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The Fiat
Rally Team's Fábio Dall'Agnol and Marcelo Dalmut, driving
the new Fiat Palio 2008 in action for the first time,
won their first Brazilian Rally Championship title after
a battle at the weekend against Ulysses Bertholdo and
Sidinei Broering of the Chevrolet Rally Team driving a Chevrolet Celta.
Their first title was confirmed on the 2nd Rally
Severiano de Almeida, the seventh and penultimate round
of the championship which was held in the City of
Severiano de Almeida in the south of Brazil. Dall'Agnol and Dalmut
thus celebrate their first ever national title.
With an
impressive five victories from seven events during the
season, Fábio Dall'Agnol and Marcelo Dalmut debuted in the
championship this weekend with the new Palio Abarth Rally
with a victory that guaranteed a third consecutive title in
the N2 category (1.6 engine, 4x2, limited preparation) for
the Fiat
Rally Team. "I am very happy of having claimed my first
national title and I hope it will be the first of many,"
declared Dall'Agnol, the youngest pilot rallying this season.
For co-pilot
Dalmut the title could not have been at a better occasion.
“It is of
enormous satisfaction to race in my hometown for the first
time in the national championship and to be the winner in
the presence of my family and friends," affirmed Dalmut,
who was born in the city of Severiano de Almeida, which was
hosting the seventh round of the Brazilian Rally Championship for the first time,
a tough 112 kilometres of rallying over a mixture of soil and asphalt tracks.
The other crew of
the Fiat Rally Team Luís Tedesco and Bruno Mega also won
their class, the A6 category which is reserved for cars with 1.6-litre
engines, 4x2 transmission but free levels of preparation.
After testing the new car on the last round they were back
in the familiar current Palio model. “It was a very hard
fought and nervous race in all
the senses but today we will celebrate Fábio (Dall'Agnol)
and Marcelo’s (Dalmut) victory and with the flavour of a
contest up to the last round as it is really in a rally-race,"
said reigning champion Tedesco, who is also the team's boss. The
champion in A6 category will be known during the next and
final round of this
year's series to be held in the city of Campina Grande do Sul
on December 8th.
by Claudio
Perlini
Classification of the Brazilian Rally
Championship 2007 (after 7 of 8 rounds): A6 category: 1st Rafael Túlio/Gilvan Jablonski
(Peugeot 206) 54 points; 2nd Luís Tedesco/Bruno Mega (Fiat
Palio) 51; 3rd Leandro Brustolin/Daniel Ceconelo (VW Gol) 30. N2 category: 1t Fábio Dall Agnol/Marcelo Dalmut
(Fiat Palio) 63 [champions]; 2nd Ulysses Bertholdo/Sidinei Broering
(GM Celta) 52; 3rd Marlon Koerich/Joseane Koerich (GM Celta) 26.
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