Millemiglia 2002

The Rally of Millemiglia 2002 edition has been also valid for the European Championship with coefficient 20. Almost all the best Italian drivers took part to the race, although Travaglia still dominates the Italian Championship, because he has real challengers for the title. The real battle is between the drivers of the Super 1600 category. For the first time of the current Italian championship, Dallavilla and the Italian rally champion Andreucci were joined by Piero Longhi with the world debuting Renault Clio Super 1600.
The French car seems to be really fast, because the times were absolute with respect the usual contenders. Longhi was not lucky in the SS.12, because he turned and went off. He had to abandon the battle in a crucial moment. The race sees Andreucci first for almost the whole first leg, but in the SS.9 a rapid storm surprises Andreucci and has to go slow, while Dallavilla installs the right choice of tyres and gets almost a minute over the Punto driver, who slid to the fifth position after Longhi. The last leg is terminated by a performance of Andreucci, that regains the fourth position just below Dallavilla.
The second leg is literally dominated by the Fiat driver Andreucci, who gets very fast times that took him first in the category and second in the general classification.
Luigi Galli, who went off in the first leg, recuperates a lot of positions and moves from the 21th position up to the 9th during the second leg, going fast and too fast in some stages.

The CIR classification after the 3rd race, the Rally of Millemiglia: 1 Travaglia (Peugeot 206 WRC) pt.23, 2 Navarra, Andreucci (Fiat Punto) pt.10, 4 Cantamessa (Subaru Impreza WRC) pt.9, 5 Dallavilla (Citroen Saxo) pt.7,6 Grossi (Ford Focus WRC), Bandieri (Subaru Impreza WRC) 6 pt.

The CIR Super 1600 category: 1 Andreucci (Fiat Punto) pt.26, 2 Dallavilla (Citroen Saxo) pt.22, 3 Galli (Fiat Punto) pt.11, 4 Baldacci (Citroen Saxo) pt.7, 5 Pedersoli (Fiat Punto) pt.3, 6 Perego (Opel Corsa), Vagnini, (Fiat Punto) Vescovi (Fiat Punto) pt.2.

Andreucci on SS.11	Longhi's Clio	Vita on SS.11	Ceccato on SS.11	Vescovi on SS.11
Pedersoli on SS.11	Pedersoli at the check point	Betti after crash	Betti leaving off	Andreucci on SS.13
Bettin on SS.13	Pedersoli on SS.13	Travaglia on SS.15	Andreucci on SS.15	Ceccato on SS.15
Vescovi on SS.15	Cecchettini on SS.15	Galli on SS.15	Vagnini on SS.15	Pedersoli on SS.15
Marco and Moreno	Manzini on Saxo at Moerna stage	Pedersoli at park	Galli's front part	Marco near Galli's Punto
Moreno near Galli's Punto	Galli's car at the park assistance	Pedersoli's rear part	Procar team working	Andreucci assisted
Peugeot Italia team at work	Travaglia leaves the park assistance	Sartori Team assists Vescovi	Airboxes in Punto 2002	Punto 2002 airscope
Trico team working hard	Trico changes broken brakes	Galli ready to leave

Now some pictures found from third parties:

Andreucci no.1