First rally 2013: Julien Toniutti, l’As des Garrigues !
Let’s go for the rally season! A start to the French championship which looks rather well for the site and official KTM France pilot, Julien Toniutti, who wins his first race of the year riding a KTM 990 SMT. Report
First small loop
We then leave for a loop that brings us back to the start of the Montesquieu special. Super route: the small twisty road as we like, in remote corners of the Cevennes region more than picturesque.
Three kilometers before the special, some stop. The allotted times are quite long and make us arrive a good quarter of an hour early. It is therefore better to stop before the TC in order to keep the tires at temperature for the special….
It’s cold. I’m cold. Everyone is cold. And some find clever ways to warm their hands … "Tell me Franck Coudert, it heats your Multistrada exhaust well ?"
Montesquieu second passage: Bruno Shiltz reiterates and displays the best time on the handlebars of his Suzuki 750 GSX-R in 1 ‘37.94 followed by local Jeremy Poncet on KTM 990 Superduke (1′ 38.84) and Julien Toniutti on KTM 990 SMT (1 ‘39.43).
Then it rolls towards Neffies for a second passage. Bruno Schiltz certainly wanted to put even more … He put too much and he made a mistake by losing the front in a turn to the right to the grip for the least questionable…
The Suzuki 750 GSX-R falls heavily. Bruno Shiltz appeared to be seriously injured, so he was immediately evacuated by ambulance. Complaining of the lower back, he is quickly shelled … A heavy concern invades the competitors about the mobility of Bruno’s legs.
Fortunately, a first diagnosis rules out the most serious hypothesis: the spine is not affected, he will eventually come out with big bruises … More fear than harm !
For once it was the rider of the internet motorcycle newspaper Julien Toniutti riding the official KTM 990 SMT who took the best time, in 2 ‘08.25. Second time for Jeremy Poncet on KTM 990 Superduke in 2 ‘10.88, third for Florent Derrien on KTM 690 SMR.
The times differ from those of the first pass, which might surprise, but they are mainly due to the good half hour of neutralization incurred by the intervention on the fall of Bruno Schiltz…
Due to the delayed start of this fourth special of the day, the competitors allowed their motorcycles and therefore their tires to cool. Bruno Shiltz’s Suzuki 750 GSX-R started in fourth position, so the three previous riders left with hot tires.
This inevitably creates controversy at the start of this fourth special: the top pilots who started in fifth and sixth position, then blocked by the neutralization of the special, refuse to start the special! But the rally is the rally. After more or less heated discussions with the organization, the race resumed its course !
So it leaves with a slightly annoyed Carlo Scanu at the controls of his KTM 690 Duke. The winner of the final of the 2012 French championship (read) obtains a 22nd time, more than seven seconds slower than during his first passage…
For me things are going pretty well, I am still gaining a fourteenth fastest time on this special "drop". The Bridgestone BT023 which equip my Super Tenere are tip top! Gone as cold as the others, I noticed that this tire warms up quickly.
By ensuring a minimum in the first four or five turns, I was able to put on a lot of gas and even improve my time on the first pass in Neffies by almost 3 seconds! (2 ‘18.94 against 2’ 21.81).
Certainly this improvement is mainly due to a better knowledge of this special, which I could not memorize in the car during the recos the day before … but all the same, these Bridges are too good, as stable during the hard braking as they are. catchy where the bitumen is not very confident. As Julien Toniutti would say: "Only positive" !
On arrival at the Intermarche car park in Clermont l’Herault, for the second assistance of the day, the organization reduced the assistance time to fifteen minutes to make up for some of the time lost in particular with the fall of Bruno Shiltz.
Marcus HIMSELF – Photos MH, Wilfried MARCON and Cedric HOUZET
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