Monza Rally Show: triumph for Fourmaux, retirement for Nibali

Monza Rally Show, results

The Monza Rally Show 2024 turned out to be a great success and the date for the 2025 edition, which will be held from December 5 to 7, has already been announced. Over the three days of the event there were more than 25 thousand attendees at the’Autodromo Nazionale Monza to admire up close the finest names in Italian and international rallying, while the Masters’ Show è was broadcast by more than fifty broadcasters on live TV or online streaming. In total there were over 110 TVs and sites, which covered the’last seasonal event at this legendary track, with a potential viewership approaching one billion viewers (over 700 million live viewers).

The Masters' Show, streamed live on Rai Play, ACI TV and Dazn – with deferred broadcast on Rai Sport from 4:45 p.m. – saw Adrien Fourmaux prevail, who thus bade farewell to Ford in the best way possible. The Frenchman, at the wheel of the Puma, beat the newly crowned world champion Thierry Neuville (Hyundai i20 N), his future teammate, in the final.

Andrea Crugnola won himself, however, in the Masters’ Show reserved for Rally 2s after he captured his second success in the Monza Rally Show in the morning, replicating his 2019 success. The driver from Varese, with the Citroen C3, team E.A. Sport Investment, navigated by Andrea Sassi, bent in extremis the pair formed by Nikolaj Gryazin and Konstantin Aleksandrov, trimming them 8”3 on the twenty kilometers of the last special, the Roccolo. A cold shower for the duo in the Skoda Fabia RS of the Movisport team that had opened the day well, winning the Autodromo 2. The final gap from the winners è was only 2”7!

On the third step of the podium were New Zealanders Hayden Paddon and John Kennard (Hyundai i20 N) who finished the 151.38 timed kilometers with a gap of 26”6.

Tony Cairoli, a nine-time motocross world champion and one of the veterans of the Monza Rally Show, finished 11th at 2’14”7, navigated by Eleonora Mori in Movisport’s Skoda Fabia RS.

Vincenzo Nibali, the great cycling champion, with Alessandro Franco, who was reading his notes, è was forced to retire due to a technical problem with his Toyota Yaris of T-Racing.

The women’s standings saw Rachele Somaschini and Giulia Zanchetta who raced in Hawk Racing Club’s Citroen C3, finishing 26th overall. 

The Monza Rally Show è was also the opportunity by WRC to say goodbye Pirelli, which ended the’adventure in the World Rally after 4 seasons.