There will be 110 crews that, between Saturday and Sunday, will take part in the 12th Rally Terra Sarda - valid for the Coppa Rally di Zona, the Regional, the penultimate round and of the Ter Series and the last of the Ter Tour European Series - and in the 4th Rally Terra Sarda Storico, a round of the Regional and of the Ter Historic.
The 97 modern crews and the 13 historic crews will compete in 12 special stages, for a total of 72 timed kilometres.
The program. It will start at 10 tomorrow, at the Molo Vecchio in Porto Cervo, with the opening of the “Festival di Mirtò” Village, which from 15:30 will host the technical and sports checks, the Ter Series presentation conference and from 18:30, the passage on the platform of the crews.
On the morning of Saturday 5 October the checks will continue, the Rally Mirtò Sardegna Village will open in Tempio Pausania and, starting from 8 am the crews will be busy in Arzachena in the 2.16 km shakedown, the last test before the departure, scheduled for 1.30 pm in Piazza Risorgimento.
The competing crews will be engaged in double passages on the special stages Arzachena-Città del Vino-Ayla Project (2.09 km, 1.46 pm and 5.35 pm), “Sant'Antonio di Gallura-Il lago e l'olivastro-Valkarana” (6.8 km, 2.08 pm and 5.57 pm) and the “Tempio Pausania-Nuraghe Majori-#nonmollaremai” (7.02 km, 3.11 pm and 7.00 pm). After the first round, a regrouping is scheduled in Tempio (via Angioi-Parco delle Rimembranze, 3.30 pm) and a stage at the service park in via Dettori, in Arzachena (4.45 pm).
At the end of the day, after a regrouping in Tempio (19.19), the cars will head towards the Molo Vecchio in Porto Cervo (21.30), where there will be the night regrouping which the competitors will leave on Sunday morning at 7.30 to return to the service park in Arzachena.
Sunday 6th there are three more tests scheduled to be repeated twice, but not in the same order as the first passage. It will start with the “Aglientu-Stazzi di Gallura-Grimaldi Lines” (12.42 km, 9.06 hours), followed by the “Luogosanto-I castelli di Luogosanto-Ppt” (4.62 km, 9.40 hours) and the “Porto Cervo-Costa Smeralda-Cala Costruzioni” (3.13 km, 10.30 hours), then a regrouping at Molo Vecchio (10.55) and the second passage on the tests, but passing first on Porto Cervo, then on Aglientu and finally on Luogosanto, after which the crews will return to Porto Cervo for the awards ceremony, which will begin at 15.20.
The competitors. Among the 97 competitors, Welshman Osian Pryce (Skoda Fabia Rally2 Evo) will also try to repeat his success in 2023. The other 20 Rally2/R5 cars will be the Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 of Vittorio Mussell and Massimiliano Tonso, the Citroën C3 of Rachele Somaschini and the large group of Skoda Fabias of the protagonists of the Coppa Rally di Zona from Marino Gessa, Auro Siddi and Loris Ronzano, both on Evo versions, to Andrea Pisano and Giuseppe Mannu, on the brand new Rs, to Nicola Tali and Maurizio Diomedi, Ronnie Caragliu, Alberto Roveta, Roberto Cocco, Antonio Dettori, Sandro Locci and Marco Canu, on Skoda Fabia Rally2.
The Historic. Among the 13 competitors, in addition to the Ter drivers, the British Timothy Metcalfe (Ford Escort RS of 3rd Group) and the French Philippe Giordalengo (Ford Escort RS), there will be the winner of the last edition Gabriele Rossi (Ford Rs Cosworth) and the protagonists of the regional championship, from Fabrizio Colombi (Bmw M3) to Marc Laboisse (Porsche 911) of Marc Laboisse, from the brothers Pietro and Enrico Pes of San Vittorio, respectively on Opel Kadett 2000 and Peugeot 205 1300, Gianluca Mannazzu (Renault 5 Gtt), to Tommaso Budroni (Peugeot 205 2000), Giovanni Pileri and Vittorio Orecchioni, both on Peugeot 205 1300, from Carlo Volpe (Fiat Ritmo Abarth) to Gianfranco Cambedda (Fiat 128).
