37ème Rallye Régional du Médoc, 2019

The Citröen DS3 of early leaders of Fréderic Roussel and Séverin Buttiaux.

My final blog post on the 2019 Rallye du Médoc below, covers the modern rally cars.  There was a large entry of cars in this category for this French regional rally and about 92 cars started and 58 finished the rally.  I concentrated on getting some “atmosphere” shots of the rally rather than trying to compete with the media and their action shots where better access or some local knowledge is required.  I thus attended the verifications, took photos in the Parc Femé to show off the setting in Lesparre-Medoc, took photos on Saturday night as the cars went off for the night stages, took photos on Sunday on the road sections and also captured a few shots on one of the special stages.  Overall, I managed to get a variety of shots to capture some of the essence of the rally.  Nice to see a relatively young team win the rally, and also a nice variety of cars.  All shots below in order that the cars finished and with those that retired at the end:

The winning Citröen C3 of Sam Taveneau and Sébastien Pogut.

The Skoda Fabia that finished second after some good stages on Sunday in the hands of Anthony Faucher and Cédric Foubert.

Yves Pezzutti and Marie-Noëlle Ratier in their Skoda Fabia that finished third.

A strong Sunday afternoon performance saw Francois Hirigoyen and Pierre Goy finish fourth in their Ford Fiesta.

Damp weather in the vines on the third stage.   The sixth placed Renault Clio of Johnny Laroche and Damien Augustin.

The seventh placed Peugeot 208 on the third stage.

The Citröen Saxo VTS that finish eleventh.

The fifteenth placed Citroen Saxo.

The Renault Clio on the left finished 16th.  The Renault Clio III on the right retired.

This Ford Fiesta finished seventeenth.

The 29th placed Citröen C2

This Nissan 350Z finished 32nd.

In 33rd place was this Opel Speedster.

The 34th placed Peugeot 106.

The 36th placed Citroen Saxo.

In 46th position was this Peugeot 205.

The 49th placed Audi TT 180

The Peugot 106 in 52nd place.

Car No.51, a Renault Clio, finished 54th.

Last of the finishers in 58th place was the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth..

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The Mitisubishi Lancer Evo IX of Marty/Thamalet.

Opel Astra.

Renault 5 GT Turbo in the verifications tent.

A Renault Clio in the rain.