Rally Scene `15 - Island Connections

8.1.2015 – 21.1.2015
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The year ahead
Rally Scene ‘15
By Francis W.
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low Spaniards Jesús Puras
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three wins as has Czech driver
Jan Kopecky. This is a world
class event and the effort of
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North Tenerife
Rallying is extremely popular in the Canary Islands
event, which covers much of
the south of Tenerife over the
two days, has sections in Arona
and Vilaflor, Tijoco and Taucho, Guía de Isora and Santiago del Teide, and Tamaimo
and Playa San Juan. All these
are on public roads which will
be subject to closure for normal traffic.
April 17 and 18 sees the 39
Rally Islas Canarias ‘El Corte
Inglés’ in Gran Canaria. This
international event has been
a long running round of the
European Rally Championship,
the Spanish European Rally
Championship and the Canary
Islands Rally Championship.
It has also in the recent past
been part of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, the European Rally Cup South and the
European Rally Cup West. The
rally is a tarmac event. First run
in 1977 the rally was quickly
popular for its location and
climate as well as the Canary
Islands’ reputation as a tourist destination.
In keeping with its importance
as a Spanish event, Spanish drivers have dominated.
Medardo Pérez won the first
two events driving a BMW.
Spain’s world champion, Carlos Sainz, won the event in five
consecutive years from 19851989 in a variety of cars. Fel-
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Petrol heads amongst us will
be delighted to learn that the
information regarding motor
sports events in 2015 is gradually trickling into the public
domain.
Though the year’s sporting calendar is still to be released,
some events have already been
confirmed.
Fans of classic and historic
vehicles might be interested
in one of the first get togethers of the year: the V Clásica
de Mogán in Gran Canaria on
January 24. Open to vehicles made before the end of
December, 1982, the course
is 198.6 kilometres on open
roads, so normal traffic regulations apply and other traffic
must be respected. The start
is at the Hotel Cordial Mogán
Playa and el Paseo de los Marrero, in Puerto de Mogán at
12pm, arriving for lunch at
the Parque Tematico at Gran
Caventura at around 2.30pm.
The departure for stage two is
at 4pm, to return to the start
point at just after 7pm. The
trophy ceremonies will be held
at the Hotel Cordial Mogán
Playa.
The 2015 Spanish Hillclimb
Championship kicks off with
round one on March 21 and 22
with the Arona – La Escalona
Uphill rally on Tenerife. The
start line is just above Las
Casas in Arona and it is a 4.4
kilometre blast up the TF 51
to the finish line just before
La Escalona. The map shows
this section of the road to be
all twisting, steep, tight corners with the promise that the
race will be fuelled as much by
adrenalin as by gasoline.
The Real Federación Española
de Automovilismo (RFEA) has
recently confirmed the dates
for this year’s Asphalt Rallies
National Championship with
the round at Adeje, Tenerife,
on April 18 and 19 starting the
off the season. This multi-stage