THREE WITHDRAWALS
As recce started this morning for the teams partaking in the Rally Italia Sardegna 2016, three of the 49 entered crews decided to pull out. The first is the withdrawal of the French Yoann Bonato and co-driver Denis Giraudet (Citroen Ds3 R5) that was made soon after Portugal, then Max Rendina who was supposed to drive a Ford Fiesta R5 decided to pull out due to health reasons, while the latest who decided to abandon is the Polish Ptaszek (Peugeot 208 T16) due to the injury sustained by his co-driver Szczepaniak in Portugal’s Fafe jump.

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RALLY SARDEGNA HISTORIC
A total of 8 crews entered the “Rally della Sardegna Historic” that will be run alongside the World Rally Championship round in between the first and second loop on the stages of the first and second day. After Biasion-Pirollo (Lancia Delta Integrale), Bentivogli-Cecchi (Alfetta GTV 6), Mariotti-Mannini (Fiat 131 Abarth), Melegari-Zamboni (Lancia Delta HF Integrale), Pelliccioni-Ceci (Ford Escort MK2), Biasiolo-Zampalocca (Mini Cooper), the French Canavese-Serre (Lancia Delta Integrale) and Sardinia’s Mara-Cottu (Peugeot 205 GTI) also entered the rally.