Punto Rally spec.2003
N Technology has changes some specifications of Fiat Punto Rally Abarth for the season 2003. The car is expected to be used for these championships:
- Junior championship 2003 (by Ligato, Ceccato, Cecchettini, Baldacci)
- Italian rally championship (by Andreucci, Scorcioni, Cecchettini, Dallavilla, Bettega, Basso, Gamba)
- British championship 2003 (by Pesticcio, Baldacci)
The car, in the first appareances of season 2003 has been seen with some minor modifications, in order to prove the Fiat Punto project is a great project for Super1600 purposes and the car is still very competitive, though other constructors are going to debut with completely different new cars, as Ford is introducing for late 2003 the new Ford Fiesta Super1600 instead of Ford Puma, and Citroen will homologate Citroen C2 Super1600 in place of Citroen Saxo.
Restyling due to revision B of production car
The Punto Rally edition 2003 has a complete change of look on its yearly run, due to the market launch of the revision B of the Punto Mk2 (mod.188). Fiat really bets also on the appeal also of the rally car to launch the production car and make the new restylized Fiat model more common and liked by young people and rally fans.
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You may notice a long list of new details
with respect the previous model: the front part is completely change and also
the air intake system can benefit the new calender, which has never been existed
on Punto Mk1 and Punto Mk2.
Front arches are more armoniously shaped and linked to the car, while the rear
lower bumper is the same of the production car and makes the exhaust tube arise
better.
Frankfurt Motor Show '2003
Fiat showed the edition 2004 of Fiat Punto Rally Abarth at Frankfurt Motorshow. The prototype is going well and it is expected to be homologated for January 1st 2004, just ready for the first round of the Junior World Rally Championship first event, the Rallye Monte Carlo.
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Rear brakes
A new technical solution of Punto Super1600 is the adoption of different disks for rear braking. The previous disks were the standard rear brakes of Punto HGT, while the new solution spots enlightened disks to reduce rotating masses and very drilled disks to reduce temperatures. Here there is a picture taken at Rally Millemiglia on the Andreucci's car, developed by Procar.
Central cockpit
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.
