DMACK - Get A Grip - Rally Italia Sardegna

Thursday 8th June 2.00 km
SS 1 18:00 Ittiri Arena Show
21.00 km
Get a SS 2 Friday 9th June 15.00 km
Gripof SS 3 07:18 Terranova 1 15.00 km
SS 4 07:49 Monte Olia 1 14.91 km
SS 5 09:14 Tula 1 21.00 km
SS 6 10:20 Tergu-Osilo 1 15.00 km
SS 7 15:24 Terranova 2 15.00 km
SS 8 15:55 Monte Olia 2 14.91 km
SS 9 17:20 Tula 2
18:26 Tergu-Osilo 2 14.60 km
28.90 km
SS 10 07:45 Saturday 10th June 29.10 km Central European Summer Time (UTC+2hr)
SS 11 08:37 Coiluna - Loelle 1 14.60 km Information subject to change.
SS 12 09:20 Monti di Ala' 1 28.90 km
SS 13 15:08 Monte Lerno 1 29.10 km
SS 14 16:00 Coiluna - Loelle 2
SS 15 16:43 Monti di Ala' 2 14.06 km
Monte Lerno 2 6.96 km
14.06 km
SS 16 08:37 Sunday 11th June 6.96 km
SS 17 09:18 Cala Flumini 1
SS 18 11:14 Sassari - Argentiera 1
SS 19 12:18 Cala Flumini 2
Sassari - Argentiera 2 - PS

Rally Italia Sardegna Rally base and service park ALGHERO
are in the west coast town of
DATES // 8 - 11 June 2017 Alghero with special stages CAGLIARI
SURFACE // Gravel in the north of the island.
SERVICE PARK // Alghero
The roads are fast but narrow,
lined with bushes, trees or rocks
so there’s no room for error.

Bad weather during the winter has
meant many roads have been repaired so
we could see them cut up, exposing rocks
and increasing the chance of punctures.

The rally traditionally has some of the !
highest temperatures of the season – putting
more stress on cars, tyres and drivers.

Friday features 125.46km of action including
the return of two classic rough and rocky
tests – Terranova and Monte Olia.

Hard base roads covered by a sandy
surface, which is swept away during
the first pass to leave rougher and
rutted conditions for the second run.

Tyre EVENT

information Dick Cormack

• It’s the first rally this year where we Managing director
expect to use high numbers of the hard
compound tyre. “Sardinia is always one of
the toughest events on the
• There have been long periods of calendar and it will be a real
draught so the roads are extremely challenge for the Junior WRC
dry underneath – demanding greater competitors in their smaller
durability from tyres. Fiesta R2 cars.
It’s a rally which puts huge
• The lower speeds stress tyre carcasses demands on tyres, especially
in a different way, more longitudinally, for the second pass.
compared to other gravel events. Logistically, we’ve got trucks
which go directly from here
• We will attend the remote tyre fitting to Poland and another which
zone in Olbia on Friday morning with a will return to the UK to restock
selection of tyres for competitors. before heading to Poland.”

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“Some of the roads have been repaired
recently and there has been very little rain
so we expect the stages to be extremely dry
underneath and become rough for the second
pass – that will be a big challenge for tyres.
The character of the stages also means that the
tyre carcass gets stressed in a different way,
with more longitudinal stress rather than the
side forces we normally see on a gravel rally.”

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BATTLE World Rally team driver

The conditions on next week’s Rally Italia “One of the biggest considerations of this
Sardegna are set to be some of the toughest rally is the heat and staying hydrated.
of the season, with soaring temperatures, You’ve got to be fully hydrated before
demanding roads and tough mountain stages going to the rally and some hot weather
coming together to wage war on competitors. fitness training always helps quite a bit.
It’s a busy rally as we’re usually changing
Tyre selection tyres between stages and there’s no
chance to cool down as even the air
List 1 - WRC 2 and R5 cars coming into the car is always warm.”

Tyre: DMACK Grippa DMG+22 CO-DRIVING
Size: 205/65R15
Compounds: GH23 hard (26) and GH62 soft (16) daniel barritt
Total allowed: 26 including shakedown
World Rally team c0-driver
List 2 - WRC cars
“Again we’ve got a very long first day on
Tyre: DMACK Grippa DMG+2 the recce so I expect to be pretty busy
Size: 215/65R15 again with the notes.
Compounds: GH23 hard (28) and GH62 soft (16) What’s unique to Sardinia is that there are
Total allowed: 28 including shakedown many short, sharp corners, that means a
lot of pacenotes and, with visibility in the
cars not great, you can be passed a corner
before you know it.
It’s important to work on the pacnotes and
ensure there’s enough information in there
to help me with the timing.”

CAR SET-UP

chris roberts

Fiesta wrc technician

“The effect of road cleaning in Sardinia is
one of the biggest of the year and we see
the conditions changing a lot from first to
second pass.
The rally is always very demanding on cars
and it’s common to see more damage, so
this year’s new aero packages could take
quite a pounding.
Second pass can get very rough and rutted
so obviously we have to compensate for
that with adjustments to ride height and
suspension.”

in association with

Seven WRC 2 prize drives
in a Ford Fiesta R5 on the 2018 season are up for
1st grabs. Events are paired together and the winner

of each pair receives two prize drives.

The Junior WRC is open to The championship runs 2017 Competitors
over six WRC rounds and
drivers under 29. drivers score points for 61 Nil Solans (Spain) // Miguel Ibanez (Spain)
They compete in identical each fastest stage time.. 62 Nicolas Ciamin (France) // Thibault de la Haye (France)
63 Terry Folb (France) // Christopher Guieu (France)
ford fiesta r2t cars. 64 Julius Tannert (Germany) // Jurgen Heigl (Austria)
65 Dennis Radstrom (Sweden) // Johan Johansson (Sweden)
junior WRC cars 66 Robert Duggan (Ireland) // Tom Woodburn (UK)
67 Sebastian Careaga (Bolivia) // Rodrigo San Juan (Spain)
Tyre: DMACK Grippa DMG+22 RF 68 Dillon Van Way (USA) // Dai Roberts (UK)
Size: 175/70R15 69 Miko Niinemae (Estonia) // Martin Valter (Estonia)
Compounds: GH23 RF hard
Total allowed: 26

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also transport tyres to the

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for competitors.