Road rallies – 44th Beaujolais Rally: Manoel Delaval above the crowd! – Night stage: Delaval drives the point home!

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44th Beaujolais Rally: Manoel Delaval ahead of the pack !

Road rallies - 44th Beaujolais Rally: Manoel Delaval above the crowd! - Night stage: Delaval drives the point home!

Brilliant winner of this 4th round of the 2009 French Rally Championship, Delaval strengthens his lead over Maximus: the Buell XB 12 Central Team driver left nothing but crumbs to his pursuers by winning most of the specials. !

Night stage: Delaval drives the point home !

Everyone has armed their motorcycle with additional headlights during the hour and a half of assistance after the day stage: let’s move on to the night chapter of the story….

Only one lap is on the menu, identical to the last of the day: two specials only. It would be necessary to see to authorize again the rallies until 3 a.m. gentlemen of the Commission because two hours, that limits the organizers quite a bit !

At the Col du Chêne, Mano no longer gives a gift and wins the best time in 0’58”069. Maximus cracked a nice 0’59”486 and Olivier Aubonnet 0’59”657, a thousandth of a second ahead of Julien Toniutti and his Suzuki 750 GSXR Nounours Racing, fourth time in 0’59”658! Tighter, we can’t !

At the Gay special, Mano put the cover back and monopolized the scratch in a time worthy of one of the best times of the day: 2’20”522! Maximus will have to settle for second time, more than five seconds behind … Thomas Garcin sealed his third place overall in a reasonable 2’29”100. Then the time has come to return to Blace to return the motorcycles to the park and finish this beautiful rally despite the night a little short.

"It’s a perfect weekend that Mano Delaval, the official Buell Central Team driver, has just achieved brilliantly.", rejoices Thierry Boyer, team manager of the Central Team:"During the night event, Mano has a festival and gets everyone to agree by winning with a 7-second lead, still over Olivieri. During the Saint-Bonnet special, Mano drives as fast as he is during the day and puts the second in more than 5 seconds on this single passage !"

When returning your time card, you must also hand in the "infraction book": a document which, although a priori useless, can change a lot of things … And Thomas Garcin simply forgot to return his! With the 5-second penalty afflicted, he lost the third step of the final podium in favor of Olivier Aubonnet! The regulations are fine, but the sporting aspect is not terrible !

Marcus HIMSELF – Photos MH and Guillaume LEPRINCE

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