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2020 Michelin raceguide 2020 Michelin MARMARIS (TURKEY) SEPTEMBER Ra lly2020 Tu r key 18»- 20 ROUND 5 2020 FIA WORLD RALLY After Rally Estonia’s fast, smooth stages, we move CHAMPIONSHIP on to Turkey which is likely to be one of the season’s - toughest tests of the cars and ORGANISED BY TOSFED (TURKISH RALLY TURKEY IS LIKELY TO AUTOMOBILE SPORTS FEDERATION) their tyres. We are expecting BE ONE OF THE SEASON’S the usual hot weather in the 13th RUNNING " TOUGHEST TESTS OF THE country’s Mugla region where CARS AND THEIR TYRES the dirt tracks are pretty rough and strewn with stones. With the first two visits to the event in its current form under their belts, the WRC teams and Michelin’s MICHELIN technicians have a decent understanding of the wear- AND RALLY turkey rates involved and how the stages cut up for the repeat passes. The hard-compound versions of the Arnaud Rémy Michelin LTX Force and Michelin Latitude Cross face a WRC Programme Manager Michelin Motorsport stiff challenge and smart management of the available tyre allocations will be crucial from start to finish. MICHELIN’S TYRES FOR THE 2020 RALLY turkey Michelin has scored four Rally Turkey wins with Citroën, Michelin including three in a row in 2003, LTX Force 2004 and 2005 The last two Rally Turkeys H4 M6 3 Allocation: (hard) (medium) produced one-two finishes for Drivers may use up Toyota/Michelin in 2018 and WRC to 24 tyres from Citroën/Michelin in 2019 an overall allocation 24 H4s and 16 M6s Michelin tyres have won every one of the six Rally Turkeys they have contested as a WRC round Michelin Latitude Cross H90 (hard) and Michelin Latitude Cross S80 (soft) Michelin Group tyres also enjoyed 3 Allocation: success on cross-country rallying’s Drivers may use up to 22 tyres from an overall allocation Rally of the Orient in Turkey’s WRC2 22 H90s and 16 M80s Cappadocia region in the Noughties Timetable 26 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 (25.22KM) 9:01am Shakedown 4.70km entries 4:15pm Start, Marmaris TOTAL DISTANCE: 5:08pm SS1 Içmeler 13.90km .81km 6:21pm SS2 Gökçe 11.32km 707 8:06pm Service, Asparan 45 minutes divided into 12 special stages SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 (107.38KM) totalling 223.00km. 7:57am Service/Tyre change, Asparan 15 minutes 8:50am SS3 Yesilbelde 1 31.79km MICHELIN STATISTIC 10:08am SS4 Datça 1 8.75km Michelin is targeting its 345th FIA World 11:06am SS5 Kizlan 1 13.15km Rally Championship win in Turkey. 1:32pm Service/Tyre change, Asparan 40 minutes The French firm has scored more than 2:50pm SS6 Yesilbelde 2 31.79km 1,000 podiums in world-class rallying 4:08pm SS7 Datça 2 8.75km 5:06pm SS8 Kizlan 2 13.15km 6:27pm Service, Asparan 45 minutes SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 (90.40KM) 6:27am Service/Tyre change, Asparan 15 minutes SOURCE: WRC.COM - INFORMATION SUBJECT CHANGE TO 7:30am SS9 Çetibeli 1 38.15km 9:08am SS10 Marmaris 1 7.05km 9:43am Service/Tyre change, Asparan 40 minutes LOCAL TIME - 11:10am SS11 Çetibeli 2 38.15km R A LLY TU R K EY 1:18pm SS12 Marmaris 2 (Power Stage) 7.05km AND MARMARIS 2:15pm Podium ceremony, Asparan Turkey first hosted an international rally (based in Istanbul) in 1972 From 2003 until 2008, the Rally of Turkey RALLY TURKEY IS THE ROUGHEST ROUND was based in the Antalya/Kemer region OF THE 2020 WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP in the Anatolian Mountains. It moved closer to Istanbul in 2010 Sébastien Loeb holds the record for the highest number of Rally Turkey wins (3) Marmaris is a seaside resort on the southwest Turkish coast, opposite the Greek island of Rhodes Originally known as Physkos, Marmaris has previously been Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman MICHELIN GREEN GUIDE Explore Turkey and discover the riches of this country which straddles the continents of Europe and Asia with the Michelin Green Guide Turkey Michelin’s 2020 range of customer rally tyres packs technology tried and tested in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). ASPHALT PILOT SPORT PILOT SPORT PILOT SPORT R A MW1 FW3 SPECIFIC derived NEW from PORSCHE wrc2 RALLY TYR E Technologies derived from Wrc1 GRAVEL LTX FORCE T LATITUDE CROSS PZ LATITUDE CROSS NEW FOR SOFT GROUND AND NORDIC COUNTRIES ROUGH GROUNd SNOW l ICE X-ICE NORTH NA01 PILOT ALPIN NA01 PILOT ALPIN NA00 tread pattern derived from WRC1 NEW studdable studded.
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