In the history of motorsport, Alain Oreille remains the only competitor to have won a World Championship rally with a Group N. This happened in 1989, in Côte d'Ivoire, on the tracks of the Bandama.Alain Oreille had won there at the wheel of the R5 GT Turbo. A year 89 rich in performances for the official driver of the Régie who had pinned the Gr N on the Tour de Corse, the Monte-Carlo and the San Remo. As a result, this return to the stages of the mythical Tour de Corse is very emotional according to Alain Oreille: "It’s something anyway. We’re redoing the previous stages and then it reminds us of a time when the rally was on a human scale". For this 20th TDCH Alain Oreille, aged 67, will drive a Porsche, the same car as a certain François Delecour: « "We’ve never been face-to-face in modern rallies before, but this is a direct confrontation. It will be warm especially when we look at the quality of the tray present in VHC and J2". That’s what plants, already, the decor...
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