12ème Rallye de Saintonge VHC, 2021

Overall winner was this Peugeot 205 Rallye driven by Bruno Cadillion and Julien Bichon.

It was with great pleasure that I attended my first motor sport event of the year on July 17th.  The occasion was the twelfth running of the Rallye de Saintonge for Vehicule Historique Competition.  Saintonge is now the area where I live in France and thus to have a great rally less than an hour away was even better!  The VHC rally was a national event counting for the Coupe de France des Rallyes.   I took all the photos on the third special stage at Bussac during the early afternoon at one of the first corners where the Chemin du Grand Fief met the Route de Beauchail.   A nice position to be sure of getting a good photo of each car that passed.  Sixteen cars took part in the third stage and thirteen of these finished the rally.   They put on a nice display for roughly one hundred spectators present at this location.  I particularly enjoyed seeing the Lancias, Opels and BMWs on this special stage.  Well done to the organisers and marshalls who made it possible.

This lovely Lancia Delta came second in the hands of Yannick Legloinec and Vincent Micheau.  On this stage he was the fastest.

Third overall and first of the Groupes 1/2/3/4/5 was  Jean-Philippe Le Cam and Sébastien Sullam in this Opel Kadett.

 

Forth overall was this Opel Ascona B of Michel and Sébastien Porcher.

Fifth overall was Dominique Tolmais and David Delabriere in this Porsche 911 Carrera 2.

Sixth overall was this Porsche 911 SC of Pierrick and Natalie Chauvel.

Seventh overall were Bruno and Karine Chaudet in this Porsche 911 SC.

Eighth overall was this Lancia Delta Integrale of Henri Couillaud and Jean-Francois Palissier.

Ninth overall and winner of the Classic Groupe were Christophe Monnetreau and Bertrand Tourneux in this VW Golf GTi.

Tenth overall was this Peugeot 205 GTi of Nicolas and Jean-Claude Berard.

Eleventh were Thierry and Mickaël Bled in this Talbot Samba.

Twelfth was this BMW 323i of Christian and Céline Longe.

Final finisher were Christophe and Margaux Augeral in this Peugeot 309 GTi 8S.

This BMW 2002 did not finish.

This Audi 80 GTE did not finish.

This BMW 1600 Ti did not finish.

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Another picture of the BMW 323i.