Rally driatic Tour: back on the first edition

Sunday, May 12, 2019, was held the day of scrutineerings for the first edition of the Rally Adriatic Tour, in Split, where the participants had opportunity to visit the historic center and its Diocletian Palace, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and dominated by the bare massifs of Kozjak.

It was under the rain that the first stage started on the coastal road and its succession of seaside resorts to compete in the first regularity event of the rally, on a soggy road before reaching the beach of Gradac and its many points of views on the islands of Brac and Hvar. The route then meandered between mountains and lakes under milder weather, where clearings marked border crossings between Croatia and Bosnia – Herzegovina before reaching Dubrovnik, the pearl of the Adriatic. The GARZON / GARZON crew (Porsche 911 Targa) took control of the event in the “Classic” category, while MAUNOIR / KOSCHULL (Ferrari 458 spider) took the lead in “Prestige” vehicles.


For the second stage, in a loop, it was under a big blue sky that the rally took a mountainous route to enter Bosnia-Herzegovina, which hosted the entire stage established in the Neretva Valley, then in the Hutovo Blato National Park, famous for its Roman ruins. In the afternoon, the participants had a rendezvous with a route surrounded by karstic landscapes testifying millenniums of natural erosion before finding again Dubrovnik, which was, during more than 400 years, an independent republic, against the large powers of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. The couple WOESTELANDT (Porsche 914/6) took the step in “Classic” and DAYNAC / LAIN (Porsche 993) won the stage in the classification “Prestige” led by CARUGATI / MERMOD (Ferrari 328 GTS)…