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Marc Coma increasingly alone in Sa Itria
The curse of the 200 grams of gasoline

Marc Coma

Sa Itria, June 4, 2013. Sa Itria is the charm of the Sardinia Rally Race. Good or bad is the weather report, the bivouac of the Sanctuary has something extraordinarily fascinating. But it is a privilege that participants in the Rally Bike Village have to sweat. Thus, in specific circumstances, the two tests of the day becomes even more important, with effects that it was difficult to predict. Moral, another day filled with the twists and rivoluzionamenti ranking. An exciting stage, to reconstruct in its basic parts, very different from each other and from the final result. Meanwhile, the truth is that, in essence, the only building that can withstand an earthquake of the fourth stage of the Sardinia Rally Race is the monolithic Marc Coma. The Spaniard gave another demonstration of class, and this makes him every day, combined with the strength. Coma was leaving behind Pedrero, and the problem was not going to take the former team-mate, but behind him he pressed a small pack of pursuers particularly motivated. Despres, Gonçalves, and especially Botturi.





All with a crooked leg to straighten with a speedy redemption. With a little 'calculations Coma might even dispense his pace but if in doubt then that something might go wrong, decided to attack. His job is to win? And Marc Coma won the first special stage, ahead of Frenchman Damien Miquel and Portuguese Paulo Gonçalves, emerged from the ashes of a first part of Rally strangely anonymous. In this way, fell into place another brick in the structure of decisive masterpiece of Coma.

In truth, the Arch-diagram of the special Grighine, 120 miles of mountains from the green explosive, with vertiginous slopes and radical changes of land, is not as linear as the result suggests. The protagonist of the Special Alessandro Botturi is in fact, the party "to thunder" for the purpose, ambitious but realistic, to "overturn" the unfavorable situation that the same wrong Bergamo had created the previous stage. Botturi started from tenth position. Launched as a steamroller had begun to "grind" his rivals. Taken Despres went to Vogel, eliminated the Dutch recapture former teammate Chickpeas, and within sight of Ruben Faria his advantage began to be macroscopic, so that he returned in the ropes of the Giant Lumezzane also the championship lead . Everything perfect, and spectacular, until the moment in which, to dip down from a fire, Botturi is not trapped in the remains of a network lying in the soil. Aided by Ceci and Rodrigues was released from the trap and is broken down. Maybe not all of his masterpiece was lost. But at the end of the special, only a few hundred meters, the bike is turned off, and with it has faded the dream of a real "coup." Calculations at hand are two hundred grams of gasoline, "curse", those who have taken away the right to Botturi a wonderful satisfaction and the same glass "fatal" even the motion of Helder Rodrigues.

After the transfer, the second Special. Shorter, 50 km, but no less beautiful and challenging, with the conclusion in Tonara. This time the "hit" is scored according to the initial plan, but the effects are limited due to the reduced development of the test. Botturi win, this time in front of the talented Andrea Mancini and Ruben Faria. Cyril Despres is fifth, a little 'better than in the first trial, in which he fell and lost time on the wrong track, but not sensational. Marc Coma, now satisfied with the result of the day, it is only seventh, but no longer has a lot to prove, and it is right that the major candidate for the final victory will grant a pause for relaxation.

The general classification undergoes its good shake today. Marc Coma naturally remains at the helm, and its advantage now rises to almost ten minutes. The second place has changed hands twice: at the end of the first special was Joan Pedrero, but at the end of the stage the "vice" is Paulo Gonçalves, the Portuguese pilot who is in second place in the provisional standings of the World Championship. The third step of the provisional podium climb again Cyril Despres. Gainers quotes Pedrero, luffed those of Mancini, and down those Ceci and Botturi. But the Brescia seems to have no doubts. We will try again tomorrow in the last stage of the Rally of Sardinia. In its own way of seeing the second place is still within his reach. We think the dawn of June 5. The evening of 4 is devoted to the magic of the bivouac know Itria.