Italian Rally News

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Umberto Scandola: no front bumper. We drilled, changed the tire but after it broke the front differential. 44.19.6

Giandomenico Basso: Try hard, I drove badly, I had no brakes, I had no side really hard, I'm glad it's over. I kept asking what was missing, because I was afraid for shots taken. I could not do traietorie 41.27.2

Paolo Andreucci: sideways into the gutter I took a stone cutting. After the governavo not more. It did not go over the engine after the ford. Temperature problems 44.27.2

Problem for Ucci was caused by the stone or something totally different(mechanical problem) :confused:

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Originally Posted by nafpaktos

Can somebody explain to me why scandola didn't have problem with dust.

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As the leader in the championship he had the privilege to start the first...

I was reading the interviews on the Italian forum after the finish of the longest stage Monte Lerno(and the only today's stage for CIR), almost a comedy.....all frontrunners had their moments; or flat tyres, engine problems, brake problems (Cempedelli even crashed due to this problem..). The luckiest was Basso and finally won. Andreucci just 2sec in front of Albertini....This rally clearly did not show who is the fastest (especially with yesterday fog experience) but who is the luckiest guy....Rally to forget...

Italian rally championship classification?i use this site for stage times,
http://rally.ficr.it but i cannot find the championship classification.

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Originally Posted by nafpaktos

Italian rally championship classification?i use this site for stage times,
http://rally.ficr.it but i cannot find the championship classification.

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The championship classification after Sardina looks like this:
- Scandola 47
- Basso 42
- Andreucci 35

Ucci will have his revenge in San Martino next month ;)

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Originally Posted by Tom206wrc

Ucci will have his revenge in San Martino next month ;)

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If there will be more space between crews, than we can expect revenge...otherwise if (again) driving in the clouds of dust behind Scandola and Basso, we can just wait for a possible retirement of those two drivers....I really can not understand organisators to make such stupid mistake and let crews to start in one minute intervals on the dusty, dry stages....also very dangerous.

What a mess on the first stage at Rally Prealpi Orobiche (I.R.C), during the stage heavy storm ''caught'' WRC drivers on slicks, but the stage was just 1,95 km long, so it needed to be calm and just survive...but the championship leader Corrado Fontana made a huge mistake, look on the video:
http://www.rallylink.it/diretteweb/i...category_id=60

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Originally Posted by Ucci

What a mess on the first stage at Rally Prealpi Orobiche (I.R.C), during the stage heavy storm ''caught'' WRC drivers on slicks, but the stage was just 1,95 km long, so it needed to be calm and just survive...but the championship leader Corrado Fontana made a huge mistake, look on the video:
http://www.rallylink.it/diretteweb/i...category_id=60

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Quite an impact. Lot of water on that spot if you see the cars later. Was it old, or the young Fontana that crashed?

For the rest: nice footage, nice cars and die-hard spectators! :-)