Three-time French rally champion Yoann Bonato announced in late March he would plant a tree for every time he sets the best lap time in a race, joining a growing environmental trend in the world of sport. EURACTIV France reports.
As Bonato and teammate Benjamin Boulloud, who are committing to the “1 win for 1 tree” challenge, plan to take part in nine events in the French championship and eight rounds of the European Rally Championship (ERC) this year, “an entire forest” could be “at stake”, according to a document EURACTIV had access to.
To put things into context, when the duo won the French championship for the second time in 2018, Bonato set the fastest lap time in no less than 50 so-called specials, a portion of the race that racers attempt to complete within the shortest time as the winner of the race is the one with the lowest overall time for all specials of the race combined.
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