Hi, Steemers!

As I wrote yesterday Italian Moto GP rider Valentino Rossi, called Il Dottore, won Monza Rally Show which is driven on F1 track in Monza. All three positions were taken by three works M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC 2017 cars. Only Suninen is official works entry but two other cars were rented from M-Sport directly.

It's obvious that this modern WRC cars are still to expensive for privateers because price of 750 000€ for car without spare parts is extreme. The other thing is that you can't by them anyway. I didm't hear that Toyota and Citroen sold some of them but Hyundai had some deals with Italian tuners but for older spec of the car. I guess they will start to sell them on some point in the future but now it's probably better for them to rent it and to put high price on it.

I saw some history of modern WRC 2017 spec cars and all four manufacturers produced around 43 cars and from this 42, four are destroyed by Meeke and Breen. So that means around 40 cars are on the market. Only M-Sport sold two cars - one to Mads Ostberg and one to Ken Block. That's it.

Il Dottore won Monza show again and showed that he is true muster of rallying on circuit tracks when he sees what's around corner. But in the woods it's another story. M-Sport Ford works entry (with seat paid by his manager) Suninen finished 2nd with some off today (I think). Another Moto GP man Brivio finished on the last podium place.

Until Bettega Memorial in Bologna we won't have something interesting to follow live. But we have some testing for Monte Carlo Rallye and development stuff.