Publicat in: July 2, 2008, Vizualizari: 98
New name win Safari
Kenyan driver Lee Rose won one of the closest Safari Rallies in memory when he beat Carlo Tundo by just over a minute. Postponed from earlier in the season because of unrest in the country, a move which lost them IRC status, the two day event was similar in concept to that run last year. It was again a qualifying round of the FIA African series: top registered ARC driver was the Japanese Hideaki Miyoshi who finished third overall. Drivers suffered a strange spate of gearbox failures. Top entries Muna Singh, Riyaz Kurji, Asad Anwar and Jas Mangat all failed to finish for this reason. Highest placed driver eligible for the Pirelli Star Driver award was Alfir Khan in a Subaru. This was the first major win in the career of Rose whose first Safari was nine years ago.
Safari Rally Classification
1 Rose/Daykin Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 2h54m48s
2 Tundo/Jessop Subaru Impreza N10 2h55m59s
3 Chager/Yusuk Subaru Impreza N12 2h56m34s
4 Miyoshi/Ichino Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 2h59m36s
5 Whyte/Archenoul Subaru Impreza N10 3h10m50s
6 Azar Anwar/Khan Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI 3h10m53s
Six Times Winner Roger Feghali
Roger Feghali made two bold moves in the days before his major home event, the Rally of Lebanon. He invited world championship codriver Giovanni Bernacchini to guide him and then he swopped his entry with a Mitsubishi for a Subaru Impreza N14, which was only delivered to him days before the start. It all ended in smiles. They won by nearly ten minutes! For fellow Impreza N14 driver Nasser Al Attiyah, the four times Middle East champion who had never won this event, it was disaster. On the first stage he slid into a bridge parapet, retired for the day, and then after a couple of stages on the second day he retired again with handling problems. Lebanon is the only rally in the FIA's Middle East series run on asphalt stages.
Lebanon Rally
1 Feghali/Bernacchini Subaru Impreza N14 2h55m24.8s
2 Georgiou/Matar Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 3h05m14.3s
3 Bannout/Kmeid Mitsbuishi Lancer Evo VIII 3h05m31.5s
4 Al Rajhi/Baumel Subaru Impreza N12 3h06m44.1s
5 Al Maktoum/Ghaziri Subaru Impreza N14 3h07m35.6s
6 Saleh/Chehab Subaru Impreza N14 3h08m22.1s
Proton Homologation Coming
FIA homologation of Proton's new Neo Satria 2000 is now to be issued on 1st August. Plans for the papers to be issued on 1st July were deferred, on account of new gear ratios being made available by Xtrac, the official control transmission supplier for this model. Chris Mellors, director of the project, explained: "the FIA suggested we did this as we are not envisaging running the car in competition until August or September. So far testing has been restricted to system checks, now serious development testing will begin". Mellors has declined to say to said when the model's debut will take place, or who will be responsible for this work, only that "the driver will be one of the various people who are interested to rally this car".
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New name win Safari Kenyan driver Lee Rose won one of the closest Safari Rallies in memory when he beat Carlo Tundo by just over a minute. Postponed from earlier in the season because of unrest in the country, a move which lost them IRC status, the two day event was similar in concept to that run last year. It was again a qualifying round of the FIA African series: top registered ARC driver was the Japanese Hideaki Miyoshi who finished third overall. Drivers suffered a strange spate of gearbox failures. Top entries Muna Singh, Riyaz Kurji, Asad Anwar and Jas Mangat all failed to finish for this reason. Highest placed driver eligible for the Pirelli Star Driver award was Alfir Khan in a Subaru. This was the first major win in the career of Rose whose first Safari was nine years ago.
Safari Rally Classification
1 Rose/Daykin Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 2h54m48s
2 Tundo/Jessop Subaru Impreza N10 2h55m59s
3 Chager/Yusuk Subaru Impreza N12 2h56m34s
4 Miyoshi/Ichino Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 2h59m36s
5 Whyte/Archenoul Subaru Impreza N10 3h10m50s
6 Azar Anwar/Khan Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI 3h10m53s
Six Times Winner Roger Feghali Roger Feghali made two bold moves in the days before his major home event, the Rally of Lebanon. He invited world championship codriver Giovanni Bernacchini to guide him and then he swopped his entry with a Mitsubishi for a Subaru Impreza N14, which was only delivered to him days before the start. It all ended in smiles. They won by nearly ten minutes! For fellow Impreza N14 driver Nasser Al Attiyah, the four times Middle East champion who had never won this event, it was disaster. On the first stage he slid into a bridge parapet, retired for the day, and then after a couple of stages on the second day he retired again with handling problems. Lebanon is the only rally in the FIA's Middle East series run on asphalt stages.
Lebanon Rally
1 Feghali/Bernacchini Subaru Impreza N14 2h55m24.8s
2 Georgiou/Matar Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 3h05m14.3s
3 Bannout/Kmeid Mitsbuishi Lancer Evo VIII 3h05m31.5s
4 Al Rajhi/Baumel Subaru Impreza N12 3h06m44.1s
5 Al Maktoum/Ghaziri Subaru Impreza N14 3h07m35.6s
6 Saleh/Chehab Subaru Impreza N14 3h08m22.1s
Proton Homologation Coming FIA homologation of Proton's new Neo Satria 2000 is now to be issued on 1st August. Plans for the papers to be issued on 1st July were deferred, on account of new gear ratios being made available by Xtrac, the official control transmission supplier for this model. Chris Mellors, director of the project, explained: "the FIA suggested we did this as we are not envisaging running the car in competition until August or September. So far testing has been restricted to system checks, now serious development testing will begin". Mellors has declined to say to said when the model's debut will take place, or who will be responsible for this work, only that "the driver will be one of the various people who are interested to rally this car".
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