Lancia Scores First FIA EcoRally Cup Win, Finishes 2026 Third
Lancia has recorded its first event victory in the FIA EcoRally Cup, with Guido Guerrini and Artur Prusak winning the 2026 EcoDolomites GT in a road-going Ypsilon HF. The result is a milestone for the brand, but it should not be confused with the season championship: Lancia says the crew finished third in the final 2026 standings.
The EcoDolomites GT ran from October 16 through October 18 on public roads in Trentino and Veneto, Italy. It served as the closing round of both the international FIA EcoRally Cup and the Italian Alternative Energies Championship.
How Guerrini and Prusak won
According to Lancia’s October 21 announcement, the San Marino-licensed Guerrini and French-licensed Prusak moved to the front during the opening leg, including the climb over the Manghen Pass at more than 2,000 meters. They maintained their advantage through the next two legs.
Eco-rally results are not determined by outright speed alone. The cars run on open roads and crews must hit prescribed average-speed targets while minimizing energy use. Lancia says Guerrini and Prusak led the regularity classification and remained first after the event’s energy-consumption coefficient was applied.
Former Formula 1 driver Stefano Modena and Belgian co-driver Valerie Piette finished third at the event, also according to Lancia. The manufacturer did not provide a complete event classification or detailed energy-consumption figures in its release.
An event win, not the 2026 title
Guerrini and Prusak entered 2026 as the defending FIA EcoRally Cup champions and switched to the Lancia Ypsilon HF during the summer. Lancia describes the Dolomites result as its first victory in the series and says the crew ended the season on the overall podium.
The FIA’s published classification lists Guerrini third among drivers and Prusak third among co-drivers. Michal Zdarsky and Jakub Nabelek are listed first in their respective standings. In other words, the EcoDolomites GT victory belongs to Lancia and its crew, while the full-season titles went elsewhere.
What the competition measures
The FIA EcoRally Cup is reserved for road-legal battery-electric cars in standard production specification. The local event listing describes the 2026 route as roughly 520 kilometers across three competition days, with charging based at a dedicated park supplied by locally generated renewable electricity.
That format makes the result different from a conventional stage rally. It rewards accurate navigation, timekeeping and low energy use rather than the fastest elapsed time. Chiefs Review recently covered another form of production-based electric competition in its report on Timo Schulz’s Sanremo win in the Opel Electric Rally Cup.
For Lancia, the Dolomites victory gives the road-going Ypsilon HF a motorsport result separate from the company’s purpose-built rally program. It is also a modest but concrete proof point for the brand’s use of the HF badge on its current electric lineup. The result alone does not establish how the car compares with rivals in ordinary driving, and this report is based on published competition records rather than hands-on testing.
Sources and image credit
Sources: Lancia’s October 21, 2026 event report; the FIA’s 2026 EcoRally Cup classification; and the local event listing for dates and format.
Featured image: illustrative archive photo of a 2025 Lancia Ypsilon HF road car—not the EcoDolomites GT entry—by Kees Janssens, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. The image was resized to 1280 pixels.
