Clio Cup Series

The second to last round of the Clio Cup Series saw Gabriele Torelli (Rangoni Corse) and David Pouget (GPA Racing) share the spoils at Zandvoort. While the Frenchman secured the Clio Cup Series super-winner’s title on Saturday, the Italian experienced a Sunday race marked by a collision with rival Anthony Jurado before sealing his Clio Cup Mid-Europe crown, one year after triumphing in Clio Cup Italia. Rangoni Corse (Teams), Nikola Miljkovic (Challengers Cup) and Rene Steenmetz (Racers Cup) completed the list of winners in Clio Cup Mid-Europe, the first regional group to conclude its 2023 season.

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FFSA French Junior Rallycross Championship

Valentin Lumet was the only driver who could really prevent his rival from taking the title, and he gave his all in the qualifying heats on Saturday to keep his hopes alive. Despite his perfect weekend at the season finale at Dreux, the driver from Varade finished 12 points adrift of the title, won by Marceau Launay. A consistent performer throughout his Clio RX campaign, the Normandy-based driver succeeds David Bouet and Tom Le Jossec.

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FIA CODASUR Rally Championship

Seven Clio Rally5s contested Rally del Atlántico (Uruguay), the season finale of the FIA CODASUR Rally Championship and the penultimate round of the national championship. Luis Eduardo Stedile and Carlos Enrique Morales won in RC5 and finished ninth overall. The Brazilians were followed by Juan Manuel Casella and Juan Manuel Villalba, leading a hat-trick for Clio Rally5 in CODASUR4, RC4N and CO4 while taking third place in their national championship. Fourth in their category, the Bolivian crew of Pedro Lagrava and José Luis Salazar won the CO4 title of this year’s FIA CODASUR Rally Championship.

French Rally Cup

Clio Rally5 won the French Rally Cup Final at Ambert. Of the 13 cars competing in the Rally5 category, Jérôme Janny and Virginie Jozefiak were the fastest, with a 2:36.5s margin of victory ahead of Florian Bartaire and Marjolaine Patier. Éric Sauteur and Cindy Millac completed a podium monopolised by Clio Rally5. Meanwhile, Manon Dauphin and Céline Mercier finished runner-up in their Clio Rally5 in the Women’s category, as did Frédéric Meurant and Kévin Aumeunier in Rally4 with Clio Rally4.

And elsewhere

Clio Rally3, Clio Rally4 and Clio Rally5 all won at the Hemicuda Rally (Belgium), respectively with Jim van den Heuvel - Jouri Dockx in 3H, Jonas Dewilde - Jeffrey Vandenbussche in 3G and Lander Depotter - Ruben Depotter in 2D. The first two duos finished in the top five overall. Still in Belgium, Clio Rally5 won with Valery Revillod and Benjamin Cochez in the 4/12 class at the Mettet B-Short.

Clio Rally4 was crowned two-wheel-drive champion in the Portuguese Rally Championship after 2WD, RC4, and Junior wins for Gonçalo Henriques and Gonçalo Cunha on Rallye Vidreiro - Centro de Portugal Marinha Grande, whilst Danny Carreira and Bruno Abreu led their Clio Rally5 to first place in their class.

Clio Rally5 won another title, with Jaroslav Petráš and Petr Jindra Jr leading a 1-2-3 for Clio Rally5 at Rentor Partr Rally Vsetín. On the strength of their sixth success in six starts this season in the RC5, the duo was crowned in their class in the Czech Rallysprint Championship, finishing fourth overall. In another title race, Croatians Vjekoslav Čičko and Eugen Kokolić took a step towards the D1 crown in the Slovenian Rally Championship by dominating their class on Rally Soča Valley with their Clio Rally5.

Clio Rally5 also won its category with Oliver Sørensen and Jeannette Kvick Andersson on the Visselhöveder ADAC Herbstrallye (Germany), Daniel and Sandra Wittner on the ADAC Rally Bad Emstal (Germany), and Alex Lorenzato and Stefano Beltramello on Rally Città di Bassano (Italy). In Spain, Carlos Rodriguez and Alejandro Leseduarte took a fine runner-up finish overall with the same model on Rally Sliks Sevilla, whilst their compatriots Carlos González and Gerardo Salcedo won as well at Rally de La Vendimia. Lastly, Thomas Martens and Mikko Lukka claimed another podium finish with Clio Rally4 with third place in their category and tenth overall on the Hakevuori Ralli (Finland).

Coming up

This week, the inaugural season of the Clio Trophy Spain Tierra draws to a close on Rally RACC Catalunya (20-22 October). Already crowned champions Ramón Cornet and Daniel Noguer will try to end their campaign in style against competitors determined to make their mark one final time this year.