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2017 FIA WRC

Rally 2017 Italia Sardegna

THURSDAY, JUNE 8 8:00am Shakedown 3,39km JUNE 8»11 6:00pm SS1 2,00km 2017 FRIDAY, JUNE 9 - 6:30am Tyre change, 10min th 7:18am SS2 Terranova 14,54km 14 RUNNING 7:41am SS3 Monte Olia 19,05km 2017 FIA WRC: ROUND 7 9:12am SS4 Tula 15,00km 10:17am SS5 - 14,14km 11:56am Service/Tyre change 30min

TIMETABLE 3:25pm SS6 Terranova 14,54km 55 3:48pm SS7 Monte Olia 19,05km 5:25pm SS8 Tula 15,00km entries 6:30pm SS9 Tergu-Osilo 14,14km 8:00pm Service, Alghero 45min 1495,36km SATURDAY, JUNE 10 including 312,66km 5:00am Service/Tyre change, Alghero 15min divided into 19 stages 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 -Argentiera 6,96km SOURCE: WRC.COM - INFORMATION SUBJECT CHANGE TO 10:54am SS18 Cala Flumini 14,06km 12:18pm SS19 Sassari-Argentiera 6,96km 1:15pm Service, Alghero 10min 1:45pm Podium, Alghero TIME (GMT +2) -

 FORMAT Jacques Morelli, Manager of Michelin Motorsport’s WRC Based in Alghero since 2014 programme The rally revisits Olbia for first time since 2013 for an overnight halt “ is one of the toughest rounds of the and a Tyre Fitting Zone season. Running order can be very important and Sébastien Mickey Jump on Monte-Lerno stage Ogier faced a big handicap being first on the road in 2016. is a classic WRC spot Tyre choice, and choosing how many spares to carry, can be decisive but it’s a highly complex process given the expected Terranova (SS2/6, 14.54km) heat and the abrasiveness of certain stages. Although it is and Monte Olia (SS3/7, 19.05km) only short (14.14km), Tergu-Osilo could be the hardest- are back on the menu wearing stage of the entire championship!” 96.34 competitive kilometres are new

Chief characteristics The selective, narrow and twisty stages MICHELIN TYRES FOR 2017 RALLY ITALIA SARDEGNA and hot weather make big demands on tyres. The hard-packed, stony ground is covered with wrc : a top-coating of fine sand which the first cars MICHELIN on the road sweep clear. Stones eventually LTX Force become exposed and some stages can get badly 3 WRC quota: H4 S5 (HARD) (soft) cut up and hard-wearing for tyres. 28 tyres from a Since the loss of ’s Rally, total allocation Rally Italia Sardegna has emerged as the WRC of 28 hards and 16 softs calendar’s roughest fixture. first choice "joker" tyre

Rally Italia

MICHELIN Sardegna AND RALLY ITALIA SARDEGNA Rallye Italia Sardegna succeeded from the Sanremo as ’s WRC qualifier in 2004 Michelin has won Rally Italia Sardegna The former Costa Smeralda, the forerunner of seven times as a WRC qualifying round today’s Rally Italia Sardegna, was a classic European Championship round in In 2012, Sébastien Ogier posted a fastest stage time the 1980s and 1990s in a Skoda Fabia S2000/Michelin Loeb is the most successful driver in (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 made its WRC debut Juho Hanninen (Skoda/Michelin) won the 2010 event which counted towards the former IRC and 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 is standing in for Stéphane Lefebvre in the N°9 Citroën C3 WRC/Michelin

 M-SPORT WORLD RALLY TEAM WRC # 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 / GBR FORD FIESTA WRC

HYUNDAI MOTORSPORT WRC # 4 PADDON Hayden / MARSHALL Seb NZL / GBR 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

WRC Entry List CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT # 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 YARIS WRC FLASHBACK WRC WRC # 11 HANNINEN Juho / LINDSTROM Kaj FIN / FIN TO 2016 WRC WINNERS: TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRC WRC / # 12 LAPPI Esapekka / FERM Janne FIN / FIN (Hyundai NG i20 WRC/Michelin) 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 STAGE WINNERS: ONEBET JIPOCAR WORLD RALLY TEAM Neuville 9 – Ogier & Latvala 3 # 21 PROKOP Martin / TOMÁNEK Jan CZE / CZE – Abbring, Tanak, Ostberg, FORD FIESTA RS WRC Camilli 1 EUROLAMP WORLD RALLY TEAM WRC LEADERS: # 22 GORBAN Valeriy / LARENS Sergei UKR / EST BMW-Mini JCW ES1 Ogier – ES2 Latvala – ES3 Ogier – ES4 Latvala – WRC JEAN-MICHEL RAOUX ES5 Neuville – ES6 Latvala – # 23 RAOUX Jean-Michel / ESCARTEFIGUE Thomas FRA / FRA ES7 à 19 Neuville CITROEN C3 WRC 3 Maiden WRC stage wins for Abbring and Camilli  THE FULL ENTRY LIST HERE​

 Drivers STANDINGS

Rally Monte-Carlo Sweden Mexico France Argentina Portugal Italia Poland Finland Germany Spain Great Britain Australia POINTS 19/01 > 22/01 9/02 > 12/02 9/03 > 12/03 6/04 > 9/04 27/04 > 30/04 18/05 > 21/05 8/06 > 11/06 29/06 > 2/07 27/07 > 30/07 17/08 > 20/08 5/10 > 8/10 26/10 > 29/10 16/11 > 19/11

25 15+4 18+4 18+4 12+2 25+1 1 Sébastien Ogier (1) (3) (2) (2) (4) (1) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 128

18 25+5 8+2 12+5 10+1 18+4 2 Thierry Neuville (2) (1) (6) (4) (5) (2) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 106

5 3 15+5 25+1 25+5 2 3 Jari-Matti Latvala (15) (13) (3) (1) (1) (9) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 88

15 18 12+3 0 15+3 12+5 4 Ott Tänak (3) (2) (4) (11) (3) (4) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 83

12+1 12 4+1 15+2 4 15 5 Dani Sordo (4) (4) (8) (3) (8) (3) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 66

8+2 8 2 0 18+4 8+3 6 (6) (6) (9) (21) (2) (6) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 53

7 10 10 10+3 10 (5) (5) (-) (5) (R) (5) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 43

8 6+1 10 8 8 (R) (7) (5) (6) (6) (R) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 33

9 2 25 Kris MEEKE (R) (12) (1) (R) (R) (18) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 27

10 3 6 6 6 Juho HANNINEN (16) (-) (7) (R) (7) (7) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 21

11 6 6 Andreas MIKKELSEN (7) (-) (-) (7) (-) (R) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 12

12 2+4 4 0 0 0 Stéphane LEFEBVRE (9) (8) (15) (50) (-) (13) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 10

WRC2 drivers 1. 100 pts 2. 54 pts 3. 52 pts 4. Andreas MIKKELSEN 50 pts 5. Benito GUERRA 30 pts

Manufacturers 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

 Michelin WRC range THE 2017 WRC 2017 season REGULATIONS

New- generation

ASPHALT TYRES : WINTRY World Rally michelin pILOT SPORT ASPHALT: Cars michelin ALPIN 4 More powerful (380hp), 25kg lighter, active

central differential, new

aerodynamic package

Start orders

H5 (hard compound) S5 (soft compound) Day 1 in 2017 Drivers’ Size : 20/65-18 Size : 20/65-18 Conditions: dry stages Conditions: wet, cold conditions non-studded championship order, then

reverse order of overnight

classification

Manufacturers can nominate up to three cars SS5 (super soft compound) FW3 (Full Wet) studded Size : 20/65-18 Size : 18/65-18 with the two best-placed cars Conditions: icy, frosty, damp, Conditions: showers, standing Size : 18/65-18 cold conditions water or heavy rain Conditions: ice and/or snow to score Manufacturer points.

points

1st, 25 points • 2nd, 18 points GRAVEL TYRES : SNOW/ICE TYRE : rd th michelin LTX FORCE michelin X-ICE 3 15 points • 4 , 12 points NORTH 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 H4 (hard compound) S5 (soft compound) Size : 17/65-15 Size : 17/65-15 X-Ice North 3 3rd, 3 points • 4th, 2 points Conditions: rough, rocky, Conditions: smooth, loose Size : 15/65-15 abrasive surfaces surfaces, mud Conditions: ice and/or snow 5th, 1 point.

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