After an eve overloaded of suspence and even too rich of doubts posed by the weather, which gave also some snow, the Italin Rally Championship started with its first gravel round, the Rally Tutta Terra Toscana. On February 27th at 15.31, from the industrial area "la Fila" in Peccioli, one of the most awaited series took its beginning. Ninetyseven crews passed the regular verification and moved to the four timed tracks of the first leg, two stages repeated twice, the world famous Riparbella and the new Scornello, about 43 km of timed roads, which spotted a great level of competition, mixed up with the uncertainity of the road conditions.

After four legs the leadership is in the hands of the Novara based Subaru works driver Piero Longhi, who guessed the tyre choice and got the topmost standing in an authoritative way. The second position is filled by another Subaru STi, driven by the expert Rimini's Giuseppe"Pucci" Grossi, who confirmed his strong pace on tough tracks; the third position is currently to Andrea Navarra, Longhi's team mate with the second works Subaru car, who made Paolo Andreucci fail the podium in the provisional leaderboard of the first leg.

Paolo Andreucci, at the wheel of the Fiat Punto Abarth, however impressed too much with respect of all the rest of the Super1600 crews, as just expected from the Tuscan driver's talent and his experience of two years of domination in the Super1600 class. The top ten positions were really crowded and animated, with the Veneto's Eugeni and Versilian driver Dati, both with Subaru Impreza STi, who were stronger than Fiorio (Subaru Impreza), Cantamessa (Mitsubishi Lancer), Travaglia (Peugeot 206), and Basso (Fiat Punto), all of them fighting with setup troubles. Today there are going on further ten special stages, with the start from Piazza dei Priori at 7.30 and the arrival at 18.50, where everybody could know the first winner of the new championship edition 2004.