9. Rally di Roma Capitale 2021
ERC #3 • ERC2 #3 • ERC3 #3 • RGT Cup #3 • ERC Junior #3 • ERC Ladies #3 • ERC3 Junior #3 • Italy #5 [coef 1.5] • Abarth Rally Cup #3
23. 7. – 25. 7. 2021, Roma • Motorsport Italia • asphalt 190.09 km • Other years
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SS13
"It was difficult, but interesting experience. From stage to stage it was better and better."
"Maybe I was expecting something better, but we had problems, but we still recovered quite well. We have lot of kilometers to gain."
"This time we learne and we learned a lot. I'm happy with the work, good to be here."
"It was fantastic, I learned a lot. I think we can be much faster but we have to get used to that."
"I enjoyed the whole race, but I'm not happy because we had a puncture and lost the podium."
"I wanted to win, but to complete is good also, I'm happy."
"I did a maximum, the car worked well, I'm happy with the stage."
"It was a good weekend, we got a lot of knowledge about new tyres. I'm hapy for the team."
"We are waiting for Franceschi and Cachon, then we will see. It was difficult weekend, very hot with twisty roads."
"It was very good rally for us, today was very long and difficult day, but we are happy, it was perfect rally for this car."
"We are so happy for the work done, good experience with this car on tarmac, it's fantastic."
"It was very difficult rally, we had small problems yesterday. But we are quite happy, we worked hard and finished the rally."
"I really enjoyed first tarmac rally with this car, most of the rally was really nice."
"All good."
"We are very happy, two our cars on the podium, good job."
"We are here in the finish, I'm happy for my team and sponsors, I hope to come next year and to be better."
"We are here in the finish, I'm happy for my team and sponsors, I hope to come next year and to be better."
"It was successful weekend, we really enjoyed all stages and the rally."
"Not the result we expected, but we learned a lot. The pace today was better but still not enough."
"Yesterday we had a problem but thanks to my team the fixed it and today it was going well. Now we are going to Barum. I really enjoyed this stage."
"I can't say bad words now, we found some new good things. It's solid base for next races."
"I tried on the last one but I went off. I came back in wrong direction, and had to reverse. My mistake."
"I got a puncture on the gravel. I don't know what to say."
puncture
"We finished and we are happy, this rally was difficult."
"I have to say the really nice, the stage were beautiful. We enjoyed this weekend."
"I'm really happy, we had lot of troubles, it was impossible to fight for the top. We will try next year."
"It was a long rally, really nice one with difficult stages. We enjoyed and I'm happy to be here. I'm OK with our pace without any risk."
"We are waiting for Crugnola, but anyway we are happy. Thanks to my team, great rally."
"It was very hard rally, puncture ruined our result."
"This was sport over the whole weekend. Efren is very young and very fast, congratulations. Few years ago we couldn't reach the podium, we did a lot of work since then with our team and partners. It was a big fight."
"I did all my best, we are very happy. It was really hard fight."
"I'm very happy, I think this was our best rally, we could fight with top Italian drivers, we are on the pace on the tarmac and it's great progress."
"We are happy because we are in the finish of Rally Rome, but at the start of this stage I had a spin, I lost maybe 10 seconds. It was very difficult weekend."
puncture
"We finished with a puncture so it finished like the whole rally, very difficult. "
spin
"Very hard weekend for us. Of course I'm not happy, we have to study the problem, this was not our time."
SS12
accident
"I lost one or two seconds but the time is good."
"It was a nice stage, we are happy. We will push in the last one."
"We are enjoying, still bit srtruggling with the tyres."
"I lost the brakes at the end of the stage. It was crazy, bumpy."
"It's real fun again, there is a lot of gravel, we have to be careful, but the car works well."
"Very dirty, but I enjoyed the stage."
"This afternoon we are happy, we enjoy the stages and want to keep the fourth place."
"One chicane was too tight and I was too fast. But I really enjoyed the stage."
"We need to finish the last stage, but it's perfect weekend."
"Very very difficult, I want to finish and continue learning."
"Pushing hard, the breakes starte to go out. But lovely stage."
puncture
"I have no words. I don't know where I got it."
"It was OK, my pacenotes are not really great, it's too kind."
"The rear was overheating, it could be better, but I'm happy."
"It's fine, one more to go. Really enjoyable."
"IN one corner I was too fast, but nothing happened."
"I tried to drive through without any mistakes, it was more dirty than before, it's easy to get a puncture."
"I had a puncture so I was careful."
"I had a puncture so I was careful."
"The feeling is much better than before because we changed little bit the car, we can manage the tyre more now."
"Not so good, the last part was full of dirt. We were making sure not to make a mistake."
"Good stage for us, we could be faster, but we are trying and calm and safe at the same time."
"The grip was OK, tyres are working very good, but I have to manage it during the stages."
"Other drivers are fast for me, there was a lot of gravel, very difficult."
"The stage is beautiful, it's not clean like first lap, but it's OK."
SS10
"The stage was very tricky and destroyed with many stones. But we are OK."
"It was really good. Busy, but very good."
"Really good battle, but we lost the brakes in the end so it was crazy."
"It's really nice to be in this battle."
"It was nice, we did some suspension adjustments and the car feels nice."
"It's going better and better, still lot of work on my driving, but I'm happy."
"It's much more slippery than in the morning, we had a spin."
"I'm fighting with my own confidence. Still few stages ahead, I need to stay concentrated."
"I learned that i have to drive clean and keep in the lines."
"That was better, but guys in front are pushing like hell."
"Problem, puncture, we had to change."
"It's good, I took it the most attacking."
"Very good stage."
"This stage is amazing, we enjoy it a lot. We need to keep pushing."
"In the beginning the tyres were good but from the middle it was hard to drive."
"We are trying to manage the distace. The stage is very dirty."
"The stage was cleaner than before, but we did some mistakes."
"All good, this stage is crazy but we enjoy it. We have more confidence with the car now."
"I tried to push."
"It's quite nice, lot of gravel, but generally nice and clean stage for us."
"It's OK, but we went slower with cold tyres after the delay."
"All good."
rolled, stage interrupted
"Unfortunately Josh went off and blocked the road, it happens, not so good."
"It's frustrating, I try to drive well, but my brakes are out."
"Good stage for me, we improved our time. I'm happy."
"All is about experience, now I tried to push a lot but in some corners I was too fast and out of line."
"Much better, we made some changes and it works, the tyres are also better. There is a lot of stones so I'm affraid and try to keep in the lines."
"It was fine. We had understeer, I don't know why."
"This stage was better, because mechanics worked on the car in service and the suspension is beautiful now."
"We had great start this morning. This loop the road is getting dirty. We are quite happy."
"Good run, thanks to the team they did great job in the service, they changed the powersteering on time."
"It's OK, really hard stage for me, guys are really really fast here."
"I tried to push little bit. We had a puncture in the morning, I think we just need to keep the position."
"Everything OK, but we are not pushing very hard."
"After start out tyres were cold and we slid to barrier, but nothing happened."
"So difficult, in slow corners there is a lot of rocks, it's tricky."
puncture
"Could be better, I tried to push but in some places there were some ploutions on the road and I was careful there."
"In the middle of the stage there were animals on the road, I had to slow down."
"Bit better than the first loop. The stages are beautiful, enjoy to drive."
"This stage I found lot of rocks on the road, part of the stage was very slippery."
SS9
"It was a good stage, but difficult."
"The stage was very difficult, but not bad."
"The stage started OK, but halfway through we got some problems with transmissions."
"We restarted with cold tyres, but it's part of the game. New experience."
"It was OK, the tarmac is different than yesterday."
"Everything was quite OK, I was looking forward for this stage, but it's like that. Hopefully guys are OK."
"We had a red flag. Anyway the morning stages were lovely."
"In the end guys in front put some dirt on the road and we got a puncture."
"Nice one, it was a good morning. Fast and complicated stages."
"Very dirty special stage, and long one, we try to concentrate."
"I think I was too careful, but I enjoyed the stage."
"We tried, unfortunately in the end the tyres were done, the time is not OK."
"We did some setup changes in the road section, but now we have problem with brakes."
"We were waiting for this stage. It was not perfect, but good, I'm happy to be here."
"Very difficult stage, but beautiful. This morning it's OK for us."
"I thought we got a puncture."
"This one was OK. We have to go slow and learn for next years."
SS8
puncture
SS7
"Very good stage, long and difficult."
"Stage was good, we got back the right feeling."
"I lost the time in some corners, let's see in the next one."
"We had quite OK stage, but this was our first stage of the recce so the pacenotes are not good."
"Difficult stage, quite good but we lost some time somewhere."
"Very nice stage for warmup, we had a good time so we are happy."
"I'm not satisfied with the rhythm in this stage."
"It was nice, I'm so happy to be here, I'm trying to be better with the brakes."
"It's longer than expected to warmup."
"OK, I tried to concetrate on the driving and not to think about the time."
"It was quite OK, nothing special happened."
"It was OK, but very difficult stage for me."
"Everything OK, early morning for us."
"It was not so good, our pacenotes are not very good in this stage."
"Still struggling with engine, I don't know which gear I should be running."
"The car is perfect, we are going to push in next stages."
"The plan is to push, but it's difficult. The fight is on."
"I don't have any confidence with the car."
"Lot of work, my notes are not right."
"It will be a long day. We have to manage the tyres."
"The stage was beautiful, very hard for the morning. Quite a lot of gravel."
"Crazy stage, very flatout, but we enjoy it."
"Difficult stage, hard to keep the rhythm. But the car works quite well today."
"It's quite nice stage, enjoyable drive."
"I don't know, we have some problem."
"Good, I had quite good flow but sometimes I was braking too much. "
"It was a nice stage, but difficult. We don't risk anything."
"Good, but tricky stage, I need to stay focused."
"Quite good."
"We caught the car in front and in the gravel section we couldn't see anything."
"Not so good, but OK we got through."
"Long one, there were some rain drop in the middle so we were cautious."
"It started well so far so good. We didn't change the setup, we are here to learn."
"It was OK, it's a nice stage, just little dirty in the middle section."
"It's OK, we did some setup changes and I feel not good, but the times is quite OK. It's not as I expected."
"It was OK, very beautiful stage, OK stage. Better rhythm than yesterday."
"Big attack, I think we drive really well. We have to respect the tyres."
"Tricky over places with everything."
"It was a hard stage, we are happy to be here. It's a long day."
"It was good, we would like to be faster, but it's OK."
"Everything OK, the stage was difficult because there was gravel, but OK."
"Not an easy morning, the rear is not easy on turning, we have to do something."
"Beautiful stage, clean for us."
"Everything was OK, some places were dirty, I don't know why. In the gravel sections I was cautious."
"I don't know, but the tyres were working very well."
"Not easy, it was not easy to find the pace. In the gravel section I was careful not to get the puncture."
SS6
"Very good afternoon, in the morning we lost some time, but we are very happy."
"It was a good day, but we had a slow puncture. But we are happy."
"This loop was much better than the first one. We changed tyres and suspension, it's bit harder now."
"We lost some time in the first part of the previous, but generally we learned a lot how to use this car here."
"We had brake problems also in the afternoon, I need to learn how to use it on these stages."
"OK I think my driving is getting better but we still need to improve a lot of things."
"We are very happy, I think we had a good day."
"First stage was better, in the next one I lost the brakes. This one I just got through without problems. We will do our best tomorrow."
"Everything is OK, I'm very happy."
"It was OK generally, only in the second loop we had used tyres. But we finished today leading the class."
"Really nice day, I'm happy with our pace. We have a lot of work to do tomorrow."
"Very hard day, very hot, tomorrow more fight."
"The feeling wih the car was good, but we did a lot of mistakes. Tomorrow we will push hard."
"Quite satisfied, it was difficult day as we had some problems with brakes, but finally we are back in the fight."
"It was fantastic, we were doing our best to catch Feofanov. But we had to restart the car twice in the stages."
"It's OK, we would like to be faster, but it's fine."
"Nice stage, I'm very happy because it's not easy rally, but it's going well, the car is fantastic."
"We are happy about this loop, happy to be here."
"Good day for all team, good job, the car is perfect. Tomorrow will be hard day, I need to sleep well."
"The finish of the day was little bit better, but we will use different setup tomorrow."
"We had many problems so I'm very happy to be here."
"I tried my best, after one year break the concntration is not easy. But we are happy to finish the day."
"I'm losing in corners."
"We are happy to be here, tomorrow will be bit more technical."
"The car was really amazing in the afternoon, we enjoyed it."
"I think it was a good day, we had to get used to new tyres, now we are ready for tomorrow."
"We are quite happy with the day in the general, not very much with the second loop because of the tyre choice."
"Very hard day, we had a lot of mistakes."
"It's good to be at the end of the day. Everything on the car sorted now."
"Difficult for me, we took different setup for suspension and tyres."
"Quite good, we had a problem with the car, but we fixed and now we have to improve ourselves. The Italians are going really fast."
"Little improvement on the last stage, I'm happy with my driving. It could be start point not for tomorrow but for other races."
"We enjoyed the stages, it was quite fine. Pretty crazy day."
"It's going really nice, I can't be happy for the situation which we have, but we need to continue our job and we continue tomorrow."
"We should be a bit faster, we are missing something a bit, but in terms of the championship it's fine."
"Really good day for us, we tried to be fast. We had no experience with this car on tarmac so we were working with the setup. Tomorrow will be a long day."
"It's been almost a year since my last time of tarmac, so it was difficult. Struggling with understeer, I hope tomorrow it's better."
"OK, really short stage, the tyre choice was not optimal. Tough day, we were struggling with the setup, we hope to improve tomorrow."
"Difficult day, but we are happy to be here now, second place for now, we will see tomorrow, we will push."
"It was a difficult day for us, the stages were should have more grip, it was very slippery."
"Nothing special, everything OK. It was a good experience for us, the whole day the feeling was OK, the car is fantastic."
"I made a stupid mistake in this stage and lost quite a lot."
"We are trying our best, really nice stage, nice to be here in the Italy."
SS5
"fire in SS 5"
SS4
"Everything is good."
"This stage was quite good, OK, but now comes the most challenging one."
"It was a good stage for us."
"It's superbad, I lost so much without the handbrake..."
"It was better than the first run, I was cleaner."
"All OK. We will see what we can do in next stage."
"OK, but the time is not much better than the first time."
"The car is suffering, it's very important to manage the tyres."
"I had some problems with the brakes and I'm not confident."
"The car is OK, we changed the suspension in service."
"We hit something on the inside, the steering is not straight a little bit."
"I did a mistake in a hairpin, I lost 5 seconds, maybe more."
"It's very good car for these roads. We drive smoothly."
"Now we overheated not only tyres, but also ourselves and the engine."
"We have a problem with car temperature."
"We changed the setup, it's bit better."
"We had really funny stage, it gets dirty."
"The smile is back because the car now works great, thanks to the team, they did amazing job."
"It was OK, I start little bit too slow, I don't know why."
"Everything is fine, I enjoyed the stage, little bit difficult maybe with the temperatures."
"Difficult stage, lot of handbrake stuff. But clean stage for us."
"I'm driving maybe on 90%. We made big changes on the setup, we are here now to learn. Guys in front are driving fast, it's not easy here."
"The feeling is good, this stage is very difficult but the time is not bad."
"I touched something, maybe rock, I don't know."
"Italians are much faster, we are doing our rally, I can't do much more."
"We did some changes to the car and it feels better than the morning."
"It's bit better now but I still don't feel 100% comfortable. It's enjoy and fun to drive these hairpins."
"It's bit better, still not ideal. This stage is only hairpins and I loose a lot of time, I don't know why."
"Everything OK, we try to push maximum attack. No mistake, the stage was perfect for us."
"It's shame, I missed brakes in one hairpin. It's not easy, but Pirelli tyres work well."
"I reaally tried to push really, hard, maybe too much."
"I don't know, we did lot of changes but it didn't really help."
"I'm happy, my feeling with the car is good."
"It was quite OK, I made two little mistakes on brakes, but everything OK."
"Stage was OK, we just need to cool the car down."
SS3
"Very difficult, the stages are really difficult. If we continue like this, we are happy."
"This was not my morning for sure, it was very difficult."
"We have some brake problems, we lost them three times in previous stages. We learn how to use it."
"I have to cool the brakes, but it was OK, nice."
"Not easy morning, in the previous one we lost the brakes. We fixed it on the road sction so this one was better, but we lack the confidence."
"It was fantastic, I love the stages, they are amazing. We have had a clean run so far."
"We have some problem with the brakes."
"We trying to protect the tyres, it was not superfast but we are here."
"Wonderful, we are enjoying the time here, the grip is good."
"Very good morning, we tried to catch Bernardi, let's see the second loop."
"Very good."
"The time is good, I'm happy."
"In the long one I was not on the pace. We had a problem with brakes and it was not easy to drive. I hope to push in the afternoon."
"We have problems with handrake, but OK we can repair it in service."
"The grip was good, we are getting used to the car on tarmac."
"I didn't have right rhythm, the car is OK but we have to improve."
"I wish it would be better, we didn't have much of testing woth the car so I try to understand how to drive it."
"Good stage, the previous was very difficult, this was OK. It's very hot, but we push."
"It's going pretty well, we are having fun."
"Very good for the moment, but it's long rally and I have to stay focused."
"Difficult morning, we took wrong tyres and have problems with brakes."
"Definitely better than yesterday. We tried with our pace, it's not that bad. We are calm, all is working our way."
"The grip was little bit better here."
"We need to adjust the car and probably to change the rear diff."
"This stage I didn't attack so much, I think it was little bit better."
"Lack of grip and lot of debris on the road."
"The steering is completely hard. It's like that, actually the time is not so bad."
"We are struggling with the tyres."
"After this stage we understood how this setup works."
"We are doing our best, I'm happy, I was pushing a lot."
"This morning is very hard. I have a lot of mistakes in the notes and it's difficult, the times are bad."
"Two years ago I rolled a Fiesta here, so it was difficult, I took it easy."
"Everything OK, we are here."
"Everything is OK."
"It's over for us, but we still need to work with the car. Bad luck."
"I hope the second loop to be better."
"It's so big relief after yesterday, I'm sorry for my behaviour. Now the car seems better."
"Everything OK, it's very hard beacuse it's hot and complicated special stages. We will change the suspension now."
"It was OK, we tried to be in the line and not to make any mistake."
"Lovely nice weather, lots of people watching, all good."
"Bit struggling, but really nice stage, fast and flowing."
"This loop was OK for me, but the stages were very slippery."
"Everything was OK, the setup is not bad, but not perfect, in longer corners we had some oversteering. But generally OK."
"This one I enjoyed a lot, my pacenotes were working well. The previous one was very demanding."
"We were little bit struggling with the setup, but I think it was the same for everyone. This stage was better, I tried to let the car flow without much braking."
"Very good, I'm really happy today with my car and the driving."
SS2
"We have a lot of understeering, I don't know if it's setup or tarmac, but I'm not happy."
"We had a clean run, in some parts we could make our pace."
"Gravel attack on tarmac. I need to find the right tarmac rhythm. The time is not good."
"Tyres have gone off, we need to change the setup."
"It was OK, but with new tyres I was sliding in slow corners."
"We have no powersteering. Good warmup in the morning."
"It is slippery and we have medium compound, but it's OK, we will need the hard tyres later."
"I made a mistake in a junction and had to reverse."
"Disaster, I had a lot of mistakes in the pacenotes. But we continue."
"Everything OK."
"It's OK, the stage is very difficult and we have lot of understeering."
puncture
"We had a puncture and had to change it."
"Good stages, quite OK."
"I'm sorry but I'm really disappointed, the car is not working well, we have a problem with rear differential, it feels like 2WD."
"The car feels good, but there is much to improve, that's why we are here."
"Very bad, it's very slippery."
"We hit a sharp little stone and made a puncture in the first stage. It's shame. Now we just went through, lot of understeer. We need to work, nothing special to do now."
"The stage was OK, but I think I can improve a lot."
"I'm happy with the stage, but in the first stage spectators put some rocks on the road and we almost got a puncture. I don't understand why they are doing this."
"Not a perfect stage, very difficult driving the Polo for the first time."
"Many thanks for the team because they brought old-spec dampers from France overnight and the car feels great now. Yesterday it was a nightmare. Now it's not 100% perfect but it's not bad."
"I found some rocks all over the road, I didn't expect that."
"The stages are really nice, but I struggle in there with the understeer, the tyres are moving a lot from the beginning."
"The car is too hard, I have a lot of understeer, really difficult to get to the end, we have to change the setup."
"All OK, I have a little understeer, but OK."
"The first stage was absolutely OK for us, this one was not so good, I made lot of mistakes with the pacenotes."
"The stage was OK for us, but it was slipppery. I'm happy."
"That was very tricky now, I was trying to go like the Italians, but we were too wide and then I slowed down."
"I had to slow at Solans and lost the concentration, we also had problem with intercom and we are struggling with the setup."
"It was beautiful one, but we are very slow today, we will be faster in the afternoon. But the car and setup are perfect."
"I hit something on the inside, the car was on two wheels. There is something on the suspension, it's understeering like crazy."
SS1
front left puncture
SS0
Nice stage, but no change for us, we are improving. It will be about tomorrow, not today.
We had only 200 meters to warm the tyres and then we were standing 10 minutes on the start line. So it's like that.
We made a mistake without the lightpod, I really struggled in there.
This stage was absolutely clean run, I think it's very good city stage, congratulations to the organizers.
It was really nice and good fun, maybe I was too careful not to hit something. But I really enjoyed it and I look forward for tomorrow.
I made some small mistakes, the rally tomorrow will be really tough.
We took it easy, but we have problems with pop-off, it opened three times.
It was OK, nice stage, last year there was stage full of hairpins, here we had to work.
I made a mistake in one corner, I'm sorry.