The second round of the World Rally Championship, on the Scandinavian snow, will be the right occasion for the Russian driver to relaunch himself after the mishap in Monte Carlo, a race he finished by dominating, but then thwarted by a penalty
Reggio Emilia, February the 7th, 2023
A little less than a month after its world debut, Movisport is back on the world championship scene with participation at Rally Sweden, second act of the season, this weekend. At the start Nikolay Gryazin, on the new TokSport Skoda Fabia Rally2, certainly looking for revenge for the disappointment of the first round in Monte Carlo.
After the victory conquered on the field, in the WRC-2 category and with the ninth place overall secured, the Movisport driver seconded by Konstantin Aleksandrov, was penalized 5 seconds at the end of the Monegasque competition following a protest lodged by an opposing competitor for cutting a bend at km 13.2 on Special Stage n. 14, when Gryazin had run into a puncture, with the car unmanageable. Having thus lost the category victory by only 5 tenths in favor of the Frenchman Rossel, Gryazin now looks to the Nordic race with confidence to get back under him, looking for success again to reaffirm his strength in his third participation in Sweden.
Instead, the Trentino gentleman Luciano Cobbe will be making his debut in Sweden, 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, will be in his third world championship experience, after having participated twice in the Rally d’Italia-Sardinia.
ALSO SCHEDULED FOR THIS WEEKEND IS THE COMMITMENT OF THE “VALLE DEL TEVERE”, WHERE THE SEASON ON ITALIAN SOIL STARTS.
Then, not only “world”, this weekend. The spotlights will also be on the third edition of the Rally Valle del Tevere and Arezzo, the second act of the four in the Raceday series, based in Sansepolcro.
It will be raced on routes that in the past have known world championship feats, in the 1980s world rally and, for the “modern” race, Luca Hoelbling from Verona will be in the match, flanked for the second time by Justin Bardini on a Skoda Fabia Rally2. The Valpolicella driver will go in search of the effective result after closing last season with the Brunello Rally by signing the seventh place overall.
A Citroen DS3 will then be available to Davide Incerti and Cristian Baroni.
At the race in the Tiber Valley there will also be a consistent presence in the “historical” start-up trial of the Italian flag on gravel, where Andrea Tonelli and Roberto Debbi will present themselves as reigning two-wheel drive champions with the trusty Ford Escort RS, as well as Alessandro Bolzani and Alessio Spezzani aboard a Peugeot 309 GTI.
Last weekend, at the Ronde Val Merula, the first rally competition of the year, in Liguria, the duo Zigliani-Deer, on a Peugeot 208 rally4, signed the 10th position in the class.
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