Organisers have revealed the route for Paraguay’s inaugural World Rally Championship spherical later this 12 months.
The South American nation is ready to make its WRC debut this 12 months because it hosts spherical 10 of the 2025 season on 28-31 August on an expanded 14-round 2025 calendar, after signing a multi-year settlement.
A burgeoning native rally scene that has helped produce established WRC2 and Junior WRC drivers Fabrizio Zaldivar and Diego Dominguez has performed a task in triggering a want for Paraguay to host a spherical of the WRC.
Preparations for the championship’s extremely anticipated go to to Paraguay took one other step with the nation’s president Santiago Peña revealing the itinerary that can await crews.
The gravel rally might be primarily based within the metropolis of Encarnacion, located in Paraguay’s south-east, on the border with Argentina. In whole, opponents will sort out 951.59 kilometres, together with 334.52 aggressive kilometres break up throughout 19 phases.
Paraguay phases
Picture by: WRC.com
Paraguay phases
Picture by: WRC.com
Friday will comprise the longest leg of the rally, that includes 140.90 aggressive kilometres together with two passes of the rally’s longest stage, Yerbatera (30km).
Saturday takes the sector deeper into Paraguay’s inside with 113.60km of phases earlier than 4 extra exams on Sunday conclude the occasion.
The reveal of the route follows a profitable check occasion held final September, witnessed by representatives from the WRC, Toyota, M-Sport-Ford, the FIA, and 2025 management tyre provider Hankook.
“We all know this occasion will present a novel new story to the WRC,” mentioned WRC occasion director Simon Larkin following final 12 months’s check occasion.
The rally is one among three new rounds to hitch the WRC this 12 months, together with this month’s go to to the Canary Islands (24-27 April), following a choice to advertise the asphalt occasion from the European Rally Championship to the WRC.
The season will attain its climax with an all-new ultimate spherical in Saudi Arabia (27-30 November) as a part of a 10-year deal that can carry the WRC again to the Center East for the primary time since 2011.
Saudi Arabia is ready to host a 12-stage check occasion from Might 1-3 to arrange for its WRC debut.
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