13/04/2023

• It will be held on 14 and 15 April with the capital of the Costa Daurada as the epicentre. • 50 entries will take on the 433 km route, 139 of which will be regularity • The rally counts towards the Catalan Regularity and Regularity Sport championships. • Participants who wish to take part will score points in the Open Catalunya Costa Daurada.

Salou, 13 April 2023 - The 7^th Rally Catalunya Històric, a regularity event for classic cars organised by the RACC, will once again make Salou the epicentre of historic Catalan motoring.  The rally will be held this Friday 14 and Saturday 15 April and will consist of a route of 433.54 km. Of these, 138.81 km will be of controlled regularity on closed roads, distributed in 10 stages, 3 of them to be contested on Friday and the other 7 on Saturday.

A total of 50 teams have entered this 7^th Catalunya Històric rally, 32 in the Regularity category (55 km/h), 8 in the Regularity Sport category (70 km/h) and 10 in the Legend category (exhibition only).

The RACC event counts towards the Catalunya regularity championships in both categories and counts with the participation of the great experts of this speciality, such as the last winners of the rally, Josep Maria Bardolet - Carles Jiménez (SEAT 1400B), and the winners in 2021 and 2017, Carles Miró - Ivan Matavacas (Porsche 911 SC), the current Champion of Catalonia crew.

Other outstanding participants are the female crew made up of Tere Armadans - Anna Vives (Seat Ibiza GTI); Juan Pedro García - Sergi Giralt (Autobianchi A112 Abarth); and Francesc Segú - Miquel Molist (Volkswagen Golf GTI), all of them contenders for the podium in the Regularity category with the lowest average. In Regularity Sport, it is worth mentioning Jordi Fanlo - Daniel Robledillo (Porsche 911 SC RS); Ramon Dalmau - Toni Moragas (BMW 325i); and Albert Rosa - Jan Rosa (Peugeot 205 GTI 1.9).

"1^st Open Regularitat Catalunya - Costa Daurada".

The RACC, organiser of this Rally Catalunya Històric, and the Escuderia Baix Camp, organiser of the Rally Costa Daurada Legend Reus (9-10 June), have created the "1^st Open Regularitat Catalunya – Costa Daurada". Of the crews registered for the rally, the top 10 in each category (Regularity or Regularity Sport) will score points towards the final classification of the Open. The points obtained in the Power Stages, a stage in each leg of each rally that will award extra points to the top 5 fastest times, will also be added up.

Volant RACC Clàssic

Another great attraction of the 7^th Rally Catalunya Històric will be the 'Volant RACC Clàssic', a category open to drivers with no limitations of age or experience, but who must have registered with models that have participated in the Volant RACC from the year of its creation, 1979, until 1993, its 15^th edition. Like the rest of the participating vehicles, the teams entered in the 'Volant RACC Clàssic' must be included in one of the regularity categories.

Of the participants, 8 have chosen to be included in this category. A highlight as car 0 is the presence of the winner of the 1988 Volant RACC, Jordi Ventura. Accompanied by Gerard Alsina, he will drive one of the 150 hp Peugeot 208 VR PureTech 1.2 that the current participants of the Volant RACC - Trofeu Mavisa drive. Also taking part will be Antonio Rius, winner in 1982, and Mia Bardolet, who won the 1985 Volant RACC.

The 7^th Rally Catalunya Històric will start on Friday 14 at 5.30 pm from the promenade of Salou, where it will also finish its first stage from 9.30 pm. On Saturday 15, the rally will take place between 9.30 am and 6.00 pm, with a neutralisation at 1.25 pm in Santa Coloma de Queralt.

Early on Saturday morning, the '2a Trobada RACC de Cotxes Clàssics' (2^nd RACC Classic Car Meeting) will be held at the starting point, which will bring together around 100 vehicles. The Trobada is open to any fan who wants to live the sensation of being in a parc fermé, go up to the podium with his/her car and drive 60 km on a closed road through the first stage of the Rally Catalunya Històric.