Ciar Sparco 2024 final incandescent: Basso-Granai win in Liguria and prevail over Campedelli-Canton for 2nd place in the overall ranking behind the already Italian Rally Champions Crugnola-Ometto, second in Sanremo. Results and rankings
The Sanremo Rally always has a special flavour. Ask Giandomenico Basso for confirmation, the second success of the season (after the Rally Regione Piemonte in spring) and the fifth career seal in the Ligurian race. A historic race that was part of the World Rally Championship until 2003 and which is now worth – with a coefficient of 1.5 – the final round of the 2024 Sparco Italian Absolute Rally Championship.
to the last
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A success, that of Basso, shared with the expert navigator Lorenzo Granai and the entire Toyota Gazoo Racing Italy team which does nothing but strengthen the palmarés of the driver born in 1973. But which is worth, above all, the final second place in the championship standings , behind an almost always perfect Andrea Crugnola. Leading the race until four stages from the end of the 71st Rallye Sanremo, Simone Campedelli and Tania Canton suffered the decisive attack during the penultimate stage, then slipping into third place after the timing of the last stage.
Crugnola needle of the scales
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It could have been the tip of the scales and it was: Andrea Crugnola, navigated by Pietro Elia Ometto on a Citroën C3 Rally2 of Fpf Sport, set the absolute best time on the tenth – and last – stage of the 71st Rallye Sanremo. In this way, the already 2024 Italian Rally Champion inserted himself between Giandomenico Basso (Toyota GR Yaris Rally2) and Simone Campedelli (Skoda Fabia RS Rally2), confirming Basso’s victory and making the rider slip to third position in both the race and the championship. pilot from Romagna. Just 0″2 separate Campedelli from the title of vice-Italian Rally Champion, thanks to “a set-up very oriented towards dry conditions which influenced the performance on the longest and most complicated stage”, the Carpasio-Rezzo 2 (21.02 km), where the rider from Romagna recorded a time exactly 10″ higher than that of the winners Basso-Granai. At the foot of the podium (but more than 1′ behind) the young Roberto Daprà (Skoda Fabia RS Rally2), with Marco Signor (Toyota GR Yaris Rally2) closing the Top5.
Ciar 2RM
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In the hotly contested two-wheel drive category, Gabriel Di Pietro stands out, but Gianandrea Pisani’s third place earns the latter the national title. Excellent race also for Giorgio Cogni, 2nd on Peugeot 208 Rally4, the same car used by his direct rivals.
ciar junior and other titles
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Francesco Dei Ceci (Renault Clio Rally5) stands out in the Ciar Junior, but – just like in the 2WD – Matteo Doretto’s third place earns the latter the title. Rachele Somaschini (Citroën C3 Rally2) won the Ciar Women’s Cup, Andrea Mabellini won the Ciar Under25 Cup.
Ciar Sparco 2024: final ranking of the 71st Rallye Sanremo
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Below is the final ranking of the final race of the Italian Absolute Rally Sparco Championship 2024. Outside the top 10 but with noteworthy performances, we highlight the 12th place of Fabrizio Andolfi Junior (Toyota GR Yaris R1T), the 13th of Gabriel Di Pietro (Peugeot 208 Rally4), as well as 1st in the two-wheel drive category and 31st for Francesco Dei Ceci, 1st in Sanremo for Ciar Junior with the Renault Clio Rally5.
- Basso-Granai (Toyota GR Yaris Rally2) in 1h 18’22”4
- Crugnola-Ometto (Citroën C3 Rally2) at 7”8
- Campedelli-Canton (Skoda Fabia RS Rally2) at 8”0
- Daprà-Guglielmetti (Skoda Fabia RS Rally2) at 1’08”4
- Signor-Michi (Toyota GR Yaris Rally2) a 1’43”5
- Avbelj-Andrejka (Skoda Fabia RS Rally2) a 1’49”3
- Mabellini-Lenzi (Skoda Fabia RS Rally2) is 2’48”7
- Sartor-Mattucci (Skoda Fabia Evo Rally2) and 3’14”0
- Chentre-Boglietti (Skoda Fabia Evo Rally2) a 3’15”9
- Santini-Barsotti (Skoda Fabia Rally2) at 4’14”6.
Podium finale Ciar 2024
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The 2024 Sparco Italian Absolute Rally Championship ends with the title of Andrea Crugnola. Here are the final points of the leading trio.
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- Crugnola-Ometto (Citroën C3 Rally2) 121.5 points
- Basso-Granai (Toyota GR Yaris Rally2) 87.5
- Campedelli-Canton (Skoda Fabia RS Rally2) 86.
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