By akademiotoelektronik, 27/09/2022

Two pilots and a co -pilot injured in the Bethunois rally, two specials arrested rallying the Bethunois: the public too close to the roads

To allow lovers to safely observe the pilots teasing the stopwatch, the organizers of the Bethunois rally mark out the course of the special tests of authorized public zones (ZPA), generally located near a turn.

With each passage of a competitor, the spectacle is as sound as visual.The roar of the engine - more noisy among historic competition vehicles (VHC) -, interspersed with stearades with changes in the gearbox, swells for a long time before the racing car appears.The pilots brake, retrograde and negotiate the pin of Gauchin-le-Gal in a more or less stable way: some gratify the public with a rear train rush by putting the gases.A few seconds later, the car disappeared but the engine resonates still long after.

Reckless

A priori, the rules are simple: onlookers cannot cross the green ribbon, beyond which only the race commissioners are admitted.Between the red ribbon and the site ribalise extends a no man’s land which serves as a clearance in the event of excessive optimism of one or the other pilot.

« Les gens marchent sur la route en plein virage»»

This is the theory.In practice ... "This is the first time that I have to redo the circuit a quarter of an hour before departure, complains a gendarme to the commissioners installed in Gauchin-le-Gal, on the layout of ES 1, the municipalitiesgreen.People walk on the road in the middle of the turn, cars can happen but they don't care.»»

Here, the ZPA is located outside the turn but inside the pin, a hundred spectators cheerfully trample a line of linen while waiting for the cars.Not nice for the farmer and potentially dangerous."And again, we made them go back two meters, creaks our gendarme.They do not understand that it may be a braking zone, if a tire bursts, the car goes in the decor.»» Pour pallier ces imprudences, l’organisation voudrait élargir la ZPA pour améliorer sa visibilité mais les négociations avec la municipalité patinent.