That’s how Pirelli’s 2024 rally season came to a close, celebrating at the Monza circuit its four year partnership with the WRC, by bringing together all the main players at the very pinnacle of off-road competition.

Present in Monza for the final challenge of the season were the champion elect Thierry Neuville, the eight time world champion Sebastian Ogier, this year’s WRC2 champion Sam Pajari, along with Dani Sordo and Fourmaux. On Sunday morning, they put on a show with their rally cars in the Master Show, while earlier this weekend they took part, but not in competition, in the Rally Show.

Over the course of the weekend, Casa Pirelli proved to be the most popular meeting point for all the protagonists of the world rally scene, including Jona Siebel, the WRC Promoter managing director and Jari-Matti Latvala, the Toyota team principal, as well as many of the large number of fans who flocked to the circuit paddock.

“It was a very exciting weekend, which exceeded our expectations. Apart from providing the opportunity to look back at our four years in the WRC, we were also surrounded by a great sense of affection, with many drivers, team members and fans, expressing their regret at our departure. Along with the Monza circuit, the teams, the FIA, the WRC Promoter and the ACI, we promoted this 2024 Monza Rally Show to end in style an exciting four years which provided plenty of opportunities for our people to grow and four our product to progress and I would say it was a success. As from next week, we will already be focusing on new development tests aimed at future projects which await us in the European and national championships for which we are partners.”

Finishing second to Crugnola’s C3 in the Monza Rally Show was Nikolay Gryazin in a Skoda Fabia, with third going to 2024 European Champion Hayden Paddon in a Hyundai i20. In the Master Show final, Fourmaux beat Neuville.