Disappearance of Andre Courbon, a big name in motorcycle road rallies

The world of road rallies is in mourning: "Gaston" (real name Andre Courbon) was killed on Friday afternoon on a motorcycle in a road accident. Gaston was "a true hard-core biker, a golden guy and a pillar of the rally discipline", recalls our correspondent on road rallies, Marcus Himself..

The world of road rallies is in mourning: "Gaston" (real name Andre Courbon) was killed on Friday afternoon on a motorcycle in a road accident. Gaston was "a true hard-core biker, a golden guy and a pillar of the rally discipline", recalls our correspondent on road rallies, Marcus Himself..

A special in tribute to Gaston

"It is thanks to his action and his stubbornness that will make it a stage for the first time in its history at Puy-en-Velay", let Option Sport Evenement know by paying tribute to him with a special dedicated to him on Wednesday 5th October, during the stage .

Race director of and member of the jury for one of the Moto Tour editions, Gaston was also a rider from the very early hours of the Moto Tour.

"Our friend" Gaston "Courbon has passed away following a fall on a motorcycle," regrets Gilles Planchon-Tourly, president of the Rally Commission at the French Motorcycling Federation (FFM) on the page while the tributes multiply on his own page .

"President of Guidons Vellaves, organizer of road rallies, official of the FFM within the National Commission of Road rallies involved in a large part of the events of our championship (race director, special director, president of the jury, still in Corsica at the last rally), Gaston only traveled on a motorcycle, both to go to the races and to come to the meetings of the Commission or to the FFM Congress ", continues Gilles Planchon..

"Former Moto Tour rider, Gaston even planned to repeat a French road rally championship season in old or classic categories. We are losing a friend, a fan, a man of convictions," laments the president of the Rally Commission, whose "All thoughts are with his wife Joëlle and his children, his family, whom he loved so much and whom he protected … as well as his closest friends.
Rest in peace, Gaston … But we will miss you … We will miss you greatly "…

The funeral of "Gaston" will take place on Wednesday May 11, 2016 between 1:15 p.m. and 2:25 p.m. at the Crematorium of Saint-Etienne. The entire MNC team shares in the grief of their family and loved ones…

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