Club Deportivo Evesport has made the decision to suspend all its sporting activity planned for this 2022 season, both on the island of Lanzarote and in Gran Canaria. This decision, they say, is motivated "by the past cancellation of the Isla de los Volcanes Rally and waiting for the situation in which we have been left to be clarified, after not receiving authorization for the aforementioned event from the Lanzarote Island Council".
"The sporting and economic damages caused by the cancellation of the RTIV, both to the club and to its entire work team and to the participating teams, force us to take a break in all our activities until we have sufficient guarantees to organize an event as complex as any type of motorsport event and especially rallies," they say from the club.
Evesport believes that it has set a "very dangerous" precedent for motorsport in all the Canary Islands, with the "non-authorization at the last moment of the RTIV of Lanzarote with the excuse of environmental reasons", despite the fact that they assure that the organizer "complied with all the requirements demanded by the public administrations and presented all the documentation in a timely manner". "An intolerable action that has damaged the image of our sport and of CD. Evesport", they point out.
The decision to paralyze all activity means that they will not organize any more competitions on the island of Lanzarote in 2022: Haría Climb, Tomás Viera Rallysprint, Tinajo Slalom, Yaiza Rallysprint and Isla de Lanzarote Rally, events that count towards several championships of Regional, Provincial and Island category. In addition, they will also not organize the Gran Canaria Dirt Rally, the dirt slaloms of the island competition planned in Pozo Izquierdo and the Jorge Santana Memorial of the Regional.
CD. Evesport communicated its decision this Wednesday to the different federations, as well as to all drivers, co-drivers and fans. "We continue to receive many expressions of support and solidarity, hoping that they also understand our decision to stop all our activity as organizers for the moment," they conclude.
However, the club had been harshly questioned by the Association of Drivers and Co-drivers of Spain, for having continued with the Isla de Los Volcanes Rally despite not having received authorization. "It cannot be allowed that a rally that is run in the Canary Islands, cars and trucks are shipped without having the permits to be able to run. The strategy was for us to go there to pressure the Cabildo and obtain them at the last minute," said the president of the association, Luis Vilariño, in statements to the newspaper La Región.