2018 Rally Italia Sardegna
The 2018 Rally Italia Sardegna (formally known as the Rally Italia Sardegna 2018) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 7 and 10 June 2018. It marked the fifteenth running of Rally Italia Sardegna, and was the seventh round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship and its support categories, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships. The event was based in Alghero in Sardinia and consisted of twenty special stages totalling 313.46 km (194.78 mi) in competitive kilometres.
| 2018 Rally Italia Sardegna 15°Rally Italia Sardegna | |||
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Round 7 of 13 in the 2018 World Rally Championship
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The Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC of Hayden Paddon and Sebastian Marshall during the Power stage. | |||
| Host country | Italy | ||
| Rally base | Alghero, Sardinia | ||
| Dates run | 7 – 10 June 2018 | ||
| Start location | Ittiri motocross track, Alghero | ||
| Finish location | Argentiera, Alghero | ||
| Stages | 20 (313.46 km; 194.78 miles) | ||
| Stage surface | Gravel | ||
| Transport distance | 1,072.92 km (666.68 miles) | ||
| Overall distance | 1,386.38 km (861.46 miles) | ||
| Statistics | |||
| Crews registered | 47 | ||
| Crews | 45 at start, 34 at finish | ||
| Overall results | |||
| Overall winner | Thierry Neuville Nicolas Gilsoul Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT 3:29:18.7 | ||
| Power Stage winner | Thierry Neuville Nicolas Gilsoul Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT | ||
| Support category results | |||
| WRC-2 winner | Jan Kopecký Pavel Dresler Škoda Motorsport II 3:42:33.3 | ||
| WRC-3 winner | Jean-Baptiste Franceschi Romain Courbon Équipe de France FFSA Rally 4:07:40.2 | ||
Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja were the defending rally winners. Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the rally winners. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the manufacturers' winners. The Škoda Motorsport II crew of Jan Kopecký and Pavel Dresler won the World Rally Championship-2 category in a Škoda Fabia R5, while the crew of Jean-Baptiste Franceschi and Romain Courbon won the World Rally Championship-3.