The Rallye du Var takes place in the hills behind Ste Maxime and St Tropez in the south of France. This year weather conditions were sunny and dry with temperatures around 20C before sunset. Around 40kms of stages were run on Friday 25th November with some 100kms on Saturday and then a further 75kms on the Sunday morning. The vast entry was headed by the winner of the Welsh Rally GB, J-M Latvala along with O. Tanak in another Fiesta, both tyre testing on Ford’s last allowable four days before the Monte in January. Sarrazin was in a Peugeot 307 WRC whilst Campana was in the Mini Cooper WRC Alongside the WRC class there were those for Super 2000, GT+, N4, R3, R2 and R1 with many of these competitors fighting for their final placings in their regional and French Championships. There was also a good historic entry of cars ranging from the ubiquitous 911s and Escorts to the sublime Lancia 037 s and Alpines.
The WRC crews finished in the following order: Latvala, Sarrazin, Tanak, Campana, Buffier and Branson (Ford, Peugeot, Ford, Mini Cooper, Peugeot and Subaru respectively).
All of the images from the Rallye du Var are available FOC to download if you so wish . To see the full image it is best to click on the thumb nail and then copy/paste the larger image. If you prefer a better resolution image without the large Photohistoric banner, then email info@photohistoric.com stating an email address that you wish to receive it on and it will be sent to you – again, no charge.
The photographs include pretty well all of the Historics running ahead of the field and the majority of the moderns.
