2015 Rally d'Italia

2015 Rally d'Italia
12º Rally di Sardegna

Round 6 of the 2015 World Rally Championship season

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Host country Italy Italy
Rally base Alghero, Sardinia
Dates run June 11 June 14, 2015
Stages 23 (394.63 km; 245.21 mi)
Stage surface Gravel
Overall distance 1,553.11 km (965.06 mi)
Results
Overall winner France Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia
Germany Volkswagen Motorsport

The 2015 Rally d'Italia, held on Sardinia, was the sixth round of the 2015 World Rally Championship season. Sébastien Ogier obtained its fourth victory in this season.

Report

The rally began with a surprising Martin Prokop winning the Super Special Stage of Cagliari, followed by Dani Sordo (penalized for false start) and Mikkelsen. On the second day, new surprise with Hayden Paddon winning the first friday 3 sections, and at the end of SS 4 led the rally with 25.3 s lead over Latvala and Ogier on 27.5. In the remaining stages, Paddon controlled the pace, but a slight touch on the last stage reduced the advantage to only 8.8 s, now on Ogier who had exceeded his teammate. Dani Sordo was forced to leave after booting a wheel while Neuville suffered from problems such as turbo and handbrake and finished 6th. Meeke gave-up at SS 2 and Kubica did the same on the next.

It was necessary to reach the SS 17 and a spinning from Paddon for a VW take the rally lead. Ostberg was third, despite having traveled 20 km with a slow tyre leakage, having won 2 PEC before having new slow tyre leakage in the last SS. In this day Mikkelsen (lost a wheel) Sordo (lack of gas pressure), Kubica (3 holes and a stuck gearbox) and Tanak (gearbox jammed when he was 3rd place) dropped out while there were many hardships to Neuville (whipping-top, turbo and steering problems and 40s penalty) and Latvala (hole and crashed shock absorber for 2 sections). At the end of the day Ogier had a huge advantage over Paddon (2m13s) while Ostberg was 3 to 3m25s and Neuville 4th at 3m57s.

For the last day the attention was concentrated in the fight for the last podium spot between Ostberg and Neuville. A outwit from Ostberg (dropped to 5) delivered the 3rd to the Belgian. The power-stage was completely dominated by VW: Ogier, Latvala and Mikkelsen.

Special stages

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Day Stage
number
Stage name Length Stage winner Car
No.
Team Time Rally leader
11 Jun SS1 Italy Citta' Di Cagliari 2.50 km Czech Republic Martin Prokop
Czech Republic Jan Tománek
21 Czech Republic Jipocar Czech National Team 2:23.7 Czech Republic Martin Prokop
Czech Republic Jan Tománek
12 Jun SS2 Italy Grighine Sud 1 26.31 km New Zealand Hayden Paddon
New Zealand John Kennard
20 Germany Hyundai Motorsport N 18:15.0 New Zealand Hayden Paddon
New Zealand John Kennard
SS3 Italy Grighine Nord 1 18.34 km New Zealand Hayden Paddon
New Zealand John Kennard
20 Germany Hyundai Motorsport N 13:48.1
SS4 Italy Montiferru 1 14.41 km New Zealand Hayden Paddon
New Zealand John Kennard
20 Germany Hyundai Motorsport N 9:47.4
SS5 Italy Sagama 1 2.58 km France Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia
1 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport 2:09.6
SS6 Italy Sagama 2 2.58 km Finland Jari-Matti Latvala
Finland Miikka Anttila
2 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport 2:07.0
SS7 Italy Sinis - Mont' E Prama 14.08 km Estonia Ott Tänak
Estonia Raigo Mõlder
6 United Kingdom M-Sport World Rally Team 7:48.7
SS8 Italy Grighine Sud 2 22.45 km Finland Jari-Matti Latvala
Finland Miikka Anttila
2 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport 15:20.9
SS9 Italy Grighine Nord 2 18.34 km France Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia
1 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport 13:29.7
SS10 Italy Montiferru 2 14.41 km Finland Jari-Matti Latvala
Finland Miikka Anttila
2 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport 9:28.9
13 Jun SS11 Italy Ittiri Arena 1 1.40 km France Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia
1 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport 1:28.8
SS12 Italy Monti di Ala' 1 22.49 km Finland Jari-Matti Latvala
Finland Miikka Anttila
2 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport 13:51.2
SS13 Italy Coiluna-Loelle 1 36.69 km Norway Mads Østberg
Sweden Jonas Andersson
4 France Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT 24:04.1
SS14 Italy Monte Lerno 1 42.22 km Finland Jari-Matti Latvala
Finland Miikka Anttila
2 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport 28:37.4
SS15 Italy Ozieri-Ardara 7.23 km Finland Jari-Matti Latvala
Finland Miikka Anttila
2 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport 4:00.9
SS16 Italy Ittiri Arena 2 1.40 km Belgium Thierry Neuville
Belgium Nicolas Gilsoul
7 Germany Hyundai Motorsport 1:30.0
SS17 Italy Monti di Ala' 2 22.49 km France Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia
1 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport 13:38.9 France Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia
SS18 Italy Coiluna-Loelle 2 36.69 km Norway Mads Østberg
Sweden Jonas Andersson
4 France Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT 23:51.7
SS19 Italy Monte Lerno 2 42.22 km France Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia
1 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport 28:01.5
14 Jun SS20 Italy Olmedo monte Baranta 1 11.13 km New Zealand Hayden Paddon
New Zealand John Kennard
20 Germany Hyundai Motorsport N 8:10.7
SS21 Italy Cala Flumini 1 11.77 km France Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia
1 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport 7:36.3
SS22 Italy Olmedo monte Baranta 2 11.13 km Finland Jari-Matti Latvala
Finland Miikka Anttila
2 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport 7:56.3
SS23 Italy Cala Flumini 2 (Power Stage) 11.77 km France Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia
1 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport 7:15.9

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