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News from January to December 2002CTSS exhaust collectors for the Sporting Mk2 (Dec 28th 2002) Braccio from Bergamo sent me some pictures of the CTSS 4/1 exhaust collector for the Punto Sporting Mk2: it seems to be more sudden and offers more torque than the Supersprint one, but it seems to have some little defects. More information in the tuning Mk2 page. Punto Mk2 Rev.B (Dec 25th 2002) Some pictures of the Punto Mk2 Rev.B prototypes are available in a new page I prepared for. You may find a picture of the five-doors hatchback of the last Model 188 restyling and a preview of the Punto MPV, a product of the Mod1el 99. Click here for the appropriate page. Novitec X-One pictures (Dec 21th 2002) A pair of pictures of the Novitec X-One project has been added. I'm translating also the full Novitec X-One article, so that we can benefit and enjoy also in Puntopower.com. Juhasz's car added (Dec 20th 2002) Aron Juhasz sent me some pictures of his own orange Punto ELX 1.2 16v. More photos are available at this page. New snapshots of V-Rally 3 (Dec 11th 2002) I took other better snapshots of the Fiat Punto Rally in V-Rally 3 for the Playstation 2. You can see them in the Gaming page. I added also some movies in the videoclips section: they are captures of a special stage I run virtually with the Fiat Punto in V-Rally 3. Please be patient if the movies are not available yet: I am uploading them now. List of entrants of the 2003 FIA Junior World Rally Championship (Dec 11th 2002) The FIA counsil deliberated the list of entrants of the 2003 FIA Junior World Rally Championship. It is available from the Super1600 2003 season page. Several Fiat Punto cars should race also in the 2003 rounds, first of all Mirko Baldacci with the Fiat Punto Rally by Hi-Tec team. More cars added even today (Dec 11th 2002) I added some cars in the Puntopower gallery. It's the turn of the George Sofogloy's Punto from Greece, the Edwin Rooijakkers's Punto GT from Netherlands. The Fiat-Vodafone team pictures updated (Dec 11th 2002) I updated the pictures of the Portuguese Fiat-Vodafone rally team. All the pictures are available at the Portugal rally team activities. Novitec Project X-one (Dec 11th 2002) It seems to be something really impressive the project X-One by Novitec. It
has been shown at the Essen Motorshow 2002 some weeks ago, but the project car
is really astonishing for the performance facts. The car starts from the basis
of the Novitec Punto HGT Kompressor, which is capable of 150 kW/204 HP, an acceleration
of 7.8 seconds on the 0-100 km/h, and a top speed of 239 km/h. New cars added (Dec 10th 2002) I added some cars in the Puntopower gallery. It's the turn of the Yarden Neufeld's Punto GT from Israel, the Gyorgy Kurucz's Punto HGT from Hungary. Mirco Baldacci signs with Hi-Tec and Fiat Punto (Dec 9th 2002) It's official: Mirco Baldacci will take part to the World Rally Championship Super 1600 during the next season at the wheel the Fiat Punto Rally of the Hi-Tec team. The Sanmarinese driver signed for Fabrizio Borra's team last Monday, whilst on Tuesday 4th December he reached the agreement with the Milanese codriver Giovanni Bernacchini, the current Dallavilla's driver. The team manager will be Marco Pastorino. Baldacci, who started rallying with Hi-Tec earlier in his career and winning the Italian title with the Renault Clio in 2000, will have two cars available: one for asphalt rounds in the first part of the year and another one for the gravel rallies. Baldacci has good prospects for the days to come. Paolo Andreucci and Damian Yurczak to fly Procar's flag (Nov 29th 2002) The Procar rally team will be racing with two Fiat Punto Abarth Super 1600's
in the 40th Barborka Rally in Poland for the first time this weekend when it gets
underway on Friday the 29th of November from the capital of Varsavia. New snapshots in the gaming page (Nov 26th 2002) The last week I bought V-Rally 3 game for the PlayStation 2 and I enjoyed myself with the Fiat Punto Rally and I took some snapshot with my camera too, although the quality is still very bad. I hope to update the page soon. N Technology news press about Network Q Rally (Nov 25th 2002) Fiat Punto Abarth of Giandomenico Basso and Gigi Pirollo finishes in third place (in Junior World Rally Championship) the Rally of Great Gritain, last race of 2002 Championship, won by Spanish driver Daniel Sola (Citroen). More here. Apel's Punto HGT from Luxemburg added (Nov 25th 2002) Geoffrey Apel from Luxemburg sent me some pictures of his blue sprint Punto HGT, with a singular solution about the wheels. Click here for the photos. Conclusive leg of the Network Q Rally and Sola new Super1600 champion (Nov 17th 2002) The Italian top driver Andrea Dallavilla was abandoned against by Lady Luck for the second consecutive year and an important puncture constrained him not to win the last event of the Super1600 championship. The Spaniard Sola got the maximum from this rally and the important points to reach the Junior title. More information here. Second leg of Network Q Rally (Nov 16th 2002) The second leg is a complete revolution in the Super1600 class. Almost all the crews encontured very common troubles and Dallavilla too, who had to change th wheel due to a puncture. Basso is second with the Fiat Punto. All the classifications here. First leg of Network Q Rally (Nov 16th 2002) The first leg is ended with Janne Tuohino at the top of the leaderboard and Dallavilla immediately behind. More info in the Network Q Rally page. New users pages updated (Nov 16th 2002) The number of pages I update daily is quite impressive, because I receive more and more pictures everyday. Today it's turn for these pages:
Only Two Punto starting Cardiff (Nov 15th 2002) Only two Punto cars have really started the Network Q Rally. Galli and Llovera were not present in the Welsh region for the last event of the Junior World Rally Championship, whilst Caldani was out for the distortion of the ankle. The young driver Chemin and Basso are the only Fiat soldier for this race and they are not gravel specialists, so we will see them in the central positions. In the meanwhile Andrea Dallavilla spot the best time in the fifth stage and he defends well the first position for the Junior title. More about the event here. Network Q Rally Cardiff Superspecial (Nov 15th 2002) In the prologue of the Network Q Rally, the local driver Evans sizzles in the Super 1600 category and brings the MG ZR at his first victory of a special stage in the story of the Super 1600. The classification is available here. Faulknet wins inaugural Fiat Punto Abarth Cup (Nov 15th 2002) Promising young racing driver Richie Faulkner, from Killiney,İis the inaugural Fiat Punto Abarth Cup Champion after beating some of Ireland's most experienced saloon car driversİto the titleİin the country's newest race series. More information about the Fiat Abarth Cup series is available at the Races in Ireland page. User pages updated (Nov 15th 2002) I have updated some user pages with new information and several new pictures. Here I list the updated car pages: Suzuki teams revved up for Rally GB (Nov 14th 2002) The three privateer Suzuki teams have high hopes for the forthcoming Rally Great Britain, which gets underway tomorrow night, the 14th of November. The sixth and final round of the Junior World Championship is run through the dank and muddy forests of Wales, testing the Super 1600 field's two-wheel drive traction to the limit. Click here for more information. Network Q Rally page under construction (Nov 10th 2002) I built up the Network Q Rally 2002 page, formerly known at RAC. This is the last round of the world rally championship, which has been won prematurely by Marcus Gronholm with the Peugeot 206 WRC, which won in turn also the constructors championship, but the titles in the Super1600 has not been given yet and the fight is between two containders, the Italian Andrea Dallavilla and the Spaniard Dani Sola. Both drivers will pace with Citroen Saxo, whilst some Fiat Punto Rally will be brought by several teams apart the TRT Sport Promotion... please click here for more information. Caldani will miss the Network Q Rally (Nov 9th 2002) Nicola Caldani won't be able to defnd his third place in the championship in the last round of the Junior World Championship Super 1600, the Network Q Rally of Great Britain, due in England from next November 14th to 17th. It was a silly domestic incident that provoked the distortion of the ankle of the right leg. This distortion penalizes him in any movement. "Impossible in these conditions to drive the car and to face a serious rally such as the English one - confesses the Versilian driver, who was to partecipate the English event with the Procar Fiat Punto Super 1600. I had some days making therapies and being visited by specialists, but everyone agrees that distortion doesn't allow any kind of movement. I must stop for twenty days. I was at home and I slided a bit. I put badly the foot. Immobilized. This year I demonstrated that in the extreme rounds I was really able to show my best. In particular at the Acropoli and the Sanremo I was often with the best ones of the group. The Rac is well-known a rally where the difficulties are default and therefore with Procar Punto, car tha kept an high degree of reliability, I would have committed well." For Caldani it's almost impossible to keep the third place in the Junior championship
withough defending it in the English round. "Tuohino and Duval
are only at one point, and Basso at three points. Those drivers are valuable.
I'm really sad to lose that chance and it is probably my last chance to take part
the mythical English rally which has always been in my dreams as driver."
Ivor Tucic's Punto Sporting page from Croatia (Nov 9th 2002) Ivor Tucic sent me some pictures of his yellow Punto Sporting 1.2 16v. These pictures are available here. Ferran's Punto page from Barcelona (Nov 3rd 2002) Ferran sent me some pictures of his own Punto Sporting. Click here to see the blue sprint car. Mike Willett's page updated (Nov 2nd 2002) Mike Willett's Punto GT page has been updated with nine pictures and a revised modification list. Larry Cols's page updated (Nov 2nd 2002) The strong Belgian driver page has been updated with a dozen of new pictures sent by Maurice Simoens. Lievens's Punto GT (Nov 2nd 2002) Jochen Lievens's Punto GT is worth to be counted as one of the most tuned Punto GTs ever seen in Puntopower.com and in the world. Its unusual colour body and the endless list of modifications made it very appealing for the tuning community of Puntopower.com. Several Punto pages updated (Nov 2nd 2002) During the last weeks I received several updates of Puntos owned by English guys to publish. I list here these cars:
Paulo Rodrigues's Punto HGT from Portugal (Nov 1st 2002) I am pleased to present you the pictures of the blue sprint Punto HGT owned by Paulo Rodrigues from Lisboa, Portugal. He is driving suggestively through some woads here. Andrea Cavina's Punto Sporting added (Nov 1st 2002) Andrea Cavina sent me a picture of his yellow Punto Sporting Mk1, available at this link. Newborn Puntopower user (Nov 1st 2002) He was born on Sunday 27th October, but he made me very busy for some days: he is my son, Enrico, the Puntopower dynasty goes on! New pages added (Oct 11th 2002) I added the Punto Sporting Mk2 JTD of Steve Tottoli, from Brescia (Italy) at this page. Lieuwe De Haan's Punto GT has been updated with some technical modifications and some new photo too. Piasini Engineering Punto GT (Oct 11th 2002) I'm very pleased to publish some facts about the Punto GT owned by Cristian Piasini, the master of Piasini Engineering, well known in the Italian tuning world. A long collection of pictures and an even longer list of modifications is available at this link, but the max power is the best ticket to visit the page: 307 HP! Malu's emplantation (Oct 10th 2002) Turbocrime is working hard on the great emplantation of another engine for the Malu, the Mattia Pica's car. The work requires a lot of time, but it is very promising and anybody expects from the work one of the fastest Punto Mk2 ever existed. More artworks of Turbocrime are illustrated in the Powerontheroad website. Kserafeim's Punto from Greece (Oct 10th 2002) Serafeim Kuriakopoulos from Athens sent me some pictures of his own black Punto Sporting Mk2. You can see his car in this page. Yoshi's Punto Abarth from Tokyo (Oct 8th 2002) Yoshihiro Koyama from Japan sent me a picture from Japan and even some information of the Punto cars in Japan. His page is here, whilst a page about Punto in Japan is now under construction! More pictures from Rally Costa Smeralda (Oct 8th 2002) Photocris made me get more pictures of Paolo Andreucci at the Costa Smeralda, where the Tuscan driver got the first standing in the Super1600 category. Please click here for more information. Rally Costa Smeralda's pictures (Oct 3rd 2002) Photocris send me these new pictures from the Rally of Costa Smeralda. These snapshots are about the Fiat Punto on the gravel lane. Click here to see them. Rally Costa Smeralda (Sep 29th 2002) The Rally Costa Smeralda was the last chapter of the Italian rally championship and Paolo Andreucci didn't miss the chance to win again in the Super 1600 category, although he had not pace from the challengers. Paolo Andreucci completes his successful season with 8 victories in 10 races and with the second absolute position in the Italian championship. More information at this page. The third leg and the podium of Rallye Sanremo 2002 (Sep 25th 2002) All the Sanremo Rally pages are completed with a full report of 155 pictures. You may access to the main page here, whilst the pictures of the last leg are available here. The second leg of Rallye Sanremo 2002 (Sep 21st 2002) All the pictures of the second leg of the Sanremo Rally are available here. Full update after the first leg of Rallye Sanremo 2002 (Sep 20th 2002) A good amount of new pictures is available from Rallye Sanremo 2002. Nicola Caldani heads the Junior classification, but the Italian crews are fighting hard to get the best positions. Shakedown pictures at Sanremo 2002 (Sep 19th 2002) A full report of shakedowns of Sanremo 2002 is available from here. I had the great occasion to seat the Fiat Punto Rally of Giandomenico Basso, the latest evolution of the Fiat Punto! report. Auto Kit Show 2002 (Sep 17th 2002) I took several pictures at the Auto Kit Show at Imola on Sunday 15th. I focused only on the lots of Fiat Punto at the show and at the drag race, and, of course the Malu HGT, the car of my friend Emmepica. Please click here for the full report. NWMLarge's Punto added (Sep 16th 2002) Andrew Lainchbury's car has been added in the cars gallery. You may see it at this URL. Fiat Punto wins the Turkish championship (Sep 13th 2002) After the success in the Italian Super 1600 championship with Paolo Andreucci,
the Fiat Punto Abarth got first in the Turkish rally championship. In the Anatolia
Rally, which will be probably in the pool of the world rallies in the 2003, two
Fiat Punto got the first two positions in the Super 1600 classification, the third
and fourth position in the global classification, with Volkan Isik and Ali Devecy. Caldani's pictures from Photo Cris (Sep 13th 2002) Cris sent me some exclusive pictures of Caldani at the ADAC Deutschland rally. Caldani used the last evolution of Punto by Procar, but he was not successful, because he had to retire on the SS13. Mancini third at Varano in the CIVT race (Sep 12th 2002) Mancini got the third position in the race of Varano de' Melegari, valid for the Italian CIVT 2002. Some pictures are available here. Extreme tuning of a German Punto (Sep 12th 2002) Markus Fleischmann, a.k.a. Oldrover, sent me a little description of his Punto Sporting, which seems very impressive for its look. Please click here to read more. Sanremo Rally entrants (Sep 11th 2002) The list of the Junior entrants with Super 1600 cars at the rally of Sanremo is available here. I'm going to see all the legs of the Italian round of the World Rally Championship, with plenty of information and pictures from the stages. More information is available at this page. Several new pictures from the ADAC Deutschland Rally (Sep 10th 2002) I found a good collection of pictures of the Punto cars and more Super 1600 cars fighting in the Junior WRC at the ADAC Deutschland rally. Click here to see them. The ADAC page has been increased by the press release of the TRT Sport promotion, the team of Nicola Caldani. Iaveris Junior first at Elpa Rally (Sep 10th 2002) The Greek driver Iaveris Junior got the first standing in the Super1600 category at the Elpa/Achaios Rally. I thanks Simon Sofos from Greece for the pictures. Svilokos's Punto (Sep 10th 2002) Nikica Svilokos from Zagreb (Croatia) sent me some pictures of his nice car. The engine is modest, but the modifications applied are several. Click here to see the car. Peter Sallis's Punto added (Sep 6th 2002) It's a quite long time I don't put some new tuned car in the users gallery. Peter Sallis, a.k.a. Puntoviper, sent me half a dozen of pictures of his white Punto Mk1. The lists of modifications is available here. Alpi Orientali pictures added (Sep 5th 2002) Photocris brought us some pictures of some Super1600 at the Alpi Orientali rally. You may enjoy those pictures from this page. Several Junior races updated (Sep 2nd 2002) I added some pictures in the Junior WRC events, as the Acropolis Rally, the Catalunya Rally, and the last one, the ADAC Deutschland Rally, with pictures of McShea and the Spaniard Sola. Salento Rally pictures updated (Sep 2nd 2002) New pictures have been added for the Salento Rally, the seventh rally valid for the Italian rally championship 2002. Alpi Orientali's Rally updated (Sep 1st 2002) I have updated also the rally of Alpi Orientali, the ninth rally valid for the Italian rally championship, which has been banned by several drivers because of the too much anticipated victories of the various categories, such as the Super1600. ADAC updated (Sep 1st 2002) Due to the fact I was on holiday the last week, I didn't connect the network to update the rally pages, after the ADAC Deutschland rally, with the victory of the Citroen Saxo driven by Daniel Sola and Andrea Dallavilla. The Junior championship sees them in the first two positions. Rally ADAC Deutschland starts today! (Aug 23rd 2002) The newly introduced German rally in the World Rally Championship is also valid for the Super 1600 trophy and this morning the thirty Super 1600 cars are fighting on the sliding tarmac of the first leg after the rain of yesterday. I have a special page for the event. Luca Russo's Fiat Punto HGT from Basel (Aug 23rd 2002) Luca's car is one of the first Punto HGT in Switzerland with some sort of soft aesthetic tuning. You may admire his own yellow Punto here. Alpi Orientali Rally starting list (Aug 23rd 2002) The Rally of Alpi Orientali is the ninth race of the Italian rally championship and several drivers have not been enroled because the title has already been assigned in all the categories. Meanwhile Paolo Andreucci heads the long list of the Super 1600 drivers in the eastern Alps region. More details here. Suzuki report before the ADAC Deutschland Rally (Aug 21st 2002) The Suzuki report before the German rally is available in the ADAC page. Procar and TRT at ADAC Deutschland Rally (Aug 20th 2002)
Procar and TRT with Nicola Caldani go at the Deutschland Rally to confirm the work done in the last months. The Versilia's driver, fifth in the Junior championship is looking for the exploit on the german tarmac. A special page is available in Puntopower site about the ADAC rally. Zsolt second in A/6 in the Budapest Rallye in Hungary (Aug 14th 2002)
The first experience of TRT Sport Promotion in Hungary has been concluded positively. At the Budapest Rallye, valid for the European championship with coefficient 2, the local driver Szijj Zsolt, codriven by Dani, made the Hungarian debut of the Fiat Punto Super 1600 of the TRT Sport Promotion, prepared by Paolo Baggio's 2M team. The Hungarian driver got the 20th final position, second in the A/6 class. Only the Saxo by Citroen Hungary driven by Robert Butor was faster than the Fiat Punto driver. Eucalipto's pictures from Switerland (Aug 14th 2002) Another yellow Punto HGT from Switzerland has been added to the gallery archive. You may see Massimo's car here. An update from Greece (Aug 14th 2002) Simon Sofos sent me un update for his page in Puntopower.com, with new pictures of his Punto ELX and some pictures with the yellow Punto HGT of the Group A tuning shop in his town. You may see them here. Videorace Rally party due on September 7th 2002 (Aug 12th 2002) The video producer Videorace made us know for the enjoyment of all Punto drivers of Italy and not only, that they will have a party in Falzè di Piave (TV, Italy) on September 7th 2002. At that party we will have a lot of Italian drivers, who drive Fiat Punto Rally car in the Italian championship and in the Junior championship. If you want to know more about the event, please click here. Priby's Punto ELX artworks (Aug 9th 2002) Mate Priby from Budapest, Hungary, sent me some pictures of the works he is going to make on his own Punto ELX 16v. You may see them in his page. Starting list for the ADAC Deutschland Rally (Aug 9th 2002) While the WRC is currently running the Finland Rally, formerly known as Neste Rally, the next appointment for the WRC and the Junior WRC is ready to debut for the next two weeks, in Germany. The list of the Junior crews is already available in the ADAC page. The Punto Rally drivers (Aug 8th 2002) I took those information from the Fiat site, but I'm going to extend further in the months to come with more details about the drivers that drive currently the Torinese Fiat car. The page is available here. Several pictures have been also added in the Catalunya rally page and the Montecarlo rally page. The never produced Fiat Punto Coupè Mk2 (Aug 8th 2002) I saw with my eyes the Fiat Punto Coupè Mk2 designed by Pininfarina, but it has never been produced in stock. You may see it in this special page and give your impressions in the forum. NCAP test clip (Aug 8th 2002) The Fiat Punto Mk2, during the NCAP tests in 1999, got four stars, a remarkable rating in the category of the small cars. It is available in the videoclips page. Petraglio's Punto HGT added (Aug 7th 2002) Sam Petraglio sent me a pair of pictures of his blue and white Punto HGT, used also for racing for challenges in Switzerland. The pictures are available in his own page in the site. Rali Vinho Madeira pictures (Aug 5th 2002) I added several pictures taken from the Rali of Vinho Madeira who had Andrea Aghini, driving the Peugeot 206 WRC by Grifone, as winner. The Portuguese champion Adruzilo Lopes debuted with the Fiat Punto Super 1600 and got interesting times against other K/10 cars which had not been constrained by the Super 1600 rules. The Portuguese is going to continue driving the fast Super 1600 Fiat car. More pictures about the Super 1600 cars racing are available in the European rally activities page. New camera car of Andreucci (Aug 5th 2002) The official site of Paolo Andreucci put online some videoclips about his performance at the rally of San Martino di Castrozza. They make worth to be downloaded from this page! TRT debuts in Hungary (Aug 2nd 2002) TRT Sport Promotion will make Szijj Zsolt run with a Fiat Punto Rally for the Rally of Budapest. This is the first attempt for TRT Sport Promotion in the country. Andreucci's videos added (Jul 30th 2002) I put some Andreucci's videos of Italian rallies, where the Tuscan driver got outstanding places, apart the retire in the Salento rally. They are available in the videoclips page. Rally of San Martino di Castrozza updated (Jul 30th 2002) Fotocris sent me more pictures of the final ceremony of the eighth race of the Italian rally championship. Click here to reach the San Martino di Castrozza report and see below. Frisoni's Punto GT added (Jul 30th 2002) Dario Frisoni sent me some pictures and a list of modifications. You can see the yellow Punto here. Gennaro died (Jul 28th 2002) Yesterday Gennaro expired after two hoping weeks after an important road accident. He died young, 20, from his injuries, namely the last fact was an cerebral haermorrhage. We remember his passion for the tuning and we invite Turbocrime not be at fault for that. Felipe Pizarro's car added (Jul 27th 2002) I added also Felipe's car, a blue Punto GT, from Chile. Click here to visit the page under construction. Olly Broad's monster (Jul 27th 2002) Olly Broad from Algeria sent me an interesting collection of pictures of the engine of his own Punto GT under development. The list of mods is very extensive and the power is guaranteed. Please click here for Broad's monster. Pedro Mendes' car added (Jul 26th 2002) Pedro Mendes from Portugal sent me the first pictures of his Punto HGT under working. You may see it at this link. Complete induction and exhaust system for the Punto Sporting Mk2 (Jul 25th 2002) Negrente, my local tuner, worked on more Fiat Punto Sporting Mk2 during the last weeks and they developed an induction kit and a complete Supersprint exhaust system. More information at the tuning Sporting Mk2 page. San Martino di Castrozza Rally report (Jul 23rd 2002) An incomplete report has been put in the rally pages, regarding the eighth rally valid for the Italian Rally championship, where Paolo Andreucci on Fiat Punto Rally rented by N Technology got the first place in the Super 1600 category and the last points to win the Italian Super 1600 title. New page of Anders Moller (Jul 14th 2002) Anders Moller, the vicepresident of the Fiat Klub Danmark, sent me some pictures of his blue sprint Punto HGT, equipped with Fiat Stilo Abarth 17" wheels. You may see the car at this link. Dave Preece had some little modification to his car and sent me a bunch of new pictures. New videos from Perry Productions (Jul 9th 2002) Perry prepared new videos for the videoclips page. He gave me a whole CD-ROM with several minutes of Puntos in drag races and in some passages, such as my car too: yes, the Puntopower has now a videoclip! Vallejo brothers win again (Jul 5th 2002) The Spanish rally page has been updated with their last victory at the Ourense's Rally. They got the first standing in the Spanish Super1600 championship. Punto in Corse Rally 2001 (Jul 3rd 2002) Guyot Loic from France sent me a lot of pictures of the Punto cars which raced the Playstation Rally of Corse 2001. All the pictures are available at this link. New meetings page available (Jul 3rd 2002) I prepared a special page with all the meetings in the world. This page reports any meeting were some Punto could be present. If you are going to have your meeting listed there, just send me an e-mail at my address. Vallejo gets the first position in Spanish Super 1600 championship (Jun 29th 2002) Some fragmented news is available in the Spanish championship page, but Sergio Vallejo, the Spanish top driver at his third year of rallying with Fiat Punto Rally got the first standing of the Iberian championship. Photo scoop from the Acropolis Rally 2002 (Jun 29th 2002) Pavlos Paschopoulos from Greece sent me a great collection of the recovery of Christian Chemin's car after his retire in the Acropolis Rally. I put those pictures in the low part of this page. Sander Willemstein's car updated (Jun 29th 2002) Sander's car page has been updated with a bunch of new photos you may see at this page. Late June's cars added (Jun 28th 2002) Kostas Amanakis from Larissa (Greece) sent me the pictures of his Punto GT. You may see it at this link. I have added also one of the most beatiful Punto Mk2 I have ever seen, Fabio Crispo's Punto HGT, a golden coloured car, from Naples (Italy). You may see the golden car at this link. No interference for 16" tyres (Jun 27th 2002) In the battle between Fiat and Italian Punto drivers to get the homologation for the 16" and 17" tyres, Max Girini sent me the right parameters to avoid completely any interference between the tyres and the body. Max tested the 195/45 R16 at this link. Punto HGT in CIVT 2002 (Jun 26th 2002) Giovanni Mancini, the director of the monthly Italian tuning magazine Elaborare sent me two beautiful photos of the Punto HGT he drives in the CIVT (Italian Speed Tourism Championship) 2002. Click here to access the CIVT page. Bruno's cars added (Jun 26th 2002) Bruno Velez de Fonseca sent me some pictures of his red Punto HGT. Please click here to reach his page. Even another Bruno, Bruno Pais, from Portugal sent me a long collection of pictures of his three Puntos: yes, he has three Punto's, a Punto GT, a Sporting Mk1, and a Sporting Mk2. Please click here for his cars. New pages updated (Jun 26th 2002) I have updated a quite long list of cars in the current archive. The first update is the Antti Mannelin's Punto from Finland. New video from Perry (Jun 25th 2002) Enjoy the new videoclip from Giorgio Perrone and his Punto Sporting Mk2. You may look the clip here. New complete forum for Puntopower.com (Jun 20th 2002) I have setup a new forum in Puntopower.com. You can put there any issue, request or opinion about Fiat Punto. The list of structures is temporary, but subject to change in the next weeks:
New FAQ about 17" wheels fitting (Jun 20th 2002) Darren Brooks from PuntoMk2.co.uk let me put his interesting FAQ regarding the common issue of fitting 17 inch wheels on the Punto Mk2. Please click here to go to the tuning page. New Punto cars from England (Jun 19th 2002)
Gavin Tuck's Punto Sporting Mk2 has been equipped with the Peco twin exhaust system. You may see it at this page. Another Punto Sporting Mk0 has been added to my archive: it's Matt Knowles Punto, available here. New full page of Spanish rally championship 2002 (Jun 18th 2002) Sergio Vallejo is very famous in Spain, because he is a valid driver and he trusted the Fiat Punto since 2000. Please click here to read more information about the Spanish championship and the Puntos engaged. Two new videos of the Copa Fiat Punto (Jun 18th 2002) New videos have been added in the Copa Fiat Punto page: the videos show two cars trying to go fast in the unsure and crowed road. Acropolis Rally's epilogue (Jun 16th 2002) Tuohino on Citroen Saxo won the Junior classification, with the Dallavilla second on the same car. The first and the only Fiat Punto survived to the hard Greek gravel was the debuting car of Caldani, who gets heavy points for the title. Please click here for the summary. More retires in the Acropolis Rally (Jun 15th 2002) It is really hard in the Junior championship. Francois Duval, who dominated the first leg, has a mechanical failure and he had to retire. Please click here for more information. Acropolis Rally really hard in the first leg (Jun 14th 2002) Almost the half of the Super1600 entrants retired during the first leg. The first driver to abandon the fight was Gianluigi Galli, who did not entered the first checkpoint before the first leg. Another debacle of the Italian driver who retired in the first stage of the previous rally for the Italian championship: lady luck did not assist Galli in the last three weeks. The dominator has been Francois Duval, who won 4 stages of 6 programmed for the first leg and sees the Citroen drivers at more than one minute, respectively Valimaki, Tuohino, and Dallavilla. Please click here for more information. Acropolis Rally due for the next weekend (Jun 12th 2002) The Super 1600 drivers are ready for the third rally of the Junior World Rally championship, the Acropolis Rally, staged near Itea, far 250 km from Athens, Greece. The list of entrants is available at this page and the five Punto drivers too.We expect an exploit of Simon Jean Joseph, which is not entitled for the Junior WRC, but it is registered for the Greek competition and his Renault Clio could really settle in the first standings. Ivcevic's Punto and Balzan's Punto HGT added (Jun 12th 2002) Bartold Ivcevic from Split (Croatia) sent me the picture of his res Punto Mk1 16v. You may see his page at this link. The Punto HGT of Ralph Balzan, from Switzerland, is available at this link: you may give it a look because it is equipped with 215/40 16" tyres. Braile's Punto Sporting updated (Jun 11th 2002) Carmine Braile from Genk (Belgium) sent me an updated pictures of collection of his Punto Sporting JTD. You may look at it at this page. More cars added (Jun 11th 2002) Matt King from United Kingdom sent me some pictures of his yellow Punto GT. Even Ramon Ferrari from Switzerland sent me some photos of his own black Punto HGT. New cars added (Jun 7th 2002) Igor Bojkovski from Skopje, Macedonia, sent me some small pictures of his Punto HGT. Even Ross Thomson from United Kingdom asked me to publish several pictures of his gray Punto Sporting Mk1 and his black Punto GT. Crookes's Punto GT updated (Jun 7th 2002) Tim Crookes sent me more pictures of his own yellow monster. Please click here for more information. Bodykits added (Jun 5th 2002) I have added the page of the Punto GT bodykit by Cadamuro Design. In the Tuned Punto GT page, I have added also the Prosport bodykit. New Puntos added (Jun 4th 2002) I have added Crookes's Punto GT, a very appealing Punto from United Kingdom with 17" wheels fitted. I have added also a new page of the Punto HGT Abarth of Hans Oskam from the Netherlands. My car updated (Jun 3th 2002) The page about my car, called Puntopower, just like this site, has been updated with new pictures, after my car moved to the Evo 3 step. My car is not very attractive, because it doesn't have any aesthetic kit from third parties, but it is very effective, due to the increased power and the amazing suspensions setup tuned by Negrente. You may look at this link. Rally of San Marino (Jun 2nd 2002) It was the sixth race of the CIR (Italian Rally Championship) and the fourth one for the CRT (Challenge Rally Gravel), but it was very interesting because we had important retires for the various classifications of the top drivers. Aghini with 206 WRC won the rally and Andreucci won the fifth race over six in the Super1600 category. Please click here for the small report. Novitec page updated (May 29th 2002) I added the long list of Novitec resellers around the world. Please click here to see this update. Mike Willett's Punto GT from Great Britain (May 29th 2002) The list of modifications of Mike Willett's Punto GT is really impressive. The pictures are not available yet, but Mike will send them soon. Click here for the list. Cristian Loyola's Punto GT from Chile (May 28th 2002) The Chilean racers sent me another collection of pictures of a Punto GT, the car owned by Cristian Loyola. More information could be found at the page here. Garda Meeting, the biggest in the world (May 27th 2002) It has been probably the biggest meeting in the world of Punto tuning. We had about 80 cars, but we are counting better from the pictures and the lists. More information and pictures can be found at the Garda meeting page. Deila unlucky in the first round in the French championship (May 23rd 2002) Piergiorgio Deila raced the first round of the French rally championship, but he was a unlucky and he had retired after a serious hurt of the backplane of his Punto Rally. Some pictures are available here with courtesy of Sebastien Laffitte of www.super1600.net. Punto Rally rules also in Turkey (May 23rd 2002) In the Tofas Rally the Fiat car rules in Super 1600 class and adds another victory to the N Technology group in European rallies. More information and pictures here. Honda Civic defeated by Punto HGT (May 23rd 2002) Jesper Jensen's Punto HGT rules versus a Honda Civic, featuring 140 HPs. Here there are the proof! Iaveris always winner in Greece with Punto Rally (May 23rd 2002) Thanks to Simon Sofos I have added new pictures of Iaveris J. acting in the Greek rally championship. The young Greek rallyman was always first in the the Super 1600 category. More information is available in the Europan rally races page. Simon Sofos's Punto added (May 22nd 2002) Simon Sofos sent me some information about his Punto ELX moved to 106 HPs. Simon from Greece follows also some national rallies in his country and he will keep me in touch with the Greek rally championship. Click here for Simon Sofos's page. Jan Jr's Punto HGT added (May 22nd 2002) Jan Jr, who lives between Zurich and Geneva got at last his new yellow Punto HGT and he took immediately some pictures, just after having installed a nice set of Millemiglia Evo 5 17" wheels. Click here for Jan's page. Barink's cars updated (May 22nd 2002) Erik Barink took some pictures of his new Punto Sporting Mk2. He has really fitted with nice components and he has darkened the wheels in the best-looking way. Click here for Barink's Puntos page. Cann's car updated (May 21st 2002) Julian Cann sent me new photos of his own Punto HGT with the Abarth side skirts, and Abarth logo painted on front mesh. My Punto moves to Evo 3 (May 20th 2002) I have updated my car to the third evolution after two pacing engine evolutions in last half year. You may see the differences in the descriptive part of my page and some pictures I'm going to put soon. Riccio's Punto HGT added (May 18th 2002) Alessandro Riccio from Cadegliano Viconago in Italy sent me some photos and an interesting list of features of his own Punto HGT. Cols updated (May 18th 2002) Julien Frere from Belgium sent me an update about the Belgian rallying activities and he made me know that even the sister of the champion Larry Cols is a rally woman too. He may some some pictures in the Cols brothers' page. Bauers Punto added (May 17th 2002) Bernd Bauer from Austria sent me some pictures of his JTD car. You may look at it at this link. Livori's Punto and Desreumaux's Punto added (May 15th 2002) Keith from Malta sent me a good collection of his own Punto 75. Please click here to look at the Livori car's pictures. Even John Desreumaux from Wervik in Belgium sent me some pictures of his own Punto Sporting JTD with the Abarth livery. Painted logos everywhere on your car (May 15th 2002) Julian offers the possibility to make any kind of logos on the number plates or the body of the car. He can make those gadges up to order, any size or colour. Julian Cann has also much experience in the past with Fiats by race preparing a few cars including a Group A Fiat Uno Turbo. Please click here for more information about Julian's activities. Rally of Adriatico (May 13th 2002) A full report of the Rally of Adriatico is available from this link. Navarra and Andreucci rule respectively their own categories, WRC and Super 1600 on gravel. Larry Cols in Belgian championship (May 9th 2002) I read that the Belgian driver Larry Cols has abandoned the driving of the Peugeot 206 Super1600 in favour of the more effective Punto Rally for the 2002 Belgian championship. In the Wallonie Rally Cols got the first standing in the Super 1600 category, fourth overall. That means he gains the top of the absolute Belgian classification, with 13 points after the first two stages. Please click here for more information. Daniele Rigatti's Punto Sporting Mk2 added (May 9th 2002) Daniele Rigatti's Punto Sporting Mk2 is available in my site at this link. The car has the nice Cadamuro Design kit and small modifications. The RSR Punto updated (May 1st 2002) It seems the unidentified black object from Great Britain has an owner, James Hans. New pictures appeared of the English black monster. Please click here for an update. Julian Cann's Punto HGT Abarth (May 1st 2002) Julian Cann sent me a quite good collection of images of his Punto HGT. It has been fitted with the complete Abarth kit from Fiat and has some interesting modifications too. Please click here for more information. The black RSR Punto GT (April 27th 2002) His owner sent me the pictures of his black monster during the last Christmas season, but he never replied me with more information about this Punto GT that seems really fast and terrible. If you have more information about it, please make me know through e-mail. Please click here to see it. Turbocompressor for Punto HGT (April 27th 2002) This information is circulating for quite a long period and I decided to prepare a page about one of the most discussed and desired stuff for the Punto HGT, a turbocompressor. Please click here for the special page. Koni suspension kits (April 26th 2002) I added in the tuning page the list of Koni suspension kits for Punto Mk2, especially Punto Sporting Mk2, and Punto HGT. Please click here for more information. Targa Florio 2002 report (April 22nd 2002) The fourth session of the Italian rally championship was in Sicily with the Targa Florio race. The race proclaimed again that Andreucci and his Fiat Punto are the fastest of the Super 1600 crew, but the Renault Clio driven by Piero Longhi is really pacing for future dates. More details at this page. Rally of Millemiglia 2002 report (April 9th 2002) A full report of the Rally of Millemiglia is available from this page. I have collected a lot of pictures and a report of the two days. Rally of Ciocco's pictures updated (April 5th 2002) I added some pictures about the rally of Ciocco, the second session of the Italian Rally Championship 2002. You may look them at this page. Emanuele Campagna's car added (March 30th 2002) Emanuele Campagna's Punto GT is available in my site at this link. The car has the nice Cadamuro Design kit and small modifications. Lieuwe's car updated (March 30th 2002) Lieuwe de Haan's car page has been updated with pictures of the car equipped with 16-inches tyres. You may look at the this page. Punto Racing Club meeting at Capriate/Mozzo (March 28th 2002) The Punto Racing Club met at Capriate and Mozzo (BG) on March 24th 2002. A small report of pictures is available in the appropriate page. Catalunya Rally (March 26th 2002) The Catalunya rally proclaimed Panizzi the asphalt expert. The Peugeot 206 WRC based Frenchman won almost all the special stages and doubled the Corse rally. In the Super1600 category, the Fiat Punto had better luck than Montecarlo and all the Fiat cars saw the end of the race with good results. Please click here for a complete report about the Super1600 cars at Catalunya. Several Punto GTs added (March 23rd 2002)
Andrea Merlini from San Benedetto del Tronto (Italy) sent me several pictures of his own yellow Punto GT with several aesthetic parts substituted. Please click here to see his page. Rally of Catalunya entry list (March 22nd 2002) The next rally valid for the WRC and the JWRC (Junior World Rally Championship) is due to the next weekend. Today the crews will test their cars for the rally that will start tomorrow in the northern region of Spain, centered on Lloret de Mar. Please click here for more details about the Catalunya Rally. New models from Francis Alunan (March 22nd 2002) Francis Alunan made me know the italian firm MDS Racing builds Punto model kits. They have been added in the models page. Mancini brothers from Chile (March 12th 2002) I have prepared a new page for Mancini's Punto GT from Chile. You may look at it at this link. Punto HGT from Poland (March 11th 2002) I have prepared a new page for Rafal Bartczak's Punto HGT from Poland. You may look at it at this link. Exciting battle in the Super 1600 reign (March 10th 2002)
The Rally of Ciocco had the subscription of the highest number of the Punto Rally for a rally. They were ten, although Luca Cantamessa didn't start on Friday morning. The absolute victory has been got by Renato Travaglia with the Peugeot 206 WRC. The battle for that victory was not interesting, as it is going to be the the CIR 2002 Italian season, because only one official team is challenging with a WRC car. The CIR classification after the 2nd race, the Rally of Ciocco: 1 Travaglia 13 pt, 2 Navarra 10 pt,3 Grossi 6 pt,3 Bandieri 6pt, 5 Andreucci 4 pt,5 Dallavilla 4 pt, 5 Cantamessa 4 pt. The Super1600 category of CIR 2002: 1 Andreucci 16 pt, 1 Dallavilla 16 pt, 3 Galli 8 pt. More information about the rally may be found in the Ciocco's page. Rally of Ciocco starts today (March 8th 2002) On March 8th, the Ciocco Rally will start, the second session of the Trofeo Fiat Abarth 2002. For the tuscanian race, several cars of Fiat Punto Abarth Rally cars are enroled in the starting list. Paolo Andreucci, with the Team Procar's Punto and his Anna Andreussi codriver, has to defend the current leadership in the Trofeo Fiat Abarth classification, and the Super 1600 Italian Rally Championship classification both, thanks to the victory at the Tutta Terra Toscana rally. Gianluigi Galli, with his codriver Alessandra Guglielmi, will drive for his third time the Top Run's Punto. He is taking part to two championships, the Italian Trofeo Fiat Abarth and the Junior World Championship, the top series for Super 1600 cars, where Galli has already driven for at the Montecarlo Rally. Galli is currently second in the Trofeo Fiat and third in the Italian Championship for Super 1600. Luca Pedersoli is ready with the Punto car by Scuderia Grifone, after the delusion of the first race with a small exit that didn't let him get heavy points. Other Punto drivers are Jader Vagnini, Luca Cantamessa, Massimo Ceccato, Luca Cecchettini, who have already raced with Fiat Punto, while Roberto Vescovi, Luca Betti, and Marco Graziano will debut at Ciocco Rally with the Fiat car. The Rally of Ciocco has 18 special stages on tarmac roads, divided in two days for an amount of 203 km of race distance. The start time is for Friday 8th at 8.01AM to 6.30PM, while Saturday 9th start time will be at 9.01AM and the end at 5.30PM, after a total amount of 557 kilometers. More information about the rally may be found at the Ciocco's site.
Goss's Punto HGT (March 1st 2002) I have prepared a new page for Richard Goss's Punto HGT from England. You may look at it at this link. Brian Chien's Punto HGT (March 1st 2002) Brian Chien, already present in the users gallery, sent me an big update of his Punto HGT, with a dozen of new pictures. You may see them at the Brian's page. Several new cars added (February 27th 2002)
Jose Antonio Caracci, from Chile, sent me some pictures of the drag races he is taking part in his country. Please click here to see those pictures. Erik Barink from Holland sent me the pictures of his first Punto, a Punto 60 S Mk1. He bought also a Punto Sporting Mk2, but he has not sent me the newer car's pictures yet. Tutta Terra Toscana 2002 (February 24th 2002)
They have been two days of exciting rally, Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd for rally lovers. It was the first race valid for the CIR (the Italian Rally Championship) and the CRT (Terrain Rally Challenge). Gavin Tuck's pictures (February 24th 2002) Gavin Tuck sent me some pictures of his own car and the list of its mods. Please click here for more details. New pictures (February 22nd 2002) A new page of Nikos Theodosiu's Punto has been added to the pictures gallery. Click here to see his own car. New pictures (February 20th 2002) New pictures have been added to Panchal's page and Pica's page. Click respectively the links to see the modifications. Affi's Punto meeting (February 19th 2002) On last Sunday the members of Verona and Trento met again at Affi. I have prepared another page about the event thanks to Perry's pictures. Darren Brooks's Punto and pictures from the Puntomk2.co.uk meeting (February 13th 2002) Darren collected some pictures of his own car and some pictures taken at the first meeting of the just born Puntomk2.co.uk club. I admit I'm a bit envious, because other English cousins are allowed to install 17" wheels and we can't. Please check here for Darren's page in Puntopower site. My car at the benchtest (February 12th 2002) Yesterday I want to benchtest my car and the performance values were impressive: I got 150,0 HPs of the engine, 126,1 HPs at the wheels, and 174.1 Nm of max torque. I will put online the benchtest diagram later. You can see my car while testing at my usual page. Piasini Engineering kit for Punto HGT (February 11th 2002) Piasini Engineering, from Sondrio (Italy), has some feedback with me and let me know they have available a chip tuning kit for Punto HGT. The kit is completely reversible and you can install by yourself or by your trusty mechanic. It alters the electric signals entering or exiting the engine control unit in order to have easy tuning for Punto HGT. They declare about 9-10 HPs more from the Punto HGT engine. I put also some information in the tuning page. New users pictures (February 11th 2002) A Finnish guy, Antti Mannelin, sent me some images of his Punto Mk1. Even Kostas Papaloukas, from Greece, sent me some pictures of his Punto Sporting Mk2. Official pictures of Punto Rally and another Taiwanese guy (February 9th 2002) Some official pictures of Punto Rally have been in put in this page. Those pictures show you the Punto Rally at abou two years ago. Another Punto owner from Taiwan, Brian Chien, wrote me and sent three pictures. You may look at that car at Brian's page. Pica's fabulous Malu updated (February 6th 2002) Pica had received his own car only last Saturday from his bodyworker and made me know to update immediately his web page in www.puntopower.com. Yin's Taiwanese Punto HGT added (February 5th 2002) Jenson Yin sent us some pictures of his own Punto HGT, decorated with the Novitec aesthetic kit. Please click here to go to the Yin's page. Willemstein's Punto HGT added (February 2nd 2002) Sander Willemstein sent us three pictures of his own Punto HGT, the state of art of the Punto Mk2. Please click here to go to the Sander's page. Valenti's Punto HGT added (February 1st 2002) Amedeo Valenti let me authorize to put the pictures of his Punto HGT in Puntopower site. Valenti's Punto is one of the most known Punto Mk2 with an important aesthetic and mechanic tuning. Click here for Valenti's page. A tuned Punto Sporting JTD (January 29th 2002) Carmine Braile, from Belgium, sent us several pictures of his own Punto Sporting JTD. He remapped the car and it reached the interesting power of 105 HPs. Click here for his special page. Punto Rally 2002 development (January 25th 2002)
The 2001 Italian champion Paolo Andreucci will take part to the Italian Championship (Assoluto) driving a Fiat Punto Abarth Rally, tuned by N.Technology and managed by Procar Team. Andreucci will defend the title of Rallies Italian Championship, where, since 2002, the new category has been defined for Super 1600 cars. Punto Rally 2002 development (January 25th 2002) A new page has been reserved for the Punto Rally 2002 development during the 2002 season. N Technology is going to develop further the high performance car of the 2001 season. Several pictures are available here. Punto models (January 24th 2002) Francis Alunan made us know that some firms develop models of Fiat Punto Rally. I decided to prepare a page with all new entries of Punto models. If you have other pictures or models, please make me know. Two more cars added (January 24th 2002) Here there are the links of the latest entries. The new pages contain the Jan Schelfhout's Punto S from Belgium, and the Danny's Punto GT from Germany. Two cars added (January 23rd 2002) Here there are the links of the latest entries. The new pages contain the Nick Giatrakos's Punto Sporting from Greece, and the Rui Marques's Punto from Portugal. Punto Rally Abarth fastest, but retired (January 21st 2002)
All the five Punto Rally Abarth in the starting list of Montecarlo 2002, were retired due to road exits. Gianluigi Galli was first after 9 special stage of the 14 stages of the Montecarlo 2002 edition. Montecarlo Rally starts today its first leg(January 18th 2002)
The 2002 World Rally Championship and the 2002 newly-founded Junior Rally Championship start today at Montecarlo in the nice country of Monaco. Several fast cars, but less than the last year, will take part to the event and Fiat Punto too. Five Punto Rally drivers will engage the first hard fight for the title won by Sebastian Loeb with Citroen Saxo kit in the Super1600 2001 edition. Loeb won't run for the Junior Championship, because he has been entitled to run the absolute race as official team driver of Citroen, with XSara T4. Several cars added (January 17th 2002) Dozens and dozens of fans write me to have their own Punto in Puntopower.com! Here there are the links of the latest entries. The new pages contain the Emanuel Antunes's Punto from Portugal, the Daniel Corredera's Punto GT from Spain, and the Jesper Jensen's Punto HGT from Denmark, which sports 144 HPs. Several cars added (January 10th 2002) Several drivers wrote me from any part of the world and they contributed sending me pictures of their cars and in some case they also told me the modifications applied and the enhanced performance. The page of the users pictures can be found here. The new pages contain the Jose Antonio Caracci's Punto GT from Chile, the Johan Duijnker's Punto GT from Netherlands, the Daniel Jebili's Punto HGT from Germany. Punto races in Ireland (January 9th 2002) Julian Cann made us know that Punto HGT race in local Irish championship. A special page has been prepared for that. My Punto HGT moves to Evo 2 (January 8th 2002) Yes, my local tuner Negrente has completed yesterday the next step of my Punto HGT, installing a metallic kat and Supersprint special exhaust collectors. Performance is even enhanced: please have a look in my page. Updated pictures for Punto Abarth Mk2 (January 2nd 2002) I have added some pictures of accessories of Fiat Punto Abarth Mk2. You may see them at the Punto Abarth Mk2 page. Latest news News 2001 |