Italian Rally News

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Originally Posted by amaxopoulos

strange that at azzano rally is not partecipating andrea aghini leader of the trofeo rally terra....

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As I understood , problem with sponsors :(

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Originally Posted by Tom206wrc

Marcus "Bosse" Grönholm, Juha Kankkunen, Timo Salonen,... this week-end at Rally Legend !!!! :D
Rallylegend 2011 - Sito ufficiale

Pitty, no Delecour(winner of 2010 edition)and no Auriol(on podium last year) :mark:

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Sad we can't go as planned, maybe next year we try to plan it again to go there :) . I'm hope the rally may exist very long! Although I don't know how that ruling goes with those Gr B's rallying there..

My mistake though...Rally Legend is next week :s

Yesterday finished Azzano rally, a gravel event. Andreas Mikkelssen won six out of eight stages, he won with a huge advantage over Luca Rossetti. It is obviously that Grande Punto has no chance on the gravel against Skoda Fabia, it must be very frustrating for Rossetti to lost a fight on the home soil.
At the moment Rally degli Abeti (valid for I.R.C) is held, Manuel Sossella (last year's champion of this series) is in comfortable lead in front of D.Oldrati (both with C4 WRC), the third position has Eddie Sciessere with Clio S1600.

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Originally Posted by Ucci

Yesterday finished Azzano rally, a gravel event. Andreas Mikkelssen won six out of eight stages, he won with a huge advantage over Luca Rossetti. It is obviously that Grande Punto has no chance on the gravel against Skoda Fabia, it must be very frustrating for Rossetti to lost a fight on the home soil.
At the moment Rally degli Abeti (valid for I.R.C) is held, Manuel Sossella (last year's champion of this series) is in comfortable lead in front of D.Oldrati (both with C4 WRC), the third position has Eddie Sciessere with Clio S1600.

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Maybe Punto isn't the reason ? :) I think it way too optimistic to expect Rox to compete against Mikkelsen on gravel even in a Fabia so there's no reason to be frustrated . Just look how slow he was in Poland . The only Italian who can maybe do that is Ucci ;) Note a greta 3rd place for Andrea de Luna ;)

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Originally Posted by urabus-denoS2000

Maybe Punto isn't the reason ? :)

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So what is? With Pug 207 Rox was able to win gravel rallies, with Punto he isn't.

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Originally Posted by Jarek Z

So what is? With Pug 207 Rox was able to win gravel rallies, with Punto he isn't.

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Different times, different rivals, different luck...

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Originally Posted by PLuto

Different times, different rivals, different luck...

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In IRC Portugal and Turkey it was Loix, Vouilloz, Alén, Kopecký, Magalhaes, Travaglia, Hänninen (gr.N)... Don't think it was so weak opposition.

How do you explain his performance in Poland ? 4 and a half minutes behind the winner Kajetanowicz . I'm sure Mikkelsen would fight for the victory even on his first Rally Poland , at least he wouldn't get 4 and a half minutes . For me , it's much more realistic to see his perfomances a few weeks ago than a few years ago to see his form on gravel .

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Originally Posted by urabus-denoS2000

How do you explain his performance in Poland ? 4 and a half minutes behind the winner Kajetanowicz . I'm sure Mikkelsen would fight for the victory even on his first Rally Poland , at least he wouldn't get 4 and a half minutes . For me , it's much more realistic to see his perfomances a few weeks ago than a few years ago to see his form on gravel .

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I really don't believe that he forgot to drive. On the contrary show me any single driver competitive on 2011 gravel stages with Punto ;)