Jos Verstappen and his navigator Renaud Jamoul have won the 42nd Hellendoorn Rally. After a strong start on Friday evening, where the duo led the standings, they managed to finish the job on Saturday in their Skoda Fabia RS Rally2 car. Despite losing time due to a flat tyre, Verstappen was the fastest in ten of the sixteen stages. Verstappen and Jamoul ended the rally, which lasted a total of 1 hours and 23 minutes, with a 5.5-second lead over Bernhard ten Brinke and co-driver Davy Thierie.

“Fantastic,” Jos said after his victory in the rally. “We had to stay concentrated during all ten stages today, and drive on the limit. We were a bit lucky as well, and the cooperation with Renaud was great. We have good fun and enjoy it. Bernhard ten Brinke has a lot of experience here, and he kept fighting us. It was exciting until the last stage, everything could happen. We had to keep pushing, but we made it.”

Renaud Jamoul adds: “It was a good rally. I’ve been working with Jos for two years know, so we know each other well. The conditions were tricky, with a finish in the dark, which was not supposed to happen, but we were late. It was tricky until the last meters, but we did it.”