VWRC 2012 Rallye Monte Carlo

The first and longest rally in the schedule of this year's VWRC came up with alot of surprises - just like the real one.
Changing conditions, difficult stages and a challenging rally was waiting for the drivers at the Rally Monte Carlo. Before the rally, many experts expected the last year's favourites to perform best in the french Alps. But that proved to be wrong.

The Serb Stefan Smiljkovic controlled the field on his will and prevailed against his only real pursuer Martin Ptacek with about 30 seconds. Behind Ptacek the next surprise in person of 2011 SVWRC Champion Jakub Hoffmann. In the fashion of Sebastien Ogier, the Czech flew his Ford Fiesta Mk VI S2000 through the stages and ended up on the third place.

VWRC
Stefan Smiljkovic was only beaten by Jurek Bogdanowicz on the first stage of the rally. After that, Smiljkovic showed a superb performance throughout the remaining 16 stages and finished with a lead of about 30 seconds on Martin Ptacek. The Pole Sebastian Majzner completed the podium having a residue to Ptacek of about one minute.

SVWRC
Jakub Hoffmann dominated the S2000s. Despite trying his best, Kimmo Repo had to settle for second place losing 2:30 minutes on Hoffmann. Milan Ostrovsky gained the third place and Ford ended up with an 1-2-3 victory.

PVWRC
A Slovene won the production car category. Domen Gantar took the first place after driving safely and making no mistakes. Arek Burczynski and Mike Honcho followed him 46 seconds and 1:13 minutes behind. These three Subaru pilots dominated the field from the beginning and delivered the crowd a nice fight on every stage.

VWRC Academy
The Swede Micael Eriksson showed everyone how to tackle the snowy french roads and won every stage ending up 1:28 minutes in front of Tim Sommer. Yet, the german combination Sommer-Opel was able to prevail agianst Anton Tokbulatov in his Citroen C2.

Historic Cup
The recently founded Cup for Group H and GT car still has to establish. However, Robi Grgurina took the first points back home to Croatia. The rest of the competitors were only able to finish with the help of SupeRally - now called "Rally2". So Lukas Vecera and Budra Svajunas can be happy about second and third place even though they had to retire during the rally.

Due to some problems of our database we will provide the standings later....stay tuned!

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