This Friday will start the XXXIX Baja Spain Aragonthat in 2023 broke all participation records, as there will be 271 teams that will travel the roads of the province.
In its tenth consecutive edition in Teruel and throughout the two days of competition, Friday 21 and Saturday 22, all teams will face more than 500 hours of testing kilometers.
The test will cover approximately 800 kilometers of the province where they will pass through 32 municipalities of the regions of Comunidad de Teruel, Jiloca and Sierra de Albarracín.
This Thursday, the administrative and technical checks are carried out at the Teruel Palace of Exhibitions and Congresses, where the teams will start, before the competition begins on Friday at around 08:00 with the dispute of a prologue of 5 kilometers, which if which will serve as an appetizer for the first stage which is about 180 kilometers long.
In this edition, Baja España Aragón has a luxurious inscription, one of the most important in recent decades: Carlos Sainz, Stephane Peterhansel, Nasser Al-Attiyah and Nani Roma They set up a real poker of aces to fight for victory.
It is in the car category where the presence of the first swords stands out, which in a few months will fight for victory in the Dakar; Audi makes its debut in Baja Spain and will do so with three top drivers: Carlos Sainz, Stephane Peterhansel and Mattias Ekström, all three at the wheel of the mighty T1+.
Sainz from Madrid has never won this test and the Frenchman returns to Aragon after winning Baja for the last time 11 years ago, while the aim of the German team of Ekström is to add kilometers ahead of the Dakar and accidentally became the first car electrician to win. this test.
Toyota will come with its big assets for the next edition of the Dakar, Nasser Al-Attiyah, won the Baja five times, the last two in a row.
A record of victories in this test will seek to extend Nani Roma, who returns and will do so with the M-Sport Ford Ranger T1+.
Al-Rajhi, Isidre Esteve, Laia Sanz, Juan Cruz Yacopini and a long cast of stars make up one of the most ambitious entry lists in recent decades in the car section.
The XXXIX edition of Baja España-Aragón will once again be the only Spanish test scoring for the FIA World Cup of Cross Country Bajas, and will be included in the calendar of the FIM World Cup of Bajas for motorcycles and also for the Championship of Spain of all-terrain rally.
Source: La Verdad
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