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The roll call of championship victories begins at the very pinnacle of rallying, the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), where Pontus Tidemand and co-driver Jonas Andersson clinched the WRC2 title in emphatic fashion, winning five rallies along the way. It was a second successive WRC2 Drivers’ title for ŠKODA Motorsport as well as completing a hat-trick of Teams’ titles too.
Yağiz Avci was victorious at the FIA European Rally Trophy Final at the Rallye Casinos do Algarve in Portugal. Mathieu Arzeno also enjoyed victory in the finale of the French Cup in Marseille, while Luca Rossetti won International Rally Cup in Italy. Krisztián Hideg also drove a FABIA R5 in the final decisive round of his successful Mitropa Cup challenge and drove it in one round of his victorious Croatian Rally Championship campaign, the Rally Croatia, too.
Plenty of ŠKODA FABIA R5 drivers came close to winning championship titles too. Amongst those also fighting for the title until the very last round of the season but ending the season as runner-up in the end were Ole Christian Veiby in the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship as well as in Norway, Marcos Ligato in the CODASUR South American Championship, Bruno Magalhães in the FIA European Rally Championship, Kris Princen in Belgium, Dominik Dinkel in Germany, Fredrik Åhlin in Great Britain, Dan Gîrtofan in Romania, Umberto Scandola in Italy, Martin Koči in Slovakia and Pedro Meireles in Portugal.
Meanwhile, also finishing as runners-up in their respective championships were Nikolay Gryazin in Latvia, Miguel Zaldivar in Paraguay, Uğur Soylu in Turkey, Pedro Burgo in Spain and Quentin Giordano in the French Tarmac Rally Championship.
It truly has been a staggering season of success for ŠKODA drivers all around the world. While many have credited the FABIA R5 for their achievements, huge congratulations must also go to each of them for their exemplary displays of driving in what have often been hugely challenging conditions, as well as to all ŠKODA Customer Teams.
ŠKODA Motorsport is now eagerly looking forward to 2018 when we hope that there will be more success to celebrate for the FABIA R5 and our customer teams from all over the globe.
World
The roll call of championship victories begins at the very pinnacle of rallying, the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), where Pontus Tidemand and co-driver Jonas Andersson clinched the WRC2 title in emphatic fashion, winning five rallies along the way. It was a second successive WRC2 Drivers’ title for ŠKODA Motorsport as well as completing a hat-trick of Teams’ titles too.
Yağiz Avci was victorious at the FIA European Rally Trophy Final at the Rallye Casinos do Algarve in Portugal. Mathieu Arzeno also enjoyed victory in the finale of the French Cup in Marseille, while Luca Rossetti won International Rally Cup in Italy. Krisztián Hideg also drove a FABIA R5 in the final decisive round of his successful Mitropa Cup challenge and drove it in one round of his victorious Croatian Rally Championship campaign, the Rally Croatia, too.
Plenty of ŠKODA FABIA R5 drivers came close to winning championship titles too. Amongst those also fighting for the title until the very last round of the season but ending the season as runner-up in the end were Ole Christian Veiby in the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship as well as in Norway, Marcos Ligato in the CODASUR South American Championship, Bruno Magalhães in the FIA European Rally Championship, Kris Princen in Belgium, Dominik Dinkel in Germany, Fredrik Åhlin in Great Britain, Dan Gîrtofan in Romania, Umberto Scandola in Italy, Martin Koči in Slovakia and Pedro Meireles in Portugal.
Meanwhile, also finishing as runners-up in their respective championships were Nikolay Gryazin in Latvia, Miguel Zaldivar in Paraguay, Uğur Soylu in Turkey, Pedro Burgo in Spain and Quentin Giordano in the French Tarmac Rally Championship.
It truly has been a staggering season of success for ŠKODA drivers all around the world. While many have credited the FABIA R5 for their achievements, huge congratulations must also go to each of them for their exemplary displays of driving in what have often been hugely challenging conditions, as well as to all ŠKODA Customer Teams.
ŠKODA Motorsport is now eagerly looking forward to 2018 when we hope that there will be more success to celebrate for the FABIA R5 and our customer teams from all over the globe.
