Quote Originally Posted by Jarek Z View Post
Actually the Italian rally scene used to be much stronger a few years ago. Now it's just a shadow of its former self. Do you remember such names as Rossetti, Basso, Travaglia, Aghini, Dallavilla, Navarra, Cunico...
The same can be said about most rally scenes as of late. We used to have loads of young talents knocking on our doors in almost all traditionally strong national and international series. Now it looks like a slump in form below the WRC (but the WRC itself looks a lot stronger instead).

Still, this is an international field of drivers and the Italians are keeping up. Nobody would accuse Lukyanuk or Bouffier of being slow (and the Italians have worse conditions).