29 Mar POWER CAR TEAM BETS ON YOUNG RACERS IN ITALY AND FRANCE

The Schio team keeps growing new talents. This weekend it deploys three young racers, Riccardo Pederzani e Damiano De Tommaso in Sanremo, Tommaso Ciuffi in France at Terre de Causses. Leopoldo Maestrini is back to race at Colline Metallifere.

Power Car Team is going to start an intense weekend with four cars, three Peugeot 208 R2 and a Clio S1600.

Two racers will be at 64th Rallye of Sanremo, for the first of six of the junior Italian Championship, as well as the prestigious Peugeot Italia trophy, the Peugeot Competition 208 Top, which follows the “Junior” appointments faithfully.

The first crew starting is composed by Damiano De Tommaso and Paolo Rocca. The young Varese racer, growth at Aci Team Italia, will drive a Peugeot 208 R2, and he will try to reach the first place race by race.

The other crew is composed by Riccardo Pederzani and Roberto Mometti. The young pilot, who has experience in circuit especially with R5 class cars, cpuld take a remarkable advantage passing to a less powerful vehicle, the Peugeot 208 R2. It will be surely a season to take the measures, but with no doubt there are all the potentialities.

The Sanremo, one of the international most prestigious appointements, occurs on March 31th and April 1st, with start day on Friday at 12.00 from Corso Imperatrice in the hearth of the “City of Flowers”. The race consist of 11 “special tests” for a total amount of 176,77 clocked km. The event ends on Saturday at 16, with the arrival to Sanremo.

Another young racer is deployed, at 22nd Rallye Terre des Causses, on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd of April, for the first appointment of 208 Rally Cup.

The Schio team comes back also this year with a whole programme, fighting in a selective and insidious series, and in its gold book there are Panizzi, Ogier and Abbring.

In the french series Tommaso Ciuffi, who will drive a Peugeot 208 R2, because of strong regulations, which impose the usage of a longer conical couple and 95 octane petrol. The young Florence racer is going to live a busy season with national and international races.

Leopoldo Maestrini comes back on Renault Clio S1600, after the stop that didn’t allow him to participate at Ciocco, because of a previous injury. The choice is the 3rd Rally of Colline Metallifere, this weekend on the Tuscany roads.

GREAT SACTISFACTION AT GRIFO AND LAGHI

At Rally of Grifo, Antonio Forato with a R5, lost the race by a whisker, because of a 10 seconds penalty for an early start. Anyway top clocked validations for him and a final third class place. The other two pilots, which   have driven a Peugeot 207 S2000, Erbetta and Zanon, closed the event with great satisfaction and important hints for future appointments. For them the second and third class place.

At Rally dei Laghi, Bizzozero reached the class victory at the last PS with a Clio S1600. Good performance also for Melino with the 208 R2, who ended the race without any problems.

Photo: Tommaso Ciuffi with Fabio e Alex Munaretto