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It’s now a well-established ritual in the Principality’s schools and colleges. On Thursday mornings, just before the start of the Rallye Monte-Carlo on the Place du Casino, pupils from a number of Monegasque schools receive a visit from some very special “teachers”: drivers and co-drivers from the WRC and WRC2!
This morning, eight drivers visited Collège Charles III and Collège FANB, as well as École primaire de la Condamine and the International School of Monaco. Like several Formula E drivers last spring, the kings of rallying were able to talk freely and play the question-and-answer game, followed by a proper autograph session. And no written tests were scheduled by the delighted teachers!
All three top teams were represented, whether Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT (with Thierry Neuville and Adrien Fourmaux), Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT (Kalle Rovanperä and Takamoto Katsuta) or M-Sport Ford WRT, represented as last year by Luxembourg’s Grégoire Munster. There were also WRC2 drivers, brothers Yohan and Léo Rossel, and Sarah Rumeau, hours before starting her very first Rally Monte-Carlo.
At FANB College, new Hyundai driver Adrien Fourmaux and two-time Toyota world champion Kalle Rovanperä spent over an hour in the auditorium with 3rd and 5th graders. “It was really great, very interactive, we had lots of interesting questions,” Fourmaux summed up before leaving for the official start on Casino Square. “They’re all fluent in English, so it was really nice for Kalle. Kalle and I have different backgrounds, because his father was already a pilot. But it’s not essential, and we’re both here in Monte Carlo, having had different trajectories, so it was interesting for the kids.”
One thing’s for sure: all these Monegasque pupils, now very much in the know, will be following the 93rd Monte-Carlo Rally very closely, both on television and on the ACM’s social networks…
