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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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