2018 Rally Italia Sardegna

2018 Rally Italia Sardegna
15°Rally Italia Sardegna
Round 7 of 13 in the 2018 World Rally Championship
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Host country Italy
Rally baseAlghero, Sardinia
Dates run7 – 10 June 2018
Start locationIttiri motocross track, Alghero
Finish locationArgentiera, Alghero
Stages20 (313.46 km; 194.78 miles)
Stage surfaceGravel
Transport distance1,072.92 km (666.68 miles)
Overall distance1,386.38 km (861.46 miles)
Statistics
Crews registered47
Crews45 at start, 34 at finish
Overall results
Overall winnerBelgium Thierry Neuville
Belgium Nicolas Gilsoul
South Korea Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT
3:29:18.7
Power Stage winnerBelgium Thierry Neuville
Belgium Nicolas Gilsoul
South Korea Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT
Support category results
WRC-2 winnerCzech Republic Jan Kopecký
Czech Republic Pavel Dresler
Czech Republic Škoda Motorsport II
3:42:33.3
WRC-3 winnerFrance Jean-Baptiste Franceschi
France Romain Courbon
France Équipe de France FFSA Rally
4:07:40.2

The 2018 Rally Italia Sardegna (formally known as the Rally Italia Sardegna 2018) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 7 and 10 June 2018.[1] It marked the fifteenth running of Rally Italia Sardegna, and was the seventh round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship and its support categories, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships.[2] The event was based in Alghero in Sardinia and consisted of twenty special stages totalling 313.46 km (194.78 mi) in competitive kilometres.[3]

Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja were the defending rally winners.[4] Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the rally winners. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the manufacturers' winners.[5] The Škoda Motorsport II crew of Jan Kopecký and Pavel Dresler won the World Rally Championship-2 category in a Škoda Fabia R5, while the crew of Jean-Baptiste Franceschi and Romain Courbon won the World Rally Championship-3.

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  2. ^ "Rally Aus retains WRC finale in 2018". speedcafe.com. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Rally Calendar Overview". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. Archived from the original on 29 December 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Tänak claims first win". wrc.com. WRC. 11 June 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  5. ^ "Breaking News: Neuville's Italy Stunner". wrc.com. WRC. 10 June 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2018.