Rally France – Jean-Marie Cuoq wins at Le Touquet

After its previous successes in 2006 and 2007, Jean-Marie Cuoq (Citroën C4 WRC) clinched a third victory in Rally du Touquet? Pas-de-Calais, the inaugural event of the 2015 French Rally Championship. Quickly leading from SS2, where Eric Brunson, one of the favorites for the event, gave up after rolling over, the Ardéchois built stage after stage a significant margin over the two Ford Fiestas of Pierre Roché and David Salanon. This duo remained in the fight throughout the two days for the first runner-up, the advantage going to Roché for almost eleven seconds.

Behind this trio, Charles Martin (Peugeot 208 T16 R5) ranks 4th ahead of the Citroën DS3 R5 of Marc Amourette, lauréat du Trophée Michelin où il devance Pierre Ragues (Citroën) 7e du général derrière la Toyota Celica GT-Four de Claudie Tanghe. Sylvain Michel, qui place sa Porsche 911 en 8e position, Gilles Nantet, winner in GT+, and Eric Mauffrey (Peugeot 208 T16 R5) complete the top 10

Emmanuel Guigou, 11th on his Renault Clio R3T showed itself to be the best in two-wheel drive. The Citroën Trophy Racing was won by Yohan rossel, while the Opel Adam Cup saw the success of Florian Bernardi. Sophie Lawrence (Peugeot) wins the French Women's Championship while the Junior ranking was dominated by Laurent pellier.

Find the report of the Rallye du Touquet in issue 2003 of AUTOhebdo, available from Monday evening in digital version and from next Wednesday on newsstands.