RALLY DE ESPAÑA 2022, October 20-23, 2022
2022 FIA World Rally Championship, round 12
For immediate release
Thursday, October 20th, 2022
RALLY DE ESPAÑA STARTS IN SALOU ON THURSDAY EVENING
SALOU (Spain): The 2022 RallyRACC-Rally de España gets underway with a ceremonial start in the centre of Salou on Spain’s Costa Daurada this evening (Thursday) from 19.00hrs.
The 12th and penultimate round of the FIA World Rally Championship will then be fought out over three days and 19 asphalt stages in the hills to the northwest and west of the Catalunyan tourist destination, south of Barcelona.
With flying Finn Kalle Rovanperä already crowned as the youngest ever FIA World Rally Champion, attention in Spain turns to the battle between Toyota Gazoo Racing and the Hyundai Shell Mobis World Rally Team to decide the outcome of the FIA Manufacturers’ title. Toyota takes an 81-point lead into the weekend.
The event will also see the final appearance of Irish co-driver Paul Nagle alongside M-Sport Ford’s Craig Breen. This weekend marks the 25th WRC event that the duo have tackled together but Nagle will retire from top flight co-driving after the rally.
Friday
The first day of action features two loops of four stages, starting with an 11.05km sprint between Els Omells and Maldà from 08.33hrs. Stages follow at Serra de la Llena and Les Garrigues Altes, before the daunting Riba-roja stage is run in the opposite direction to last year to close out the loop from 11.26hrs.
The four speed tests are then repeated in the afternoon from 15.09hrs onwards before the return to Salou for the overnight halt.
Ends
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