Italian Rally News

**dimviii** · 5th July 2014, 14:54

wow Campedelli!!!

**dimviii** · 5th July 2014, 16:14

now Ucci 1,7 sec from leader Scandola.Campedelli still faster at stages.

**Mirek** · 5th July 2014, 17:15

Fantastic battle for the victory!

**tommeke_B** · 5th July 2014, 17:48

http://www.rally.it/san-marino-scand...cisportitalia/

WTF? Anyone who can explain this properly?

**Mirek** · 5th July 2014, 17:51

To me it looks like Racing Lions made an appeal against Škoda because Scandola used completely worn tyres for the asphalt stages. The stewards decided to exclude Scandola for not having min. 1,6 mm thread on tyres.

In my opinion this is completely idiotic decision. Half of the crews in WRC events would be disqualified because of that...

**dimviii** · 5th July 2014, 18:43

Ucci 1,3 as leader now,and 1 stage remaining.

**focus206** · 5th July 2014, 18:43

Originally Posted by Mirek

To me it looks like Racing Lions made an appeal against Škoda because Scandola used completely worn tyres for the asphalt stages. The stewards decided to exclude Scandola for not having min. 1,6 mm thread on tyres.

In my opinion this is completely idiotic decision. Half of the crews in WRC events would be disqualified because of that...

yes, it is correct. Skoda Italy/Scandola appealed to the decision and everything will be solved in court after the event...

**dimviii** · 5th July 2014, 19:23

Ucci won.

**Ucci** · 6th July 2014, 00:22

Originally Posted by Mirek

To me it looks like Racing Lions made an appeal against Škoda because Scandola used completely worn tyres for the asphalt stages. The stewards decided to exclude Scandola for not having min. 1,6 mm thread on tyres.

In my opinion this is completely idiotic decision. Half of the crews in WRC events would be disqualified because of that...

The rules are the same for everyone.
This is no WRC event, so no excuse that the tyres were worn due to ''monster'' stage lenght 40,50 km..
We are speaking over Škoda Italy, professional team, not some privat driver.
If Scandola had advantage with this on tarmac, the decision is more than fair.
But, if they have made an appeal, they are not gulity until the ACI will make a decission. We will wait.

**Mirek** · 6th July 2014, 00:33

Originally Posted by Ucci

The rules are the same for everyone.
This is no WRC event, so no excuse that the tyres were worn due to ''monster'' stage lenght 40,50 km..
We are speaking over Škoda Italy, professional team, not some privat driver.
If Scandola had advantage with this on tarmac, the decision is more than fair.
But, if they have made an appeal, they are not gulity until the ACI will make a decission. We will wait.

Actually You are wrong. The rules in this case are not same for everybody. Theoretically they are but practically they are not. The problem is that this sentence is in the rulebooks only because of legality on road sections. There is no other reason for that. I don't recall a single case this rule would be applied before although it has been definitely breached by thousands of drivers and I'm pretty sure that Ucci or Racing Lions were many times among them in the past as well. Do You remember Rally Cyprus 2008 when the very same stuff was glorified as a brilliant tactics used by Loeb?

I don't call it idiotic because my bias towards Škoda. I don't care which team it was. I just don't like when a team picks some rule which is well known to be ignored and forgotten to remove their opposition. But OK, technically they are right. However I'm sure this story will only bring a bad blood for the future because this rule can be applied to remove anyone from the results, hell sometimes even half of the competitive field.