It is a "very successful marriage between Lorenzo Codecà and the sporting arm of Suzuki Italia, the Emmetre Racing team led by team manager Massimo Nicoletti and diesse Francesco Grassi.
Together for nine years, they have won five overall titles (the last three in a row) and an undisputed leadership in the national cross country rally scene. Now they are preparing for the umpteenth challenge with the Italian Baja (13/16 March), a competition that does not discount anyone.
"It is certainly the most difficult race of the entire championship - explains Nicoletti - with an atypical course compared to the other stages of the Italian. Our machines are not pure prototypes, but derived from the series and therefore with chassis characteristics, height from the ground, weight distribution, etc., which are put to the test by the path of stones and stones, fords and jumps. But we have never pulled back in the face of difficulties, we are ready to fight and determined to obtain an important result in a race that is almost always fundamental for the fate of the championship, by virtue of its increased coefficient ".
Chief Emmetre speaks in the plural, because this time there will be two official Suzuki cars at the Italian Baja: Codecà, navigated by Bruno Fedullo, will have the Grand Vitara 3.6, 6 cylinders and 5 doors, while the young Andrea Dalmazzini (born in 1993) will bring racing with Daniele Fiorini a Grand Vitara 2.7, 6 cylinders and 3 doors.
“Dalmazzini deserved a promotion on the field - Nicoletti points out - after winning the Challenge Suzuki and the T2 Cup in 2013. We are sure that he will be able to assert himself even in this new competitive dimension, higher and more professional. The single-brand with the Grand Vitara 1.9 DDiS proves to be a reservoir of talents capable of giving emotions and entertainment to the Italian Baja as well ".
Carlo Ragogna Italian Baja Press Office
