2018 Rally Italia Sardegna

2018 Rally Italia Sardegna 15°Rally Italia Sardegna
Round 7 of 13 in the 2018 World Rally Championship ← Previous event Next event →
The Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC of Hayden Paddon and Sebastian Marshall during the Power stage.
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.