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Rally d’Italia Sardegna: 25 countries at the start line

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Motorsports

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Rally d’Italia Sardegna: 25 countries at the start line
59 crews in the entry list of the World Rally Championship race

The crews in the entry list of the Rally d’Italia Sardegna are 59. This is the sixth race of the World Rally Championship 2008, scheduled from 15th to 18th May with the start and the finish in Porto Cervo and the headquarters in Olbia. The manufacturers present are 7 and the countries, which are the witnesses of the international level of the event, are 25(Italy, France, Spain, Finland, Norway, Great Britain, Australian, Belgian, Argentine, Sweden, Zimbabwe, Netherlands, Esthonia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Ireland, Serbia-Montenegro, Luxemburg, San Marino, Romania, Turkey, Slovenia and Japan).

In this entry list there are the 18 Wrc and all the 18 participants to the World Junior Championship, which will run the third leg of the series.
All the big of the World Rally Championship will be at the start line, beginning with the Team Citroen, which lines up the fourth times world champion Sebastien Loeb and the Spanish Daniel Sordo on the C4 Wrc. The Ford presents on the Focus Wrc the Finnish Mikko Hirvonen and Jani-Matti Latvala and Khalid Al Qassimi a driver from the Arab Emirates; the Subaru lines up two Impreza Wrc 2007 driven by the ex world champion Petter Solberg and the Australian Chris Atkinson and the Suzuki presents the Finnish Toni Gardemeister and the Swedish PG Andersson on the SX4 Wrc.
The only Italian driver at the wheel of a Wrc is Gigi Galli on a Team Stobart’s Ford Focus, together with his English teammate Matthew Wilson. The Munchi’s Team presents the Argentinian Federico Villagra and the Norwegian Henning Solberg on the Focus Wrc.
Others Wrc at the start line will be driven by the 18 years old Norwegian talent Mikkelsen, by the other Norwegian Ostberg (Subaru Impreza) and by the Dutch Van Meksteyn (Ford Focus).

The entry list includes all the 18 crews of the World Junior Championship, leaded by the drivers of the Citroen C2 Martin Prokop and Sebastien Ogier. The Renault lines up he Swedish Patrick Sandell and Alessandro Bettega, which is a promising boy of the Italian Rally.
The driver from San Marino Broccoli (Renault Clio R3) stands up together with the 18 Italian crews, where you have to point out the of Frisiero (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX), of Gamba (Renault Clio R3) and of six Sardinian crews.
The crews represented the Sardinian Island will be at the start line in the following way:
71 Dettori – Corda (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX)
79 marrone – Colla (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V)
80 Caragliu – Atzei (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI)
81 Serra – Serra (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI)
85 Pranzoni – Vaccai ( Renault Clio R3)
93 Donadio – Brontolo (Rover MG 105 ZR)

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