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Press Release no.18 - 15.05.2006

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A journey around world rallies
On Thursday May 18th the Service Park in Olbia will be open to spectators that will be able to get close, free of charge, to the WRC world

Finishing touches at the service Park of the Rally d’Italia Sardegna before the official opening this coming Thursday at 09.00 o’clock.
At that time the stronghold of the rally will start living opening the gates to the protagonists of the race, but above all to spectators that will be able see close to the best drivers of the World Rally Championship and will be able to visit the big commercial area. This area is located in the heart of the Service Park, next to the service areas of the official teams. Team Kronos Total Citroen, Focus of the BP-Ford World Rally Team, Subaru World Rally Team, Team Red Bull-Skoda and Omv Norway Peugeot World Rally Team. Visiting the stands of the Olbia Rally Village spectators will be able to admire the drivers and the mechanics at work on the world rally cars. Along the route inside the World Rally Circus spectators will be able to visit also the regrouping and the parc fermè areas, where the car will “rest” between one stage and the other. Along the regrouping area there is also the site with the big motor homes of the I.S.C. and the WRC, the companies owners of the audio visual rights of the championship and that produce and send all over the world the images of the WRC. Further on spectators can see the service area dedicated to the Junior World Rally Championship, of the Ford Fiesta Trophy, of the Subaru Cup and all the other crews of the race.

Service park
Total surface 122.000 mq
Service area 49.570 mq
Spectators area 4.967 mq
Commercial area 2.100 mq
ISC Area 2.181 mq
Technical Service Area 4.000 mq
Parking dedicated to people involved in the race 13.858 mq
Public Parking 45.324 mq
Distances:
Airport – Service park 6 km
Airport– Rally HQ 2 km
Rally HQ – Service Park 4 km
Harbour – Rally HQ 1 km

Records of visits on the web site www.rallyitaliasardegna.com

In the first half of this month 156.654 persons visited the web site. The Italian home page has been visited 12.897 times, the English one 6.023 times. The most downloaded files are: the entry list 22.617 times (also through the links from other web sites), the regulation 12.645 times and the itinerary 12.560 times. The 70% of the visits comes from Italy. The 30% from other countries, the major ones are: Czech Republic, France, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary and Belgium. So far ther web site has been visited by 1.308.299 all together.

INFO RALLY IN THE AIRPORT

The Rally d’Italia Sardegna welcomes its guests starting from their first steps in Sardinia. From Tuesday May 16th a hospitality desk will be available for rally guests at Olbia Airport where they can find all the information about the event. Part of the welcome desk will be reserved to persons directly involved in the race. Meanwhile two Subaru Impreza Sti, one belongs to Subaru Italia and the other one to the Italian Federation School (Scuola Federale ACI-CSAI), are already on show.

 

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