ERC – Chewing gum welcome for Bouffier

Bryan Bouffier and his teammate Xavier Panseri used chewing gum to temporarily seal a leak in the radiator of their Citroën DS3 R5 at the end of the event in Poland.

Published on 06/08/2016 à 22:05

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“Fortunately, my co-driver Xavier Panseri is a regular Dakar co-driver. He's an expert at fixing things and dealing with sticky situations like this! » The sentence of Bryan Bouffier in post-press conferenceRally Rzeszow came to pay tribute to her co-driver Xavier Panseri, after what could have greatly upset the DS3 R5 duo at the end of the race in Poland this Saturday.

Victims of a radiator leak of the French R5 after the eleventh special, the triple Polish champion and his teammate notably used chewing gum to temporarily repair the leak (video), and finish the event despite temperature alerts on the engine, and nevertheless signing the last two scratch times.

A makeshift repair that recalls another, that of Thierry Neuville, qui avait utilisé une bière au Mexique pour pouvoir rallier l’assistance après la Power Stage en 2014, après avoir colmaté une fuite sur le radiateur de sa Hyundai i20.

Bryan Bouffier and Xavier Panseri took second place behind the Pole Kajetan Kajetanowicz (Ford Fiesta R5), winner for the first time this season in the European Rally Championship.

Find the report of the Rzeszow Rally, in issue 2075 of AUTOweekly, available from Monday evening in digital version, and from this Wednesday on newsstands.