Upcoming Events
Menu
AVIS, the renowned vehicle rental company, was once again involved in the E-Rallye Monte-Carlo in two capacities. As a major partner of the event created in 1995 by the Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM); and as a competing team, with two 100% female crews: Marianne Alais, journalist and content creator, and Sorhor Fèvre, her seasoned co-driver, in a Renault Mégane E-Tech bearing race number 25; Elodie Chapuy and Emilie Dubourg, in a Volvo EX30 also bearing, in addition to number 48, a red AVIS banner.
The Alais-Fèvre crew took 39th place in this weather-shortened 8th edition. And 4th place in the Ladies Cup, contested this year by almost a dozen women drivers, including winning French driver Karel Colibert who finished 18th overall in a Volkswagen ID5, Dutchwoman Beitske Visser, runner-up of the Ladies Cup and who finished 21st overall in a Polestar, and Corsican Doris Mattei, 3rd place and 23rd overall in a Hyundai Kona.
Marianne Alais posted a video each day about her 5th participation in the event. “It’s like a little Pékin Express, a breath of oxygen, but it’s also very tiring,” she said on Wednesday just before setting off from the Place du Casino. “The days are long and intense, and you have to stay very focused. But there’s an advantage now, and that’s that we don’t have to look for recharging points anymore!” she added, very enthusiastically.
The Monegasque event is perfectly in line with the vision of AVIS, which aims to promote a new way of driving that is more ecological, more economical, calmer, more technological – in a word, more responsible. And AVIS is putting its money where its mouth is, with 20 different electric models available in the French rental fleet.
The event should have ended on Saturday with an AVIS e-Power Stage on Col de Turini, with a separate trophy, as they do in the World Rally Championship (WRC). But the weather decided otherwise. So it’ll have to be next year!
