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Contents IIssuessue 202202 • 2626 SeptemberSeptember 20112011 0044 STARTSTART RAMPRAMP 04 Start Ramp - News Shorts 0066 SERVICESERVICE PARKPARK 06 Team Total rocks the Cape 07 Eco fuel set for use for crews in South Africa 07 Rally of Scotland heats up 08 New owners for Rally America 2012 09 Black Beauty makes competitive debut 1100 PARCPARC FERMEFERME 10 SARC Toyota Cape Dealer Rally review 12 IRC Rally Sanremo review 14 BRC Int’l Rally Yorkshire review 16 WRC Rallye de France preview EEDITORIALDITORIAL INFORMATIONINFORMATION CCONTACTONTACT Editor Evan Rothman E-mail us [email protected] Call us +27 83 452 6892 Surf us http://wp.me/pkXc To receive your FREE weekly HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS eMagazine, or if you’d like to share Photojournalist Eva Kovkova this with a friend please send your e-mail address to [email protected]. HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS is not a SPAM e-mail: email addresses are added to the mailing list voluntarily. 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Sparco WTX J-5I Helmet Two outer shell sizes • Fibreglass shell • Snell - SA2010/FIA 8858 – 2010 approved • Fitted with intercom and anti-noise earphones • Adjustable microphone boom • Removable washable lining Now in stock Telephone +27 11 6708400 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ats-motorsport.co.za Team News Event News Start Ramp Videos Breaking News Perin for their backing this weekend, Tarmac rally like no other due to the Campana as well as Sparco, VP Racing and the inconsistent nature of the terrain entire Munaretto team. I hope we’ll have and road surface. frustrated in the opportunity to come back fi ghting Based on the outskirts of at an IRC event in the not too distant Strasbourg, close to France’s border Sanremo rally future. Finally, I would like to take this with Germany, the event features a wide opportunity to congratulate Peugeot on variety of stages of differing surfaces, Words: Staff Writer a tremendous victory today.” H&H widths and gradients in vineyards, mountain regions and town centres. Rally star Pierre Campana endured With gravel sections also featuring on a weekend to forget at Rallye the competitive route, the world rally Sanremo after a series of technical Rowe and Lund hopefuls will be required to overcome a issues hampered his progress from tough test in their Pirelli-equipped Ford the very opening loop of the event. clinch FIRC rally Fiesta R2s. The Corsican ace battled valiantly To ease the task facing the in spite of the many challenges that crown for 2011 competitors, which is increased by the presented themselves over the two- likelihood of inclement weather, Pirelli, the offi cial tyre supplier of the WRC day rally to claim eighth place after Words: Staff Writer the 13 special stages. Academy, will make available 16 P Zero The dramas began on the third RX5 tyres and 12 P Zero RE7 tyres Hull driver Andy Rowe and to each crew. They are permitted to stage of the opening loop on Friday Northamptonshire co-driver Cat Lund following two competitive opening use a maximum of 18 tyres once the were crowned Flanders International event gets underway on Friday morning stages, as his car developed an engine Rally Challenge (FIRC) champions at sensor fault which forced his engine (September 30). Two spare tyres Sunday’s (25 September) Hemicuda are made available for the pre-event engineers to make changes at the fi rst Rally in Koekelare, Belgium. service. Unfortunately, further problems shakedown on Thursday afternoon but Having been up to second place cannot be used on the rally proper. related to the engine resulted in a in the early stages of the rally, the pair diffi cult second loop, which was made The hard compound RX5 is eventually fi nished in sixth place overall designed for optimal performance in worse with a broken gear lever during and were fi rst FIRC and fi rst British the fi fth stage. warm and dry conditions. Conversely, crew. the RE7 was developed to provide Pierre had aimed to use the The British crew have mounted fi nal Friday stage, the 44km Ronde, improved grip in the event of rain and a successful 2011 campaign in the FIRC cold temperatures, a feature of last to make up valuable time. He was against the other French, Dutch and performing extremely well, on the pace year’s Rallye de France. British crews, winning the all the FIRC By offering crews two choices of the front-runners at the 30km split, events except for Rally of Wervik, where but an inexplicable puncture slowed of tyre, Pirelli engineers hope to be able they retired with a blown turbo. to provide more vital experience when him signifi cantly towards the end of the It is the second year in a stage and prevented him from making the WRC Academy runners make the row that the crew have won the FIRC step up to the World Rally Championship up the lost time. championship and the pair were Saturday saw much of the in future, as well as teaching them about delighted with their result. “Rallying in correct tyre usage. same frustration with the car suffering Belgium is always a pleasure and we engine misfi res throughout the morning, “Our involvement in the WRC have received some amazing hospitality Academy is part of our continuous plan which necessitated substantial work and made some great friends,” from the team during the lunchtime to help develop the next generation of commented Rowe. “We are looking world championship stars,” said Pirelli’s service. The team did a fantastic job forward to coming back in 2012”, added in a bid to cure the problems but there motorsport director Paul Hembery. “With Lund. a level playing fi eld created due to the were still issues that stopped Pierre from Following the Hemicuda Rally, working his usual Sanremo magic. It fact all drivers have to use the same the next outing for the ceew will be the Ford Fiesta R2s and Pirelli control tyres, has been a tough two days for Pierre, Mull Rally on 14 - 16 October. H&H his co-driver Sabrina de Castelli and the our young talents can discover just how pivotal tyre choice can be to the Munaretto team, but Pierre hopes to Hemicuda Rally Results: turn this disappointment and frustration outcome of a rally.” 01) Viaene/Vyncke - Subaru Impreza Among the WRC Academy into positives at next weekend’s World 02) Lietaer/Noppe - Ford Escort Rally Championship event in France. runners in action on Rallye de France 03) Braeckevelt/Messelis - BMW M3 E36 Alsace are six Pirelli Star Drivers, who Pierre Campana said: “What a 04) Vermeirsch/Degroote - Ford Sierra tough Sanremo rally for us all! It seems are competing this season through a 05) Coene/Thores - Mitsubishi Lancer scholarship from the FIA, motorsport’s that no matter what we did, there was 06) Rowe/Lund - Mitsubishi Lancer no improvement, so actually to fi nish world governing body, and the Italian 07) Cornelis/Deforche - Ford Escort tyre fi rm, which has underwritten the event in eighth is a big achievement 08) Dolfen/Declerck - Renault Clio in itself. I must thank the Munaretto the cost of season of international 09) Beyne/Maerten - Mitsubishi Lancer competition. The Pirelli Star Drivers guys who worked so hard and remained 10) Verschueren/Maes - Opel Ascona committed to resolving our issues right for 2011 are Irishman Craig Breen, the to the end. Things started to go wrong winner of the previous WRC Academy from the third stage when we had an event in Germany last month, Swede engine sensor fault but then got worse Fredrik Ahlin, Czech Jan Cerny, Italian during the day with the snapped gear WRC Academy Andrea Crugnola, plus Australians lever in SS5 and most frustratingly Brendan Reeves and Molly Taylor. the puncture in SS7. We were running Rallye de France Alsace forms strongly and right on the sort of pace I stars in France round fi ve of the six-event FIA WRC expected to be at when out of nowhere Words: Staff Writer Academy Cup and features a total of 17 we picked up a puncture. There seemed stages over a competitive distance of to be no reason for it, but it is typical The inaugural FIA WRC Academy 296.77km. H&H of the weekend we have had. Today intake heads to the Alsace region of was tough from start to fi nish and I France this week (September 29- can only thank everyone involved for October 1) for the second asphalt persevering. Thanks also to my sponsors event of the season, rated as a click>> read >> enjoy your insight into the world of rallying http://handbrakeshairpins.wordpress.com Interviews Profi les Service Park Features Technical Team Total rocks the Cape Words: Evan Rothman to change, and we have the data we now require Pictures: Motorpics for this.