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It’s already the fourth stage win for a Porsche in the 27th Monte-Carlo Historic Rally, in seven stages contested in the Classification Stage since Saturday morning, but the first one for a 924 model that negotiated perfectly RS7 between Saint-Bonnet-le-Froid and Vanosc (28.8 km). The start of this stage was broadcast live on the YouTube channel of Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM), the event’s organisers, in the Haute-Loire village where hundreds of fans had come to spend their Sunday afternoon!
Germany’s Jörg Pohlemann and Marc Stoll, in their number 924 produced in 1976, outclassed another old-timer, the Alfa Romeo GTV (from 1971) of young Jules Picoreau and Camille Béal, two childhood friends from Valence, the rally’s HQ, who made up the youngest crew in this 2025 edition (see specific article this Sunday on the official acm.mc website). It was on a dry road but in a totally wintery setting, just like in the heyday of the Monte-Carlo in Haute-Loire, but in WRC version.
Women, children, teenagers and grandparents all turned out at Saint-Bonnet, and in the meadows all around, to see Jules and Camille finish joint 2nd with five other crews: the Porsche 911 turbo of Spaniards Alvaro Ochagavias Temino and Manuel Macho Gomez, the Peugeot 104 ZS of Jean-Pierre Verneuil and Philippe Mareschal, the Opel Kadett GTE of Raymond Durand and Patrick Monassier, the Renault 5 Alpine of Patrice and Benjamin Lamotte, and the Autobianchi A112 Abarth of Carlo and Enrico Merenda. It really was a family Sunday in the Haute-Loire, on the road and all around.
Once again, the Belgian tandem of Michel Decremer-Jennifer Hugo (Alfa Romeo Giulia TI) managed the situation perfectly, taking 8th place in this RS7 and consolidating their position as overall leader. An increasingly pertinent leader, ahead of the Spaniards in a BMW, the Lithuanians in a Jaguar, the Greeks in a Fiat 128 Rally and the Italians in an Austin Mini Cooper S. But there was still one last special stage, RS8, to be contested before returning to Valence to round off this spectacular Classification Leg.
