RALLY
EUROPEAN RC
Mission successful
for Team MRF Tyres at ERC
Breen-Nagle take fourth after a great fight; Lindholm-Korhonen finish 5th in Junior ERC1
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t is `Mission Positive' for Team MRF Tyres on the Rally di Roma Capitale, the opening round of the 2020 European Rally Championship. The ‘development tarmac tyres’ have seen competition for the first time and Team MRF Tyres have competed at the toplevel of tarmac rallying. Team MRF Tyres drivers, Craig Breen and Paul Nagle led the MRF Tyres charge in 16 autotrack.ind.in SEPT / OCT 2020
the Hyundai i20 R5. Breen came into the day in fifth and was involved in a huge battle for fourth position with Simone Tempestini and co-driver Sergiu Itu with the pair swapping positions through the day. Breen had started the final loop in fifth place but immediately moved to fourth. He consolidated the gap on the second last stage, building 4.5 second gap before the final stage.
In the end, Breen controlled the pace to take fourth place by 1.3 seconds to Tempestini. For Emil Lindholm and codriver Mikael Korhonen in the Skoda Fabia evo2 R5, it was all about consolidation and improving the cars across each of the loops. The Skoda duo continued to refine their setup throughout the day with the three passes over each stage giving the team a
great opportunity to collect data for the future development of the tyre. In the overall classification, the pair took a top-10 finish, controlling their position throughout the rally. Additionally, the pair are entered in the ERC1 competition for junior drivers. In this category, he took fifth position, a great start to his campaign. The 7.25-km Stage 10, theRocca di Cave, provided
