Alessandro Botturi won the Sardegna Rally Race

Special Edition! The seventh Sardegna Rally Race really is. In the small galaxy of the Great Rallyes, in fact, a new star is born (tremendous opportunity rhetoric!), Alessandro Botturi. At the third attempt the Giant Lumezzane won the more difficult Rally of the World Championship, imposing the authority, so far unknown, of the "dictator", and leaving stunned the elite of the Cross-Country.

Of course, the opponents have suffered the terrifying certainty with which Botturi won Special Stages, Stages, and finally the Race, and it is bound to be admired in front of the special talent that Botturi has demonstrated. But one thing is to be mature, and quite another to fall from the tree. This is the metaphor of a talented Rider that has turned into an excellent tactician and a superfine "navigator", thanks to the hard work which has gone into. If you add the physique du role, Botturi was champion of Rugby, and the successful experience of ten years of Enduro, it is easy to understand how Botturi was able to conquer the lead of the Rally on the third day, and how he then controlled the race until the epilogue of San Teodoro.

The "secret" of the hellish pressure exerted by Alessandro Botturi on his opponents is also in choosing tactics. Never he pushed beyond the red zone, always he chose high pace instead of pure speed, and always he handled with extreme accuracy the management of navigation instruments and the road book.

The eloquent synthesis of all these special aptitudes fielded by Botturi is the gap, never seen before in the history of the Sardinia Rally Race. Marc Coma, who also has had its minor technical problems (road book, navigation equipment) and has allowed a certain space also to errors, is second with a delay of more than seven minutes from the Italian, even if fortunately the Spanish Champion consoles himself with the conquest of the provisional leadership of the World Championship.

The seventh Podium of SRR is completed by two Spanish Riders, Catalan indeed. Marc Coma (KTM) and Gerard Farres (Gas Gas). The Champion of the Dakar says he was wrong too many times, and despite the breakup of tripmaster at the crucial moment of the chase to Botturi, he has never been able to get into a good tune with the Race. Farres, by contrast, was able to perfectly "calibrate" both the personal and the Factory important project, showing a high level of effectiveness and efficiency.

Honda Riders have been less lucky, because navigation errors and small technical problems have added little trouble in crucial moments of the race. Gonçalves, 4th and leading the second day of the Rally, has been slowed by the failure of the front brake, just in the middle of the Marathon Stage. Rodrigues was stopped by breaking the rear sprocket against a rock. Barreda, who also won two Special Stages, sold on small errors and a couple of falls, the last of which, very strong, a hundred kilometers from San Teodoro.

Finally, Paolo Ceci who won the ranking given to the Open category (motorcycles over 450cc), and Poland's Rafal Sonik clinched the success of the Quad catagory.

1500 kilometers of route in total, 800 of Special Stages, Five Stages, 9 selective sectors. It was a giant ring through places that enhance the beauty of the island… this his Sardegna. Then, all the best Riders in the world, all the Factory Teams, a fantastic competitive tension growing every day, and a memorable epilogue ... this is Rally Race.