C.I.R. 2018 is over. The champion again Paolo Andreucci. Deep respect for this achivement!
This year Paolo was lucky, after the first half of the season it looked that the crown is going to be ''a piece of cake'', but than came accidents & retairements and Scandola was leading. In addition it must be said, that Simone Cempedelli is faster than Paolo, althoug a lot of ''strange'' technical troubles prevented Simone to fight for the championship.
About competitiveness of P208R5 compare to Fabia and now even i20 is not worth to discuss (almost like a chariot to a car). So, a very tactical approach in the last race made the 11th crown possible.
So, Andreucci's aaccomplishments will remain forever in the history of Italian racing, no doubt about that.
IMO-I hope Paolo will stop with rallying, at his age (53) he has nothing to prove anymore; if he say ''goodbye'' at the peak of his success, it would be best decision.