Rallye de France - Tour de Corse, the 7th round of the FIA Junior Rally Championship, will be held from October 11th till 14th. P-G Andersson and Urmo Aava will attend this event with a SUZUKI Swift Super 1600 manufactured by Suzuki Sport Europe. Both Suzuki's two drivers are leading the championship after the Rally Catalunya, and this final round of 2007 JRC will just determine the champion. Thus hard and exciting battles between them are expected. Aigar Pars will also participate with a Swift Super 1600. Urmo Aava and P-G Andersson will meet such expectations with aggressive and calm driving for the top of the ranking.

The Rallye de France, which is commonly known as Tour de Corse, marks its 51st anniversary since its start as "Ten Thousand Turns Rally" in 1956. JRC is held here in Corsica for the last 2 years since 2005. In 2005, Urmo Aava, from Estonia, attended the event and won the 4th prize with Susuki Ignis Super1600. Urmo also won the 2nd prize in April of the following year with Suzuki Swift Super1600 as a privateer. There is nothing preventing us from anticipating his good result.

Corsica, the 4th largest island in the Mediterranean, where is well known as the birth place of Napoleon, is located about 150km towards south east from Nice and 250km towards west from Roma. Transverse range of mountains over 2500m high are in the center of the island. Actually, most part of Corsica is highland. Though the coastal line is blessed with the mild Mediterranean climate, people in the mountainous area have to stay with the cold and unstable weather all round the year.

Indented coastline and precipitous cliffs in the mountainous area are the characteristic terrain of the west side of the island. Tour de Corse has been staged on the roads thread through the mountains in the western part of Corsica.
Narrow roads with numerous tight hairpin curves covered with rough asphalt will mercilessly test the skills of crews and the ability of the cars.

The curtain-up time of the Rallye de France is 19:30 on 11th Thursday at Place Marechal Foch in Ajaccio, a port town on the western coast of Corsica where the Rally HQ is set.

Competitors will run 16SS covering 359.32km throughout 3days from 12th. Overall length of the rally total 1,117.20km. Rally will end on 14th at the same place as the ceremonial start.



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