The second round of the World Rally Championship, on the Scandinavian snow, confirmed the Russian driver as one of the best in the WRC-2 race and also praised the Trentino gentleman driver Luciano Cobbe.
Reggio Emilia, February the 13th, 2023
Movisport has returned to the world championship scene and has done so again as a great protagonist, giving continuity to the remarkable start to the season in Montecarlo last month. Last weekend, at the Swedish Rally, second act of the season, Nikolay Gryazin, together with Konstantin Aleksandrov on the TokSport Skoda Fabia Rally2, finished in the Scandinavian snow in 12th position overall. He therefore signed fourth place in the RC2 category, confirming himself as one of the “top players” of the world circuit in the WRC-2, in whose ranking on this occasion he did not score any points, postponing the appointment to the Mexico Rally, from 16 to 19 March.
Instead, the Trentino gentleman Luciano Cobbe was making his debut in Sweden, a new arrival in the Movisport family. At the start with a Skoda Fabia Rally2 Evo, flanked for the occasion by the expert Roberto Mometti, the 69-year-old driver from Trentino, one of the great specialists of Italian dirt races, was in his third world championship experience, after having participated twice in the Rally Italia – Sardegna and the first time on the snow was simply as exciting as it was educational. In the end he concluded, Cobbe, in 38th position overall.
Lights and shadows in the “Valley of the Tiber”,
Not only WRC, on the weekend just ended. At the third edition of the Rally Valle del Tevere and Arezzo, second act of the four of the Raceday series, based in Sansepolcro, bad luck for the driver from Verona Luca Hoelbling, flanked for the second time by Justin Bardini on a Skoda Fabia Rally2. The Valpolicella driver had first run into a “straight” during the fifth round, costing a few seconds too much when he was gravitating into the absolute top ten. Then, motivated to recover in the remaining four races, Hoelbling tried to increase his pace, but a double puncture on the penultimate timed effort forced him to raise the white flag.
A Citroen DS3, then, was available to Davide Incerti and Cristian Baroni, who finished in second place in the class.
At the race in the Tiber Valley, in the “historic” tricolor start test on gravel, Andrea Tonelli and Roberto Debbi with the trusty Ford Escort RS finished in fifth position overall, second on two-wheel drive with their canonical performance from high classification, also full of entertainment, while Alessandro Bolzani and Alessio Spezzani, aboard a Peugeot 309 GTI, came close to the top ten in 12th place, winning the class to which they belong.
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