The HRC Team has left the desert sand dunes of the Arabic peninsula where the first two races of the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship took place and has landed in the island of Sardinia where the fourth round of the Championship: the Sardinia Rally Race will take place.
This morning the HRC Team passed the mandatory administrative and technical scrutineering at Iscia Eldi of San Teodoro, allowing the team to take part in the prologue. The license and documents were checked first and was then followed by the sound control and sealing of the different parts of the three CRF450R bikes of the team.
The prologue took place in the afternoon at the Vena Fiorita Circuit, a track of less than two kilometers long, in which a very fast Joan Barreda has achieved the victory with a two second gap from the second fastest man of the day. He will be able to choose his starting place the first stage of the rally.
Paulo Gonçalves and Hélder Rodrigues finished in finished in ninth and eleventh place, with a gap from Joan Barreda of 5 and 6 seconds respectively.
Joan Barreda: Things went well today, it was a fun prologue at a motocross track. We able to choose the best position from which I will start tomorrow, we will have to wait and see how everyone else starts too tomorrow. I hope I am able to do a good stage tomorrow, even if I know that it will be hard, the navigation is difficult. I will have to keep my concentration in order to get a good result.
