Road rallies – 74th Rallye de l’Ain: one more Ain for Toniutti! – The rankings of the Rallye de l’Ain 2012

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

Road rallies - 74th Rallye de l'Ain: one more Ain for Toniutti! - The rankings of the Rallye de l'Ain 2012

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.

The 2012 Rallye de l’Ain rankings

Julien Toniutti therefore offers himself for the second consecutive year, still riding a KTM 990 Superduke, the victory of the Rallye de l’Ain ahead of Paul-Christian Piazza on KTM 450 EXC and Flavien Coitoux on KTM 690 SMC. KTM, Ready to Rally ?

In sidecar, the Amblard / Bourdiaux team won the cup with first place in the category (19th scratch) at the controls of their Choda Kawasaki 1100 ZZR team. And even Capsule, Alain Amblard’s dog, climbed the podium, still admiring his master! Second the Choda Suzuki Hayabusa of Laur / Ferrieu (22nd Scratch), ahead of the Marlin father and son (Bruno and Jeremy) on their Choda Benelli 1130 TNT.

In Topsports, Julien Toniutti finished first ahead of Bruno Langlois (Ducati 1100 Streetfighter), 4th scratch, and Pierre Coulon (Honda CB 1000 R), sixth scratch.

In Monos, Paul-Christian Piazza imposes his KTM 450 EXC (2nd scratch) ahead of Flavien Coitoux on KTM 690 SMC (3rd scratch) and Florent Derrien on KTM 690 SM (5th scratch).

On the Sports side we find Thierry Canazzi at the head of his KTM 400 EXC R (12th scratch), followed by Patrice Leroi on Honda 500 CB (17th scratch) and Maxime David on Kawasaki 650 ER6 (23rd scratch).

In Classics, the first three are respectively 38th, 39th and 40th scratch: Nick Ayrton on Suzuki 1100 GSXR, Maurice Blanchon on Yamaha 350 RDLC and Patrick Cosnuau on Honda 750 VFR.

Among the Anciennes (classified only on the day stage), the first is none other than Gerard Spagli on Kawasaki Z 1000 (70th in the scratch day), ahead of Christian Lacoste on Triumph Trident (73rd in the day scratch) and Vincent Roussillat on Yamaha 500 XT (103rd scratch day).

In 125, the defending champion (the irreplaceable Dominique Subias) was absent and it was Michel Bonneau who won the category on the handlebars of his KTM 125 Duke (93rd scratch) in front of the other 125 on the field, Jean-Pierre Saligne on Rieju 125 Marathon (101st scratch out of 105 classified).

In the provisional Elite Championship, Paul-Christian Piazza retains the leadership with five points ahead of the official KTM Site Julien Toniutti. But we are only halfway through the championship and the rest promises to be thrilling! See you at the Rallye du Morvan (71) on June 9 and 10: stay tuned !

Marcus HIMSELF

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