2025
Pierre-Louis Loubet is King of Tandalò 2025
The course made up for an unlucky hillclimb to claim the final “Manscione” by 9 tenths over Pontus Tidemand, who was fastest in the race. ACI Team Italia’s Valentino Ledda took a place on the podium. Quirico Fundoni won the Trofeo d’Italia, with 15-year-old Bernardo Bitti in second place.
The 2025 edition of the Tandalò Gravel Hillclimb delivered a memorable spectacle, once again confirming the unique character of this event. The title of “King of Tandalò” went to Frenchman Pierre-Louis Loubet, former WRC2 world champion and former M-Sport factory driver in the World Rally Championship.
The event, organised by Tandalò Motorsport and drivEvent Adventure, took place in truly unusual conditions: snowfall across Sardinia on Saturday transformed the course into an almost Nordic landscape, making the event even more striking and spectacular.
Loubet, at the wheel of the Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 prepared by Delta Rally and co-driven by Jean-François Mancini, set the fastest overall time on the decisive “Manscione” climb, stopping the clock at 3’13.77. The result earned him the crown of King of Tandalò after a hard-fought weekend, which also saw a puncture deny him the chance to fight for victory in the traditional hillclimb.
Another star of the event was Pontus Tidemand, 2017 WRC2 champion, who dominated the hillclimb in his Škoda Fabia RS Rally2, winning all five stages. In the decisive battle for the weekend’s symbolic title, however, the Swede finished just nine hundredths of a second behind Loubet, ending the contest in second place after a battle that matched the intensity and standard of the World Rally Championship.
A great result also for Sardinian driver Valentino Ledda, who claimed third overall in front of his home crowd. Making his debut in the Škoda Fabia RS Rally2, he enjoyed a highly rewarding weekend, also taking the Under 25 class win.
Among the most anticipated guests at the 2025 edition was also Miki Biasion, a two-time world rally champion, who took part in the event behind the wheel of the new official Lancia Ypsilon HF Rally4 alongside Michela Imperio. The presence of the champion from Veneto added further prestige to a weekend already packed with international names and great passion.
Completing the top five were Norwegian Henning Solberg, with his wife Maud alongside him in the Toyota GR Yaris Rally2, and Italian Alberto Battistolli in the Škoda Fabia RS Rally2.
Alongside the main competition, the event offered plenty of action in many other categories, including historic cars, kartcross and off-road, with numerous drivers in the spotlight and an enthusiastic crowd following every climb along the gravel course leading up to the Tandalò wind farm.
The combination of great champions, unusual weather conditions and the charm of the Sardinian landscape made the 2025 edition one of the most spectacular in the event’s history. A weekend that reaffirmed the Tandalò Gravel Hillclimb as one of the most original and captivating events on the European motorsport calendar.
