The FIA Junior WRC Championship leader following last weekend’s EKO Acropolis Rally Greece, Gill is contesting the Italian event to build up his limited Tarmac experience – and to push for the top spot on the podium.
“Learning is a goal, let’s say but the target is still to win and that’s what we’re going there for,” said the 21-year-old Australian, who is co-driven by compatriot Daniel Brkic, and is part of the FIA Rally Star talent detection programme. “It’s probably a bold statement because I haven’t done a Tarmac rally for a while but the last Tarmac rally I did I took stage wins and we were relatively competitive so there’s no reason why we can’t do well.”
Gill tackled the Colosseo ACI Roma super special stage on Friday night five days after finishing runner-up in the Junior WRC classification in Greece, a result that put him ahead of Junior ERC champion Mille Johansson in the provisional title standings.
Gill (second from left) was P2 in Junior WRC in Greece
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“It’s nice to roll the momentum on, even though they’re different rallies you’re still in the car and still feeling the same sorts of things,” said Gill, who was sixth fastest in ERC3 aboard his Pirelli-equipped Ford Fiesta Rally3. “It’s going to be good for us and also the week after Rome we’re doing a national rally in Finland so it will be three on the trot.
“It’s a really cool opportunity for us to get some more Tarmac experience and compete against some different competition in the ERC.
“Of course I follow all the rallies but it’s my first time competing [in the ERC]. We’re going to find out what it’s all about for sure. I haven’t done a Tarmac rally since Croatia last year so it’s been a while but that doesn’t mean we can’t be competitive.”
Johnasson will also be in action on Rally di Roma Capitale. The event is part of the Swede’s top-flight ERC campaign driving a Hankook-shod Škoda Fabia RS Rally2 for MS Munaretto.
Gill to chase ERC Fiesta Rally3 incentives in Rome
Taylor Gill is one of eight drivers eligible for the various ERC Fiesta Rally3 Trophy incentives on Rally di Roma Capitale driving the Ford Fiesta Rally3 Evo from M-Sport Poland.
For the second year running, tyre company Pirelli is providing a 15 per cent discount on event tyre packages to all participants across the five-event season. The winner of each ERC Fiesta Rally3 Trophy event will secure 12 new tyres for use on the next event, the runner-up will receive six new tyres with two new tyres going to the third-place finisher.
Martin Ravenščak is an ERC Fiesta Rally3 Trophy contender
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M-Sport Poland, which oversees the ERC Fiesta Rally3 Trophy in partnership with ERC promoter WRC Promoter GmbH, has entered into a partnership agreement with Warter Fuels for 2025. As well as benefiting from the performance of the Warter RALLY EVO2 fuel, which has been developed in tandem with M-Sport Poland as an industry-leading Rally3 fuel, ERC Fiesta Rally3 Trophy competitors can take advantage of two notable incentives.
ERC Fiesta Rally3 Trophy contenders will pay a discounted price of €2,10 per litre for Warter RALLY EVO2 fuel – limited to 300 litres per competitor per rally – while the top three finishers on each of the five rounds will be handed quantities of the product without charge.
During the podium ceremony at the end of each round, the winning crew will receive a voucher for 150 litres of Warter RALLY EVO2 fuel. The second-placed crew be handed a voucher for 100 litres with the third-place pairing getting 50 litres.
Gill was sixth quickest through the Rome super special
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The ERC Fiesta Rally3 Trophy winner gets a Ford Fiesta Rally2 prize drive on JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion
Who’s aiming for a Fiesta in Italy?
The ERC Fiesta Rally3 Trophy line-up for Rally di Roma Capitale is as follows:
Tymek Abramowski (Poland)
Tristan Charpentier (France)
Casey Jay Coleman (Ireland)
Hubert Laskowski (Poland)
Martin Ravenščak (Croatia)