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| The winning VHRS Subaru Impreza GT of Christian and Marie Lantres. |
The Bordeaux Aquitaine Classic Rally 2024 attracted a good field of VHRS cars (Véhicule Historique de Régularité Sportive). These are competitors who, rather than going for outright speed, attempt to achieve a set time. They can choose from high speed, intermediate speed, moderate speed or low speed. In any zone their average speed cannot be more than 75kph or they start getting penalties.
The most successful of the VHRS cars on the rally and the most interesting cars of the 39 who were taking part are shown below:
The Podium VHRS cars
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| The second placed VHRS Volkswagen Golf GTi of Aurelien Carrasco and Nicolas Demptos. |
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| Crossing the Dordogne River as they leave Castillon-la-Bataille is the third placed Subaru Impreza 1990 turbo of Renaud Canuyt and Laurent Jammet. |
Other Winners
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| The best of those attempting a low target time were Patrice and Annie Gabarrou in their Talbot Samba. |
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| Ready to leave for the start of the VHRS rally in Castillon-la-Bataille is the Audi Quattro of Francis Verbiguie and Jean-Louis Lacoste. They were the best of those going for fast target time. |
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| The Lania Fulvia 1600 of Vincent Mouret and Francois Cardon. They were the best of those aiming for a moderate target time. |
Interesting Other Cars
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| The oldest car competing was this Peugeot 203 C from the fifties. |
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| An unusual car to see in VHRS rallies was this Buggy Sarap Buffalo. This is a French beach buggy. |
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| CG Simca Type B 1200S. One of my favourite French sports cars! It was produced in the late sixties and early seventies based on a Simca 1200S but with coachwork by Chappe et Gessalin. |
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| A Toyota Carina, I assume from the seventies. |
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| An Alpine A310 V6. |
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| Ford Escort RS2000 Mk2. |
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| Lancia Beta Coupé GR4. Lovely to see one of these again! |
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| Opel Kadett B Rally. |
A funny and confusing mixture (Peugeot 203, Impreza, Buggy and A310 among others...). I have yet to understand the difference between the French VHRS and VHC, but I like them both!
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