2014 Tour de Corse explained

2014 Tour de Corse
Native Name:31. Internationale Jänner Rallye 2014
Round:11 of 11
Championship:2014 European Rally Championship
Previous Round:2014 Rally International du Valais
Next Round:2015 Internationale Jänner Rallye
Rallybase:Ajaccio
Startdate:7
Enddate:9 November 2014
Stages:11
Surface:Asphalt
Driver1: Stéphane Sarrazin
Team1:First Motorsport
Teamsstart:50
Teamsfinish:36

The 2014 Tour de Corse was the 11th and final round of the 2014 European Rally Championship season, held on the island of Corsica from 7–9 November 2014.

Report

The title fight was meant to go down to the wire between Škoda teammates Esapekka Lappi and Sepp Wiegand. A fire following a crash during testing made Lappi champion by default.[1]

Lappi, was pleased to have been crowned the newest European Rally Champion before the event had started, and hoped to add to his tally of wins. This did not come to fruition, with the Finn crashing out of Stage 6,[2] ending his participation in the rally.

Ex-Formula 1 driver Stéphane Sarrazin led the majority of the rally,[3] having won most of the stages to take a dominating win, ahead of his compatriot Bryan Bouffier. It was the second time that year that a Formula One driver had won in ERC, as Robert Kubica had won the season-opening Internationale Jänner Rallye.

Vitaliy Pushkar was crowned ERC Production Cup champion after the withdrawal of his nearest rivals Keith Cronin and Martin Hudec. Andrea Crugnola won the Junior class but this was not enough to stop Stéphane Lefebvre from clinching the title, while Zoltán Bessenyey retained the 2WD title. Eric Camilli also received the McRae Flat Out Award for the first time.

Results

PosNoDriverCo-driverEntrantCarTime/RetiredPoints
110 Stéphane Sarrazin Jacques-Julien RenucciFirst MotorsportFord Fiesta RRC2:36:48.439
22 Bryan Bouffier Xavier PanseriM-Sport Ltd.Ford Fiesta RRC2:37:07.330
37 Kevin Abbring Sebastian MarshallPeugeot Rally AcademyPeugeot 208 T162:38:26.625
419 Eric Camilli Benjamin VeillasBP TeamPeugeot 208 T162:39:12.520
514 Romain Dumas Denis GiraudetRD Rallye TeamPorsche 997 GT3 RS 4.0 RGT2:42:30.314
69 Bruno Magalhães Carlos MagalhãesDelta RallyPeugeot 208 T162:43:18.310
718 Jean-Matthieu Leandri Fabrice GordonFirst MotorsportFord Fiesta R52:44:21.99
812 Jaromír Tarabus Daniel TrunkátCzech National TeamŠkoda Fabia S20002:44:39.74
939 Pierre-Antoine Guglielmi Jean Noël VesperiniRenault Sport TechnologiesRenault Clio R32:47:07.42
1038 Laurent Reuche Jean DeriazRenault Sport TechnologiesRenault Clio RS R3T2:50:09.41
Did not finish
SS1011 Julien Maurin Nicolas KlingerTeam 2B YaccoFord Fiesta R5Mechanical3
SS51 Craig Breen Scott MartinPeugeot Rally AcademyPeugeot 208 T16Transmission
SS64 Esapekka Lappi Janne FermŠkoda MotorsportŠkoda Fabia S2000Accident

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lappi becomes 2014 ERC champion after Wiegand test crash and fire.
  2. Web site: 2014-11-08 . Sarrazin the Corsica winner, Lappi the ERC Champion . 2024-04-19 . Federation Internationale de l'Automobile . en.
  3. Web site: Shacki . Final results Tour de Corse 2014 . 2024-04-19 . eWRC-results.com . en.