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Andreucci performs well in bad weather conditions [02/29/2004 09:43]

Tenuti Marco

Really charming, uncertain, and rich of thrilling notes, was the tenth Rally Tutta Terra Toscana, first round of the Italian Rally Championship 2004, acted on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th, on the dusty roads of Pisa's province, the same roads which characterized the World Rally Championship's Rally Sanremo, when it was run on gravel. The race, organized by GIP Servizi e Promozioni, had its difficults moments, being constrasted by bad weather, which gave a lot of rain and show for free, but gave also great sporting ones. The event was won by the Cesena's Andrea Navarra, codriven by his wife-and-codriver Simona Fedeli, with the works Subaru Impreza STi. For three parts on four, the race has been dominated by Piero Longhi and Danilo Fappani with the first works Subaru Impreza STi, really strong to get the topmost position after the first stages, maximizing the tyre choice with a perfect set. Longhi's leadership resisted for ten special stages, when he rolled off and had to leave his car out of the road and retire. Since that episode his teammate leaded the rally and kept it until the end, being even able to pace the return of the incited crews Emanuele Dati/Alex Giusti (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII) and Alex Fiorio/Vittorio Brambilla (Subaru Impreza STi) and concluding with a gap over sixty seconds. The final second position went to Alex Fiorio, who maximum attacked in the last stage Ulignano, where he fixed the best scratch time, with Dati paying only 14"3.

The fourth standing was for another AWD car, formerly a Subaru, the Veneto's Eugeni-Businaro crew, always in the top positions of the entire event, although afflicted with some issue with the rear suspension setup, which obliged them to occur too many spins. Fifth position, and clearly first between the crews with two wheel drive, went to the current Italian champions Paolo Andreucci and Anna Andreussi (Fiat Punto Abarth), who started very quickly in the first leg, but facing the mud and the snow in the second leg's morning. Nevertheless those worst conditions, they reacted very well and managed amazing times along the stages, very often ahead of several all wheel drive cars.

The Peugeot works driver Renato Travaglia ended in the sixth position with the Peugeot 206 Super1600, heading the Ligurian Sandro Sottile, suffering two failures of halfaxes, whilst eighth position was for Andrea Dallavilla with a Renault Clio Super1600, who performed well only in the second leg, with the right tyre choice. The top ten standings are filled by the Giandomenico Basso (Fiat Punto Abarth), who achieved to get the ninth standing in the last stage, overtaking the Siena's Walter Pierangioli (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII), an honorable local starring driver. Bad luck for Rimini's Giuseppe "Pucci" Grossi, after being second for almost the first half of the rally, had to retire for troubles at the gearbox and the clutch after the half. In the one make championships Bizzarri succeeded in the Trofeo Fiat Punto Abarth, and Christian Chemin in the Trofeo Stilo Abarth, whilst Tognozzi won the new one make trophy Peugeot 206 RC, who won also the class gr.N 2WD cars. The Brescia's driver Mazzoleni won the MG Trophy and Sardinian Carta the Opel Astra Trophy.

Final standings of Rally Tutta Terra Toscana:

  1. Navarra-Fedeli (Subaru Impreza STi) in 1:54’35"7
  2. Fiorio-Brambilla (Subaru Impreza STi) at 50"4
  3. Dati-Giusti (Subaru Impreza STi) at 1’04"6
  4. Eugeni-Businaro (Subaru Impreza STi) at 3’56"8
  5. Andreucci-Andreussi (Fiat Punto Abarth) at 4’38"4
  6. Travaglia-Granai (Peugeot 206 S1600) at 5'28"2
  7. Sottile-Nari (Subaru Impreza STi) at 6'29"8
  8. Dallavilla-Canton (Renault Clio) at 6'41"6
  9. Basso-Dotta (Fiat Punto Abarth) at 7'44"7
  10. Pierangioli-Castorina (Mitsubishi Lancer) at 8'21"7

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