RALLYE HISTORIC ROUTES DE VOSGES
Date:	October, 25 - 26th 1997
Place:	Plombières-les-Bains (France)
Partcipants:	72 of six European countries
Competition:	Regularity stages in three different categories (tourists, standard, experts)
Alpine participants:	1600 SC, 1600 S wide body, 1600 S (all from France), 1300 S (Germany)
Weather:	dry, sunny and warm, but very cold in the early morning.
Roads:	often very small roads, sometimes with wholes which require careful driving.
Report:	A full report was published in Alpine Post 3/1998. Here follows a summary: After arrival on Friday in the afternoon we passed the technical check and made ourselves comfortable in the Grand Hotel which has an impressing front and a wonderful thermal bath. But the interior of the room is relatively poor. The early Saturday morning was very cold and we had to release our Berlinette of the icy windows and drive sometime to get warm for start at 7 o'clock. But the rest of the weekend no clouds could be seen and the sun made us feel very comfortable. The first misunderstanding was not to read the road book from the top but from the bottom, thus we stopped as other competitors after some miles to start again from the beginning. The landscape was beautiful and the roads chosen by the organization were very nice. Since no electronical time measurements were allowed we spent a lot of time in calculating the right regularity times. But the time schedule was very tough and one Mini Cooper team had a severe accident crashing into a little river near the track because of too much cornering speed. Highlights are a special stage were to find an own way through a forest without using indicated roads and a special night stage for experts. The Rallye ended on Sunday with an event in the historical town. French Alpine-Team Fluck/Fluck finished second after thousand Rallye-kilometers. 58 out of 72 teams reached the finish line.
Contact:	Les Vieux Compteurs Routes des Vosges 10, Rue des Minimes F-88000 Epinal