The Monza Rally Present will return this yr with World Rally Championship groups and drivers set to attend the occasion on the well-known Italian circuit.
The occasion will have fun Pirelli’s four-year stint because the WRC’s sole tyre provider with the championship set to welcome Korean tyre producer Hankook as its management tyre from subsequent season.
Pirelli will promote the 6-8 December occasion along side the WRC Promoter, the FIA and the Monza circuit.
It has been confirmed that Toyota, Hyundai and M-Sport-Ford will attend with their Rally1 machines that can full demonstration runs on phases constructed utilising the System 1 Italian Grand Prix venue on Friday and Saturday, earlier than collaborating within the Grasp Present on the Sunday. The roster of drivers set to compete is but to be introduced.
The organisers have additionally confirmed that Rally2 automobiles can even be in motion tackling eight particular phases.
The Monza Rally Present started in 1978 and has largely been held yearly attracting a few of rallying’s greatest names. Nonetheless, MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi is the occasion’s most profitable driver recording seven wins.
Esapekka Lappi, Janne Ferm, M-Sport Ford WRT Ford Fiesta WRC
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Monza has beforehand hosted the ultimate spherical of the WRC through the COVID-19-affected 2020 and 2021 seasons. Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier received each editions to safe his seventh and eighth WRC titles.
“We’re delighted to deliver the world rally championship again to Monza, which we think about our house,” commented Terenzio Testoni, Rally Exercise Supervisor of Pirelli.
“For us, will probably be a possibility to look again at our time as sole provider to the WRC, 4 profitable years, throughout which we discovered an important deal. It would even be the event to say goodbye to the world championship whereas reiterating that rallying continues to be an vital exercise for us.”
Autodromo Nazionale Monza chairman Giuseppe Redaelli added: “The return of the Monza Rally Present is one of the best ways to finish the 2024 season.
“After the 2 editions of the World Championship in 2020 and 2021 and the final spherical of the Italian Championship in 2023, will probably be an important pleasure to have fun Pirelli along with the WRC champions and the nice stars of Italian, European and World rallying on a very renovated circuit prepared to supply an important present.”
