A two-front weekend delivers concrete results across Europe and Italy. Joona on the podium with two stage wins, Vellani inside the top ten, Johansson showing steady progress in the Canary Islands.
MS Munaretto wraps up an intense weekend split between Rally Islas Canarias and Rally di Modena, bringing home solid results, valuable technical feedback and confirmation of consistent growth across multiple levels.
On the international stage, Rally Islas Canarias once again proved its full complexity, with abrasive asphalt, high grip and very narrow margins. In this context, Mille Johansson, alongside Johan Grönvall in the Škoda Fabia RS Rally2 number 39, completed a race built progressively, kilometre after kilometre. After an initial phase of adaptation, the Swedish driver steadily improved his rhythm and confidence, managing a rally where clean driving was crucial.
“I’m just driving without forcing. Here it’s essential to be really clean, it takes nothing to hit an anti-cut. It’s a bit intimidating, but I chose to take it easy and everything went fine.”
A performance that confirms the strength of the path undertaken, within a programme that alternates high-level commitments and demands immediate adaptability.
From the Canary Islands to the Modenese Apennines, Rally di Modena presented a completely different challenge, dirtier, more technical and highly variable. Here MS Munaretto secured one of its most tangible results of the weekend with Roberto Vellani and Elia De Guio, finishing sixth overall in the Škoda Fabia RS Rally2 number 5. A performance built with intelligence and consistency, allowing them to break firmly into the top ten and consolidate a solid result on a surface that never offers easy answers.
However, it was the performance of Lauri Joona and Antti Linnaketo, in the Škoda Fabia RS Rally2 number 7, that marked the high point of the Italian weekend. The crew secured an outstanding second overall position, further strengthened by two significant stage wins on SS4 and SS6, clear evidence of an increasingly strong feeling with Italian asphalt. A result that validates the decision to include selected asphalt appearances within their programme, following the positive sensations already shown last season.
Between the demanding nature of the Canary Islands and the unpredictability of the Apennines, MS Munaretto closes a weekend that delivers concrete results and clear indications, once again confirming a structure capable of growing, adapting and remaining competitive across very different contexts.
