The 2013 Rally Italia Sardegna was the seventh round of the 2013 World Rally Championship season. The event was based in Olbia, Gallura, and started on 21 June and was concluded on 23 June after twenty-three special stages, totaling 304.21 competitive kilometers.
Report
Sébastien Ogier held the lead of the rally from start to finish; with three stage wins on the first day, Ogier held a lead of 46.6 seconds over Mikko Hirvonen, who battled for second with Thierry Neuville, with a difference of only 3.1 seconds at the end of the day. Both Qatar M-Sport World Rally Team drivers, Mads Østberg and Evgeny Novikov retired. On the second day, Hirvonen started with a stage win, but on the next stage went wide and got stuck into a ditch, leaving second place to Neuville. Ogier's teammate, Jari-Matti Latvala recovered from 12th position after a puncture on stage one, to finish third. Dani Sordo was the best Citroën finisher in fourth, ahead of Martin Prokop in fifth, while Elfyn Evans finished sixth on his début in a World Rally Car. Michał Kościuszko got his best result of the year in seventh, ahead of Østberg – recovering from his accident – to finish eighth via Rally-2. Robert Kubica got his first championship points by finishing ninth and Khalid Al Qassimi completed the top ten finishers.
Entry list
Thirteen World Rally Cars were entered into the event, as were Thirteen WRC-2 entries and Ten WRC-3 entries.
Notable entrants Entrant Driver Co-driver Car 2 Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT WRC Mikko Hirvonen Jarmo Lehtinen Citroën DS3 WRC 3 Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT WRC Dani Sordo Carlos del Barrio Citroën DS3 WRC 4 Qatar M-Sport WRT WRC Mads Østberg Jonas Andersson Ford Fiesta RS WRC 5 Qatar M-Sport WRT WRC Evgeny Novikov Ilka Minor Ford Fiesta RS WRC 6 Qatar World Rally Team WRC Elfyn Evans Giovanni Bernacchini Ford Fiesta RS WRC 7 Volkswagen Motorsport WRC Jari-Matti Latvala Miikka Anttila Volkswagen Polo R WRC 8 Volkswagen Motorsport WRC Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia Volkswagen Polo R WRC 9 Volkswagen Motorsport II WRC Andreas Mikkelsen Mikko Markkula Volkswagen Polo R WRC 10 Abu Dhabi Citroën Total WRT WRC Khalid Al Qassimi Scott Martin Citroën DS3 WRC 11 Qatar World Rally Team WRC Thierry Neuville Nicolas Gilsoul Ford Fiesta RS WRC 12 Lotos Team WRC WRC Michal Kościuszko Maciej Szczepaniak Ford Fiesta RS WRC 21 Jipocar Czech National Team WRC Martin Prokop Michal Ernst Ford Fiesta RS WRC 22 AT Rally Team WRC Per-Gunnar Andersson Emil Axelsson Ford Fiesta RS WRC 32 Škoda Auto Deutschland WRC-2 Sepp Wiegand Frank Christian Škoda Fabia S2000 33 Stohl Racing WRC-2 Armin Kremer Klaus Wicha Subaru Impreza WRX STi 37 Lorenzo Bertelli WRC-2 Lorenzo Bertelli Mitia Dotta Ford Fiesta RRC 40 Arman Smailov WRC-2 Arman Smailov Andrei Rusov Subaru Impreza WRX STi 41 Nicolás Fuchs WRC-2 Nicolás Fuchs Fernando Mussano Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X 46 Marco Vallario WRC-2 Marco Vallario Antonio Pascale Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X 48 Seashore Qatar Rally Team WRC-2 Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari Killian Duffy Ford Fiesta RRC 49 Mentos Ascania Racing WRC-2 Oleksiy Kikireshko Sergei Larens Mini John Cooper Works S2000 50 Mentos Ascania Racing WRC-2 Valeriy Gorban Volodymir Korsia Mini John Cooper Works S2000 51 Sébastien Chardonnet WRC-3 Sébastien Chardonnet Thibault de la Haye Citroën DS3 R3T 52 Quentin Gilbert WRC-3 Quentin Gilbert Isabelle Galmiche Citroën DS3 R3T 53 Saintéloc Racing WRC-3 Alastair Fisher Gordon Noble Citroën DS3 R3T 56 Francesco Parli WRC-3 Francesco Parli Tania Canton Citroën DS3 R3T 57 Federico Della Casa WRC-3 Federico Della Casa Marco Menchini Citroën DS3 R3T 58 ADAC Team Weser-Ems WRC-3 Christian Riedemann Lara Vanneste Citroën DS3 R3T 59 Bryan Bouffier WRC-3 Bryan Bouffier Xavier Panseri Citroën DS3 R3T 60 Charles Hurst Citroën Belfast WRC-3 Keith Cronin Marshall Clarke Citroën DS3 R3T 61 Saintéloc Racing WRC-3 Simone Campedelli Danilo Fappani Citroën DS3 R3T 62 Stéphane Consani WRC-3 Stéphane Consani Maxime Vilmot Citroën DS3 R3T 71 Motortune Racing WRC-2 Ala'a Rasheed Joseph Matar Ford Fiesta RRC 72 Juan Carlos Alonso WRC-2 Juan Carlos Alonso Juan Pablo Monasterolo Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X 74 Robert Kubica WRC-2 Robert Kubica Maciek Baran Citroën DS3 RRC 82 MM Motorsport WRC-2 Yuriy Protasov Kuldar Sikk Ford Fiesta RRC Icon Class WRC WRC entries eligible toscore manufacturer points WRC Major entry ineligible toscore manufacturer points WRC-2 Registered to take part inWRC-2 championship WRC-3 Registered to take part inWRC-3 championshipJ-WRC Registered to take part inJunior WRC championship
Event Standing
Pos. Driver Co-driver Car Time Difference Points Overall Classification 1. Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia Volkswagen Polo R WRC 3:22:57.9 0.0 2. Thierry Neuville Nicolas Gilsoul Ford Fiesta RS WRC 3:24:14.7 +1:16.8 3. Jari-Matti Latvala Miikka Anttila Volkswagen Polo R WRC 3:24:45.9 +1:48.0 4. Dani Sordo Carlos del Barrio Citroën DS3 WRC 3:26:17.1 +3:19.2 125. Martin Prokop Michal Ernst Ford Fiesta RS WRC 3:31:32.0 +8:34.1 106. Elfyn Evans Giovanni Bernacchini Ford Fiesta RS WRC 3:34:49.7 +11:51.8 87. Michal Kościuszko Maciej Szczepaniak Ford Fiesta RS WRC 3:34:50.6 +11:52.7 68. Mads Østberg Jonas Andersson Ford Fiesta RS WRC 3:36:19.4 +13:21.5 49. (1. WRC-2) Robert Kubica Maciek Baran Citroën DS3 RRC 3:39:45.5 +16:47.6 210. Khalid Al Qassimi Scott Martin Citroën DS3 WRC 3:40:17.8 +17:19.9 1 WRC-21. (9.) Robert Kubica Maciek Baran Citroën DS3 RRC 3:39:45.5 0.0 252. (11.) Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari Killian Duffy Ford Fiesta RRC 3:44:02.5 +4:17.0 183. (12.) Lorenzo Bertelli Mitia Dotta Ford Fiesta RRC 3:46:04.0 +6:18.5 154. (14.) Nicolás Fuchs Fernando Mussano Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X 3:48:33.4 +8:47.9 125. (15.) Armin Kremer Klaus Wicha Subaru Impreza WRX STi 3:50:26.5 +10:41.0 106. (23.) Juan Carlos Alonso Juan Pablo Monasterolo Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X 4:06:49.9 +27:04.4 87. (28.) Ala'a Rasheed Joseph Matar Ford Fiesta RRC 4:16:37.3 +36:51.8 68. (30.) Marco Vallario Antonio Pascale Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X 4:23:33.8 +43:48.3 4 WRC-31. (16.) Christian Riedemann Lara Vanneste Citroën DS3 R3T 3:52:39.9 0.0 252. (17.) Keith Cronin Marshall Clarke Citroën DS3 R3T 3:57:45.3 +5:05.4 183. (19.) Quentin Gilbert Isabelle Galmiche Citroën DS3 R3T 4:01:59.2 +9:19.3 154. (21.) Sébastien Chardonnet Thibault de la Haye Citroën DS3 R3T 4:04:17.5 +11:37.6 125. (25.) Federico Della Casa Marco Menchini Citroën DS3 R3T 4:08:14.0 +15:34.1 106. (27.) Stéphane Consani Maxime Vilmot Citroën DS3 R3T 4:13:53.5 +21:13.6 87. (29.) Francesco Parli Tania Canton Citroën DS3 R3T 4:18:52.2 +26:12.3 68. (31.) Bryan Bouffier Xavier Panseri Citroën DS3 R3T 4:24:54.4 +32:14.5 49. (33.) Alastair Fisher Gordon Noble Citroën DS3 R3T 4:33:54.9 +41:15.0 2
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