Clio Trophy France Terre & French Gravel Rally Championship

Anaël Cayla and Rémi Nolorgues, who finished fourth in Causses, third in Aléria, and second in Lozère, continued their upward trajectory to score their maiden victory at Rallye Terre des Cardabelles. Victorious ahead of Alexandre Gransagne – Loïc Maurel and Christophe Truchet – Patrice Roissac, the duo are back in the title race and will be one of seven crews competing for the crown at Rallye Terre de Vaucluse (7-9 November).

On the same special stages, Clio Rally3 won the RC3 and the GT2i CFRT FFSA Trophy in the French Gravel Rally Championship. Leading from the outset, Guillaume Tardy and Caroline Puel conquered eight of the ten timed sectors to secure a double hat-trick for the model and finish in the top ten overall. The tandems of Steven Bossard – Jacques-Julien Renucci and Sylvain Tamisier – Mathieu Tamisier joined them on the two podiums.

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French Junior Rallycross Championship

Dylan Léger arrived in Dreux as the leader for the season finale of the FFSA French Junior Rallycross Championship and dominated the weekend, winning three of the four qualifying heats, the intermediate classification, his semi-final and then the final. He thus secured his first French Junior Rallycross Championship title, ten years after his karting title.

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Danish Rally Championship

Clio Rally3 clinched the overall title thanks to the new overall podium and RC3 victory of Jacob Leutenberger Madsen and Line Nedergaard at Rally Stoholm. This success secured them the Dansk Super Rally across all categories against Rally2 competitors before the Danish driver hung up his helmet. Oliver Sørensen and Claus Amstrup finished tenth, leading a nine-car Clio Rally5 contingent in RC5, where Jacob Egholm and Rikke Pilgaard Petersen had already sealed the national title for Renault.

Spanish Gravel Rally Championship

Clio Rally5 was victorious at Rally Ciudad de Granada, the final round of the Spanish Gravel Rally Championship. Francisco Puertas and David Fernández Villa won their class and secured second place in the Andalusian Gravel Rally Championship.

Estonian Rally Championship

The Estonian Rally Championship also concluded at the Saaremaa Rally. Clio Rally4 claimed a class podium result by Oskari Sokka and Joonas Ojala, who finished runners-up in EMV4, just 28 seconds behind the winners after a consistent run in the Finnish driver’s first foreign outing.

Polish Rally Championship

Clio Rally4 won at Rajd Nyski, the final round of the Polish calendar. On the tarmac stages, Sergiusz Janowski and Krzysztof Grzenia finished sixth overall and first in two-wheel drive and in their class. On the strength of their performance, the pair ended the season in third place in the Polish Two-Wheel Drive Rally Championship.

German Rally Cup

The ADAC Stäubli Rallye Fränkische Schweiz, round 12 of the German Rally Cup, was won by Dominik Dinkel and Michael Teufel in their Clio Rally3. Clio Rally4 and Clio Rally5 also secured victories with Felix Schumann and Gino Kruhs, and Alexander Kazmierzak and Tobias Andres, respectively. Several teams flying the Renault flag are still in contention, with the title up for grabs at the ADAC Saarland Rally (25 October).

French Rally Cup

Clio Rally3 and Clio Rally5 achieved a pair of double wins in France, winning their respective classes at Rallye du Montbrisonnais with crews Gérard Delorme − Sophie Bert and Pascal Bérard − Sylvain Guillaume, and at Rallye de la Croisette with Allison Viano − Patrick Therry and Emeric Pollet − Sylvia Pollet. Similarly, Clio Rally5 won a Rallye des Bauges with Nicolas Paviet-Roche and Mélodie Bellavarde, as well as at Rallye Vallée de l’Homme - Périgord Noir with Mathias Flaquière and Emilie Perrinaud.

And elsewhere…

Clio Rally3 excelled in the Belgian Second Division Championship with Michaël Nuée and Emelyne Delpire winning the RC3 class and finishing fourth overall at the Boucles Chevrotines. The model also secured a class podium finish with Andrea Scalzotto and Sara Montavoci at Rally Città di Bassano (Italy), where Michele Falezza and Giulia Tomasi dominated their category in their Clio Rally5.

Clio Rally5 won RC5 with Italians Alessandro Prodorutti and Maurizio Lazzer at the Herbst Rallye (Austria). The Italians ended their campaign in third place in the Alpe Adria Rally Cup and first in the C3 category.

Clio Rally5 also won the City Stage of the Viana do Castelo Rally (Portugal) with Miguel Carvalho and António Reis. Among other successes, Julien Toniutti and Guillaume Duplan won the Rally Les Masies de Voltregà (Spain), as did Mattia and Raffaele Panichella at Rally Porta del Gargano (Italy) and Luca Andrei Racoviță and Bogdan Iancu at round two of the Trofeul Saschiz (Romania).

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