundredths are not enough to catch up for the cumulative general classification of the rally..
In Rally 2, Tanguy Brebion (Husqvarna 701 SM) continues his path and remains in the good average of lap times after his fall in recce which reframed him. Taking no penalties, he finished the rally at the head of the category.
Third daytime visit to Golinhac: this time, behind the untouchable Julien, it’s Kevin Cheylan riding his Ducati 939 Hypermotard who lands the second pendulum! The young Provençal boy is certainly 5.22 seconds behind Toniutti, but ahead of the champions of the 2017 championship: Schiltz is 13 hundredths behind him, Velardi 46 hundredths … Bravo p’tit! A future scratch champion, certainly !
Mouret, third: Velardi and Schiltz, subscribers to second and third places since last night, ensure their championship! 20 minutes of assistance and we leave for a last lap … Here we are at the last passage through Golinhac. Julien Toniutti once again slams a time lapse from space, this time literally from another galaxy, sticking 5.83 seconds to second which is none other than … Bruno Schiltz ahead of Christophe Velardi third.
In the last special, things having already played out for Julien Toniutti, he insures and only inflicts 95 hundredths on second, Christophe Velardi. 33 hundredths later is a Kevin Cheylan awake on the handlebars of his Ducati 939 Hypermotard.
Then the route brings the pilots back to Villecomtal for the finish of the fourteenth Dourdou rally, outrageously won by an untouchable Julien Toniutti riding the Aprilia 1100 Tuono V4 loaned by Sebastien Fassouli !
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