Clio Cup Series

Clio Cup Series leader David Pouget racked up the points at round six of the calendar at Misano World Circuit. Despite Luca Franca’s two pole positions, the Frenchman climbed from third to first place on Saturday and Sunday to take a double success on Italian soil. Twice runner-up, Racer Luca Franca completed the double in Clio Cup Italia, where he now leads ahead of his teammate Giacomo Trebbi, the new Challengers Cup leader at the midway point of the season. In a fortnight, the Clio Cups will return to the Nürburgring (28-30 July) for a round bringing together Clio Cup Europe, Clio Cup France and Clio Cup Mid-Europe. Clio Cup Italia competitors will contest their next round at the Red Bull Ring in September.

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French Rally Cup

In the French Cup, the different Clio Rally versions starred on home soil over the Bastille Day weekend, with Régis Personne and Sandrine Pernot’s Clio Rally5 winning the Rallye du 14 Juillet at Raddon-et-Chapendu. The model also scored several one-two results, led by Mathias Dubouloz and Dimitri Tognarelli on the Rallye de la Drôme, Julien Fontenelle and Thibault Darque on the Rallye des Vallées Axonaises and Florian Bartaire and Marjolaine Patier on the Rallye des 4 Cantons. Clio Rally4 also won the latter event in the hands of Frédéric Meurant and Kévin Aumeunier. Lastly, Clio Rally4 and Clio Rally5 scored another double victory on Rallye Le Mans, with Frédéric Gobin - Jean-Luc Fraigne and Bastien Gouret - Lisa Gouret leading a lockout of the top six in Rally5.

And elsewhere

In Italy, Slovenia’s Borut Prosenc and Blaž Selan led a one-two finish for Clio Rally5 in its category on Rally Adriatico, beating the similar model of Filippo Nannetti and Alessia Tasi, Rally5 winners among the crews entered in the Italian Gravel Rally Championship. Clio Rally5 also claimed the top four places on Rally del Friuli Venezia Giulia, led by Matteo Doretto and Andrea Budoia, who also finished third in the under-25 category.

Clio Rally5 scored another RC5 double, this time led by the Belgian duo of Steven Spittaels and Gilles Hendrickx on the Rallye du Luxembourg. Meanwhile, Dinarte Baptista and Igor Velosa placed their Clio Rally4 in the top ten in the Madeira Rally Championship at the Rali do Marítimo in Machico (Portugal), which moved them up to fourth in the two-wheel drive general classification.

In Romania, Sebastian Scîrlet and Andrei Mitrașcă claimed their fourth victory in as many starts in the trophy reserved for Clio Rally5 in the Romanian Rally Championship. Victorious ahead of Reis Suliman - Rareș Badea and Samuil Mircea - Călin Ilie Maier, the pair also took third place in the Junior category. Lastly, the Clio Rally5 of Jack Brennan and John McGrath comfortably led its class before a fatal accident stopped the Sligo Stages Rally (Ireland).

In Ecuador, six Clio Rally5s were in action on the Rally Cotopaxi. Leaders from the start, Sebastian Guerrero and Edgar Parreño, took a 45.5-second margin of victory over Javier Serrano and Esteban Maldonado. Andrés and Mateo Gómez completed the podium. Winners in their category, the winning duo also finished sixth overall.

Coming up

This weekend, a host of competitors including six Clio Rally3s and 12 Clio Rally5s will contest the Rallye Terre de Langres Haute-Marne (21-23 July) in round four of the French Gravel Rally Championship.