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Monegasque driver Jacques Pastor took his Kia EV6 to the top of the SR3 standings on Thursday morning, well-aided by his Italian co-driver Fulvio Gazzola, the mayor of Dolceacqua. The crew entered by Mairie de Monaco took just 70 penalty points over 13.1 km between the Valberg ski resort, Péone and Guillaumes, and thus did better than the VW ID7 Tourer station wagon of Belgians Bernard Heine and Valérie Piette.
The 3rd place in this RS3 was taken by Bulgaria’s Kalin Dedikov and Nikolay Kitanov, in another Kia EV6, ahead of the Tesla Model 3 of Piotr Moson and Etienne Sorlet, followed by another Kia EV6, the GT of Eneko Conde and Lukas Sergnese, winners of last year’s 7th edition. Their 5th place enabled the Spanish title-holders to regain control of the overall standings, taking advantage of the poor performance of Michel Decremer, leader on Thursday morning when he left the Parc Fermé in Monaco, but only 38th in this SR3, with a carload of penalty points.
The surprise of the day was the excellent performance of 19-year-old Ilona Laffite, the youngest member of the field, who has teamed up with Virginie Decorte in the Mini Countryman N.16 entered by Nice Matin and Radio Vinci Autoroutes: 7th in this RS3, a fine result for her very first E-Rallye. The next special stage, RS4, was to take the 62 crews (since the withdrawal of Tesla S number 52) to the summit of Col des Champs, at an altitude of over 2,000m. An unprecedented altitude for E-Rallye Monte-Carlo, before regrouping in Colmars les Alpes, a medieval town fortified by Vauban.
