Guy Colsoul Rallysport entered 3 Evo 10's in the biggest Belgian rally of the year, the IRC round of Ypres.

Untill late on the last day, Alexandre Romain was group N leader with a solid lead, but Alexandre got a flat tire, and damaged the transfer box.  The service crew changed the part in the allowed max time, but still Alexandre was thrown down the result table.

After this incident, Mathias Viaene (our 2nd Evo 10) got the group N lead, untill a couple of km's before the end of the last stage.  Mathias got a flat tire and gave the youngie Jonas Langenakens (our 3rd Evo 10) the huge opportunity to win Ypres group N, but unfortunately Jonas hit the same stone as Mathias and lost even more time.

The result of all this is that Stéphane Lhonnay won group N in an Evo 9 we built, Viaene ended 2nd, Langenakens 3rd and Romain 4th.

Not a bad result for Colsoul Rallysport with the 4 best positions in group N, but a rally with enourmous emotions in the last stage.

The battle for the group N championship was never as interesting as it is now, with 29 points for Viaene, 28 for Lhonnay, 26 for Romain and 23 for Langenakens.  With 3 rallies left, everything is still possible.

The 4th round of the Belgian Championship was the Sezoensrally, the only Belgian rally with a good percentage of gravel.

Group N favorit Alexandre Romain, was quickly out of the race after a big crash against a tree.

2008 group N champion, Stéphane Lhonnay, couldn't keep his cars on the narrow roads either and ended up in a ditch.

This made it possible for Mathias Viaene and Jonas Langenakens to start a battle for group N victory for the rest of the day.  A battle that was won by Mathias, only by 9 seconds.  Both of the drivers proved to be very fast, without making mistakes.

The group N championship is again completely open, which is a good thing for the Belgian Championship as the overall Championship is almost decided after only 4 rallies...

In the criterium section of this rally, Jean-Luc Berleur had his first big victory in a completely revised Evo 6.  Alain Renkin finished 4th in this category, which is a good result after his huge crash in Rallye de Wallonie.

Renkin, Romain, Viaene and Langenakens were all driving our Evo X.

For the 2nd rally in a row, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in group N are for Colsoul cars.

The best group N driver of the weekend was by far Alexandre Romain, who did what he should have done the 2 previous rallies, winning group N.  He as well showed that he is faster than Dutch supertalent Jasper VDHeuvel, something only Colsoul Rallysport expected before the rally.

2nd group N was Stéphane Lhonnay, who again showed his extreme efficient driving style.  Stéphane kept a lot of young lions behind him and confirms his will to win this year's group N championship.

We are very happy with the 3rd place in group N, set by youngster Jonas Langenakens.  Jonas is showing a lot of improvements in driving and is willing to listen to advises from Colsoul Rallysport.  Something that will defenitely help him to achieve brilliant results like this one.

Thanks to this dreamresult, Guy Colsoul Rallysport is firmly leading the Belgian Team Championship, as well as the group N Championship.

 Bob's homerally - the Haspengouw Rally - was the 2010 Belgian Championship opening round.  Bob drove without mistakes and finished 2nd group N, only 2 seconds behind the winner.  A frustration feeling, knowing that Bob did most of the best times, and actually lost the rally on a military airfield stage, where driving skills are not that important.

4th group N was Colsoul newcomer Alexandre Romain.  Alexandre used this rally to get familiar with the Evo 10, as he is planning to do the full championship.

Another young driver who is trying to participate at the complete championship is Jonas Langenakens, also living in Colsoul's hometown Landen.  Jonas lost all chances on good final position already in the 1st stage by going off and getting stuck for 15 minutes with our Evo 10.

In the criterium category, it was a Colsoul party, as Erik Deveux won the rally in an Evo 10, and Alain Renkin finished 2nd in an Evo 9, as well only 2 seconds behind the winner.

Next rally will be TAC Rally Tielt, held in April.  The battle will be again very hard with Bob, Alexandre, Jonas and Stephane Lhonnay fighting against the local boys.  We are very glad to announce that one of these local boys, Mathias Viaene has found his way to our workshop, and we are proud he will drive a Colsoul Evo 10.