Campana aims for top five in Rallye Sanremo

Rally star of the moment Pierre Campana is aiming to make his mark on this weekend’s Rallye Sanremo as he aims for a top five finish with the Italian Munaretto team and his Michelin-shod Peugeot 207 S2000.

Campana is in the middle of an action-packed rally campaign dividing his time between selected events in the World Rally Championship and Intercontinental Rally Challenge, but this weekend’s focus is very much on Sanremo, round nine of this year’s IRC series.

The 26-year-old Corsican is no stranger to the Sanremo event, having taken victory in the 2WD category back at the 2009 event, and hopes to put that experience to good use this weekend. Campana has already contested two of this year’s IRC events, taking an impressive 2WD win at Monte-Carlo in January and fourth overall in his home event, Tour de Corse, in May. Those one-off appearances were impressive enough to see Campana retain third place on the 2WD classification and a solid place on the overall IRC standings heading into Sanremo.

Campana’s long-serving co-driver Sabrina de Castelli will be partnering with him once again as the pair look to add another positive result to their ever improving CVs. Campana is fortunate enough to benefit not only from the support of the Munaretto team, but also tyre suppliers Michelin, as well as VP Racing fuel, Sparco and personal backing from Italian firm Perin, while Peugeot Sport will also be keeping a watchful eye over proceedings.

Pierre Campana commented: “I am in the middle of a very exciting period of rallying that will have a big impact on the future direction of my career. I am fortunate to be able to participate in both WRC and IRC events this season, championships that hold equal importance to me. It will be nice to be back behind the wheel of the Peugeot 207 S2000 at Sanremo, a great event that brings back great memories for me from when I won in 2WD in 2009. The Munaretto team is a great group of professionals to work with and we always seem to bring the best out of each other, so my target for this weekend is to finish in the top five. I think that is a realistic target given our performance at Tour de Corse. I am extremely grateful to Munaretto for this opportunity and to Michelin with whom I have built up a great technical relationship. It is thanks also to the support from VP Racing Fuel, Sparco and my sponsors Perin that I am able to compete this weekend. Together, we will be ready to face any challenges with the usual professional approach and stage-by-stage to extract the full performance out of the package.”