Road rallies – First road racing championship in Tunisia – French road rally team …

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First road racing championship in Tunisia

Road rallies - First road racing championship in Tunisia - French road rally team ...

The first round of the Tunisian road racing championship 2014 took place in Tataouine on January 12 and 13, in a setting as lunar as it is exceptional. A test carried out with the strength of the wrist by a sympathetic band of enthusiasts… Story.

French road rally team…

Gilles Planchon-Tourly (below left), president of the French national road rally commission, shared his experience with the organizers by emphasizing in particular the essential safety rules to be observed. He also trained several commissaires to better supervise the races..

Eric Serenne (above right), official French race commissioner well known to the pilots of the French rally championship or other Dark Dog Moto Tour where he often plays the role of stage director, is also in the game.

But the Bardo Bikers will stop at nothing and do not limit themselves to this nice administrative, sporting and technical "helping hand": they want to advance and be able to continue to advance their championship so that the practice of motorcycling develops in their best. country (no more in crisis than ours in the end, or not in the same way)…

On the communication side, the Bardo Bikers also benefited from the support of the National Navigation Company (CTN) to invite the specialist press and some representative French pilots to the site..

We thus find, from right to left above: Julien Toniutti (the MNC driver double champion of France of road rallies in 2012 and 2013), Dominique Quintin (alias "Pierro de la Lune", sympathetic fifty-year-old basic rallyman who had done the "pilot fish" of the Tunisian rally champion, Bessem Techini, during the last, Khaled Essaffi (president of the Tunisian National Road Racing Commission), Marc Troussard (record holder of the discipline’s titles in the last century and special envoy of the Moto Journal du Net), Karine Sliz alias "Miss Coca Light" (the boss of Motorcycles and Bikers) and Alain Frattini (Karine’s "body guard" … and veteran French champion in road rally 2012, in particular).

A French road rally team is thus constituted, with these five franchouillards thieves representing the French road rally..

The motorcycles of these pilots, who participate "out of classification" for demonstration purposes, carry number plates affublished with a significant "F" so as not to disturb the numbering of "real" Tunisian competitors (around twenty pilots).

The reigning champion, Bessem Techini will therefore take the start in pole position on the handlebars of his Yamaha FZ8 n ° 1 and will be followed by the five French riders:

  • N ° 1F for Julien Toniutti on KTM 500 EXC, chosen by for this exotic rally because more suited to the condition and the precarious grip of certain Tunisian roads than a sports car overflowing with horses.

  • N ° 2F for Marc Troussard on Yamaha MT09 du, which he plans to drive throughout the 2014 road rally season. This Tunisian rally, an excellent test bench, should confirm or not this choice.

  • N ° 3F for Karine Slitz on KTM 690 Duke R

  • N ° 4F for the antique Honda 500 CB of Pierro de la Lune

  • N ° 5F for Alain Frattini, the "most veteran" of the gang on Aprilia Mana

Marcus HIMSELF

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