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Speaking for last ten years-all non Italian top drivers, with no expirience on italian tarmac fighting against top Italian drivers were eaisily beaten by Italians. Yust one exception last year-Hanninen's victory on Sardegna, but later on San Remo Andreucci showed him, who the Nb.1 is...Italian drivers are used to their home stages, very clean surface (less cut-cornering), very abrasive tarmac...If you turn round the situation-Italian drivers abroad it is the same story as with other drivers...normaly you can not compare to top drivers, who knows every corner of the stages....it very simple.

Italians are hardly beatable on their home soil but there were more exceptions than You say. Kopecky won Rally del Salento (I think) in straight fight, was second in Costa Smeralda and Como and third in Sardegna. Mikklesen was dominating in Sardegna this year before he retired. The Sanremo last year was won by Andreucci by 4 seconds which can hardly be considered as dominating victory over a Finn on Italian asphalt ;)

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Italians are hardly beatable on their home soil but there were more exceptions than You say. Kopecky won Rally del Salento (I think) in straight fight, was second in Costa Smeralda and Como and third in Sardegna. Mikklesen was dominating in Sardegna this year before he retired. The Sanremo last year was won by Andreucci by 4 seconds which can hardly be considered as dominating victory over a Finn on Italian asphalt ;)

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And with Neuville's performance in Corsica he'll be an outsider or maybe a nice favorite for San Remo! I think he'll maybe be faster then even Loix who got third there last year.

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Italians are hardly beatable on their home soil but there were more exceptions than You say. Kopecky won Rally del Salento (I think) in straight fight, was second in Costa Smeralda and Como and third in Sardegna. Mikklesen was dominating in Sardegna this year before he retired. The Sanremo last year was won by Andreucci by 4 seconds which can hardly be considered as dominating victory over a Finn on Italian asphalt ;)

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Salento was for the first time in CIR I believe ( it was TRA before ) so it was new for everyone . You see that , in those conditions , Kopecky can win ;)

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Mikklesen was dominating in Sardegna this year before he retired.

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0,7s advantage is domination? :) And the rally was Costa Smeralda not Sardegna.

Few years back Italian drivers were fastest almost everywhere in Europe (Travaglia, Basso, Rossetti), but currently it is different. Thanks to IRC mainly.

Sorry, I forgot Scandola ;)

Next week-end is Rally della Lanterna - TRA :cool:

Luca Rossetti on his FB told something probably about the thing of CiR and stuff. Need an Italian to help to clarify it.

Per favore almeno nel mio profilo evitiamo polemiche inutili. @Enrico CIR ed ERC non sono paragonabili perchè sono troppo diversi strutturalmente. La difficoltà dell'ERC è nella lunghezza/durezza e nella diversità delle gare, nell'affrontare a volte percorsi sconosciuti. Sul livello non me la sento di esprimere un giudizio e cmq non mi sembra che due attori protagonisti del CIR degli ultimi anni (Longhi in Croazia e Travaglia in Turchia) abbiano avuto vita facile. @Tiziano in Italia il divario si è creato per delle falle regolamentari: chi ha la possibilità di fare il triplo del lavoro degli altri fa bene a farlo, è chi dovrebbe promuovere e "tutelare" il CIR che dovrebbe pensare a come fare a rendere il Campionato più interessante. Detto ciò, io ho espresso un pensiero/sentimento ma le decisioni spettano ad Abarth.

It's great that such a pilot expresses his feelings a bit to the fans. When I asked him if Ypres is a possibility, he said maybe and with that I still hoped on it although some said there's no chance he'll start. But U see he got the budget and will normally start! I was already a fan of him but being so friendly and social makes me even more a bigger fan! Hoping that Travaglia now start would be a nice battle, Fiesta or Fabia is better than Punto but Rossetti loves Ypres and is very fast there!

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Originally Posted by Tom206wrc

Next week-end is Rally della Lanterna - TRA :cool:

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Entry list has been published-IMHO something average:

http://www.lanternarally.com/Lantern...20Iscritti.pdf

Interesting , how many DS3R's are already in Italy, it will be an interesting fight between Gasperetti, Vescovi, Bruschetta, maybe Cortinovis will join them.....Anyway, good luck to Felice&Mara !!

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Originally Posted by Ucci

Entry list has been published-IMHO something average:

http://www.lanternarally.com/Lantern...20Iscritti.pdf

Interesting , how many DS3R's are already in Italy, it will be an interesting fight between Gasperetti, Vescovi, Bruschetta, maybe Cortinovis will join them.....Anyway, good luck to Felice&Mara !!

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I think is the first round of the DS3 Trophy ???? Am i right ????