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14th RUNNING 2017 FIA WRC: ROUND 7

Rally Italia Sardegna

55 entries

1495,36km including 312,66km

divided into 19 stages

THURSDAY, JUNE 8

8:00am Shakedown 3,39km

6:00pm SS1 Ittiri 2,00km

FRIDAY, JUNE 9

6:30am Tyre change, Olbia 10min

7:18am SS2 Terranova 14,54km

7:41am SS3 Monte Olia 19,05km

9:12am SS4 Tula 15,00km

10:17am SS5 Tergu-Osilo 14,14km

11:56am Service/Tyre change Alghero 30min

3:25pm SS6 Terranova 14,54km

3:48pm SS7 Monte Olia 19,05km

5:25pm SS8 Tula 15,00km

6:30pm SS9 Tergu-Osilo 14,14km

8:00pm Service, Alghero 45min

SATURDAY, JUNE 10

5:00am Service/Tyre change, Alghero 15min

7:45am SS10 Coiluna-Loelle 14,95km

8:41am SS11 Monti di Ala 28,52km

9:20am SS12 Monte Lerno 28,11km

12:11pm Service/Tyre change, Alghero 30min

3:08pm SS13 Coiluna-Loelle 14,95km

4:04pm SS14 Monti di Ala 28,52km

4:43pm SS15 Monte Lerno 28,11km

7:14pm Service, Alghero 45min

SUNDAY, JUNE 11

7:30am Service/Tyre change, Alghero 15min

8:33am SS16 Cala Flumini 14,06km

9:08am SS17 Sassari-Argentiera 6,96km

10:54am SS18 Cala Flumini 14,06km

12:18pm SS19 Sassari-Argentiera 6,96km

1:15pm Service, Alghero 10min

1:45pm Podium, Alghero

Michelin has won Rally Italia Sardegna

seven times as a WRC qualifying round

In 2012, Sébastien Ogier posted a fastest stage time

in a Skoda Fabia S2000/Michelin

Jacques Morelli, Manager of Michelin Motorsport’s WRC

programme

“Rally Italia Sardegna is one of the toughest rounds of the

season. Running order can be very important and Sébastien

Ogier faced a big handicap being first on the road in 2016.

Tyre choice, and choosing how many spares to carry, can be

decisive but it’s a highly complex process given the expected

heat and the abrasiveness of certain stages. Although it is

only short (14.14km), Tergu-Osilo could be the hardest-

wearing stage of the entire championship!”

Rally Italia

SardegnaRallye Italia Sardegna succeeded from the Sanremo as Italy’s WRC qualifier in 2004

The former Costa Smeralda, the forerunner of today’s Rally Italia Sardegna,

was a classic European Championship round in the 1980s and 1990s

Loeb is the most successful driver in Sardinia (four wins), followed by Ogier (three)

In 2012, Ott Tanak scored his first WRC podium in a Ford Fiesta RS WRC/Michelin

It was in Sardinia in 2011 that Mini made its WRC debut

Juho Hanninen (Skoda/Michelin) won the 2010 event which counted towards the former IRC

Dani Sordo and Kris Meeke were Junior podium finishers in 2005 (Citroën C2/Michelin)

MISCELLANEOUS

Cycling’s Giro d’Italia visited Alghero, Sassari and Olbia in Sardinia in 2017

TEAMS / DRIVERS

Andreas Mikkelsen is standing in for Stéphane Lefebvre in the N°9 Citroën C3 WRC/Michelin

FORMATBased in Alghero since 2014

The rally revisits Olbia for first time since 2013 for an overnight halt

and a Tyre Fitting Zone

Mickey Jump on Monte-Lerno stage is a classic WRC spot

Terranova (SS2/6, 14.54km) and Monte Olia (SS3/7, 19.05km)

are back on the menu

96.34 competitive kilometres are new

Chief characteristics

The selective, narrow and twisty stages and hot weather make big demands on tyres.

The hard-packed, stony ground is covered with a top-coating of fine sand which the first cars

on the road sweep clear. Stones eventually become exposed and some stages can get badly

cut up and hard-wearing for tyres. Since the loss of Greece’s Acropolis Rally,

Rally Italia Sardegna has emerged as the WRC calendar’s roughest fixture.

MICHELIN AND RALLY ITALIA SARDEGNA

MICHELIN TYRES FOR 2017 RALLY ITALIA SARDEGNA

wrc : MICHELIN LTX Force

3 WRC quota: 28 tyres from a total allocation of 28 hards and 16 softs

H4 (HARD)

first choice

S5 (soft)

"joker" tyre

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# 1 OGIER Sébastien / INGRASSIA Julien FRA / FRA FORD FIESTA WRC

M-SPORT WORLD RALLY TEAM WRC

# 2 TANAK Ott / JARVEOJA Martin EST / EST FORD FIESTA WRC

M-SPORT WORLD RALLY TEAM WRC

# 3 EVANS Elfyn / BARRITT Daniel GBR / GBRFORD FIESTA WRC

HYUNDAI MOTORSPORT WRC

# 4 PADDON Hayden / MARSHALL Seb NZL / GBR HYUNDAI i20 COUPE WRC

HYUNDAI MOTORSPORT WRC

# 5 NEUVILLE Thierry / GILSOUL Nicolas BEL / BEL HYUNDAI i20 COUPE WRC

HYUNDAI MOTORSPORT WRC

# 6 SORDO Dani / MARTI Marc ESP / ESP HYUNDAI i20 COUPE WRC

CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT WRC

# 7 MEEKE Kris / NAGLE Paul GBR / IRL CITROEN C3 WRC

CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT WRC

# 8 BREEN Craig / MARTIN Scott IRL / GBR CITROEN C3 WRC

CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT WRC

# 9 MIKKELSEN Andreas / JAEGER Anders NOR / NOR CITROEN C3 WRC

TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRC WRC

# 10 LATVALA Jari-Matti / ANTTILA Miikka FIN / FIN TOYOTA YARIS WRC

TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRC WRC

# 11 HANNINEN Juho / LINDSTROM Kaj FIN / FIN TOYOTA YARIS WRC

TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRC WRC

# 12 LAPPI Esapekka / FERM Janne FIN / FIN TOYOTA YARIS WRC

M-SPORT WORLD RALLY TEAM WRC

# 14 OSTBERG Mads / FLOENE Ola NOR / NOR FORD FIESTA WRC

CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT WRC

# 15 AL QASSIMI Sheik Khalid / PATTERSON Chris ARE / GBR CITROEN C3 WRC

ONEBET JIPOCAR WORLD RALLY TEAM# 21 PROKOP Martin / TOMÁNEK Jan CZE / CZE

FORD FIESTA RS WRC

EUROLAMP WORLD RALLY TEAM WRC

# 22 GORBAN Valeriy / LARENS Sergei UKR / EST BMW-Mini JCW

JEAN-MICHEL RAOUX WRC

# 23 RAOUX Jean-Michel / ESCARTEFIGUE Thomas FRA / FRA CITROEN C3 WRC

THE FULL ENTRY LIST HERE

FLASHBACK TO 2016 WINNERS: Thierry Neuville/Nicolas Gilsoul (Hyundai NG i20 WRC/Michelin)

STAGE WINNERS: Neuville 9 – Ogier & Latvala 3 – Abbring, Tanak, Ostberg, Camilli 1

LEADERS: ES1 Ogier – ES2 Latvala – ES3 Ogier – ES4 Latvala – ES5 Neuville – ES6 Latvala – ES7 à 19 Neuville

3 Maiden WRC stage wins for Abbring and Camilli

Rally Monte-Carlo

19/01 > 22/01

Sweden

9/02 > 12/02

Mexico

9/03 > 12/03

France

6/04 > 9/04

Argentina

27/04 > 30/04

Portugal

18/05 > 21/05

Italia

8/06 > 11/06

Poland

29/06 > 2/07Finland

27/07 > 30/07Germany

17/08 > 20/08

Spain

5/10 > 8/10Great Britain 26/10 > 29/10

Australia

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Drivers STANDINGS

Manufacturers

WRC2 drivers

Sébastien Ogier 25 (1)

15+4 (3)

18+4 (2)

18+4 (2)

12+2 (4)

25+1 (1) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 128

Thierry Neuville 18 (2)

25+5 (1)

8+2 (6)

12+5 (4)

10+1 (5)

18+4 (2) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 106

Jari-Matti Latvala 5

(15)3

(13)15+5 (3)

25+1 (1)

25+5 (1)

2 (9) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 88

Ott Tänak 15 (3)

18 (2)

12+3 (4)

0 (11)

15+3 (3)

12+5 (4) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 83

Dani Sordo 12+1 (4)

12 (4)

4+1 (8)

15+2 (3)

4 (8)

15 (3) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 66

Elfyn Evans 8+2 (6)

8 (6)

2 (9)

0 (21)

18+4 (2)

8+3 (6) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 53

Craig Breen 10 (5)

10 (5) (-) 10+3

(5) (R) 10 (5) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 43

Hayden Paddon (R) 6+1 (7)

10 (5)

8 (6)

8 (6) (R) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 33

Kris MEEKE (R) 2 (12)

25 (1) (R) (R) (18) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 27

Juho HANNINEN 3

(16) (-) 6 (7) (R) 6

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(7) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 21

Andreas MIKKELSEN 6

(7) (-) (-) 6 (7) (-) (R) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 12

Stéphane LEFEBVRE 2+4 (9)

4 (8)

0 (15)

0 (50) (-) 0

(13) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 10

1. M-Sport World Rally Team 199 pts

2. Hyundai Motorsport 173 pts

3. Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT 113 pts

4. Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT 85 pts

1. Pontus TIDEMAND 100 pts

2. Teemu SUNINEN 54 pts

3. Eric CAMILLI 52 pts

4. Andreas MIKKELSEN 50 pts

5. Benito GUERRA 30 pts

michelinmotorsport.com

THE 2017 WRC

REGULATIONS

New-

generation

World Rally

Cars

More powerful (380hp),

25kg lighter, active

central differential, new

aerodynamic package

Start orders

Day 1 in 2017 Drivers’

championship order, then

reverse order of overnight

classification

Manufacturers

can nominate

up to three cars

with the two best-placed cars

to score Manufacturer points.

points

1st, 25 points • 2nd, 18 points

3rd 15 points • 4th, 12 points

5th, 10 points • 6th, 8 points

7th, 6 points • 8th, 4 points

9th, 2 points • 10th, 1 point

Power Stage

points

1st, 5 points • 2nd, 4 points

3rd, 3 points • 4th, 2 points

5th, 1 point.

2017 seasonMichelin WRC range

ASPHALT TYRES : michelin pILOT SPORT

GRAVEL TYRES : michelin LTX FORCE

SNOW/ICE TYRE : michelin X-ICE

NORTH

WINTRY ASPHALT: michelin

ALPIN 4

H5 (hard compound)

H4 (hard compound)

S5 (soft compound)

S5 (soft compound)

X-Ice North 3

Size : 20/65-18Conditions: dry stages

Size : 17/65-15Conditions: rough, rocky,

abrasive surfaces

Size : 20/65-18Conditions: wet, cold conditions

Size : 17/65-15Conditions: smooth, loose

surfaces, mudSize : 15/65-15

Conditions: ice and/or snow

non-studded

SS5 (super soft compound)studded

FW3 (Full Wet)

Size : 18/65-18Conditions: showers, standing

water or heavy rain

Size : 20/65-18Conditions: icy, frosty, damp,

cold conditions

Size : 18/65-18Conditions: ice and/or snow