Orpi Maroc Rally
2 - 6 june 2004

 

Total : 1928 Km - Road Section: 434 Km - Stage : 1494 Km
 

 Five stages for Morocco rally :

Departure from Agadir

Arrival in Agadir

 

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[ 2 ]

[ 3 ]

[ 4 ]

[ 5 ]

 

Wednesday 2nd june 2004

Thursday 3rd june  2004

Friday 4th june 2004

Saturday 5th june  2004

Sunday 6th june 2004

Jean-Louis SCHLESSER -  François BORSOTTO

Schlesser-Ford Raid X 202-  N° 201

Josep Maria SERVIA-Arnaud DEBRON

Schlesser-Ford Raid X 433-  N° 206

 

Assistance :

Francis Delimbeuf et Jérôme Broeks Mercedes 6x6 K.437

Charles Lopez, Arnaud Mounier et Xavier Turlais Ford Ranger

 

Some pictures from the workshop before departure

 

 ( Christian Besson pictures)

Video Buggy's Testing 

Technical & administratives checks

Tuesday 1st june 2004

 AGADIR

THE CHAMPIONS LINE UP

More than 60 car and truck teams and over 50 bike entries worked their way through scrutineering this morning at the sports stadium in Agadir prior to the start of the 5th Rallye ORPI Maroc tomorrow. And never before has a race counting towards the FIA World Cup and the FIM World Championship managed to bring together so many works teams and world champions, with no less than eight Dakar winners on the start line, ready to head off on a brand new route that will take them into the Moroccan Sahara and then back along the Atlantic coast.

One by one the competitors of the 5th Rallye ORPI Maroc passed, with good humour, through scrutineering at the ‘Hall Omnisport’ in Agadir. Among the first to queue up were the works Mitsubishis, and with the Pajero Evos of Peterhansel and Carlos Sousa taking the first rounds of the World Cup in Tunisie and Portugal, they must be considered favourites here. After a busy ‘learning year’ their team mate Andrea Mayer will also get to play with the big boys toy’s aboard a MMSP prepared L200 Pickup L200. The Volkswagen Touareg protos were also on show this morning, for the first time since the Dakar. After a week’s testing here in Morocco, Jutta Kleinschmidt and Bruno Saby are looking forward to seeing what their cars are capable of with their new co-drivers, Bobby Willis and Michel Perin alongside them. Second on the Tunisie and Portugal, Khalifa Al Mutawei, the current leader of the World Cup, is no doubt also looking to put his impressive BMW X5 up amongst the leaders, as will be Kenjiro Shinozuka, whose Nissan Pickup won here last year in the hands of the South African Giniel de Villiers.

Right behind the top 4x4 protos came Jean Louis Schlesser and his famous Ford Buggy. Three times winner of the Rallye Orpi Maroc, the talented constructor / driver will also be in the hunt. Behind him is a veritable Armada of buggies – the VW Tarek TDIs of Henrard and Guinot, and the SMG buggies of Philippe Gache and Benoit Rosselot, with the French rallye champion replacing Yves Loubet victim after his bicycle accident last Friday. Finally Thierry Magnaldi will be once again in his Honda buggy, but this time without a co-driver! There are plenty of challengers in the T1 production category as well, with Isabelle Patissier and her Nissan Pathfinder looking to get the better of the Mercedes MLs of Debanne and Strugo and the Toyotas of Jean Jacques Ratet and the ex-F1 driver Ukyo Katayama.

Jean-Louis Schlesser (Fra/Buggy Ford): The rules are taking the right direction, and even if more work needs to be done to make them fairer, I am looking forward to giving the 4x4s a run for their money. We have made a number of improvements including the fitting of a sequential gearbox

 

Wednesday 2nd june 2004

Stage 1 :

Stage with Road Book and without GPS points

Agadir – Assa :370 Km

Road Section : 27 km 

Stage :248 Km     

Road Section :95 Km

Results :

1	202	PETERHANSEL COTTRET	FRA	MITSUBISHI	2/1 1.1/1	03h24'28 00h00'00
2	208	SHINOZUKA LURQUIN	JAP	NISSAN	2/2 1.1/2	03h32'42 00h08'14
3	206	SERVIA DEBRON	ESP	SCHLES-FORD	2/3 2.1/1	03h33'40 00h09'12
4	200	SOUSA MAGNE	POR	MITSUBISHI	2/4 1.1/3	03h34'09 00h09'41
5	201	SCHLESSER BORSOTTO	FRA	SCHLES-FORD	2/5 2.1/2	03h37'53 00h13'25
6	207	GACHE GARCIN	FRA	SMG	2/6 2.1/3	03h39'04 00h14'36
7	211	HENRARD LOW	BEL	VOLKSWAGEN	2/7 2.2/1	03h41'31 00h17'03
8	222	HOUSIEAUX FAGOT	FRA	MITSUBISHI	2/8 1.1/4	03h42'37 00h18'09
9	221	MAGNALDI	FRA	HONDA	2/9 2.1/4	03h47'03 00h22'35
10	215	SHMAKOV MISHIN	RUS	HONDA	2/10 2.1/5	03h51'43 00h27'15

General Classification for the Team :
-  Jean-louis Schlesser /François Borsotto  N°  : 5

-  Josep Maria Servia/Arnaud Debron  N°  : 3

 

Thursday 3rd june 2004

Stage 2 :

Stage with Road Book and without GPS points

Assa – Smara : 453 Km

Results :

Stage 2

1	201	SCHLESSER BORSOTTO	FRA	SCHLES-FORD	2/1 2.1/1	04h07'10 00h00'00
2	208	SHINOZUKA LURQUIN	JAP	NISSAN	2/2 1.1/1	04h12'39 00h05'29
3	202	PETERHANSEL COTTRET	FRA	MITSUBISHI	2/3 1.1/2	04h14'50 00h07'40
4	209	KLEINSCHMIDT WILLIS	ALL	VOLKSWAGEN	2/4 1.2/1	04h16'32 00h09'22
5	206	SERVIA DEBRON	ESP	SCHLES-FORD	2/5 2.1/2	04h18'55 00h11'45

 

Friday 4th june 2004

Stage 3 :

Stage with Road Book and without GPS points

2nd Stage :100 Km
Road Section :22 Km
Stage with Road Book and GPS points

Results :

 

SS N° 1

1	202	PETERHANSEL COTTRET	FRA	MITSUBISHI	2/1 1.1/1	01h47'46 00h00'00
2	210	SABY PERIN	FRA	VOLKSWAGEN	2/2 1.2/1	01h47'53 00h00'07
3	209	KLEINSCHMIDT WILLIS	ALL	VOLKSWAGEN	2/3 1.2/2	01h48'29 00h00'43
4	200	SOUSA MAGNE	POR	MITSUBISHI	2/4 1.1/2	01h48'47 00h01'01
5	203	MAYER SCHULZ	ALL	MITSUBISHI	2/5 1.1/3	01h50'40 00h02'54
6	201	SCHLESSER BORSOTTO	FRA	SCHLES-FORD	2/6 2.1/1	01h52'33 00h04'47

 

SS N° 2

 

1	207	GACHE GARCIN	FRA	SMG	2/1 2.1/1	01h04'16 00h00'00
2	202	PETERHANSEL COTTRET	FRA	MITSUBISHI	2/2 1.1/1	01h09'22 00h05'06
3	200	SOUSA MAGNE	POR	MITSUBISHI	2/3 1.1/2	01h11'51 00h07'35
4	222	HOUSIEAUX FAGOT	FRA	MITSUBISHI	2/4 1.1/3	01h11'54 00h07'38
5	201	SCHLESSER BORSOTTO	FRA	SCHLES-FORD	2/5 2.1/2	01h12'45 00h08'29

 

General Classification

 

1	202	PETERHANSEL COTTRET	FRA	MITSUBISHI	2/1 1.1/1	10h36'26 00h00'00
2	201	SCHLESSER BORSOTTO	FRA	SCHLES-FORD	2/2 2.1/1	10h50'21 00h13'55
3	200	SOUSA MAGNE	POR	MITSUBISHI	2/3 1.1/2	11h10'44 00h34'18
4	209	KLEINSCHMIDT WILLIS	ALL	VOLKSWAGEN	2/4 1.2/1	11h27'48 00h51'22
5	222	HOUSIEAUX FAGOT	FRA	MITSUBISHI	2/5 1.1/3	11h53'27 01h17'01

 

 

 

 

Saturday 5th june 2004

Stage 4:

Stage with Road Book and  GPS points

Stage 5:

Stage with Road Book and without GPS points

Oued Chebika – Agadir :408 Km

Results :