2017 Michelin FIA WRC Rallye de España2017 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5 2.97 km – dirt and RALLYRACC-CATALUNYA 8:00am Shakedown asphalt – COSTA DAURADA – 8:00pm Start ceremony, Salou OCTOBER 5»8 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 8:15am Tyre change, PortAventura 15 min 2017 9:53am SS1 Caseres 12.50 km - gravel - 10:21am SS2 Bot 6.50 km - gravel 38.95 km - 75%gravel rd 10:56am SS3 Terra Alta 53 RUNNING / 25% asphalt Service/Tyre change, 2017 FIA WRC: ROUND 11 1:11pm 30 min PortAventura TIMETABLE 3:19pm SS4 Caseres 12.50 km - gravel 3:47pm SS5 Bot 6.50 km - gravel 38.95 km - gravel + 72 4:22pm SS6 Terra Alta 25% asphalt 6:32pm Service PortAventura 75 min entries SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7 Service/Tyre change, 6:45am 15 min PortAventura 1297,62 km including 312.02km 8:00am SS7 El Montmell 24.40 km - asphalt 9:07am SS8 El Pont d‘Armentera 21.29 km - asphalt divided into 19 stages 9:54am SS9 Savalla 14.12 km - asphalt Service/Tyre change, 11:35am 30 min PortAventura 1:08pm SS10 El Montmell 24.40 km - asphalt 2:15pm SS11 El Pont d‘Armentera 21.29 km - asphalt 3:02pm SS12 Savalla 14.12 km - asphalt 5:00pm SS13 Salou 2.24 km - asphalt 5:30pm Assistance PortAventura 45min SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8 Service/Tyre change, 6:00am 15min PortAventura 7:00am SS14 L‘Albiol 6.28 km - asphalt 7:38am SS15 Riudecanyes 16.35 km - asphalt 8:38am SS16 Santa Marina 14.50 km - asphalt SOURCE : WRC.COM - INFORMATION SUBJECT CHANGE TO 10:14am SS17 L‘Albiol 6.28 km - asphalt 10:53am SS18 Riudecanyes 16.35 km - asphalt 12:18am SS19 Santa Marina 14.50 km - asphalt 1:41pm Assistance PortAventura 10 min 2:01pm Finish ceremony, Salou TIME (GMT +2) - FORMAT Jacques Morelli, Manager of Michelin Motorsport’s WRC No super-special this year in Barcelona programme Leg 1’s gravel stages run on hard-packed ground ”The RallyRACC Catalunya is the world championship’s covered in loose gravel only mixed gravel/asphalt round, so it’s a particularly hard This year’s longest stage is Terra Alta event for the cars, the teams and the drivers who have a (SS3/6, 38.95km) choice of five different tyres for the weekend. That’s more than for the Rallye Monte-Carlo! Terra Alta [38.95km] The asphalt stages visited by Legs 2 and 3 on Day 1 is one of the most demanding gravel stages of are wide, twisty and relatively smooth the season for tyres because it includes a twisty seven- SS15/18 and SS16/19 are being run in the opposite kilometre asphalt section in the middle. Sunday’s action [six stages totalling 74km] concludes six hours after the crews choose their tyres for the day at the morning’s service halt. If the direction to 2016 weather is changeable, that could play a big role in the final result. The fight for this year’s titles is still extremely close.” RALLYRACC MICHELIN TYRES FOR THE 2017 RALLYRACC CATALUNYA CATALUNYA The RallyRACC Catalunya first appeared MICHELIN LTX Force Michelin Pilot Sport on the WRC calendar in 1991 Since 2010, the RallyRACC Catalunya has been the championship’s only mixed-surface round S5 H4 h5 S5 FW3 (soft) (HARD) (hard) (soft) (wet) In 1982, competitors tackled three different types of surface, namely dirt, asphalt and snow which fell in quantity at the end of November! The mechanics have 75 minutes on Friday evening 3 Quota for WRC drivers: 12 gravel tyres (from an ove- rall allocation of 14 hards and 10 softs), plus 16 asphalt to convert the cars from gravel- to asphalt- tyres (from 16 hards, 12 softs and 8 rain tyres) specification 3 1,814 tyres trucked to Catalonia in three semi-trailers Prior to 1991, the RallyRACC Catalunya was known as the Rallye Catalunya Costa Brava which counted towards the European Rally MICHELIN AND RALLYRACC CATALUNYA Championship th In 2012, Michelin claimed its 250 world class rally victory on RallyRACC Since 1997, French drivers Catalunya (Auriol, Panizzi, Bugalski, Loeb, Ogier) In 2016, the French tyre firm notched up its300 th WRC win on the same event have won this event 16 times! Michelin has won RallyRACC Catalunya 17 times since 1991, with Toyota, Ford, Citroën, Mitsubishi, Peugeot and Volkswagen Spaniards Carlos Sainz (18 participations) and Michelin tyres have won 329 of the 400 RallyRACC Catalunya stages Dani Sordo (15) have started the RallyRACC contested since 1991 (82%) Catalunya more times than any other driver RALLYRACC CATALUNYA TRIVIA The seaside resort of Salou and the PortAventura theme park have hosted the RallyRACC every year since 2005 Inaugurated in 1995, PortAventura is Europe’s third-biggest theme park. Ferrari Land was opened there this year The first day visits gravel stages near the 928-km- long Rio Ebro, Spain’s longest river and the scene of the Battala del Ebro in 1938 Day 2’s stages take place near the UNESCO-listed city of Tarragona CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE LATEST VIDEOS FROM THE RALLYRACC CATALUNYA TEAMS / DRIVERS Andreas Mikkelsen has been recruited by Hyundai Motorsport for the last three rallies of 2017 M-SPORT WORLD RALLY TEAM WRC # 1 OGIER Sébastien / INGRASSIA Julien FRA / FRA FORD FIESTA WRC M-SPORT WORLD RALLY TEAM WRC # 2 TANAK Ott / JARVEOJA Martin EST / EST FORD FIESTA WRC M-SPORT WORLD RALLY TEAM WRC # 3 EVANS Elfyn / BARRITT Daniel GBR / GBR FORD FIESTA WRC HYUNDAI MOTORSPORT WRC # 4 MIKKELSEN Andreas / JAEGER Anders NOR / NOR CITROEN C3 WRC HYUNDAI MOTORSPORT WRC # 5 NEUVILLE Thierry / GILSOUL Nicolas BEL / BEL HYUNDAI i20 COUPE WRC HYUNDAI MOTORSPORT WRC # 6 SORDO Dani / MARTI Marc ESP / ESP HYUNDAI i20 COUPE WRC CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT WRC Entry List # 7 MEEKE Kris / NAGLE Paul GBR / IRL CITROEN C3 WRC CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT WRC # 8 LEFEBVRE Stéphane / MOREAU Gabin FRA / FRA CITROEN C3 WRC CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT WRC # 9 AL QASSIMI Sheik Khalid / PATTERSON Chris ARE / GBR FLASHBACK CITROEN C3 WRC TO 2016 TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRC WRC WINNERS: Sébastien Ogier/Julien # 10 LATVALA Jari-Matti / ANTTILA Miikka FIN / FIN Ingrassia (VW Polo R WRC/Michelin) TOYOTA YARIS WRC TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRC WRC # 11 HÄNNINEN Juho / LINDSTRÖM Kaj FIN / FIN TOYOTA YARIS WRC TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRC WRC # 12 LAPPI Esapekka / FERM Janne FIN / FIN TOYOTA YARIS WRC STAGE WINNERS: M-SPORT WORLD RALLY TEAM WRC Latvala (7), Ogier (6), Sordo and Meeke (2), Tanak and Neuville (1) # 14 ØSTBERG Mads / TØRSTEIN Eriksen NOR / NOR FORD FIESTA WRC RALLY LEADERS: Tanak (SS1), Neuville (SS2), Ogier WRC EUROLAMP WORLD RALLY TEAM (SS3-SS4), Sordo (SS5-SS13, Ogier # 20 GORBAN Valeriy / LARENS Sergei UKR / EST (SS14-finish) BMW-Mini JCW 3 Sébastien Ogier sewed up his fourth JEAN-MICHEL RAOUX WRC world title and scored Michelin’s # 21 RAOUX Jean-Michel / MAGAT Laurent FRA / FRA 300th WRC victory since 1973 CITROEN DS3 WRC 3 Heavy rain made Day 1’s stages very muddy 3 Hyundai/Michelin’s Sordo and Neuville finished on the podium THE FULL ENTRY LIST HERE Drivers STANDINGS TOTAL Grande- Rally Monte-Carlo Suede Mexique France Argentine Portugal Italie Pologne Finlande Allemagne Espagne Australie des Bretagne 27/07 > 30/07 16/11 > 19/11 POINTS 19/01 > 22/01 9/02 > 12/02 9/03 > 12/03 6/04 > 9/04 27/04 > 30/04 18/05 > 21/05 8/06 > 11/06 29/06 > 2/07 17/08 > 20/08 5/10 > 8/10 26/10 > 29/10 1 25 15+4 18+4 18+4 12+2 25+1 10+3 15+4 15+2 Sébastien OGIER (1.) (3.) (2.) (2.) (4.) (1.) (5.) (3.) (R) (3.) (-) (-) (-) 177 2 5 3 15+5 25+1 25+5 18+4 15+2 25+1 8+3 Thierry NEUVILLE (15.) (13.) (3.) (1.) (1.) (2.) (3.) (1.) (6.) (44.) (-) (-) (-) 160 3 15 18 12+3 15+3 12+5 25 6+5 25 Ott TÄNAK (3.) (2.) (4.) (11.) (3.) (4.) (1.) (R) (7.) (1.) (-) (-) (-) 144 4 18 25+5 8+2 12+5 10+1 2 18+1 5 2 6+3 Jari-Matti LATVALA (2.) (1.) (6.) (4.) (5.) (9.) (2.) (20.) (21.) (7.) (-) (-) (-) 123 5 12+1 12 4+1 15+2 4 15 4 12 2 5 Dani SORDO (4.) (4.) (8.) (3.) (8.) (3.) (12.) (4.) (9.) (34.) (-) (-) (-) 89 6 Elfyn EVANS 8+2 8 2 18+4 8+3 4 18+4 8 (6.) (6.) (9.) (21.) (2.) (6.) (R) (8.) (2.) (6.) (-) (-) (-) 87 7 10 10 10+3 10 10 10+1 Craig BREEN (5.) (5.) (-) (5.) (R) (5.) (25.) (11.) (5.) (5.) (-) (-) (-) 64 8 3 6 6 6 8 1 15+1 12 Juho HÄNNINEN (16.) (23.) (7.) (R) (7.) (7.) (6.) (10.) (3.) (4.) (-) (-) (-) 58 9 6+1 10 8 8 18 4 Hayden PADDON (R) (7.) (5.) (6.) (6.) (R) (R) (2.) (R) (8.) (-) (-) (-) 55 10 1+2 12+5 25 4 Esapekka LAPPI (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (10.) (4.) (R) (1.) (21.) (-) (-) (-) 49 11 6 6 4 2+3 18 Andreas MIKKELSEN (7.) (-) (-) (7.) (-) (R) (8.) (9.) (-) (2.) (-) (-) (-) 39 12 2 25 4 Kris MEEKE (R) (12.) (1.) (R) (R) (18.) (R) (-) (8.) (R) (-) (-) (-) 31 WRC2 drivers 1. Pontus TIDEMAND 133 pts 2. Eric CAMILLI 77 pts 3. Ole Christian VEIBY 68 pts 4. Jan KOPECKY 67 pts 5. Teemu SUNINEN 60 pts Manufacturers 1. M-Sport World Rally Team 325 pts 2. Hyundai Motorsport 261 pts 3. Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT 213 pts 4. Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT 163 pts Michelin WRC range THE 2017 WRC 2017 season REGULATIONS New- generation ASPHALT TYRES : WINTRY World Rally michelin pILOT SPORT ASPHALT: Cars michelin ALPIN 4 More powerful (380hp), 25kg lighter, active central differential, new aerodynamic package Start orders H5 (hard compound) S5 (soft compound) Day 1 in 2017 Drivers’ Size : 20/65-18 Size : 20/65-18 Conditions: dry stages Conditions: wet, cold conditions non-studded championship order, then reverse order of overnight classification Manufacturers can nominate up to three cars SS5 (super soft compound) FW3 (Full Wet) studded Size : 20/65-18 Size : 18/65-18 with the two best-placed cars Conditions: icy, frosty, damp, Conditions: showers, standing Size : 18/65-18 cold conditions water or heavy rain Conditions: ice and/or snow to score Manufacturer points.