Road rallies – 74th Rallye de l’Ain: one more Ain for Toniutti! – 2nd and 3rd lap: the top pilots open fire!

74th Rallye de l’Ain: one more Ain for Toniutti !

Road rallies - 74th Rallye de l'Ain: one more Ain for Toniutti! - 2nd and 3rd lap: the top pilots open fire!

For the second year in a row, Site and official KTM driver Julien Toniutti won the Rallye de l’Ain on his KTM 990 Superduke against the Corsican resistance and after a suspense maintained until the end of the race. ! Report.

2nd and 3rd lap: the top pilots open fire !

Second passage at Ceignes: Flavien Coitoux on KTM 690 SMC had the best time in 1’28.94, almost 7 seconds better than his first passage. Second time for Julien Toniutti on KTM 990 Superduke in 1’29.78 and third time for the third KTM, the 450 EXC of Paul-Christian Piazza in 1’29.89. It starts to roll quickly but Mickael Porcu still gets the fourth fastest time on the handlebars of his Aprilia 550 SXV in 1’30.28.

In Challes, Mickael Porcu sets the best time again in 1’28.16 ahead of Paul-Christian Piazza (1’29.60) and Julien Toniutti (1’30.22).

The great liaison that follows is relaxing and allows you to get your ideas back in place to tackle the last daytime passage in the specials with calm and serenity..

20 minutes of assistance later, we are off again for the third and last lap of the day stage. The small loop will take us less than an hour, we have the impression of going quickly to the stages and coming back, as if we were missing something…

On the third passage through Ceignes, Bruno Langlois made the powder speak: the Corsican driver of the Ducati 1100 Streetfighter n ° 3 posted a time of 1’25.86! Paul-Christian Piazza followed suit on the handlebars of his KTM 450 EXC, 27 hundredths behind (1’26.13). Third time for Julien Toniutti in 1’27.06.

Flavien Coitoux this time slams a fourth fastest time on his Aprilia 550 SXV in 1’28.34 and Nicolas Pautet, Site rider at the controls of his KTM 990 Superduke, completes the table of the five best times in 1’29.23.

Challes, last passage of the day: best time for the KTM 450 EXC of Paul-Christian Piazza. The leader of the provisional championship classification is 1’24.88 ahead of the KTM 690 SMC of Flavien Coitoux (1’25.38) and the official KTM 990 Superduke of Julien Toniutti (1’25.52).

Back in Cerdon, the daytime stage classification is as follows: Paul-Christian Piazza (KTM 450 EXC) is ahead of Julien Toniutti (KTM 990 Superduke) by 3.73 seconds and Flavien Coitoux (KTM 690 SMC) by 5.19 seconds of the leader. Bruno Langlois’ Ducati 1100 Streetfighter is in fourth place, 7.47 seconds behind first. In fifth position, Florent Derrien places his KTM 690 SM with a gap of 19.22 seconds on the best total of day times.

The night is going to be hot for the first four because the final victory is within reach of each of them … At night, all the cats are gray and a lot can happen: less than 8 seconds are to be played on four stages !

On the category side too, things can change: in a sidecar, the crew of the Choda Kawasaki 1100 ZZR Amblard / Bourdiaux (20th place in the daytime scratch) is less than 8 seconds behind the team holding the category title. , Laur / Ferrieu on Choda 1300 Suzuki (28th scratch). This 2012 season is exciting !

Marcus HIMSELF

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