A shared commitment to relaunch the Italian Cross Country Rally Championship.
Spring, World and Autumn: three versions of Italian Baja are ready. 2017 Championship presented, regulatory and scoring news. Suzuki doubles its customer trophies and Polaris proposes itself with its UTVs.
This is the strong message that emerged from yesterday's meeting in Pordenone between experts in the tricolor off-road vehicle, in what can rightly be considered the national capital of the specialty. Not only for the now well-established World Cup race, but because 3 out of 6 races of the 2017 season will take place on the right bank of the Tagliamento, conveying emotions, interests, prospects for redemption of the clawed wheels in the motor racing archipelago that has always relegated to a niche with poor visibility. Therefore, the new coefficients explained, the decision to assign points even in the event of immediate withdrawal to reward those who left compared to those who stayed at home. Presented the new Suzuki Challenge Classic which will join the 18. Challenge for private customers on the Grand Vitara.
But the most significant novelty of the 2017 season promises to be the Polaris trophy and the advent in grand style of the Utv vehicles on the Italian limelight. Not only Polaris, but also Yamaha, Danisi Engineering, Can-Am and Arctic Cat, ready to launch the challenge of "Syde by Sides": two or four-wheel drive vehicles, very light, very agile, very fast, able to fight for the absolute victory even if for the moment they will remain excluded from the championship fight, with the forecast of a cup for the TM Group. The general goal is to increase the number of competitors.
Italian Baja Press Office Carlo Ragogna
