Rouen-les-AFX: 34ème Rallye National de Saintonge, Moderne 2023

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The Citroën Saxo VTS of Dejeans and Nichol that retired on the seventh of eight stages.

The Rallye National de Saintonge is one of my closest rallies and thus it is always good to catch it even if I only managed one stage again this year due to other commitments. However, I made up for that by trying to see how slow a shutter speed I could use once I got past the faster cars and was pleased to get some success at 1/50th and 1/80th.

This rally counted towards the Coupe de France des Rallyes and for the local Nouvelle Aquitaine Nord ligue. Last year's winner, Denis Millet, took victory again this year. The top 12 cars and most of the group and class winners can be seen below with a few of the other cars as well. Over 100 cars took part and 66 were classified as finishers.

I watched ES1 near Bussac-sur-Charente at the first of the official spectator areas on this long 23km stage. There were two stages each taken four times, thus eight stages in all.

Denis Millet and Aurelia Chevalier won the rally in this Volkswagen Polo GTi R5.

Runner up was another Volkswagen Polo driven by Stéphane André and Samuel Passetemps.

Third were Bruno and Laetitia Cadillon in this Peugeot 306 Maxi. They won the National Rallye Group.

This Porsche 997 came fourth and won the GT Group in the hands of Jimmy Thibauudeau and Dimitri Pilet.

Fifth overall and winner of the FRC4 Groupe was this Renault Clio Super 1600 of Mickael and Ludovic Taudiere.

This Renault Clio came sixth overall and won its class driven by John Laroche and Ronan Choucroun.

Seventh overall and winner of its class was the Renault Clio 4 of Christopher Touvron and Orphélia Chaigne.

Eighth overall was this Peugeot 208

Ninth overall and winner of its class was this Peugeot 208 of Sylvain and Daniel Mahier.

Rounding out the top ten was this Renault Clio of Patrice Laroche and Damien Augustin.

Eleventh and winner of their class was this BMW Compact of Yannick Lacouture and Romain Aligant.

Twelfth and winner of its class was this Peugeot 106 S16 of Cyril Guyot and Emilie Sauvaitre.

Fourteenth and winner of its class was this Renault Clio RS of Téva Gschwindemann and Théo Bonnegarde.

Sixteenth and winner of the FRC5 Groupe was this Renault Clio R5 Line of Jonathan Baron and Romuald Moine.

Seventeenth was this Citroën Saxo Kit Car of Xavier Pencole and Audrey Rossignol.

Eighteenth and winner of the F215 class was this Peugeot 207 RC of Lucas Martin and Florentin Boutin.

This Honda Civic driven by Franck and Emmanuel Pierre won class N2.

Frédéric and Astrid Gallot won class A7S in this Peugeot 207 S2000.

Winner of class N4 was this Renault Megane 3 RS of Dylan and Yoann Contamine.

This Citroën Saxo driven by André Auger and Hervé Magnan won class F212.

The winner of class A5 was this Peugeot 105 XSi driven by Emeric Gouineau and Loic Bonneaud.

This BMW Z3 won class GT10 driven by Cédric Lassalle and Gérard Irigaray.

Tony Magot and Maxime Torlet in this Subaru Impreza WRX STi won class A8.

Winners of class A6 were Laurent and Nathalie Lepage in this Citroën Saxo VTS.

Julien and Pierre Lambert in this Renault Twingo RS won class R1.

This Peugeot 206 ZX won class N2Série in the hands of Fabien Lapeyronnie and Killan Delage.

This lovely little Autobianchi A112 Abarth won class F211 driven by Pascal and Manon Beauvais.

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