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News from January to December 2003The Christmas gallery update (Dec 21st 2003) The month of December didn't have any update to the website, but the amount of postings and new cars submitted are quite intensive, and the quality of updates is still interesting. Here there are the Christmas additions or updates:
Added videogames with Fiat Punto (Dec 20th 2003) Michael Grabowski sent me a great collection of snapshots, taken from several videogames for consoles and PCs. This month the gaming page has snapsnots from V-Rally 3, V-Rally 3 for GameBoy Advance, Xpand Rally for Windows PC, and even Granturismo 2 for Sony Playstation. New cars in the gallery (Nov 22nd 2003) New cars have been added to the users gallery and some other have been updated with new pictures or new features.
The Mid November gallery update (Nov 16th 2003) Other cars came to my mailbox in the last week. Here they are:
Fiat Punto drivers at Wales Rally GB (Nov 12th 2003)
The last weekend the rallying world had its thrilling final act, the Wales Rally GB, as known as RAC, from November 5th to 9th, with all the world championship titles with not-yet-assigned reigning champions. The drivers World Rally Championship became a matter between three drivers, after doctors obliged Peugeot driver Richard Burns to stop because of fainting. Citroën drivers Carlos Sainz and Sebastien Loeb acted with the gravel revived Xsara, whilst Petter Solberg tried to overtake the Citroën leaders with his Subaru Impreza. Even the constructors World Rally Championship was still opening for Peugeot and Citroën brands. Another Punto with 18" wheels! (Nov 3rd 2003) Keith Lee from Ireland sent me some nice pictures of his own Fiat Punto Sporting Mk2 fitted with 18" TSW wheels and 215/35 R18 tyres! Incredible! Bobo Mainini starts again with a Punto (Nov 3rd 2003) Bobo Mainini starts again with a Punto, after having an important accident and being in a coma too for 22 days. The whole Bobo's story is worthly to be read. The November gallery update (Nov 2nd 2003) As most of you noticed, Puntopower is going to be updated with great updates on monthly basis. During October I received a lot of pictures from many new Puntopower users who would have liked to spot their own car in my website. The new cars and some updated ones are here:
Mancini's CIVT experience with Punto HGT (Nov 2nd 2003) With a great performance in the last round of the CIVT championship, Giovanni Mancini and his Punto HGT supported by Leone Motorsport won in class N4 and outperformed even some car in the upper class N3. More information and pictures at the CIVT's Punto HGT page. JWRC 2003: the sixth round, Rallye Catalunya (Oct 31st 2003) It should have been the confirmation of the good progress of Fiat drivers in the Junior circus, but it didn't happen. First of all, Marco Ligato, the Italian-Argentinian driver of Top Run Racing had to withdraw, because an injury suffered during the second week, while hillcrossing with his mountain bike in Argentina. The dirty asphalt of Catalunya, in the hinterland of Lloret de Mar, should have fit very much the speed capabilities of Fiat Punto, because large tracks do not pose too many risks for the drivers and for the car reliability. Click here for the Rallye Catalunya 2003 webpage. The last round of the Italian Rally Championship (Oct 19th 2003) Paolo Andreucci won the Italian driver championship title, just on the last stage, after a fierce battle with another Fiat Punto driver, Giandomenico Basso. All the pictures and the full report is available here, at the page of Rally Adriatico 2003. Rallye Sanremo 2003 summary and pictures (Oct 9th 2003) Photocris made me have a great collection of pictures from Rallye Sanremo of all the cars of the Junior World Rally Championship. There is a good amount of pictures of the Punto Rally Abarth with 2003 livory. Click here for the Rallye Sanremo 2003 webpage. Rallye Sanremo 2003 first leg (Oct 4th 2003) Fiat Punto Rally driver at Rallye Sanremo are performing quite well, with Mirco Baldacci, first in the Junior group, whilst Cecchettini and Ceccato are in the points zone for the championship. All the times of the scratches in the webpage. Pictures of Rally Alpi Orientali (Oct 4th 2003) A bit late I prepared the page of the Rally Alpi Orientali, where Giandomenico Basso got 20 important points for the Italian Rally championship. All the pages are brought by Massimo Bettiol, whom I personally thank for the permission. The Puntopower logo car (Oct 4th 2003) I added the brand of the wheels of the car used for my website logo in the FAQ page. I thank Nazgul for such information and I invite you to look at his marvellous car fitted also with the ITCDB rear spoiler. Rallye Sanremo 2003 Preview (Oct 2nd 2003) Tomorrow the Rallye Sanremo 2003 will start with the Perinaldo special stage. We could follow the event where five Fiat Punto Abarth Rally are driven respectively by Ligato, Baldacci, Ceccato, Cecchettini, and Caldani. We hope the Italian troops will be able to show the superb capabilities of Fiat Punto Rally on tarmac. The special page is here. Fiat Punto Abarth Cup 2003 ended (Sep 30th 2003) In the Fiat Punto Abarth Cup 2003 page there are some pictures of the first unit of the Fiat Punto Abarth HGT Mk2 rev.B for racing purposes. The model has been used by the Championship leader Liam Denning (Rathfarnham) who debuted Fiat's new facelift Punto in the final two rounds of the 2003 series at Mondello Park on September 14. The Steve Griffin Motorsport prepared car features new front and rear end styling. 22 points clear of second placed Karl Leonard (Naas), Denning's new car also features a radicial new colour scheme thanks to sponsors Dupont car paints. The BIG Cars update in the gallery (Oct 1st 2003) My main task in this week is to empty the long list of users who posted their cars and pictures and are still waiting their own car appear in the gallery. Today the lucky guys are:
Cars update in the gallery (Sep 30th 2003) My main task in this week is to empty the long list of users who posted their cars and pictures and are still waiting their own car appear in the gallery. Today the lucky guys are:
Added car from Hungary (Sep 28th 2003) It's the turn of Rafael Szabo's Punto GT from Komarom, Hungary being added to the Puntopower users list. You can see Rafael's car here. Punto Rally exposed at Frankfurt Autoshow (Sep 28th 2003) Italiaspeed made me have new pictures of the Punto Rally Abarth ed.2004 from Frankfurt Motor Show. THe car will debut at Montecarlo Rally in late January after the official homologation due to January 1st 2004. The ITCDB spoiler lives again! (Sep 28th 2003) Emanuele Giove, a.k.a. Nazgul, installed on his own black Punto Sporting Mk2 a new limited edition of the ITCDB spoiler. Will be the ITCDB spoiler available again? New club in Netherlands (Sep 28th 2003) Carlo te Lintelo made me know he cofounded the first Fiat Punto Club in Holland, namely the Punto Sportivo club. They have their own website and prepare also meetings in future months. The BIG cars update coming soon (Sep 26th 2003) As many of you noticed, Puntopower.com stalled in the last month, due to some familiar issues, I had to fix. Now it is time to update all the pages of the website with the tons of pictures you sent since the mid of August. There are almost a hundred of pictures, some rally information and so on... Here it is the ongoing list of the cars added or updated in the Users Gallery:
Beautiful pictures from Neste Rally Finland (Aug 21st 2003) A bit lately I put the impressive pictures made by Photocris at Neste Rally Finland. You may admire some Super1600 cars pacing for the Junior World Rally Championship. The pictures are available in the Neste Rally 2003 page. Summary of Neste Rally Finland (Aug 13th 2003) I added all the scratch times and the summary of one of the most demanding events of the Junior World Rally Championship, the Neste Rally Finland, where Daniel Carlsson won with the Suzuki Ignis. Updated car of Yaron S (Aug 13th 2003) Yaron S from Israel sent me new pictures of his own Punto HGT with NOS fitting. Click here for all the pictures. Neste Rally Finland (Aug 11th 2003) During the beautiful lands nearby Jyvaskyla hosted one of the best events of the rallying world, the Neste Rally, formerly known also as 1000 Lakes Rally. Four Fiat Punto were present for the Junior World Rally Championship, but their drivers didn't perform too much well, achieving only the seventh place with Marcos Ligato. More information and several pictures are getting online here. Users gallery of August (Aug 11th 2003) As you could have noticed, Puntopower has not been updated too much in the last two weeks, but you didn't stop to send me your pictures and your car information, which are now online! The new cars and someone updated are here:
Banners page added (Aug 11th 2003) I have just added the banners page. Any site can link to PuntoPower using one of the logos available from here. New cars in the users gallery (Jul 24th 2003) The mid-week update brings to you some new cars from Europe and other ones updated:
Punto Rally Super1600 even in upcoming Colin McRae 4 (Jul 24th 2003) Some snapshots of next cutting-edge rally game simulation Colin McRae 4 for Playstation2, XBOX, and Windows PC have been spotted in some game rumours sites. Some pictures of an updated Punto Abarth Super1600 with new colours livory have been put online also in the gaming page. New pictures of Rally of Salento (Jul 24th 2003) Some new pictures have been added to the Rally of Salento 2003 page brought on courtesy of Photocris. All the new pictures are about some Super1600 drivers after the decision to retire from the event. Pictures from Rally of San Martino (Jul 22nd 2003) On the last weekend I went to see the special stages of the second leg of Rally of San Martino di Castrozza and Primiero, valid for the Italian Rally Championship, where the Fiat drivers ruled again the rest of the crews. All the details and my pictures in the special page. Galfer braking kit (Jul 22nd 2003) Julian Cann made me have very interesting pictures of the fitting of Galfer braking kit on his own Punto HGT. His experience is very useful for the rest of us. Camshaft apertures (Jul 21st 2003) Riccardo Fenili, a.k.a Braccio, made me have all the camshaft aperture values for Punto Mk1/Mk2. These information have been put in a new camshafts page linked from the tuning page. New cars added (Jul 21st 2003) New cars are appearing on Puntopower.com. Here there are:
First victory of a Fiat Punto in a French rally (Jul 13th 2003) On a minor exit, Eric Brunson won the Rally of Basse Normandie with his own
Fiat Punto Rally K/10 previously driven in Italian championship by Andrea Panicco. Toumpas' car added (Jul 13th 2003) The users gallery has been enriched with another car, the Punto 55SX Mk1 owned by Dimitris Toumpas from Athens, Greece. Click here for his own page. Great new cars in the gallery (Jul 11th 2003) This week's update is really very interesting, because of some owned cars have an endless list of features and modifications.
More cars and pictures are still in my incoming mailbox, and they are to be processed yet. Expect even more during the next weekend! 'Punto al titolo', the full review of Punto Super 1600 Evo 2003 (Jul 3rd 2003) Here it is the full review of the Fiat Punto Super 1600 Evo 2003, after the Turinese technicians of N Technology obliged the car to a slim cure, which let it lose more than 100 kg! New videoclips added (Jul 3rd 2003) New videoclips added in the videos page: I added
the Fiat spots shown in Italian TVs for the official launch of revision B of Mk2. New cars added or updated (Jul 3rd 2003) I added to the users gallery the list below:
Marçalo Vilhena's Punto TD added (Jul 2nd 2003) I added this night only the Punto TD owned by a Portoguese guy, Joao Paulo Marçalo Vilhena from Âncora. The biggest Fiat Punto meeting in the world! (Jul 2nd 2003) The meeting has been organized by the Punto Racing Club. The event was surely one of the biggest events with solely Fiat Punto cars. There were several Mk1, Mk2, and even a new Mk2 rev.B brought by a Milanese Fiat dealer. The page about the meeting is under construction here. Slow update of the website (Jul 2nd 2003) I'm really busy with my job and my family, although I have my mailbox folder full with information and pictures sent by all of you. I appreciate for your feedback and contribute and I promise I will be able to fill out the list of new updates of the gallery. Please be patient! Tragedy at Salento Rally (Jun 24th 2003) At 9:53 am the Rally del Salento faces the Litoranea Stage (km. 16,960). The best time is recorded by Gigi Galli (Mitsubishi) followed by Andreucci (Fiat) with a delay of 15", Travaglia (Peugeot) at 18"4, Longhi (Subaru) at 19"4, Basso (Fiat) at 25"3. Cunico (Mitsubishi), Rossetti (Citroen), Scorcioni and Dallavilla (Fiat) arrive after them. Galli leads the general classification, at the second rank Andreucci with a delay of 37"4, Longhi at 39"5, Travaglia at 40"2 and Cunico at 1'00"1. At about 10:20 am a tragic accident upsets the Rally. Aghini-Roggia's Peugeot 206 goes off the road during the final passage of the third special stage. At about 300 mt from the end of the stage while facing a left turn, the crew lost the control of the car smashing against an old stone building, off the edge of the roadway near Santa Maria di Leuca, in the area of Castrignano del Capo. The crash occurred near the finish line of the stage. An emergency car equipped with a mobile intensive care unit intervened immediately. After few minutes another emergency car and an emergency helicopter reached the accident site. All the details here. New cars added or updated in the gallery (Jun 16th 2003) Several cars have been added or updated in the biggest Punto gallery of the web:
Watson's Punto added to the gallery (Jun 14th 2003) Another car, owned by Luke Watson from Great Britain, has been added to the gallery. His car is a Sporting Mk2 16v and is equipped with a Clarion TV and fitted also with a Sony PS2! Acropolis Rally pictures (Jun 12th 2003) An impressive amount of pictures from the Acropolis Rally, the third round of the Junior World rally championship have been added, thanks to the shots made by Photocris. You may see them in the Acropolis 2003 page. Great pictures update of San Marino Rally (Jun 2nd 2003) Photocris and Videorace made me have their great bunch of exclusive photos of the fifth round of the Italian rally championship. There also some spectacular jumps, you may see here. Fifth round of Italian Rally Championship: leg 2 of San Marino Rally (May 31th 2003) Paolo Andreucci, with the fifth overall position, which means the third position for the points valid in the Italian rally championship, rules the Super1600 class and gets the leadership of the championship itself. More information available here. Fifth round of Italian Rally Championship: leg 1 of San Marino Rally (May 31th 2003) The gravel ground gives more than a chance to the 4WD drivers, such Piero Longhi and Alex Fiorio with Subaru Impreza STi, and Franco Cunico, Gigi Galli and several other drivers with Mitsubishi Lancer. This event forecast is being confirmed just by the first stage, where Longhi is terribly fast as the WRC drivers. All the rest of the production car drivers populate the stage grid up to the ninth place, where we can find the first Super1600 car. As expected in the Italian series, it's the Fiat Punto Super1600 driven by Paolo Andreucci and codriven by Anna Andreucci, who positively impresses the crowd for the times, but there is another Fiat driver who really wants to battle in the Super1600, namely Andrea Dallavilla, supported by HF Grifone team. The rest of the Super1600 is far behind, Renato Travaglia, the Italian rally champion, is only 32th and Giandomenico Basso, the current leader of the Italian championship 2003, is only 29th. More information available here. Next important meeting (May 29th 2003) All the Puntopowers are invited to one of the biggest events of the Punto community, the yearly Garda meeting. It will be hosted in the v-?ery nice town Garda on Garda lake and the organizers expect the amount of Fiat Punto to be far over the 90 cars seen last year. If you like to partecipate, I suggest to visit the Italian site of PRC. New cars in the users gallery (May 29th 2003) Some cars have been added in the users gallery. Here they are:
Minor rally programmes around Europe (May 29th 2003) I received in the last days several pictures of rally drivers who are bringing
the Fiat Punto Super1600 or the older Fiat Punto Rally K/10 in other countries
than the Fiat works teams. It's the case of Eric Brunson, who is driving a Balbosca's
Fiat Punto in some French rallies and later the French championship series. Daniel
and Jochen Feβl however made me have some very nice pictures of the Ferencz
brothers on some stages of the Fehervar Rallye run on the last weekend. All the
pictures and the information is available in the European
rally activities 2003 page. Fiat rally cars win wherever in Europe (May 22nd 2003) I have updated the European rallying activities pages about all the Fiat Punto
used around European in national championships. New cars in the users gallery (May 22nd 2003) Some cars have been added in the users gallery. Here they are:
Great gallery of Punto Mk2 rev.B (May 22nd 2003) Pictures of the revision B of Punto Mk2 are coming up on the Internet and on various Italian magazines. A collection of about fifty pictures is available here in Puntopower. These pictures seem to be official part of Fiat merchandising and brochures, which are going printed massively. Another page has been build here in my website, where you can enjoy all that stuff. More inner details about rev.B (May 15th 2003) I have been feeded with new pictures and details about the next revision of Fiat Punto Mk2, due to the next month here in Italy, and just later in the rest of Europe. Please look here at the special page about the Punto Mk2 rev.B. Whiz's Punto HGT added (May 15th 2003) DJ Whiz from Poland sent me some pictures of his own broom yellow Punto HGT. The page is available here. Yaron's NOS kit on Punto HGT (May 12th 2003) Yaron S sent me an interesting tail-?story about his own experience about NOS kits on the Punto HGT. That kis seems to give the car about 50 HP more power, which is more than enough to beat a lot of more powerful cars, such Clio RS Sport and Golf VR6. All the story in Yaron's page. Rally Prealpi Trevigiane 2003 (May 12th 2003) Photocris and Videorace made me have some pictures of the last event of the Italian Challenge Rally Terra, the gravel trophy in the Italian rally series. The event had five Super1600 cars, primely Baldacci and Cecchettini's Punto Rally cars. All the pictures and rally report at this page. New page about Fiat Punto Rally in Germany and Austria (May 12th 2003) I put some pictures of the Fiat Punto Rally driven by Walter Benedict during the seasons 2000 and 2001 in Germany in several famous rallies. All the pictures have been given by Daniel Feβl, who I thank a lot for. All the picturea are available at this page. New car added in the users gallery (May 12th 2003) I updated some cars in the Puntopower users gallery, probably the biggest users gallery in the world, about only one car model. There is also a new car page are listed, Kristian Uoki's Punto 75 SX, from Croatia. Punto Rally catalogue (May 6th 2003) I catalogued all the Punto Rally ever seen in any rally around Europe. Each car has its own plate number, its ownerships, and various drivers it has been driven in the rallies. If you notice some misunderstanding or some error or missing part, I am really happy to fix it! Click here to go to the Punto Rally catalogue. Gallery update (May 6th 2003) I updated the users gallery with new cars and new picture updates to some existing cars. Here they are:
Andreucci wins Targa Florio (May 5th 2003) Paolo Andreucci fights up to the last stage and wins the glorious Targa Florio, one of the oldest races in the car history. The Tuscan driver, at the wheel of the Fiat Punto by Procar and N Technology, and codriven by Anna Andreussi, after some troubles in the first leg, when he was able to pace the other top drivers, like Travaglia and Basso, but he suffered a puncture on the last stage and an issue to the steering assisted system of his Punto. More information and pictures available here. Pop-off valve for Sporting JTD (May 2nd 2003) Since Negrente has debuted worldwide with the pop-off valve for all the most common turbodiesel engines, even the Punto Sporting JTD can receive a pop-off valve, as shown in this page. The most common perception about the usefulness of such valve is that also a diesel engine has somehow a counterpressure in the intake tubes, when changing to upper gears, just like the petrol engines. There is not an air barrier of the closed throttle body, which obstacles the pressured air to return back, but turbodiesel engines could have higher pressure rates. It's time of the fourth round of the Italian Rally Championship (May 2nd 2003) Today there is the first leg of the two legs based event Targa Florio 2003. This rally is a tarmac round, with several very fast tracks, where Super1600 cars could really exploit their power and lightness. Everybody expects a stron-?g performance from Andreucci, Travaglia, Basso, Dallavilla, and other Italian experienced drivers. I will follow the event with some reports during these days and I will add also a bunch of exclusive photos from Videorace and Photocris. Baldacci's experience at Pirelli International (May 2nd 2003) Mirco Baldacci told me some experiences at the wheel of the orange Hitec's Fiat Punto, about the Pirelli International Rally, the first round of the British Rally Championship. The event, a full gravel rally, with several fast stages covered by fog banks is very similar to the Network Q Rally, the last round of the Junior World Rally Championship, which has been run also by other drivers of the Junior pool, like Kris Meeke, Guy Wilks, and Martin Stenshorne. All the Mirco's experience in the Pirelli International 2003 page. Car updates in the gallery (May 1st 2003) Some cars have been updated in the users gallery. All the cars have some new modifications in order to keep them more alive than ever! Here there are:
Over Racing exhaust system from Japan (May 1st 2003) Julian Cann made me know there exists a Japanese tuner who sells an exhaust
system from Punto Abarth, which is regularly sold in Japan. More information in
the appropriate page here. Update from Benelux (Apr 30th 2003) There are some new cars and other cars updated in the Puntopower gallery. All of them are coming from Netherlands and Luxembourg.
Punto GT 2.0L 16V Turbo by Mariotti (Apr 27th 2003) Could you reach 200 km/h with a front wheel drive car in about 20 seconds? Possible? Yes, it's possible even with a Punto GT, although under its bonnet the heart of the Lancia Delta Integrale 2000 16v turbocharged beats, emplanted by a specialist as the Mantua tuner Mariotti. Late April's car additions (Apr 27th 2003) The amount of cars added to my gallery still goes up, with these additions from several countries. The new PuntoPower users cars added to the gallery are listed here:
Mondello Park, second round of Irish Fiat Cup (Apr 25th 2003) I have been forwarded the Irish Fiat Cup press of the secound round of the championship, which has been won by Karl Leonard from Nash. All the details and the pictures here. Rallycar braking kit from Spain (Apr 22nd 2003) I publish the availability of a racing braking kit from La Coruna based Rallycar S.L., the firm that supports all the rally drivers of the Spanish trophies Copa Fiat Punto and Super Copa Fiat Punto. These information have been added in the Tuning Punto HGT page. I wei-?ghed my Punto! (Apr 18th 2003) I measured also the weight of my car, using a Sparco four-plate electronic weighing machine for race cars. The car has been weighed with 1/3 full of petrol, so I estimated the real net weight. Full details of the experience in the my car's page. New carbon fiber cockpit for Punto Rally 2003 (Apr 18th 2003)
Seen again on Paolo Andreucci's car at Rally Millemiglia, we noticed the changed solution for the central tunnel. The original central body of Fiat Punto Mk2, with air outlets, the air conditioning commands, and several instrumentation switches have been removed in favour of a lighter carbon fiber frame, with more useful instrumentation for rallying purposes. All the developments on Fiat Punto Rally are available at the Punto Rally 2003 page. Baldacci at Pirelli Rally (Apr 18th 2003)
Mirco Baldacci has been enlisted in the Pirelli Rally valid for the British Rally Championship due for April 25th 2003. Baldacci's partecipation to the British competition comes from the decision of the Hitec team to support the youngster Leon Pesticcio. The Cuneo based Italian team is taking to England two cars with gravel setup, so that Pesticcio will start the British championship with a very competitive car, whilst the Sanmarinese driver aims differently the event. The full article at the Pirelli Rally 2003 page. Burnout video of Malù (Apr 17th 2003) Pica, from Rome, made me have the mythic burnout of Malù, his owned Punto HGT, which is still under construction... The video is really amazing: it's a burnout, which has been clipped for the production of the Playstation 2 and Windows PC Burnout 2. The video has been recorded with the well known Malù, the Punto HGT of Pica, who can admire here on Pu-?ntoPower. Some cars updated (Apr 17th 2003) I just updated Perry's Sporting Mk2 page here. Some Cadamuro parts have been removed on the front, after a little damage in favour of a new Novitec subspoiler. There is only a virtual lowering by Matt Knowles in his car's web page. New page for Sporting Mk1 tuning (Apr 17th 2003) There is another page in PuntoPower, for the Punto Sporting Mk1. It is intended for all owners of Punto Sporting Mk1, but even other Punto Mk1 owners. At now there is only a tip, about the final drive ratio by German Hörmann. Höelbling wins Super1600 class at Liburna (Apr 13th 2003) In the Hitec sporting activities, apart the full support of Mirco Baldacci
for the Junior world rally championship, and Leon Pesticcio and the same Sanmarinese
driver for British championship, there is also the sporadic partecipation to other
races, like the Coppa Liburna during the last weekend. New pictures of Rally Millemiglia (Apr 13th 2003) The Austrian guy Daniel FeΒl make me have another bunch of pictures from Rally Millemiglia 2003. The collection has been added to the special related page of the rally. New cars added or updated (Apr 13th 2003) This week starts with new pages about some user cars, such:
Pages updated about the-? Kirkistown's round (Apr 11th 2003) Thanks to full courtesy of Steve from Ireland and Oisin O'Briain, the manager of the Fiat Punto Abarth Cup for the Irish championship, a lot of pictures has been uploaded also in Puntopower.com. I mirrored almost all those information, for the benefit of all Puntopower users. Here are the new pages:
Updated information about Punto Rally (Apr 9th 2003) At the last round of the Italian rally championship I could look at some minor modifications on the latest development of Fiat Punto Rally, mainly the car used by Paolo Andreucci and Alan Scorcioni. I updated some pages about the Punto Rally and I added a new page for the evolution 2003 of the car. Rally Millemiglia's gallery of pictures added (Apr 8th 2003) The collection is really huge, with 46 shots regarding only Super1600 cars. Photo Cris sent me also another half dozen of pictures of the top drivers at the wheel of the best cars, i.e. the Fiat Punto Rally. Denning wins at Kirkistown the first round of the Irish Fiat Punto Abarth Cup (Apr 8th 2003) The opening round of the 2003 Fiat Punto Abarth Cup took place at Kirkistown
on Saturday (5th April) with Quentin Smith (Rathfarnham) starting from pole but
in the race it was main rival Liam Denning (Rathfarnham) who took the win. Weekend at Rally Millemiglia (Apr 7th 2003) This weekend I was very busy with Rally Millemiglia. I followed the event online during the first leg on Friday 4th, whilst on Saturday I was at the event, where I took a quite good collection of pictures, which will be put online very soon. In the meanwhile I prepared also some detailed reports about both the legs, which have been dominated by the solid performance of Giandomenico Basso, who avoided any puncture and maximized the results in the Italian Rally Championship, with a one-two after the last two events. More information are here. Several cars from East added (Apr 1st 2003) Several cars just added to the gallery and a good amount are cars from Eastern. Here they are:
Punto GT chip tuning added (Mar 27th 2003) I updated the tuning page of Punto GT and I added a new paragraph about chip tuning, and two ways to modify electronic engine management. Punto GT is built with two EPROM chips, the former for injection and ignition control, the latter for turbocharger and boosting control. Punto Racing Club meeting due to April 2003 (Mar 26th 2003) The Punto Racing Club, the biggest branch of all the Fiat Punto Clubs in the world, is going to meet at Marzaglia, Modena (Italy), on April 12th and 13th 2003. The Modena's airport lane hosts one of the most followed drag events in Italy, and the Punto Racing Club organizers opted to choose this event to meet all the Italian members. More information is available on the forum of Punto Racing Club and also in a special page. Cars updated in the gallery (Mar 26th 2003) I received in the last days some updates for pictures already present in the Puntopower gallery. Here they are:
Irish Fiat Punto Abarth Cup starting soon (Mar 26th 2003) Like previous seasons, the season 2003 starts on April 5th at Kirkiston in Northern Ireland, so all the drivers are making latest adjustments to their Punto for the championship. Puntopower.com will have the support of the whole season of Steve from Irishfiat.net and Barry Rabbitt, one of the drivers of the championship. A new page about the Fiat Cup 2003 is under construction here. Vallejo at Rallye Mediterraneo (Mar 26th 2003) Sergio Vallejo arrived second at the Rallye Mediterraneo, the first round of the Spanish rally championship. This year the Spanish championship title is won without WRC cars, but only with Super1600 or group N cars. Sergio Vallejo, the Fiat works driver, scored a promising second position. More information here in the Spanish rally 2003 page. Great update of the users gallery (Mar 26th 2003) Today a long list of new pages has been added to the Puntopower gallery. Here they are:
Full report of Rally of Ciocco (Mar 23rd 2003) Giandomenico Basso wins the Rally of Ciocco, the second round of the Italian rally championship (CIR), which has been dominated largely by the Fiat drivers. The eighteen special stages, run on about an half dozen of tracks, completely on tarmac, showed the real performance and lightness of the Super1600 cars versus the great traction of the Group N cars, which sport better on hard grounds such as the gravel stages and the wet asphalt. Click here for the full report. 5,000,000 Fiat Punto's sold in Italy (Mar 19th 2003) The biggest branch of national Fiat resellers, Fiat Auto Italia, celebrates the five millionth Punto sold in Italy. The astoushing fact is commemorated by Fiat Auto with a revamped site of the Fiat Punto, www.fiatpunto.com, where there is plenty of screensavers, wallpapers and sections devoted to a small forum, clubs, and a contest where the first prize is a solid Fiat Punto Sporting Mk2. It's worthly to be visited! Gaeta's Punto HGT from Switzerland (Mar 19th 2003) Moreno Gaeta from Switzerland sent me some pictures of his own orion grey Punto HGT. I prepared a page for his car. The CIVT's Punto HGT review (Mar 18th 2003) Giovanni Mancini, the gentleman who races the Italian CIVT championship since 2001, made me have the authorization the full technical article about the Punto HGT he drives in the class. He got quite good performances, due to the great torque and the limited consumption of the 16 valves VFD engine by Fiat. New car from Japan (Mar 18th 2003) Kazu, from Hokkaido, Japan, sent me some pictures of his own black Punto HGT. It's always a pleasure for me to add Punto around the world, such the cars owned by guys from Far East. User cars added (Mar 11th 2003) The amount of cars present in the Puntopower gallery is still increasing. Today it's the turn of:
Rally of Turkey's pictures (Mar 10th 2003) I have updated the page about Rally of Turkey with the pictures shared with www.jwrc.com. There's still few pictures of the Fiat Punto which ran the event, but more will come soon. There's also a picture of Fiat Palio Super 1600. New user cars in Puntopower.com (Mar 8th 2003) Two weeks were gone, since the last user cars update. Today it is time to present you all the new cars whose owners sent me pictures and information in the last weeks. Here they are:
The Taiwanese community (Mar 7th 2003) Jenson, from Taiwan, sent me a nice collection of pictures of their own Fiat Punto Club meeting. It is really fantastic seeing where passion for Italian cars is able to reach, such as that far Eastern country. You may see them in their special page. Tutta Terra Toscana (Mar 3rd 2003) Tutta Terra Toscana has achieved a result during the last weekend: the Italian championship 2003 is really exciting, altough the WRC cars have been banned from the top series, the Italian Rally Championship (CIR). It was also the event where everyobdy saw the values on the fields, the production cars versus the Super 1600 cars, and the current champion, Travaglia, versus his own usual competitors. More information here. Pesticcio secures Fiat Drive (Mar 3rd 2003) It has today been confirmed that Leon Pesticcio will drive a Fiat Punto Super
1600 in this year's Pirelli British Rally Championship. Upcoming rallies due for the next weekend (Feb 25th 2003) The next weekend will be for the Punto lovers very interesting. We have two events where Fiat Punto Rally is the rallying star. An event is the secound round of the Junior World Rally Championship 2003, the Rally of Turkey, which starts on Thursday evening 27th 2003 at Antalya, a region a bit far from Irak. The second event is the first round of the Italian Rally Championship 2003, the Tutta Terra Toscana, a spectacular gravel rally where the Super1600 cars will be the stars, after WRC cars have been banned in the national championships. I hope to attend the second event with a full pictures reportage, whilst the first event will be broadcasted on Puntopower.com and JWRC.com both. My car's page updated (Feb 25th 2003) I applied some modifications to my page, with the pictures of the my new air filter, a BMC CDA, which performs even better than the very good H&M filter. I also listed my upcoming evolutionary path and added also some new thumbnails for better looking. New Sportings parked at Puntopower (Feb 22nd 2003) I have just added another couple of Punto from European guys. It seems interesting enough the Punto Sporting Mk1 owned by Dariusz Rybak from Poland, which installed a worked engine head and a group A manufactured camshaft and sported about 95 HP. Here are the links to the new pages:
Israelian Punto added (Feb 21st 2003) Added another Punto from Israel: its owner, Yossi Ohayon, sent me only a picture of his white Punto HGT. The Punto dominance goes so far from Italy! Little makeup in Puntopower (Feb 20th 2003) I continue the work of enhancing the website with a new look for the home page. Now it hosts the top news and displays a reworked toolbar on the top. The Puntopower gallery has been extended with ratings given to each car for its aesthetic kit and for its performance tuning. Full update of the Punto Mk2 rev.B (Feb 17th 2003) A long update from Italiaspeed about the main revision of the Punto Mk2 has been selected and put online in the special Mk2 Rev.B page. There are also a couple of pictures of the Punto B-MPV, a Punto multivagon. Steve Mamalis's Punto HGT added (Feb 16th 2003) Another Greek guy has been added to the Puntopower gallery: he is Steve Mamalis, from Athens, Greece, who sent me a quite long list of mods and some pictures too. You may see the grey Punto HGT here. A Fiat Punto at Dakar rally? (Feb 15th 2003) Christian Venturino sent me this funny picture of his own Fiat Punto HLX near the gigantic trucks taking part to a desertic rally, probably the Dakar one. Jon Vivang's Punto GT added (Feb 15th 2003) During the last week I was very busy and I had no time to add any news to Puntopower.com. Today it's time to continue the job and Jon Vivang's car has been added in his own page: it's the car of the first Norvegian Punto lover! The treacherous badge (funny story) (Feb 6th 2003) Jesper Jensen, from Danmark, wrote me a tale about his Punto HGT, believed to be a Sporting because of a false logo applied on the rear door. Here it is the full story. Conte's Punto Sporting added (Feb 6th 2003) I added in the gallery the Fabio Conte's Punto Sporting Mk1 from England. Siros's Punto Sporting with engine 1.6 16v (Feb 2nd 2003) John Siros, from Greece, made me have some pictures of his own Punto Sporting, where the engine has been substituted with the engine of Fiat Bravo, the 1.6 cube capacity engine with 16 valves. All the pictures at this link. An update about the Chilean drag races (Jan 31st 2003) Jose Antonio Caracci from Santiago in Chile, made me have an update about the drag races he takes part. He sent me some pictures of the event, where he got the first place in the category, after beating a Suzuki Swift turbocharged, a Honda Civic turbocharged, and an older Audi S2. The scoop is available in his own page in www.puntopower.com. Several updates of the evening (Jan 31st 2003) During the last two weeks, I have been literally flooded by a lot of updates of existing cars in the gallery and even more new cars to add it. Here I list now the pages which have been updated or added:
Added Lopez's Punto Sporting (Jan 31st 2003) Ivan Lopez from Madrid sent me several pictures of his aesthetic modifications applied to his own Punto Sporting Mk2. He installed some neon lights, but he also enjoys a lot on the Madrilean grass. Added Reekers' Punto GT (Jan 30th 2003) I added the yellow Punto GT owned by Branco Reekers, from the Netherlands. Monte Carlo Rally 2003 (Jan 27th 2003) I went to the southern French province near Monte Carlo and Monaco to see the 71st edition of the Rally of Monte Carlo, one of the most famous rallies in the world. This edition, like the previous, is again a round not only of the WRC, but also the Junior World Rally Championship. Only four of the six Fiat Punto started the rally, but all the cars were reliable and let the Italian drivers to outstand in the final classification, with the third place of Marco Ligato with the Toprun's Fiat Punto codeveloped with N Technology. Full information about the scores, the times, the pictures in the Rally Monte Carlo 2003 page. Autotest turbokit conversion for Sporting Mk2 (Jan 14th 2003) James Barwell made me have some pictures of his own Punto Sporting Mk2 converted with an Autotest turbokit. The car performance is now completely different. You may know more about the James's car here and also some details about the Autotest kit. Several cars added in the Puntopower gallery (Jan 14th 2003) This update is really important, because the amount of new pages reporting Puntopower users cars are really several. I list here the new pages:
Some updates have been applied also
to the pages of Geoffey Apel from Luxemburg, who sports
the Fiat Stilo wheels 17": it's worth a look!
Elias Tsotras's Punto GT added (Jan 7th 2003) Another Punto GT has been added, Elias Tsotras's from Athens. It sports 215 HPs!! Paul Sorensen's Punto 55S added (Jan 6th 2003) The white Sorensen's Punto 55S from Denmark is available on Puntopower. I'm waiting for the list of modifications from Paul. Ross Thomson's Punto GT at drag races (Jan 6th 2003) Ross Thomson fights with his own Punto GT against several cars, from Nissan 200SX to Civic Type R, Mondeo ST220 and others, but the small Fiat car performs really well. All the clips are available in the videoclips page. Lievens's Punto GT updated (Jan 6th 2003) Jochie Lievens from the Netherland updated me with an impressive amount of pictures of his own gold Punto GT, with several detailes photographed here. Two turbo converted Punto's appear in Puntopower.com (Jan 6th 2003) James Barwell from Great Britain sent me the list of modifications of his Punto Sporting Mk2, which has been fitted by the Autotest low pressure turbo kit. I'm waiting for some pictures and a more detailed description from the owner! The other Punto is the Andy Coster's Punto 55SX, a little monster which moved from the 55 original HPs to the 93, thanks to a Garrett turbocharger and a NOS injection kit. MT Tuning page (Jan 6th 2003) My friend Sp33D_M4NIAC from Switzerland made me know the existence of the MT Tuning bodykit. I have just prepared this new page. Another snapshot of the Punto Mk2 restyling (Jan 2nd 2003) Another snapsnot of the Punto Mk2 restyling is available and it is exhibited in the Mk2 Rev.B page. This new snapshot really seems the final candidate view of the Punto Mk2 restyled. No pictures of the 3 doors hatchback has been seen yet. Latest news News 2002 News 2001 |