2018 Rally Italia Sardegna 15°Rally Italia Sardegna | |||
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Round 7 of 13 in the 2018 World Rally Championship
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Host country | Italy | ||
Rally base | Alghero, Sardinia | ||
Dates run | 7 – 10 June 2018 | ||
Start location | Ittiri motocross track, Alghero | ||
Finish location | Argentiera, Alghero | ||
Stages | 20 (313.46 km; 194.78 miles) | ||
Stage surface | Gravel | ||
Transport distance | 1,072.92 km (666.68 miles) | ||
Overall distance | 1,386.38 km (861.46 miles) | ||
Statistics | |||
Crews registered | 47 | ||
Crews | 45 at start, 34 at finish | ||
Overall results | |||
Overall winner | Thierry Neuville Nicolas Gilsoul Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT 3:29:18.7 | ||
Power Stage winner | Thierry Neuville Nicolas Gilsoul Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT | ||
Support category results | |||
WRC-2 winner | Jan Kopecký Pavel Dresler Škoda Motorsport II 3:42:33.3 | ||
WRC-3 winner | Jean-Baptiste Franceschi Romain Courbon 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.