Rallye de la Sarthe: Julien Toniutti at the force of the wrist !

Impressive result from Julien Toniutti who won the Rallye de la Sarthe a fortnight after breaking his wrist! A difficult race where nothing was won in advance: new route, new stages… Story !

Saturday 2 p.m.: stage 1, afternoon

Following the delay caused by the Lebert / Jeandemange sidecar accident, the afternoon departure, scheduled for 2:00 p.m., will be delayed by 45 minutes.

The route now brings us back to the Courceboeufs special. It was again Maxime Mettra who took the best time, this time in 2’10”31, followed by Jean-François Fayolle on Triumph 1050 Speed ​​triple (2’10”73) and Nicolas Derrien on BMW F800 R (2’11”00). With his 2’14’86, Nick Ayrton saw the pole soar in the provisional.

At Domfront, Julien Toniutti, who put his KTM 990 Superduke in the fifth and fourth fastest times of the specials, shifts into high gear: here he is with the best time of the special in 2’13”46, more than 7 tenths ahead Nicolas Derrien who offers himself the second time (2’14”17). Maxime Mettra on his KTM 950 Supermoto is third (2’14”46).

Then the link takes us to La Suze to close this double day stage.

At the assistance, we prepare the machines for the night stage, which will start at 8:30 p.m. The loop of more than 200 km will take the Domfront special twice and the Courceboeuf special once..

The calculations are going well among the leading pilots! Nicolas Derrien is on pole in the provisional with almost eleven seconds ahead of Julien Toniutti, who is beginning to glimpse the podium if he does not waste too much time in the remaining stages. With his scratch at Domfront that we will borrow twice last night, everything is possible for Julien, but he remains reasonable and knows that with 11 seconds to catch up, victory is almost impossible….

In terms of additional lighting, our dear Gilou de, partner of the Team Site, has prepared an assembly of two new generation LED headlights whose effectiveness he wants to validate before marketing them.

They are therefore mounted on Nicolas Pautet’s Yamaha FZ8 which will serve as test rider. If the test is successful, it will be a revolution in the rally world as they plan to set up a big promotion for rallyers by reducing the original price by almost 40%! In addition, the installation of such lights is simplified to the extreme: no more ballasts and other starters for xenon lights, the LEDs are plugged in directly and only consume 20 or 30 watts. To follow closely !

Marcus HIMSELF – Photos MH and Julien PATALONE

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