WRC - France 2011 -- Motorsport Events -- Red Bull

WRC - France 2011

Location: Alsace, France (Map this address )
Start: 1/10/2011 at 12:00 AM
End: 2/10/2011 at 11:59 PM
About: Last year marked a big change for the French round of the World Rally Championship, with a move from its long-term home on the island of Corsica to a new base in the Alsace region, near the German border. The Tourde Corse has been part of the World Rally Championship since the inaugural 1973 season. It quickly gained a fearsome reputation for its mountainous route, while its sinuous asphalt stages earned it the nickname 'the rally of 10,000 corners.' The rally was absent from the series in 2009, as part of the FIA's event rotation system, but in October that year France's governing body of motorsport, the FFSA, took the decision to move the event from Corsica altogether, to a new location near Strasbourg. France’s new WRC round will be Rallye Alsace -Vosges - formerly a French Championship round which last ran in May 2009. Apart from the name, everything about this rally was new for 2010. An amazing round last year, with 12 months experience 2011 promises to be even better.

Rallye de France is one of only two events to be eligible for all three WRC support championships: the J-WRC, P-WRC and S-WRC . And in addition, being the third from last round on the calendar, coupled with the new scoring system brought in last year, we could see either the driver or manufacturer championships being decided.