Having just wrapped up the Brazilian Rally Championship title, a distinguished place has been reserved for the winning Fiat Palio Rally inside the Adventure Space on the Fiat stand at the Salão Internacional do Automóvel in São Paulo.

A distinguished place has been reserved for the championship-winning Fiat Palio Rally inside the Adventure Space on the spacious Fiat stand at the 25th Salão Internacional do Automóvel in São Paulo that is now underway. The model on show has just wrapped up the Brazilian Rally Championship title in the N3 category – a class that is reserved for cars up to 2.0 litres, 4x2 with limited preparation. The champion Palio 1.8R is driven by Luis Tedesco and Raphael Furtado.

The Fiat Palio has an enviable history of winning titles, obtained amongst the national and South American competitions. Throughout its 13 years in Speed Rally competitions the hatchback model has conquered no less than 27 titles.

In 2008 Fiat Automóveis has also participated in the Brazilian Rally Championship in the N2 class with the young crew, Fábio Dall’Agnol and Marcelo Dalmut. The Mineiro Championship pilots are Eduardo Cunha and Eduardo da Silva, running in the same category. In an attitude that is pro motorsports Fiat has awarded, in all categories of the Mineiro and Paulista competitions, the first five independent competitors that are placed in the N2 category – reserved for rally cars that have engines of to 1.6 litres capacity and with very limited preparation – that were part of the events using a Fiat model.

To participate in an effective way in the South American rally competitions, a sport that demands the most from cars, team and pilots, is the best way Fiat Automóveis has found to keep new technology in constant development. And the results obtained in the competitions in the region over the last decade and a half clearly show off the resistance and strength of Fiat products.