A 2nd pass on SS Watou for this 60th Ypres Rally. It is the penultimate stage for the Division 2-competitors; Div 1 has an extra loop with 2 more stages to go.
The Division 2 rally is a side event with 2 loops of 4 stages, only on Saturday, providing an "Ypres Rally light" for its competitors. R5/Rally2 and RGT cars are not allowed to drive here.
SS Watou is 13.17 km long this year.
Results overall top 10:
1. Maxime Potty (1, Toyota GR Yaris Rally2) completed in 7:12.5 (avg 109.6 km/h)
2. Cédric Cherain (4, Hyundai i20 N Rally2) +2.4
3. Stéphane Lefebvre (2, Hyundai i20 N Rally2) +4.7
4. Bernd Casier (16, Škoda Fabia RS Rally2) +6.2
5. Bjorn Syx (13, Citroën C3 Rally2) +7.0
6. Gilles Pyck (17, Volkswagen Polo GTI R5) +8.4
7. Freddy Loix (11, Toyota GR Yaris Rally2) +10.1
8. Davy Vanneste (15, Hyundai i20 N Rally2) +12.3
9. Bastien Rouard (7, Hyundai i20 N Rally2) +13.2
10. Frédéric Miclotte (12, Škoda Fabia RS Rally2) +17.8
After the stage, Lefebvre is pretty comfortable with 33.5 seconds advantage to Potty; Cherain is 3rd on +1:26.0. Potty dropped 24.1 seconds to Lefebvre this morning on SS Dikkebus where he made 3 (!) mistakes, Cherain on his part lost 57.6 seconds after visiting a ditch on SS Dikkebus this afternoon.
For a complete results list, see www.ewrc-results.com/results/...
Division 2 results top 5:
1. Filip Pyck (202, Renault Clio Rally3) completed in 8:10.5 (avg 96.7 km/h)
2. Nick Toorré (205, Ford Sierra RS Cosworth 4-door) +3.4
3. Benoit Cornette (204, BMW M3 E46) +9.2
4. Jérôme Septon (201, Peugeot 208 Rally4) +10.0
5. Christiaan Spelmans (208, Renault Clio RS) / Brecht Lavaert (220, BMW 132i E87)
Pyck has been leading since the start of the rally, and now with 1 stage to go, he has 41.3 seconds advantage to Toorré; Cornette is 3rd on +59.7.
Complete div 2 stage results: see www.ewrc-results.com/results/...
Thumbnail: Filip Pyck, leader in div 2 (and uncle from Gilles Pyck) - family thumbnails day 2 🙃
Tomorrow I will post my final video from the PowerStage SS Dikkebus to conclude this years Ypres Rally! We again did not wait for the broom car since there was still some delay on the schedule, the first cars only drove each 2 minutes instead of every minute, so we were in a hurry but we managed to arrive in Dikkebus in time. :-)
Enjoy!
00:00 Course cars
00:47 Rally (division 1)
17:08 Course cars
17:23 Rally (division 2)