7. Rally di Roma Capitale 2019
ERC #5 • ERC2 #5 • ERC3 #5 • RGT Cup #6 • ERC Ladies #5 • ERC1 Junior #5 • ERC3 Junior #5 • Italy #5 [coef 1] • Abarth Rally Cup #4
19. 7. – 21. 7. 2019, Roma - Fiuggi - Ostia Lido • asphalt 190.80 km • Other years
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SS16
"The guys have done great job after our accident last week. I want to thank them as well as to all our sponsors."
"This is crazy, when you aprroach the jump you go directly aginst the sun."
"Everything was OK, we learned a lot about this car on tarmac and about these stages. We are very happy, this city stage was funny."
I was putting much pressure on myself, we want to come back stronger at Barum. Massive thanks to my team, I'm sorry for me.
This stage is funny because it's really slippery.
The story of this raly for me was my fight with the handrbake. I'm happy we are in the finish.
"We are very very happy, it was a hard race, thanks to my codriver and to my team, thank you all."
"The weekend was fantastic, we enjoyed it a lot and we learned a lot."
We arrived second at the debut of the fiesta in the ERC, it's not so bad.
Actually I'm happy this circus is finished. Let's go home.
I don't know Alexey's time so we have to wait. But it's strong comeback from me, we had really good pace, looking forward to the future.
"We are quite lucky and very happy. Great fun for us, many spectators here, we are really happy."
"We arrived here with one second to Nucita, so difficult. He broke the driveshaft on the jump."
"I have mechanical problem on the rear right after the jump."
I'm not sure about the times here.
I maybe lost the second stage in the stage. I'm disappointed. I made a mistake on a jump.
Sorry for Bernardi, but I'm happy for us. Thanks to our team our partners and everyone. It was a tough weekend but Barum will be the toughest.
SS14
"I really pushed hard, really really hard. Melegari is 30 seconds in front, no mistakes, all OK, I really tried."
It's been quite tough, it was our second rally on tarmac, so I'm happy.
"So many hairpins, it was a nightmare. But we are in the finish of the rally and we are happy."
I'm really happy for my team.
We got back to the rhythm today, we were lucky to be here to do some testing for next year. I'm happy.
"Really challenging weekend, we tried many setup options and tyres, we have a lot of valuable informations now. Also my driving style is improving."
"We had really good chance to extend the leadership, so at least today I tried to do as much as possible. Massive effort of the whole team to collect some points today."
We enjoyed the driving these stages, from my side we did all we could. I don't care about anything else.
"Not so satisfied because we expected to be a bit quicker. But for the moment we understand where we are and how to work with the new car. It was great responsibility and we made a good job, we put all our effort to this weekend."
"This was our target before the race and we managed it. We had a luck yesterday, two short stages to go. Chris is faster today than me, but we keep the position."
"I think we could go faster in the second loop, but everything was absolutely OK. We learned a lot about these stages and I hope we will be back next year."
"Still overdriving, just not good performance by me, sorry to my team. We know we have the pace but this year we are something missing from me."
"Were on maximum attack and Pirelli tyres did really good job. They were working now in the afternoon really well."
I enjoyed it a lot, I am in little better mood than in Leiapaja, I'm happy now. It was my first tarmac experience with R5, now I know what to focus on and what to learn.
"We were struggling with the setup, but we have collected some Italian championship points."
For us it was a long weekend. It's good because because we got the feeling with the car, we were trying many solutions to the setup.
SS13
Nice stage, we like it, it's OK.
"This one suited us the worst from the whole loop. We have to check the front wheel, there is probably a slow puncture."
"Much much better, we found the rhythm, we are much more confident. Very very happy."
"Everything fine, very clean, no problems."
"Everything is fine, I just need to learn driving hairpins. The car works perfect, I think our pace is not bad."
"Difficult, we missed a junction."
I don't know what to say, actually.
"When we see where we started yesterday, when we struggled with setup and tyres, we have to be now satisfied. But still there are some tricky stages."
"No reason for me to risk, because my target is to keep the positon in ERC1 Junior. We probably will not keep the overall position, maybe one day."
It's OK, we changed the setup little bit and pacenotes as well and I'm mor confident now.
I'm trying to run slower and more relaxed. Not trying to push, I was just overdriving the whole rally.
We are pushing like hell. The weather is very hot, sometimes it's easy to lose the car. The target is to finish on the podium.
"Second time here feels much better, we are getting the confidence. We spun in the last stage but now it was more or less OK."
"The same like in the first loop for us, everything is good."
SS11
"Really bad because the steering wheel buttons are not working, it was hard to start the stage without it. We will try to fix it now."
Mechanics made a great job and the car is fixed. I'm lucky.
"The clutch is OK now."
I'm happy, but more tired, in the car it's like in sauna. The grip is good, tyres are good, but I still struggle in hairpins.
It's like night and day yesterday and today, we enjoy ourselves, the car and tyres. No risk, but I hope we are going to jump over Arai.
"Everything is OK. We just go from stage to stage."
"Very good, we could attack now with checked pacenotes."
It's just like it is, we are doing it for the future.
Nothing major, we had a spin on a hairpin. It's our standard.
"Everything OK, now we use old tyres, we will use new tyres on the next stage."
"We made some adjustments so the feeling is not bad."
"We are not in the battle with Alexey but we want to keep the level of the current pressure. We are trying with the team to put all our effort to the car."
"I think my time is not so good as I hoped, I try to push little bit more in next stages. Our target is to finish the rally in the first position in Juniors."
I'm a junior but not with my age. I made a mistake on the start, after three or four kilometers I realized that something was not OK, the stage mode was not switched on.
I'm just trying completely different approach now.
It could be much better, my driving style was little bit too aggressive. I'm trying to catch Mareš, but it's not easy.
It's better and better, we feel more or less comfortable. But no big push, the car is perfeect.
"Warmup stage for us, not fast."
SS10
"Everything was OK, I was pushing flatout, I hope the second loop will be similar."
"The first two were OK, the third one we were struggling with the tyres and now it was similar."
"I think it was OK, good time, it was brilliant and we enjoy ourselves."
Not perfect, it's really hard, really tough, but I like it.
"We have to stay on the line and make no mistakes."
Very clean and fast stage, I'm happy.
There were yellow flags, but I don't know why, we didn't see anything, but we slowed down little bit. But OK, everything is going well.
"A made a mistake on braking and went off."
"The clutch is gone."
Good, good, very hot weather, I feel older when it's so hot.
"Now it was much better than yesterday."
"Good for us, we have better pace, however Emma had some technical problems."
"Much better, we found more confidence, we checked up our pcenotes. We go step by step. We are happy."
Every stage I try to go clean and nice, we need the information for the future. Let's continue in the second loop.
Not bad, it's hard to find the rhythm and concentration after so many mistakes. Thanks to all our mechanics. So far all good.
"The first loop was OK so we are happy, now we go to the service."
"The first stage was quite bad, It was a mess with the setup, but next stages were quite OK."
We tried to make some changes to the car and it's better and better. Now we are closer to our competitors. We need to develop the car as much as we can during this weekend.
My tyres weren't the best ones for this section, so we took it steady without any risk.
"We enjoyed this stage, it was very fast and similar to stages in our country. We are pushing."
I'm disappointed with myself on this rally. I had two spins in the previous stage.
"I cought a rock on the road so I lost the rhythm. I push as I can."
Actually this loop wasn't the best, we were struggling all the time.
It's OK, the stage was good for me, faster and clean.
"In the previous stage I had a spin. Here I was struggling to manage the tyre grip, it was changing."
SS9
It's OK. I think I can be happy. First rally with this car, we work with the setup.
OK, honestly the first stage I had a mistake in my pacenotes. The car is OK, maybe the drive should be more flowing. I'm try my best to adapt to the R2.
"We do our job, after problems guys had yesterday we have some advantage, so we test and try some things."
"This stage was better than the previous."
I'm pushing hard, I hope to get the podium.
"Good fun, better stages than yesterday. The car is great, we enjoy it."
"I think the previous stage was better than this one. I made one more change to the car and it was worse."
It was a difficult stage, really tough. It's a nice fight I think.
"We tried to be clean and to push a little. The time is not so bad."
This morning, all is OK, the feeling is good. We are disappointed with yesterday, but it's like that.
We try our best, we push really hard. Let's see, no problem.
"We have something with the clutch, I hope to finish the next stage."
So far so good, I'm not very comfortable with the handbrake in this rally, maybe the tarmac has more grip than usual, I always lose the concentration. This is something we have to mprove. But I'm having lot of fun anyway.
"We are happy to be here, we are slowly getting to the rhythm."
"The pacenotes were incorrect, I had few moments especially here in the finish, I almost went off. I try to catch Arai and Emma Falcon."
I'm doing my best, that's all. This stage is perfect, it's just my maximum.
"We keep going. Thanks to the team, they were working up to the morning."
"When we are flatout on the downhill we are in the battle, but we struggle on the hairpins. We push as we can."
I'm trying to push, quite OK. But I don't know if it's enough because in the final part I wasn't very clean, too many sideways.
We tried somedifferent style of pacenotes here. We are improving. It's our first rally with all this, but it's OK. I'm getting used to it.
"We had a spin."
It's OK. Today stages are more friendly, it's cleaner. But it's hard.
SS7
"I hope to keep this position, it will be a hard fight with Llarena."
I think it's OK. I just tried to get the right rhythm. We need to keep smart.
I lost my time in the morning, my mistake, but we managed it. Now I didn't push too much, we had a steady run.
I think today it's better for me, it's similar to Canary islands.
Very slippery, I don't know the setup for the tarmac. But I hope it will be a good day.
"Yesterday it was my mistake, now I try to get back to the rhythm. The car and everything is perfect, but we need to concentrate."
We had a smooth run, we put the car down and it's harder, we started nicely today.
We just have to do the best what we can do. It's all about it.
I'm happy, we started with a good pace.
"Yesterday I corrected pacenotes in service according to onboard and I did it wrong. Today I hope for some points, but it will be difficult to keep the concentration."
"Everything OK, it was a short special stage, all OK."
It's good. Not really pushing, but driving carefully. It's fine.
"I tried to attack from the first corner, I push as I can."
"I took it carefully at the beginning of the day, but maybe too much. But many stages to go, we can improve."
"Good warmup for today. I just did some mistakes, but it was OK."
"Not bad, just overdriving, I put much pressure on myself. I have to find the rhythm."
"New stage, so couple of mistakes. The rhythm for the warmup was not so bad."
"Well it was quite bad warmup. I think we were quite sleepy."
"It was sliding on the front, we took it cautious."
The stage is OK, it's another day today.
SS6
"Quite difficult actually."
I'm very happy, we wanted to do it to the end of the day because the stages were really tricky. It's exciting.
We are here, that's the most important. First tarmac leg in my life, it was very hard.
"We have problems with clutch."
I don't know the time, but I think it wasn't very good. We had some problems with tyre pressure now.
I don't know if the time is good. Very tough rally, we had a puncture in the morning. We will try to push hard tomorrow.
Now I'm happy, no mistakes, we will see.
It's quite hot in the car. I hope it's going better and better. I enjoy it a lot actually and I learn the tarmac.
This one was tricky, brakes and tyres are overheating. I don't want to make any mistakes, we are on good points now.
I'm sorry for Nucita, but now we are third in the ERC2, so I'm happy.
"We are in the end of the first leg, we are very tired. The car is easy to drive, but I have to learn it. We changed the setup. For sure we will drive this car at Barum."
It's a big shame with Nucita. We have also problem with turbocharger, there was a lot of smoke and smell, we have a headache from it.
In the previous stage I forgot to lock the boot in the rear. Now I'm little bit tired, also the engine has not 100% power, but we are here.
It's not good, I'm not concentrated. We need to improve the setup for this rally.
"I think the car was very tough this afternoon, we still have to work on it. But the rest is OK, we improved in the second loop and no punctures."
"Good fun, nice event. I love to be in Italy."
To be honest we struggled a bit. The potential of the car is high, but every stage we found something. In this stage I really tried to push. We don't give up, we are still on the game.
We are here for today, it's really cool. It was nice and hot.
We are here, but it wasn't the best day.
We were with my co-driver Veronika putting the wheels on and out to manage it with punctured tyres. We didn't really push, we were really cautios, hopefully we make it to the service.
"In the middle of the stage we got a front puncture. But we are happy because the car was better in the afternoon."
"I have no brakes."
"No grip, I tried the hardest compound but it was so slippy. I had one spin, I lost a lot of time, what can I do. Really tricky."
"We tried to push quite hard, but in the end our tyres were gone completely."
"Very difficult day, happy to be in the end. Unlucky, frustrating, but promising."
"Everything OK, we are very happy. Now we go to service and prepare the car for tomorrow."
"Good, we tried to push, but we lost more than two minutes today. We will try to gain the position tomorrow as much as possible. We need to keep working."
I'm really happy of this amazingly difficult day, it was probably the most difficult day on tarmac for me.
SS5
"In the morning we were losing time to Abarths, now we try to keep the gap."
"This stage was good, but the car has a problem with switching the gear up. We also had a spin in the previous stage."
"Problems again, we have some problem with turbocharging and some fuel leak, there is a huge smell in the car."
It's all OK, in the stage the car is incredible, I'm getting more feeling with that.
"Unfortunately we had a delay in the beginning so we were starting with colder tyres, had a spin, hit a small wall and got a puncture. But this stage it was OK, we are surviving the rally."
"We had a problem with a pop-off we lost a little time with that."
It's better now, I think we improved the car in the service, but the pop-off opened maybe three times, I think we have to change it.
"It was slippery, but good fun. This is really difficult."
"To be honest last year we were able to win stages, this time we are still struggling, we are bit far from where we expected to be."
It's really really hot in here. It was good, it's getting better and better, the time is not bad for us in the R5 on tarmac.
"Everything is OK. "
"What can I say, we put this wheel on the car before the stage because if it looked OK."
"The feeling is little bit better, it is OK, but we need to change the setup as the car is sometimes too hard."
It's OK, reasonable time, no pushing because we have zero spares.
Maybe this is the first time we finish the stage without any problem. But we have to adjust the setup, I'm quite fighting with the car.
This was a nice stage, but we spun in a hairpin, it's a frustrating day.
"This stage was OK, no problem. We just were cautious in hairpins, in general we improved the setup, this loop is going quite well for us."
"Previous stage was a gamble like every year. We will see how many positions we can gain until the end of the day. We need to stay positive."
"I decided to slow down little bit, because the previous one was crazy generally and the pace was quite high."
SS4
"We changed the setup little bit, we stayed out of any trouble now. But we still struggle little bit, we keep focused on our position in the championship."
We had a puncture here in the first loop, now ot was quite clean run. It's hot in the car.
In about fifth kilometer there was a stone in the line and I couldn't avoid it, then we cut one corner and got another puncture.
"Everything is OK, this time no puncture. We try to go step by step."
"We changed the setup and now it was better, the car is OK."
"We got it maybe seven kilometers before the finish."
"Just like in the morning I ran maybe seven kilometers on flat tyre."
"It was OK, much better than in the first loop. We have changed the setup and what is interesting to me the road was quite clean."
It's much better now, we are much more confident on the new brakes. It's a tricky stage.
"No problem for us, clean run. I saw one car changing the puncture and Rossetti out of the road."
It's OK, we are happy.
"I had a puncture and we changed it in the stage."
Very tough, I tried to push little bit and the time is better, but let's see what other guys will do.
SS3
Off Road
Clutch doesn't work, the pedal is down.
Really challenging, it's my first time with this car. I'm happy to be here, but I hope to push more in the second loop.
It was really hard for brakes. But it's quite fun.
I have a big problem with the car, but I don't know what it is. It's really hard to drive it.
"I have a good feeling. It was very hard."
"Really difficult, we have some problems with the car, mainly the water temperature and clutch."
"I had a puncture in the morning, but I was trying to push hard."
We had a slow puncture in the first stage, the second stage wasn't perfect, but this one was good.
"We tried to push now, we had a problem with temperature of the tyres, but the time is OK."
I'm not so happy with the car in this stage. Every stage has different characteristics and it's hard to find the right compromise.
Quite difficult, this one wasn't very fast from me. I took it carefuly.
"Tricky stages, but this one was nice, I liked it."
This morning the stages were OK. We didn't push too much, but the time was OK.
"Hot inside, we keep steady rhythm. Now it was little bit better with the feeling of the car. Looking forward to the next stages."
Very hot today. I'm happy for our rhythm, it's all good at the moment.
"Lot of fun, but we need to work a lot. But so far so good."
It's very hot here, this stage was better than the previous one. We lost some time in few corners.
"I think the car is good on fast corners, but we are losing time on slow corners. In narrow corners we have a lot of understeer and I have to brake in the middle."
"Very hard and very hot in the car. But we are having fun, just keep going."
"On this one I tried to get back to the rhythm. I have a lot of benchmarks here from previous year, we are struggling still little bit. But the car definitely has a potential."
"We are careful because we have no spares. But we are learning the car on the tarmac, this one was better than the previous one."
"We had a double puncture in the first stage so we drove carefully without pushing."
"The first loop was learning for me. After the second stage we have some error on the ECU. We will try in the second round."
"The car moves a lot, like a soap."
"This is incredible stage, so smooth tarmac, not so much grip on it. I hope I can increase the pace little bit."
"The tyres are already delaminated and we just need to get to the service."
"Very hot in the car. This stage was quite OK for us, I look forward for the next loop, I hope we will push more."
Still the same, no rear brakes. I can't push anymore.
"This was OK, no mistakes this time. We lost the confidence in the previous stage, but at this stage the car worked quite OK. I had already three spins in two previous stages."
"We were struggling with the setup, sometimes it was hard to go fast and to push. Now there is a service, we will see in the afternoon."
"Not bad, but sometimes I was out of the rhythm. if we look at this morning it is good so far."
"Hard. But we are really happy that we are in the finish of the first section. I hope to be faster in the second loop, we go step by step."
SS2
Off Road
"Only small problem, I overheated the tyres in the first section of the stage, but the time seems good."
This stage was quite OK, I didn't go to cuttings to avoid the puncture, just to be careful.
"The first stage was well for us, but this one was really bad for me. Bad rhythm, I need to focus on the next one, maybe slow down little bit and to stay in the line."
"All good, in the previous stage we lost the brakes but now it was good."
It's easy to use this car, but the road is so narrow. This stage we had some problems with water temperature, so the concentration wasn't good. We did this stage wothout big boost.
It was much better than the first one, the first one was really tough. For us it's still the beginning of the rally.
It's all OK, the rhythm today is very good and very fast I think.
"After we did the Pico stage without any problem the rest of the rally looks easy. We are trying to stay in the lines and getting faster."
"We struggled little bit with the front."
"I had a puncture on the previous one, now it was a good fun."
"Unfortunately on this stage we had a puncture when we cut the corner. At this moment my confidence with the car is still not OK."
"It was quite bad, we lost so much with the puncture. Now we have no spares. Now we have to be precise."
Not good, in the first stage we had a puncture and now we don't push hard, not cutting the corners.
"I was focused on the helicopter, lost the concentration and spun in the hairpin. I was trying to take it easy because many drivers are off or have punctures, I wanted to avoid that."
"The car is OK, we are happy."
It's quite hot, I'm sweating a lot. We are almost one second per kilometer slower, the pop-off is still opening.
"The first stage was just superdifficult, no room for error. But this stage is nice, I know it from previous year."
I spun once. We have no spare tyres so we just need to get carefully through. It's quite hard at the moment.
"I did a little mistake after the start, we hit little bit the rear of the car. Few corners I was checking if the car was ready or not, but we were lucky and we are here."
We have a problem with the rear brakes, it's overheating. We need to get to the service and then we can push.
"My morning is actually quite bad, the setup is disasterous. We lost about twenty seconds here in the jairpins."
This stage was clean for us, the time is also good. In the first stage we struggled a lot, it was very slippery. Let's see, the rally is long and we have a time to work with the car.
"The first one was not easy for everyone. This stage I know very well from the previous season so I tried to push, the time should be OK."
It's tricky, it's amazingly difficult for me to combine these stages with the R5 for the first time here.
SS1
Off road -> Rally2
Puncture, changed wheel
Puncture
Puncture
"We wanted to prove how the pacenotes work. In the end the brakes were overheated."
"I thought we had a puncture, strange feeling. We are not where we want to be."
"We had a problem with pop-off vlave."
"First stage, so and so."
Stopped - Changing Wheel
"Difficult, very difficult stage to start. Very narrow, we're happy to be here without losing too much time. We're happy"
"I've got a front left puncture, 10 km before the finish line. I think it's due to the heat"
"I've been driving carefully because we have hard tyres to avoid punctures"
"I'm without brakes, very disappointed, since the start of the stage I'm without brakes."
"Wasn't easy, in some places I went good, in other i didn't trusted the grip. Tricky stage"
"I've struggled a bit more than last year. At the start i made a little mistake, then I pushed a but more"
"I struggled, I've been careful, wasn't easy. It's also difficult to understand braking grip"
"Very difficult, very tricky. Driving with only pacenotes has been difficult. We have hard tyres, so I'm happy. Very careful. Our time is good in a stage like this with these tyres."
"Wasn't easy to find the rythm, didn't know what to expect with the yesterday's rain. I tried to push, I think I had a puncture. Not easy to start here in Pico. So far, so good."
"Very tricky stage, very difficult for me, the first time with this car"
Off Road