The Canary Islands Rally will debut in 2025 in the World Rally Championship (WRC) after four decades as a scoring event in the European championship, with a commitment spanning two seasons and representing Spain’s return to the international circuit after two years absence.
This Monday the signing of the agreement took place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria where the promoters of the rally, the Canarian institutions, the Royal Spanish Automobile Federation (RFEA) and the general management of the WRC is committed to developing the event within the framework of the world championship, replacing the Costa Dorada Rally archipelago, in Catalonia, which until two years ago was the Spanish event within the championship.
The sponsor of the Canary Islands Rally, German Moraleswas happy to have achieved what the organizers of the event had “aspired” to since they began half a century ago, for which he thanked everyone who made it possible, from institutions to sponsoring companies, forces security and motor. island entertainment
Morales said, in a press conference, that this path was “long, not without difficulties”, to the point that he assured that at first the directors of the WRC “were not They have a lot of confidence in the Canary Islands“, but that is coming to the islands for the first time and is starting to look possible.
In that sense, the general director of the WRC, Jonah Seibelsaid that they are “very excited” to announce the return of the World Cup to Spain in 2025, and that it will be held for the first time in the Canary Islands.
“They have shown for many years that pThey can organize a high level rallywe are very convinced that it will be successfully developed”, he insisted and then added that they have “important partners who know from the beginning the important benefits that a test of this caliber can bring”, as well as a great love for sports.
An impression shared by the president of the RFEA and vice president of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), Manuel Aviñó: “Spain and the Canary Islands are a world reference“I say this with conviction because we have the best organization, the best fans, the best weather, the best landscapes and the best sections.”
For this reason, he did not hesitate to point it out It was a “good day” for motorsports in SpainOh his amusement, because it is possible to “recover something that should never have been lost.”
Based on the agreement signed this Monday, and which must be endorsed by the FIA committee, the Rally Islas Canarias will be the event of WRC in Spain for two seasons, in 2025 and 2026a year that also coincided with the 50th anniversary of the island exam.
Today, and since 1982, the rally is a scoring event in the European championships in different modes, which led them to go through there are many roads on the island important drivers to compete in sections of the highest level.
On the part of the institutions, both the Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and the City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria guarantee their commitment to holding the exam, highlighting the “milestone” it represents for the region for a sporting event of this level to be held in its territory.
Both mayors of the city, Carolina Dariaslike the insular president, Antonio Moraleshighlighted the benefits that Gran Canaria has in hosting this type of event, especially for its strong public services, its extensive hotel capacity, its attractions beyond the event itself and the excellent its connection to air and sea.
For his part, the president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijoshowed its “strong” defense of public-private partnerships to achieve milestones like this Monday and, moreover, appealed, as happened in the Canary Islands Rally so far, for cooperation of administrations “whatever color each one is.”
Source: La Verdad
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