The experienced Belgian rally driver Bruno Blaise, 56-year-old, lost his life in an accident which happened on Sunday, 20 November 2022, during the Rallye des Crêtes, held near the town of Malmédy, province of Liège, Belgium.<br /><br />Bruno Blaise lost control of his Opel Corsa A GSi, bearing the race number #54, on the approach to a bend in the village of Bellevaux, Malmédy, during the third and final special stage "Brasserie 1" of the rally. The car crashed violently into the wall of a house. The emergency crews arrived to the scene very quickly, but they could do nothing to save Bruno Blaise's life. He was pronounced dead on the spot.<br /><br />His co-driver Géoffrey Razzi was taken by helicopter to a local hospital, with non life-threatening injuries as a result of the accident. After the tragedy, the special stage was stopped and the 27th Rallye des Crêtes, which was a round of the ASAF Rally Championship, was abandoned.<br /><br />Considered as one of the best rallymen of the province of Liège, Bruno Blaise ran a coachbuilding business in the borough of Ligneuville, south of Malmédy. An active rally driver and co-driver, since the mid-1980s, during his career he took numerous class and outright victories, winning the Rallye des Crêtes three times, the last in 2012.<br /><br />Bruno Blaise's fatal crash took place a mere two weeks after a double fatality which happened in another rally in eastern Belgium, the Rallye du Condroz-Huy, on Sunday, 06 November 2022, claiming the lives of two spectators, Margaux Remacle and Romain Landeloos.<br /><br />The Rallye de Spa, final round of the 2022 Belgian Rally Championship, scheduled to be contested one week after his death, was titled as "Challenge Bruno Blaise" in his memory.<br /><br />R.I.P
