2022 Italian Baja: Interporto Pordenone, the Italian Baja begins

 Today competitors checks, tomorrow shake down and prologue, Saturday first stage with selective sector "Zoppola", Sunday the second one with "Dignano"

Exhausted but happy and today we start. Four days at Interporto for the members of the Fuoristrada Club 4x4 Pordenone, the event valid for the Fia World Cup and European Cup, the Italian Cross Country Baja Championship and Ssv begins. Four races that mix the values in the field, with the best of the Tricolor and a host of foreign specialists. Starting with Saudi star Yazeed AlRajhi, defending champion, in his first World Cup outing of the season. Obligatory favorite having already won in 2014 and 2021, re-presenting himself with the official Toyota Hilux Overdrive T1, with formidable potential.

Today is the arrival of competitors, then general scrutineering of crews and vehicles. Tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. the shake down on the Udine side of the Tagliamento River, in Sedegliano: 2.5 km to be repeated to test the vehicles. At 6 pm the start of the prologue, SS1 "Valvasone" of 14.50 km that will give the first classification. In the evening (8 p.m.) the ceremony of choosing the starting numbers for the top ten at the Interporto. On Saturday scheduled SS2 / SS3 "Zoppola" of 122.53 km with start at 8:00 and 13:00, which will be followed by the arrival and awarding of the double Italian Championship and related trophies. On Sunday the last timed fraction, SS4 "Dignano" of 126.10 km (start at 8:30 am), reserved only for Fia World Cup and European Cup competitors. Prize-giving in Interporto at 1 p.m. braving the heatwave, but so the entire caravan will have half a day to return to their home bases. Never like this year the race is tinged with "pink": 8 female drivers and 14 female navigators out of a total of 72 registered crews. A significant record, a source of pride for the Fuoristrada Club 4x4 Pordenone. "We are open and to all and we are ready and motivated," says general manager Mauro Tavella, "to complete a gigantic and painstaking work of months. I thank the volunteers and our staff for their commitment and enthusiasm. We are enhancing the territory, Pordenone and Friuli, I think it is fair to emphasize."

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