Publicat in: September 29, 2008, Vizualizari: 56
Tirabassi for Spain and Corsica
31 year old French driver Brice Tirabassi is to drive a third official Subaru Impreza WRC2008 car on the two remaining asphalt rallies in the world championship season. This will be his first event in a World Rally Car on a world championship event, though he drove a Subaru Impreza WRC on French gravel championship rallies in 2004 and he won the PCWRC category in Cyprus in 2005 in a Group N Subaru. He knows both Cataluna and Corsica well. He won the JWRC category in Spain in a Renault in 2003, the year he became world junior champion and he won the JWRC category in Corsica in a Citroen in 2006. This year Brice has been contesting the IRC series in a Peugeot 207 S2000 without success, and recently announced he was withdrawing from the series for the rest of the season.
SupeRally King
All he has to do before 25 year old Italian Citroen C2 R2 rally driver Francesco Fanari is crowned the world championship rookie of the year is to cross the start line in Catalunya. When he does this, he will qualify as the FIA Junior World Rally Championship Rookie champion. Already he has amassed an unsurmountable total of points for this title. He also has the chance to become surely a most unique champion in motorsport. The Junior World series consist of seven events of which contenders must start in a nominated six rounds. Fanari has done five events so far and qualified as a finisher every time. But only by reason of the SupeRally rules, which allow drivers to miss out stages on the first two of the three days, so long as they complete the route on Day 3. On none of these five events has Fanari completed the full route. On the Deutschland Rallye he really thought he would do this but gearbox trouble stopped him. His season stage uncertainly. He started the season driving with a Citroen from the Transilvania Motorsport operation based at Cluj Napoca in Romania, before moving on to the Protec team based in the Republic of San Marino. When he competes in Catalunya, should Francesco try to achieve a lifelong ambition and drive all the stages - or settle for the consolation of becoming the first motorsport world title holder who never finished an event?
Japan Goes to the Dome
Rally Japan will be based in Sapporo, the capital city of Hokkaido. The headquarters will be at the futuristic Sapporo Dome in the south of the town, in which a superspecial stage will be run. The move from Obihiro, in the centre of Hokkaido island, has been occasioned by the wish to make the rally more attractive to spectators. The average total attendance over the four years the rally was held in Obihiro was 240,000 whereas 600,000 is the target for the new location of the rally. The stages are to be held around 60-70 km from the dome, in the regions of Ishikari, Iburu and Sorachi. The 2008 Rally Japan, penultimate round of the world championship, was recently postponed by a week and will now be held on 31 October to 2 November. The Sapporo dome is sure to set new standards for rally organisers. The surfaces of the pitch are readily removable in six hours and there are extensive car park areas with considerable numbers of facilities on site.
The World Championship Goes Green
The FIA has finally published its tender for the official fuel supplier for the World Rally Championship for the years 2009, 2010 and 2011. The existing contract, in which Shell in Germany is the supplier, expires at the end of this year. While the overriding instruction is that the fuel shall be "Green" to comply with the World Council's directives, how the fuel is to be deemed ‘friendly' is down to the supplier. The instruction says "tenderers must be in a position to prove to the FIA that the petrol proposed is of nature to reduce pollutant emissions significantly", with no reference to the way that the fuel is produced. Ethanol fuels will be considered, but only if they are of ‘cellusoic' (created from corn or other renewable materials) type. Tenders will be opened by the FIA on 3rd October, and the decision about who will supply, and presumable what type of fuel is to be used, is to be notified on 10th November. World championship teams will be supplied with samples of the future fuel on 11 November and be able to test them up to 30 November. The precise technical specification, which means the performance capability of engines using this fuel, will be agreed between the FIA, the teams and the supplier in time for fuel supplies to start on 1st December.
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Tirabassi for Spain and Corsica
31 year old French driver Brice Tirabassi is to drive a third official Subaru Impreza WRC2008 car on the two remaining asphalt rallies in the world championship season. This will be his first event in a World Rally Car on a world championship event, though he drove a Subaru Impreza WRC on French gravel championship rallies in 2004 and he won the PCWRC category in Cyprus in 2005 in a Group N Subaru. He knows both Cataluna and Corsica well. He won the JWRC category in Spain in a Renault in 2003, the year he became world junior champion and he won the JWRC category in Corsica in a Citroen in 2006. This year Brice has been contesting the IRC series in a Peugeot 207 S2000 without success, and recently announced he was withdrawing from the series for the rest of the season. SupeRally King
All he has to do before 25 year old Italian Citroen C2 R2 rally driver Francesco Fanari is crowned the world championship rookie of the year is to cross the start line in Catalunya. When he does this, he will qualify as the FIA Junior World Rally Championship Rookie champion. Already he has amassed an unsurmountable total of points for this title. He also has the chance to become surely a most unique champion in motorsport. The Junior World series consist of seven events of which contenders must start in a nominated six rounds. Fanari has done five events so far and qualified as a finisher every time. But only by reason of the SupeRally rules, which allow drivers to miss out stages on the first two of the three days, so long as they complete the route on Day 3. On none of these five events has Fanari completed the full route. On the Deutschland Rallye he really thought he would do this but gearbox trouble stopped him. His season stage uncertainly. He started the season driving with a Citroen from the Transilvania Motorsport operation based at Cluj Napoca in Romania, before moving on to the Protec team based in the Republic of San Marino. When he competes in Catalunya, should Francesco try to achieve a lifelong ambition and drive all the stages - or settle for the consolation of becoming the first motorsport world title holder who never finished an event? Japan Goes to the Dome
Rally Japan will be based in Sapporo, the capital city of Hokkaido. The headquarters will be at the futuristic Sapporo Dome in the south of the town, in which a superspecial stage will be run. The move from Obihiro, in the centre of Hokkaido island, has been occasioned by the wish to make the rally more attractive to spectators. The average total attendance over the four years the rally was held in Obihiro was 240,000 whereas 600,000 is the target for the new location of the rally. The stages are to be held around 60-70 km from the dome, in the regions of Ishikari, Iburu and Sorachi. The 2008 Rally Japan, penultimate round of the world championship, was recently postponed by a week and will now be held on 31 October to 2 November. The Sapporo dome is sure to set new standards for rally organisers. The surfaces of the pitch are readily removable in six hours and there are extensive car park areas with considerable numbers of facilities on site. The World Championship Goes Green
The FIA has finally published its tender for the official fuel supplier for the World Rally Championship for the years 2009, 2010 and 2011. The existing contract, in which Shell in Germany is the supplier, expires at the end of this year. While the overriding instruction is that the fuel shall be "Green" to comply with the World Council's directives, how the fuel is to be deemed ‘friendly' is down to the supplier. The instruction says "tenderers must be in a position to prove to the FIA that the petrol proposed is of nature to reduce pollutant emissions significantly", with no reference to the way that the fuel is produced. Ethanol fuels will be considered, but only if they are of ‘cellusoic' (created from corn or other renewable materials) type. Tenders will be opened by the FIA on 3rd October, and the decision about who will supply, and presumable what type of fuel is to be used, is to be notified on 10th November. World championship teams will be supplied with samples of the future fuel on 11 November and be able to test them up to 30 November. The precise technical specification, which means the performance capability of engines using this fuel, will be agreed between the FIA, the teams and the supplier in time for fuel supplies to start on 1st December. 3mmm
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