Morocco Rally: a very sad day

It was on the way to the start of the special event located 87 km from Zagora that a 4X4 carrying members of the organization rolled over several times on a tarmac road. Isabelle Catelin, who was in charge of GPS and Sentinels for the company ERTF, and Mohammed Berrichi, from the company TD Com, were killed instantly. As a result, the start of the special was delayed by several hours, and only one of the two loops on the program was completed.

Stéphane Peterhansel, author of the best time, and still leader, did not hide his emotion at the finish: “ It was a more than sad day. At the start this morning, we all had difficulty getting into the rhythm of the race. Then, little by little, we focused on the track. This one was beautiful and rolling, but there were also some passages with very sharp fields of stones, where we were very careful not to puncture »

The second performance of the day went to the Russian Novitskiy, who conceded a little over six minutes to his leader of the X-Raid team. At the wheel of the Schlesser buggy, the Franco-Moroccan François Lethier achieved the third time, but in the general classification, it was Jean-Noël Julien who occupied the provisional third step of the podium, with his “Megane Silhouette” from the MD Sport team.