Clio Trophy Spain

Miguel García and Osel Román became the fourth winners in as many rounds in the 2022 Clio Trophy Spain season on Rally Recalvi Rías Baixas. After an intense battle over the 145-kilometre timed course, the duo won ahead of Carlos Rodríguez - Esther Gutiérrez and Nicolás Cabanes - Javier Moltó by less than 20 seconds.

Despite their retirement, Juanma Mañá and David Fernández still have a two-point lead in the general classification ahead of the season finale at Rallye La Nucía (3-5 November), where six crews will still have a chance to claim the crown. Fourth this weekend, Unai de la Dehesa and Alain Peña scored their fourth win in the race for the Rally Team Spain U24 Beca to mathematically seal their title and win a Clio Rally4 programme in partnership with Renault Spain, Recalvi and RFEDA in 2023.

Two-time reigning Clio Trophy Spain winners Jorge Cagiao and Amelia Blanco also represented the Renault Recalvi Rally Team by dominating the two-wheel-drive category while finishing seventh overall with Clio Rally4.

Clio Trophy Swiss

The Rally del Ticino hosted the penultimate round of the Clio Trophy Swiss. Yoan Loeffler and Mathieu Coppa managed the heavy rain on Friday and cool temperatures on Saturday to take their first victory of the season. While Guillaume Girolamo and Benjamin Bétrisey started the rally at a very high pace, the new Swiss Junior Rally Champions hit a kerb on SS4 before retiring two stages later. Despite their misadventures, they can still deprive Ismaël Vuistiner and Florine Kummer of the title in the season-finale at the Rallye International du Valais (13-15 October). In parallel to the trophy, Sacha Althaus and Lisiane Zbinden in their Clio Rally4 finished second in their category on the same roads.

French Rally Championship

Renault had a large contingent at Rallye Cœur de France with two category wins ; Pauline Dalmasso - Marine Delon (Clio Rally4) and Arthur Roché - Quentin Proust (Clio Rally5). Third in the French 2WD Rally Championship, Pauline Dalmasso also consolidated her second place in the general classification of the French Women’s Rally Championship.

Elsewhere

In the French Rally Cup, Clio Rally4 and Clio Rally5 won the Rallye du Suran, respectively with Morgan Merle - Cédric Simonet and Clio Trophy France Asphalte regulars Élodie Gines - Thomas Chauffray. Both models also won at Rallye du Pays Vençois with Claude Benedetto - Patricia Benedetto and Christophe Tramaloni - Julien Tramaloni. Lastly, Clio Rally5 won Rallye du Vin des Corbières with Rémi Jouines - Bastien Fontaine, the Rallye Régional de l’Alsace Bossue with Benjamin Stirling - Richard Monin, the Rallye Charlemagne with Rémy Dupont - Damien Dattiches and the Rallye du Pays de Montbéliard with Régis Personne - Sandrine Pernot.

There were also successes in Italy. At Rally Trofeo delle Merende, Clio Rally4 reached the top step of the podium in the hands of Emanuele Rosso - Andrea Ferrari while Clio Rally5 swept the top four led by Marco Varetto - Vittorio Bianco. Another double victory was taken at Rally Città di Pistoia with the wins for Mattia Zanin - Fabio Pizzol and Marco Zanin - Massimo Moriconi without forgetting the triumph of Giuseppe Nucita - Maurizio Messina at Tindari Rally.

Elsewhere in Europe, Romanians Ionuț Zăbavă and Andrei Toderaș won the RC5 class on the Serbia Rally, which counts toward the Balkan Rally Trophy and the Serbian Rally Championship. In the Czech Republic, Filip Ocelka and Jaroslav Blažek won with Clio Rally5 at Rally Pačejov, while Vjekoslav Čičko and Eugen Kokolić did the same at Rally Poreč (Croatia).

Coming up

This week, the Clio Trophy France Terre will wrap up at Rallye Terre des Cardabelles (7-9 October). Thirty crews will battle, including Juniors Florian Bouchonneau and Julien Pontal who will fight for the title. The season finale of the Italian Junior Rally Championship, exclusively contested with Clio Rally5, will take place at Rally Due Valli (6-8 October), where Alessandro Casella, Davide Nicelli, Mattia Zanin and Edoardo De Antoni will compete for the title.

On the racetrack, the Clio Cup will travel to the Autodromo Nazionale Monza (7-9 October) with 45 drivers from Clio Cup Europe, Clio Cup Italia and Clio Cup Eastern Europe in action. The Clio Cup Eastern Europe will know the winners of its different categories, currently led by Marc Guillot, Juuso Panttila (Challengers Cup) and Stephan Polderman (Gentlemen Drivers Cup).