Alpine returns to the Monte
Renault boss leads Alpine charge to celebrate 40 years since historic Monte win
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Speaking of history Renault is entering a total of five A110 Berlinettes into next week's Monte Carlo Historique and, excitingly, we'll be going along to watch them in action. Stay tuned for more on this in due course but with over 300 cars taking part comprising the expected Minis, 911s, Escorts, Fulvias and the like together with the odd Mustang and a couple of Citroen DSes and other rarities it should be quite a sight. Check out the entry list here.
The Alpines should make quite an impact on the event, as indeed they did 40 years ago in the 1973 Monte with a 1-2-3 victory led by the pairing of Jean-Claude Andruet and his co-driver 'Biche' en route to a manufacturer title for the brand. The pair will be reunited with an A110 1600S for this event too, Renault rally legend Jean Ragnotti in a Group 4 A110 1800 and Renault boss (and handy racer) Carlos Tavares also taking part in an A110 1300. His co-driver will be Jean Pascal Dauce, engineering head of the Renaultsport-Caterham road car project. Suffice to say, we'll be very keen to talk to him and hear all about that.
We'll be joining the Alpine drivers for a run up the Col de Turini ahead of the event's arrival in Monaco next Friday, following the cars on a night stage and then enjoying a run in an A110 up the Turini the following day. Which'll be fun. Full details of the teams taking part and their cars here and some pictures also to get you in the mood- expect plenty more on this next week.
Note that Rick Pearson is entered in a 924 Turbo as well. I think he's a PH man.
There's loads of scope for scores of good PH features here.
Far more interesting than modern rallying.
It was somewhere between dangerous and deadly and Im only here because it was sold to buy a Lancia Beta HPE Volumex.
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Does this tell us anything???????????
Its good to see manufacturers getting involved with Historic rallying
Francophones; is it pronounced Alp-eye-n or Alp-eee-n?
Technically Alp-ee-n using a French accent BUT how many English people bother to pronounce Renault with a French accent ie say RRu-no with a rolling R for Renault. They don't they just say just say Re-no.
so I would say
Alp-ee-n RRu-no or RRu-no Alp-ee-n if you are pronouncing Renault with a French accent
OR
Alp-eye-n Re-no or Re-no Alp-eye-n if you are pronouncing Renault with an English accent
ie use either but don't mix and match.
There are loads of cars that are pronounced differently in their own country so I don't know why people get so hung up on this one.
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