First exciting challenge for the Italian Absolute Junior Rally Championship 2022, which brought on stage 10 ACI Team Italia crews all on Renault Clio Rally 5, managed solely by Motorsport Italia and with Pirelli tires. The opening match of the youth tricolor to Alessandro Casella and Rosario Siragusano. A race that seemed to be firmly controlled by Davide Nicelli and Tiziano Pieri, but in the last timed section of the first day, an off road forced them to retire prematurely. The command then passed to the Sicilian yesterday evening, who kept it until the end. 4 special stages won, 3 on the day of the super rally. Second place went to Mattia Zanin and Fabio Pizzol, closing with a gap of 21.8 seconds from the winners and taking home the scratch on the 9.17 km of Passo Teglia, the first test of the day. The gap for the riders on the third step of the podium, Matteo Ceriali and Luca Ferraris, was more consistent, closing at + 1'50.5. Even for them, however, a special victory, the second passage on the Langan.
 
Suzuki Rally Cup, a no holds barred challenge that of the Swift in the single-make. The winner was Matteo Giordano, paired with Manuela Siragusa. The Sanremo had opened with the sign of Igor Iani and Nicola Puliani, with the best time in the opening stretch in Bajardo, but the Giordano-Siragusa duo took the lead already in the afternoon tests scoring the two scratches, then confirmed also in the repetition at night. 6 scratches in the 10 tests carried out, and a closure more than half a minute ahead of the pursuers. Accompanying them on the podium are Roberto Pellé and Giulia Luraschi, 34.9 seconds off; and Igor Iani and Nicola Puliani at +41.2. The podium is all for the Suzuki Swift in Sport Hybrid version. Special mention for Giorgio Fichera and Ronny Celli, after scratching in the first special stage on Saturday, the duo suffers an important setback with a double touch in the following Power Stage, won by Giordano, and loses 5 minutes for a tire change. . A heated fight between the racing starts between Cristian Mantoet-Roberto Simioni and Stefano Martinelli-Fabio Menchini, which resolves itself in favor of the former.
 
CIAR JUNIOR RANKING: 1. Box 22pt; 2. Zanin 16pt; 3. Ceriali 12pt; 4. De Antoni 10pt; 5. 8pt port; 6. De Nuzzo 6pt; 7. Gianaroli 4pt; 8. Carra - Nicelli 3pt