Very strong rumors in Spain talking about Gran Canaria (Rally Islas Canarias) could be in the WRC in the years 2.024 and 2.025 replacing Rally Catalunya.


The Rally Islas Canarias (Gran Canaria) steps on the accelerator to enter the World Championship in 2025.
It could begin to take turns with the Rally of Catalonia

This weekend, in parallel to the Rally of Catalonia, another competition has been waged behind the scenes to ensure the permanence of our country in the World Rally calendar, increasingly more quoted. The RACC has tightened the screws on the promoter so that its test -definitely discarded from next year's list- returns to the elite of the specialty in 2024. At the same time, the organizers of the Rally Islas Canarias, the second most international Spanish event (it scores for the European Championship since 2016), have stepped on the accelerator with the desire to be part of the World Championship in 2025.


The organizers of the island event assured this summer its continuity in the continental championship for the next two years. Last weekend, they were already talking in Salou with the RFEDA and the promoter -currently, the same that manages the European Championship- so that the 50th edition of the mythical 'Corte Inglés' (its former name) receives the World Championship seal for which the insular fans, one of the most numerous and knowledgeable of the national territory, are clamoring.

The intention of the FIA to avoid the mess of this year -the calendar of the next course is still not approved, apparently by an erroneous procedure of the promoter- is to leave tied at the beginning of 2023 the calendar of the following campaign, in which the Rally of Catalonia will have to retake its place.

According to MARCA, if the archipelago supports the Rally Islas Canarias enough to be promoted to the World Championship in 2025, from then on it could begin to take turns with the Catalonia, and together ensure the annual continuity of the championship in Spain, now that the rotational system of the past will be reinstated.




https://www.marca.com/motor/rallies/...6588b4589.html
https://automovilismocanario.com/iva...a-2024-y-2025/
https://www.motor.es/noticias/rally-...202290787.html