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2023 TER Final Standings
11.10.2023
Maiden titles and a reigning Champion keeping the crown in the 2023 TER Season
After an eight race journey across Europe, the 2023 TER – Tour European Rally season rewarded the Welsh Osian Pryce, who clinched the victory in JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion and Rally Terra Sarda to outscore by only one point his main rival Andrea Crugnola, who won in the season opener Rally Terra Valle del Tevere and in #RA Rally Regione Piemonte. Pryce’s consecutive victories have been obtained alongside the expert Belgian codriver Stéphane Prévot, who secured the TER Codriver Trophy.
The 2023 TER – Tour European Rally event winner list has proved to be a parade of champions: 9-time World Rally Champion Sèbastien Loeb, who won Azores Rally, multiple Spanish Champion Pepe Lopez, who took the honours in Rallye Sierra Morena, 4-time French Tarmac Champion Yoann Bonato, who mastered Rallye Antibes Cote d’Azur, and Jonathan Hirschi, who won on his home soil in Rallye du Chablais.
TER – TOUR EUROPEAN RALLY FULL STANDINGS
Across three continents, the maiden TER Series, the World Series of TER, provided great show and action: 2022 TER – Tour European Rally Champion and TER Ambassador Hayden Paddon clinched a record 10th win in Otago Rally and a maiden victory in SOL Rally Barbados to become the first TER Series Champion. Osian Pryce topped the standings in Rally Terra Sarda and settled for the silver, while Yoann Bonato finished in third position thanks to the success in Antibes.
French Pierre-Paul Baltolu’s stunning performances on home soil and in Sardegna made him grab the 2023 TER Junior Championship, in front of Roberto Daprà and Sergi Perez. In TER 2WD, Italian Fabio Farina secured the title with a win in the season opener and in Piedmont.
TER JUNIOR FULL STANDINGS | TER 2WD FULL STANDINGS
In TER Historic Pre81, 2020 and 2022 Champions Tim Metcalfe and John Connor aced the 2023 season to clinch a three-of-a-kind of TER titles. Italian affair in TER Historic J1/J2, where Gabriele Rossi and Fabrizio Handel took two wins and the title at the very end in front of “Lucky”- Pons, who topped the season opener and settled for second place in Switzerland.
