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Tour de Corse, is the French version for 'Rally of 10000 Corners', because to its high frequency of twists and turns. The 56th running of the legendary event went on to make it one of the most anticipated event in ERC. The winding tarmac roads on the edge of the mountain and also frequently facing the sea makes it one of the most challenging event to compete. In the history, this event has claimed a few competitors, like Attilio Bettega , who died during the fourth special stage of the 1985 rally, driving a Lancia Rally 037 , Zérubia-Santa Giulia . The biggest was in 1986, exactly a year later, when Henri Toivonen and his co-driver Sergio Cresto died in their Lancia Delta S4 during the 18th stage of the event, at Corte-Taverna . Coming back to this year's rally, below here is the video highlights of Day 1. With a thrilling battle for the finale, Kornel Lukacs wins the ERC 2WD Championship on his Tour de Corse debut and Molly Taylor wins the ERC Ladies' ...

At the end of the opening leg of the rally, Craig Breen leads the rally by a little over 6s to Finnish Jari Ketomaa , and Francois Delecour another 6s further in third overall. Jari Ketomaa was the fastest through the qualification stage this morning and Craig Breen all the way down at 6th and the turn around was a bit of a surprise for the top field, but the Irish got the talent. Delecour 's third is something extraordinary, as he had to drive through SS3 by holding the door closed which had latching/locking issues. Day 1, top 5 result. 1 | C.Breen / D.Moynihan       | 22:15.4 Peugeot 207 (2) 2 | J.Ketomaa / K.Lindström   | 22:21.8 | +6.4 Ford Fiesta RRC (2) 3 | F.Delecour / D.Savignoni   | 22:27.5 | +12.1 Peugeot 207 (2) 4 | A.Lukyanuk / A.Arnautov  | 22:48.1 | +32.7 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X (3) 5 | V.Švedas / Ž.Sakalauskas  | 23:06.2 | +50.8 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X (3) _ ______ _____...

Opening round of the ERC 2013 season, 30° Internationale Janner Rallye,  is just around the weekend and will be live in around 2 days.  Janner Rallye was common both to ERC & IRC drivers & crews. The interesting thing about this rally is the time which it is scheduled, which makes it similar to the Monte Carlo Rallye. The event is held on the tarmac roads of Austria, which normally experiences snow fall and hence ice is mostly present on the roads. The rally has 18 special stages of around 248 kms, and measures of a total 825 kms including transport. With all this weather condition, probably it is the entry list which really looks good. A good 64 cars [Wow!], in those fifteen S2000 spec cars, five R4 spec cars, and a pretty long list of Group N & around eighteen R2 cars will be fighting for the top honors. Some useful rally docs: Itinerary Maps Leg 1 , & Leg 2 Entry List Below here is from last year's action. _ ______ ___...