Italy’s majestic capital city Rome hosted round five of the FIA European Rally Championship (July 18-21). Local rally hero Giandomenico Basso, navigated by Lorenzo Granai, scored his first FIA European Rally Championship victory in six years, as the double ERC champion took the spoils on the Italian leg with a Škoda Fabia R5. Simone Campedelli and his Swiss codriver Tania Canton gave the new Fiesta R5 a debut ERC podium in second, while the Italians Andrea Crugnola and Elia Pietro Ometto, charged back to third with a second Škoda ahead of Alexey Lukyanuk and Alexey Arnautov.