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The #RallyIslasCanarias is finalizing the details of its route in Gran Canaria, which will consist of:
-3 stages.
-308,50 kilometers
-18 special stages.
-🔥NEW🔥: 2 super special stages 🤯
In total 1,078.80 km, which makes a 28.60% of timed stages of the total route.
We can’t advance more! #WRC
https://x.com/RIslasCanarias/status/1858604094786552078
Real shame I wont have enough annual leave to get there but best wishes the Canary Islands! Some great stages and passionate fans should be a real spectacle
Thank you. Looks like is going to be a great spectacle in Gran Canaria next April.
New logo
Rally Guide 1 has been released. 18 stages around Gran Canaria
https://www.rallyislascanarias.com/p...Y_GUIDE_v1.pdf
The base of the entire organisational framework of the event will be in the vicinity of the Gran Canaria Stadium / Gran Canaria Arena, where the Work Park, Official Verification and the headquarters of the organisers of the event will be concentrated.
Officially, everything will start on Thursday 24th April with the Shakedown of 6.4 km that will take place in Santa Brígida from 9.00 to 15.00 hours, although from 11.00 to 13.00 hours will be the exact time when the priority drivers will be competing.
On the same day, but at 21.00 hours, it will be the turn of the protocolary Start Ceremony, which will take place in the Cathedral of Santa Ana in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
And from Friday to Sunday, the three days of the great motor racing festival with 18 timed stages divided into 8 stages, all starting at 7.00 a.m., so you will have to get up very early to enjoy this motor racing spectacle in capital letters.
The total number of kilometres of timed sections will be 306.12 km covering almost the entire island of Gran Canaria. The basic format for all the days of competition is a 3x2 or what is the same three stages to be repeated twice.
Looks like Jose Antonio "Cohete" Suarez has get the budget to participate in Gran Canaria with a Ford Puma Rally 1, from M-Sport. Great news
On the other hand, there are many possibilities to see Dani Sordo in Gran Canaria with a I20 Rally 1, depend on Hyundai Motorsport.
Looks like his participation in Portugal is 100% sure.
Jose Antonio "Cohete" Suarez's participation in Gran Canaria is 100% confirmed. Ford Puma Rally 1
First map i believe.
https://www.motorcanario.com/noticia...arias_2025.jpg
The party is coming to Gran Canaria !!!
The organizing committee of the Rally Islas Canarias reveal its route and announces the news so eagerly awaited by the fans: the stages.
It will have 3 days of competition, 301.30 kilometres of stages formed by 18 special stages, two of them super special stage. As a novelty this year, all the timed sections will have a tyre warm-up area.
The organisers will indicate the areas where the public will be allowed to be located on the timed sections, for which there will be a bus service, details of which will be announced shortly. We ask for the cooperation of all the fans respecting these areas and the indications of this organization to make the rally a success.
The starting ceremony will take place in the Plaza de Santa Ana with the Cathedral of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria as photocall.
Monday, 10 February 2025. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
It's official! The organising committee of the Rally Islas Canarias unveils the timed sections and recovers mythical special stages of the rally. The itinerary is made up of 18 special stages totalling 301.30 kilometres. Two of the 18 special stages will be super special stages. As a novelty this year, all the timed sections will have a tyre warm-up area. Registration will open to teams on Monday 24 February and the full itinerary will be published.
The event will start on Thursday, 24 April, with the shakedown in Santa Brígida. It will take place on good tarmac from Los Silos uphill and will then enter a much narrower and more technical downhill section. The shakedown ends in a fast and wide area near the town of Santa Brígida. The day will end with the start ceremony in the incomparable setting of the Plaza de Santa Ana, with the Cathedral of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria as the photocall.
The competition proper will start on Friday, 25th April, with the Valsequillo-Telde, Valleseco-Artenara and La Aldea-Mogán will be a double pass.
The Valsequillo-Telde special stage will start in the town centre of Valsequillo and will enter an area of good wide tarmac until the Las Vegas junction. There, a narrower and more technical section will begin along the Barranco de Los Cernícalos ravine, ending in a very wide uphill section near the finish line of the Subida de Los Marteles.
Valleseco-Artenara will start at the end of the urban area of Valleseco. The drivers will face a mythical stretch of very fast and twisty road, with very good asphalt that is part of the idiosyncrasy of the rallies in the Canary Islands, reaching a very fast descent to Artenara.
La Aldea-Mogán will start with an ascent from Tocodomán and then move on to a route that, due to its speed and selectivity, will demand the maximum from the teams. The section will reach the municipality of Mogán on a descent, where one of the secrets against the clock will be between one bend and the next. This section passes through the famous Los Azulejos area, a natural work of art that catches the eye of those who drive along the road that leads from La Aldea de San Nicolás to Mogán.
On Saturday, 26th April, the Moya-Gáldar, Arucas-Firgas-Teror and Tejeda-San Mateo stages will be run over double pass. The first special stage of the day will start from the centre of the town of Moya with the roundabout in the centre of the town, which stands out for its length, selectivity and speed. The teams will have to play with the strategy of tyre choice as the route of this special stage has different types of asphalt, humidity, temperature and grip. They will pass through the village of Fontanales to reach the finish line in the municipality of Gáldar with the landscape of Fagajesto.
Arucas-Firgas-Teror will run through Los Castillos - Zumacal. It will start from the ascent of El Palmar just before reaching the roundabout of Los Castillos and, once past the mythical and famous crossroads of Los Chorros, it will ascend through the demanding Zumacal and finish descending from the crossroads of La Laguna de Valleseco to Teror. This is a very fast descent, with fast braking and steep descents all the way to the finish.
On the other hand, Tejeda-San Mateo will start from the town centre of Tejeda on a technical and fast route and, after passing the Ayacata Crossroads, will start the steep climb to Roque Nublo, arriving at the Los Llanos de La Pez Crossroads. Right there begins a descent of good asphalt, wide and firm to the finish line in the municipality of San Mateo in Cueva Grande.
Also on Saturday, the super special stage of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria will be held, returning to the inside of the Gran Canaria Arena, which will put the finishing touch to the second day of the rally. It is a very special stage for many drivers as it is the only one in the world that takes place inside a basketball court.
On Sunday, 27 April, the focus will shift to Agüimes-Santa Lucía and Maspalomas, which will also be a two-pass, and the Costa Canaria super special stage, which will be held after the first pass of Maspalomas. This special special stage will be held entirely within the Gran Karting Club de Maspalomas, recovering a section where drivers such as Juha Kankkunen, Gilles Panizzi, Enrico Bertone and Gustavo Trelles have driven.
Agüimes-Santa Lucía, the famous Era Del Cardón, will start before the Corralillos junction. It is a very fast and selective special stage where, in its central part, it goes into the Las Vallas section, with very narrow bends with the finish line very close to the municipality of Santa Lucía.
Maspalomas is a very fast special stage that will start in the village of Fataga and finish in Maspalomas. The second pass of this special stage will be the Wolf Power Stage. The Rally Islas Canarias - Rally de España is the fourth round of the FIA World Rally Championship and will be held from 24 to 27 April 2025.
Stages
Thursday, 24 April
Shakedown - Santa Brígida. 6,26 km
Friday, 25 April
SS Valsequillo - Telde 26,32 km.
SS Valleseco - Artenara 15,27 km.
SS La Aldea - Mogán 17,83 km.
Saturday, 26 April
SS Moya - Gáldar 24,09 km.
SS Arucas - Firgas - Teror 13,75 km.
SS Tejeda - San Mateo 23,30 km.
SSS Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 1,80 km.
Sunday, 27 April
SS Agüimes - Santa Lucía 14,97 km.
SS Maspalomas Wolf Power Stage 13,47 km
SSS Costa Canaria 1,50 km. (to be held after the first pass after the Maspalomas section).
Spectators
The organisers will indicate the areas set aside for the location of the public in the timed sections, for which there will be a bus service, details of which will be announced shortly. The rest of the areas not indicated will be forbidden. The timed sections will be closed to traffic for non-residents of the area from 22h on the day before the event. Information will also be provided on the car parks set up in the vicinity and inside the sections, always respecting the timetables indicated. All other areas not indicated as parking areas will be considered prohibited. We ask for the collaboration of all the fans respecting these areas and the indications of this organisation so that the rally is a success.
The Rally Islas Canarias is organised by Todo Sport and promoted by the Government of the Canary Islands, Viceconsejería de la Actvidad Física y Deportes, the Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria, the Instituto Insular de Deportes de Gran Canaria, the Ayuntamiento de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the Instituto Municipal para la Promoción de la Actividad Física y el Deporte de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the Consejo Superior de Deportes, and the Real Federación Española de Automovilismo (RFEDA). Private companies such as Hyundai Canarias, Avis Canarias, Repuestos Doral, Fred. Olsen Express & Baleària, Lopesan, Sonocom and Servitecnic.
SS1 and SS4 recorded by a amateur rally fan, not official.
From Valsequillo (568 m above sea level) to almost the peak of Gran Canaria (1735 m above sea level)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxkgbCdl3bc
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/suare...s-complicated/Quote:
Originally Posted by 106 sport
Seems not..
The costs of Rally1 rears its ugly head again, even without hybrid.Quote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
Is it really the cost, or just the fact that there's limited benefit from building extra chassis at this point in the homologation cycle?
Seems there's no shortage of people with the money to rent...
& yet €345,000 for a pumped up Rally2 car for 2027? Even the then criticised DS3 & Fiesta were €500,000 and I don’t remember anyone complaining that was too expensive. To me it seems manufacturers in general just aren’t keen spending their time & money on ICE motorsport when they themselves don’t know what will be the future in 2030 & beyond.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
article mentions that two cars were sold - one has Serderidis, who has the second one?Quote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
A guy in Indonesia if I remember well
yes, Putra Rizky Bustaman. He has 2 starts in their local rallysprint championship with the Puma...Quote:
Originally Posted by Danny0405
More this and in general what Millener mentioned. Even if a Rally1 would be just 100000€ they wouldn't build up an additional car if there is no relevant businesses case for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
All the special stages recorded by a amateur rally fan, not official, but almost...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rojTO3xDXU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxkgbCdl3bc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dbvxx7FM20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEH-p6vU1vY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUvrVj9urU4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWGNiD9hgko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWGNiD9hgko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzz-STzzQdI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ4etSwOo0k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCu3TWGWBgM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WogcNmJjLOw
I have a question for the group: Is this rally too busy? I'm going there to spectate this year and I was wondering how complex it is to drive around to get to the best spots. I wonder whether there is too many spectators around... Thanks
Personally I expect there will be lot of spectators. And as the stages are in mountains, sometimes there is not so many roads to the stages. Dont count with moving between stages, it will be better to stay on one stage for both runs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jajá
And you won't be able to spectate wherever you want, there will be only a few spectators zones per each stage.
If you havent bought a plane ticket yet, then it will be very-very expensive. I got mine over month ago and even then it was much more expensive than flying to Kenya or Japan :/ Friends suggested to fly to another island and find the way to travel from one island to another, should get better price ;)
And your work will be essential there...usually meteo can play a big part in Canarias.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
Very true. The island has just suffered a heavy storm with dramatic scenes of flooding! When I have spectated on El Corte Ingles in the past the stages up in the hills were often shrouded in mist or really wet when it was bone dry and sunny just a few miles away.
Good advice.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
It is expected that there will be many spectators in Gran Canaria, obviously from Gran Canaria, and those who will come to the island from other Canary Islands, mainland Spain, and the rest of Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jajá
It is an island that is a TOP tourist destination
More than 4.5 million tourists visit Gran Canaria every year.
I think that in the rest of the zones you will be able to see the special stages, but in safe places, obviously...Quote:
Originally Posted by Co-driven
Perhaps.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
Words from the president of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria
"Central Europe, in the Nordic countries, the sport is followed in a very direct way. These are the main tourist markets for Gran Canaria. Our connection with 25 countries and 170 airports will make it very easy for fans to come to our island and take advantage of one of the most important races in the world to enjoy our sun, our beach and all the values of the most important rally. Our port, the most important in the Mid-Atlantic, which moves more than 30M tons, will also make easier the arrival of these vehicles from any side of the continent. And that will be good for our hotels, we have more than 150,000 beds, for our catering, for the transport sector, for the small and medium local companies that will provide additional services to the organization”.
It is true that there were floods last monday, but fortunately, they were not serious at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sal yet again
Some small material damage and two or three cars that sailed into the Atlantic Ocean
Yes, in SS1 and SS4 fog could appear, and then , suddenly the sun.
For this reason, Gran Canaria is kwons as "Miniature continent"
Thanks, all, great tips... I bought my ticket last year and it was a pretty good price for a Denver-Las Palmas flight. I was thinking on renting a car and driving around to safe and (hopefully) not so busy spots. I have made some research using google maps and there are some "accessible" places not in the spectator designated areas and was planning on visiting 2 stages per day (3 on saturday with the SSS). However, I don't know how chaotic would it be driving around there during the rally. Thanks, again!
Send me your plans (privately) and I will tell you how realistic they are :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jajá
I'm glad you got a good price for your flight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jajá
Just a note. You will not fly to Las Palmas, YOU WILL FLY TO GRAN CANARIA, which is the name of the island. Las Palmas is the main city on the island, and the capital of Gran Canaria. Maybe you have that confusion because the IATA code for Gran Canaria airport is “LPA”.
I hope you enjoy landscapes of Gran Canaria and, of course, the Rally Islas Canarias.
Off topic
To give you an idea of the organizational and accommodation capacity of the island.
GRAN CANARIA will be the first island in the World to host football matches of a World Cup, it will be in 2030.
Yep, I will be flying to LPA (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria). Thanks for checking! :) I am really looking forward to a great event! If budget and wife allows, I may be able to make another trip later in the year (CER, maybe?). We'll see...
Ok, I hope you enjoy beaches and landscapes of Gran Canaria, and of course, with the event.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jajá
Shakedown Santa Brígida (Gran Canaria) recorded by GHrallyemotion (POV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QOnIT-Vj2o
SS1/SS4 Valsequillo-Telde (Gran Canaria) recorded by GHrallyemotion (POV)
As I said last day...Gran Canaria is kwons as "Miniature continent"
https://youtu.be/noy_OFJ6i5o?si=kZdOcISjUTg0MuOI
"The first stage will be the most difficult one. Over 26km this stage climbs up from 406m to as high as 1786m above sea level. During our drive we had all possible weather conditions: Cloudy in the beginning, then sunshine on the narrow part, and on the smooth uphill part on the GC-130 road we had rain, then heavy rain, then fog until we got above the cloud and saw the sunshine again"
SS2/SS5 Valleseco-Artenara (Gran Canaria) recorded by GHrallyemotion (POV)
https://youtu.be/mPAlOcW2L74?si=KJgUYgHmJmvT4MOm
"This stage is very nice to drive, even if this not so nice weather. Smooth tarmac and very flowing corners - I could drive forever on roads like this. It just has a hard rythm breaker with the tight hairpins on top which on the other hand serve as a great spectator area (at least when there is no fog)"