Just under one hundred and five kilometres, distributed over eight special stages, will characterize the 44th edition of the Casentino International Rally, an event organized by Scuderia Etruria SCRL and scheduled for Friday 12th and Saturday 13th July in the province of Arezzo, with Bibbiena still elevated to the headquarters general.
Rosina, Caiano, Barbiano, Crocina and Talla: these are the special stages which – preceded by the departure on Friday evening – will call the performers of the International Rally Cup and Mitropa Rally Cup to competitive action. A mix of emotions which, through the expression of modern and historical examples will guarantee enthusiasts yet another important edition.
REGISTRATIONS OPEN
You will have until Wednesday 3 July to join the race, with registrations open today. An event that will take on marked lines in the balance of the two championships involved, the International Rally Cup and the Mitropa Rally Cup, with the latter in its sixth round of the season, in the modern and historical versions.
THE COMPETITION PROGRAM
On Friday 12 July the spotlight will be entirely on the La Ferrantina industrial area, the location which – for years – has hosted the service park. From 7pm, the protagonists will tread the platform and then head towards the two passages on Rosina (7.48km), scheduled for 7.34pm and 10.31pm, punctuated by a service park session. The arrival of the first stage is scheduled for 10.59pm in Bibbiena, in Piazzale Resistenza.
The next day, Saturday 13 July, the first kilometers to be tackled will be the eleven and a half kilometers of Caiano (12.12 pm), a special test that will be tackled after having enjoyed the technical measures foreseen in the first Sunday assistance, the one that will be carried out by the 11.10am with thirty minutes available to crews and teams. At 12.46 the appointment with the photocell will be on Barbiano (7,400 km), a stretch that will put the central phase of the race to rest, leaving the scene once again for a new service park session, preceded by thirty-five minutes of tidying up, in the Porrena area . A decisive phase for the balance of the ranking, the one dedicated to technical operations, since the next stretch – that of Crocina – will be 22,800 km, with the first crew that will see the green light at 3.23 pm. The following sections, the sixth and seventh, will be set on the asphalt of Caiano (4.52 pm) and Barbiano (5.26 pm) respectively. The afternoon’s commitments were intense, with the cars that will subsequently be placed at the center of the enthusiasts’ attention in the forty-minute reorganization of Soci (from 6.06 pm) and in the thirty-minute service park, again in the La Ferrantina industrial area ( 6.52pm). The grand finale will be on the 29,450 km of Talla, the famous special test which will close the competition and which will leave the scene at the end with the arrival awards ceremony, scheduled in Bibbiena from 9.41pm.
