The Squadra Corse Città di Pisa away to the Ronde della Val Merula
The competitive season is now upon us and at Patrols of the Val Merulafirst national rally event of 2022, the Piazza Corse City of Pisa asd will be present with the unprecedented crew made up of the returning Andrea Ferroni and the veteran Massimo Salvucci aboard a Peugeot 208 Rally4 of the FR New Motors Rally Team. A new duo of the Pisan association that sees the return of Andrea Ferroni after five years of absence, who will pick up a Peugeot 208 Rally4, the car with which he had raced the last race held in 2017 (Rally Città di Pistoia). The pilot from Lucca will have to get rid of the rust accumulated by the distance from the rallies and given the type of race that sees four laps in a single special stage, he will be able to make the performance work lap after lap as well as become familiar with the performing French car. Furthermore, racing on a stretch of road of the Sanremo World Rally in the 1980s will be a further emotion and satisfaction for the Ferroni-Salvucci duo.
The demonstration begins Saturday 5th February with the pre-race checks and the shake down in the morning followed by the reconnaissance of the special stage in the afternoon that plows through an 11.25-kilometer stretch of the Ginestro Pass. The real race begins like this Sunday 6th February with departure of the event from Andora at 7 and the dispute of the four stages of the test with arrival in the Ligurian town at 16:22. In all 45 kilometers of timed sections on a global route of 247 kilometers. In the meantime, the Squadra Corse Città di Pisa asd is completing the organizational phase of the co-pilots course which will be scheduled from 14 March to 10 April with ten evening theoretical lessons to which two practical tests will be added. Challenging start this 2022 for the Pisan team which, as always, will try to dare the maximum to obtain excellent results that have always characterized its more than twenty-five years of activity.