The Winter Trial 2008 Prague, Brno, Olomouc, Nasavrky, Hradec Kralove, Karlovy Vary, Cesky Krumlov, Linz, St. Wolfgang David Winstanly Reports Photos Mike Johnson of Clicksport The first round of the 2008 FIA Trophy for Regularity Rallies, the Winter Trial is regarded by most as the toughest event of the season with two enormously challenging night [...]
WT'09, Leg 4 Nightloop, Ceske Bodejovice: Snow 27 januari 2009 The night loop was an organizers dream. The snow started really hard now and nobody cleaned even the very first of the 17 timing points. As usual a few cars did not stay on the road, first off was Michel Perridon. The Breedveld brothers had a [...]
WT10, Leg 8, Linz - St. Wolfgang: Win for Gijs van Lennep and Ian Tullie 29 januari 2010 Leg 8 Linz – Sankt Wolfgang. The snow of last night has made the final run to the finish extremely slippery. Crews have to put snowchains on, Hans Buurman is modifying the nose of the Healey in a [...]
Leg 8 - Plzen - Karlovy Vary The winners Gijs van Lennep and Iain Tulie make it 2 years in a row as they celebrate under the finish arch in a cold Karlovy Vary to win the Trial Class in the 11th running of the Winter Trial. After taking the lead from Harm Lamberigts and Arthur Denzler yesterday, they held on to [...]
Day 6 Ljublana – Triëste. Gijs van Lennep / Iain Tullie and Bert Ziengs / Arie Kroeze are the winners of the 12th Winter Trial A short run into Italy and the 12thWinter Trial will be finished. One crew is really pushing hard to make it one place up on the leaderboard, but the outcome [...]
Day 6. Linz to Salzburg After a regularity and test this morning the Rally started arriving at the finish in Salzburg just after midday. All available marshal crews were out manning timing controls on the long regularity today, but no major changes occurred to the leader board. With the crews arriving in reverse classification order, [...]
Karlstad to Oslo Two great regularities and a test today as the rally finished in the early afternoon. Overnight snow has fallen and the minor roads north of Karlstad were very icy. Some had been ploughed and occasional grit covered the ice. This still left plenty of tricky conditions to test the crews. Regularity 2 [...]
LEG 8 ELVERUM – SUNDVOLDEN The final countdown. A test, a regularity section and a long navigation section are the ingredients. It is Harmlambrechts/Bart den Hartog who win yet another day, making it 4 in total, but it is not enough. Really doing well are Alexander Leurs/Ryan Pickering in the Ascona. It is Alexanders first [...]
Day 6 Leg 8 - Elverum – Oslo (Holmenkollen) The sting is, like always, in the tail. Route master Mark Appleton has prepared a great navigation section just to do a final shake out, after the many shake outs that have already taken place. The Escort team of Laurens van de Velde / Jenny van [...]
Leg 8 Linz - Sankt Wolfgang The final day did not bring us any great surprises. Everybody tried hard to improve a place or two but without any luck. In fact the biggest surprise was the Citroen 2 CV. We expected them to finish on the podium, but they just missed a second or third [...]
