Road rallies – Manoel Delaval implacable at the 52nd Rallye de la Sarthe – Dry or wet, the race?

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Manoel Delaval implacable at the 52nd Rallye de la Sarthe

Road rallies - Manoel Delaval implacable at the 52nd Rallye de la Sarthe - Dry or wet, the race?

By monopolizing the two stages day and night, the Buell Manoel Delaval driver of the Central Team won the 2009 edition of the Sarthe rally. A well-deserved victory after a hot fight with Thomas Garcin throughout the event: report !

Wet or dry, the race ?

Despite the rain dance of some Mono category drivers the day before the start (rain being the only possibility that would allow them to save the furniture on the Bugatti against the sports cars …), it is indeed in the dry that The start of the Rallye de la Sarthe 2009. The sidecars that open the ball are therefore the Laur / Ferrieu crew on Choda 1300 GSXR which inaugurates this new starting point.

The local Tonny Chereau on Yamaha R1 scratched the four laps of the Bugatti in 7’46.990 ahead of Benjamin Colliaux on Honda 600 CBR (a top IRC rider who came to test his new mount before the international season) and another local, the famous English man from the Nick Ayrton plateau on his antique Yamaha R1 restored for the umpteenth time…

The first Mono, Maxime Olivieri, ends up with the 20th time in 8’21.307 (yes Maximus, as you expected, you took more than 30 seconds!)

During a recce on the small circuit of Maison Blanche located within the Bugatti, I discovered a nail stuck in my rear tire … A joke that will cost me 6 minutes of penalty after a catastrophic repair, but still 1000 thanks to the assistance of the CMPN without whom I was rather bad! We then leave on a link to Amne-en-Champagne.

And there, change of scenery: it’s Thomas Garcin, the rider of the official Moto Morini 1200 Corsaro, who takes the best time ahead of Manoel Delaval and his Buell XB 12 STT, both three seconds ahead of Maxime Olivieri.

On the way back to La Suze, usual small stop at the Chauffour station where a little assistance is given. We refuel, we tell our times, we calculate…

In La Suze, a short break of 2 hours is granted to us after the 30 minutes of assistance. A station wagon that allows local spectators to come for a walk in the campsite among the rally motorcycles…

A moment of reunion also for Claude Burson and Andre Legagneux, former brilliant international sidecar cross crew in the 70s: the ex-passenger took out his splendid 175 Motobecane from 1952…

Marcus HIMSELF

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