The second season of the Trofeo Fiat de Rally gets underway this weekend in Brazil. The formula of bringing together exciting competition and money for the prizes worked very well in the first edition of the championship last year. This format will be carried out again by Trofeo Fiat de Rally which will start this weekend at the city of Bragança Paulista in the state of São Paulo.

The best placed crews at each race in N2 category (4x2 traction system and 1600 cc engines with limited preparation) will be money awarded, for the first place the prize will be of R$ 3,000 (€ 1,000); R$ 2,000 (€ 655) for the second placed; R$ 1,500 (€ 500) for the third; R$ 1,000 (€ 330) for the fourth and R$ 500 (€ 165) for the fifth placed.

Just like last year the main objective of Trofeo Fiat de Rally programme is to encourage rally competition in Brazil. "The results were fantastic. In 2008 the championship had a great audience and brought new competitors from other states of the country, increasing the level of people involved in rally, and that’s what we want to do again this year", says Cacá Clauset, the commercial director of the championship.

by Claudio Perlini