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NEWSLETTER : 28/05/2015
If you can't read this newsletter: click-here
Version française: cliquez-ici

RALLY OF TUNISIA 2015 - STAGE 3: KSAR GHILANE – DOUZ

STAGE 3: KSAR GHILANE – DOUZ
LIAISON: 147KM – SPECIAL: 182KM – LIAISON: 62KM
A stage more difficult accross the Oriental Erg. An amazing view on the huge plateau of dunes which competitors can admire. The cords of dunes rhythm the stage, and the driving must be mastered in paradisiacal landscapes that turned to sand hell.

A DANTESQUE STAGE

For the 1st time since the Rally of Tunisia exists, competitors use track trhough the dunes to go to the Oriental Erg. The brief is clear:"this special is long and hard. Those who don't follow the road book won't make it". 168kms of overcoming small and big dunes.

As it was the case yesterday, the competitors will have to overcome small dunes and ergs during the first 50 km. Then, they will find sand tracks will bigger dunes before arriving to a lac and then another bar of dunes until the finish line.

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SMILES ARE STRONGER THAN THE TIREDNESS

The sun is raising when the start of the most difficult special of the Rally of Tunisia starts. At the CH Liaison, the riders are in row. Despite the tiredness, they have a smile on their face.

After a great victory yesterday, GERALD DELEPINE N°22 from the PIBOULES RACING Team open the track located at 147km from the hotel. Motivated, his thumb is up when he starts. All the bike riders start this morning except the 3 quads., Vincent Thouvenot N°30, Patrice Grunewald N°31 and Claude Muller N°32 whom prefered to rest today and come back tomorrow in a good shape. The three friends are here to enjoy the Tunisian tracks without any classification pressure.

At 8h45am, the 1st car of PATRICK SIREYJOL and FRANCOIS BEGUIN N°302 from the CUMMINS Team start the liaison to go to the special. Proud of their victory yesterday, they want to renew their performance during this 3rd stage.

Team Rassas N°319 of Sami RASSAS and Fethi BOUGHANMI starts this morning. As they couldn't have repaired for the SS2, they are happy to be here today. The 2 Tunisians, regulars to rallies, are proud to be part of the reborn of the Rally of Tunisia.

Sadly, HEND CHAOUCH and DRISS ONS are not on the track today. Their Toyota TUN Rallye Team N°327 couldn't be repaired in times. They will certainly be part of the SS4.

The teams and their pilots will have a g great day with a lot of surprise during this SS3...

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A LOT OF RESOURCES DEPLOYED BY THE ORGANIZATION

NPO EVENTS did not hesitate to deploy a lot of resources to assure the safety of the Rally of Tunisia 2015: 10 cars and quads on track, Medical helicopter, boom truck, 5 persons at the Race PC, Tunisian national guard... Everything is planed for the safety and the good proceedings of the Rally.
The Race PC is the heart of the Rally:

SARAH LORGE - MEDIC ORGANIZER AT THE RACE PC
"Our work at the race PC is to manage the resources of the organizer to insure the safety of the competitors and the organization team on all the track and on the race with all its hazard. I'm medic on the rallies since a few years, inside the cars, in the helicopters... having a field experience is required to be organizer at the Race PC.

The competitors can contact us when they have a problem or we receive automatic alerts in case of huge deceleration for example. Our job is to evaluate les needs through our talk with them. Then we adapt the resources to deploy and we send immediate rescue.

Today, we have received contacts from the competitors mainly because of the tiredness and only one evacuation, with no gravity finally. Then we organize the assistance or the recovery of the vehicle and we assure ourselves that the competitor is never alone.

It' hard for the competitors and the organization on the track, we have a lot of empathy for them. Our job is to propose all the resources to facilitate their life and make them help them to finish the stage and the rally."

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BIKES - GREAT PERFORMANCE FOR ANIS NABILAH!

The stage of the day was announced hard. The pilots can't agree more!
The 1st bike starts at 9h45am and we have to wait 11H45am to see GERALD DELEPINE N°22, HELDER RODRIGUES N°1 and ALESSANDRO BOTTURI N°2 at CP1 located to km 80! The others are stuck in the dunes and will arrive one by one except LAURENT WIEBEL N°21 who decided to renounce at the km 35.

26 km before the CP2, the Yamaha of ALESSANDRO BOTTURI N°2 that was 2nd in the general provisional classification stops: The pilot is tired and can't go further today. His team mate HELDER RODRIGUES N°1 stays with him to check that everything is ok before going back on the track. He will win the special after 5h31 on the bike!

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GERALD DELEPINE N°22 realize a new exploit and finishes only 1min35 after the winner. He announced the first day that he was waiting for the stage3: The Tunisian pilot ANIS NABLI and his KTM N°3 Team GHM realize a HUGE performance. He is 3rd at only 14min34 from the winner!

At the provisional general classification, HELDER RODRIGUES N°1 has 59min52 on GERALD DELEPINE N°22 and 1h41:01 on DUONG NGUYEN-KHOA N°26. ANIS NABLI N°3 is the 1st Tunisian pilot and is 4th in the general provisional classification at 2h37:40 from the leader.

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CARS - THE LEADER CHANGES

The cars start at 10h31am and meet the same difficulties that the bikes did to go to CP1. The stage is short for PAULO RUI FERREIRA and JORGE MONTEIRO 3rd in the provisional general classification this morning. The give up at the km 25 after a jump of their TOYOTA N°300 from the MRACING PRT Team.

We have to wait 12H58am to see the CUMMINS CONSTANT N°302 of PATRICK SIREYJOL and FRANCOIS BEGUIN arriving to CP1 with the POLARIS EUROSPORT N°394 of PHILIPPE PINCHEDEZ and JEAN BRUCY. for the others, between mechanical issues, tiredness, the dunes, the stage will be long!

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15h09, bad luck for the Buggy of PATRICK SIREYJOL and FRANCOIS BEGUIN N°302 : the cars is in fire! The leader of the provisional general classification has to give up the rally. With a lot of humour, FRANCOIS BEGUIN will say at the race PC: "We liked our buggy...".

Several crews give up at their turn and come back by the road. Some others wait for their assist and will spend the night to repair their cars to start tomorrow. After 6 hours in the special, 12 vehicles were between CP1 and CP2.

The crews continue to arrive one by one until the night and arrive as HEROES at the hotel! Happy to achieve the historic special, tired, proud, whater the classification... there are HERE!

11 pm, 6 vehicles and crews will enjoy the night and sleep in the dunes with a team NPO EVENTS composed with a medic, members of the organization and the tunisian national guard to look at them.

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CLASSIFICATIONS

Provisional general classification BIKES: Click-here

Provisional stage classification BIKES: Click-here

Provisional general classification CARS: Click-here

The provisional general classification will be published tomorrow.

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UPCOMING STAGE:

STAGE 4 : DOUZ LOOP
TRANSFERT : 6 KM – SPECIAL : 118 KM – TRANSFERT : 6KM
On the road for the « Hunters tracks on their mopeds ». In fact in this region, many hunters crossing this road to hunt rabit and gazelle, on their mopeds. The loop is on the cords of dunes, and alternates off-track and fast track. The route will be realized two times during this day, with neutral time and service. The organization and the officials decided to cut the stage. The competitors will do the loop only once instead of two.

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