The young promise of motorsports from Lanzarote, Raúl Hernández, is the only Spanish driver who will race in the Junior World Rally Championship 2023 (JWRC23) of the International Automobile Federation, the FIA. In addition, Hernández will be able to count on the help of the last Spaniard who was able to conquer the Junior world championship, Jan Solans, who will be by his side throughout the championship. Hernández has been invited among the great promises of world motorsport, after a great season, full of successes and with very good reviews. However, the 21-year-old driver faces the most important challenge of his career and that can place him in the sights of high world competition in this complicated sport.
The Junior World Rally Championship is one of the most important competitions in the world. It is held in five countries, where the Lanzarote native will have to prove his skill. The first of the tests will travel to Scandinavia, specifically to Sweden, where it will be run from February 9 to 12. Afterwards, it will be necessary to compete in the volcanoes, specifically in Croatia, from April 20 to 23. The third great challenge will arrive in June, and it will do so in the Mediterranean, in Italy, from June 1 to 4. After visiting the transalpine country, Hernández will compete in Estonia in July in the penultimate test of July from the 20th to the 23rd of that month. To finish in Greece in September.
Junior World Rally Car Championship 2023
It is a complementary competition to the World Rally Championship (WRC). This competition has been conceived so that the best growing drivers in the world, with an age limit of 27 years, run a test of the highest international level, with projection and demand of the level of a FIA world championship. The winner of the event will have the opportunity to move up to WRC2 and drive a Ford Fiesta Rally 2 in four rallies of the World Championship in 2024 together with a world structure the M-Sport. The mechanical equality is total and only rewards the skill of the driver, since everyone runs with the same vehicle and is managed by the same team.
