After a road excursion on the 26th rally of the Annonéen Basin at Vernosc-lès-Annonay, Nathanael Degrange and Benoît Surot, Savoyard driver and co-driver, perished this Saturday, April 23. Their car was discovered 40 meters beneath the road.
The pilot, Nathanael Degrange, and the co-pilot, Benoît Surot, both from Savoie, were killed in the accident. Their vehicle caught fire, according to Chérie FM Vallée du Rhône.
The victims’ ages have yet to be determined. More than 40 firemen and gendarmes from the Tournon-sur-Rhône company are working on the scene in the vicinity.
“Following the sudden withdrawal of competitor number 19 in the ES number 8, the race management pauses the 26th national rally of the Annonean Basin at 18:57,” the organizer of the 26th National Rally of the Annonéen Basin, the ASA Haut-Vivarais, stated in a statement.
Nathanael Degrange and Benoit Surot: Drivers Died In Rallye Annonay 2022 Accident
The automobile caught fire, according to Chérie FM Rhone Valley. Nathanael Degrange, the pilot, and Benoît Surot, the co-pilot, both from Savoie’s Le Dauphiné libéré, died.
Crew No. 19 made a road departure during the last stage of the National Rally of the Annonean Basin on Saturday. The driver and his co-driver were killed when the automobile caught fire.
Annonay is a commune in the Ardèche department in southern France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Despite being the most populous commune in the Ardèche, it is not the department’s capital, which is Privas.
The “Rallye d’Annonay” returned after a two-year hiatus owing to a health scare. For months, the staff at Nord Ardèche Sport Auto and ASA Haut-Vivarais have been hard at work to bring an edition that commemorates this long-awaited comeback.
Is Nathanael Degrange and Benoit Surot On Wikipedia?
Nathanael Degrange and Benoît Surot are not available on Wikipedia as of now. They were trending on social media after the incident that took their life on Rallye Annonay 2022.
Nathanael Degrange and Benoît Surot, both around forty years old and from the Bauges massif in Savoie, died in a sad accident on the 26th Annonéen basin rally, organized by the ASA Haut-Vivarais, at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 23.
According to witnesses on the scene, the two contestants missed a corner and ended up in the river Cance around forty meters below the road. The Renault Cliot 3 RS automobile caught fire.
Nathanael Degrange And Benoît Surot Tribute On Twitter
On Twitter, his friends and family posted many tributes for Nathanael Degrange and Benoît Surot. People were shocked to know about the tragic incident on the Rallye Annonay 2022 as no one was expecting it to happen.
“During an outing on SS8 of the Rallye du Bassin Annonéen 2022, Nathanael Degrange and Benoît Surot tragically perished. We extend our sympathies to their family and wish them peace.” said one of the users on Twitter.
They were very experienced drivers who had won different tournaments in their careers. They were also looking forward to winning this tournament, as their friends and family were expecting them to win.