With the official presentation this noon at the Parque de los Luchadores in Altavista, Arrecife, the week of the 45th Orvecame-Isla de Lanzarote Rally has begun, which will close the 2024 season in the section of the Canary Islands Asphalt Rally Championship-CCRA, BP Championship of Las Palmas and Lanzarote Island Championship, with most of the titles still to be decided in this last opportunity of the calendar.
Some 47 teams have confirmed their registration in Lanzarote, with the presence of most of the candidates for the titles at stake. Especially the two who aspire to be crowned as the best of the CCRA at regional level: the current champions Miguel Angel Suárez-Eduardo González and the aspirants running at home, the Lanzarote natives Yeray Lemes-Aitor Cambeiro. And for greater interest, a duel with equal cars such as the Citroen C3 Rally2, so you can't ask for more excitement for this final in Lanzarote that will define the new champions. Precisely the unit of Suárez-González occupied a leading place in the presentation ceremony, thanks to the collaboration of Sport&You Canarias.
In addition to the top favorites to achieve the triumph in Lanzarote, the list includes two more teams with Rally 2 type cars. The recovered Citroen C3 of the Lanzarote native Oscar Cabrera and the Galician Alberto Nimo with a Skoda Fabia, who travels to a Canary rally for the first time thanks to his sponsor, although normally his participations are in the Galician Championship.
The presentation ceremony was held at a novel point in the capital such as the Altavista neighborhood, which received praise from the institutions for the importance of diversifying the most important sports activities on the island.
The presentation was presided over by the mayor of Arrecife, Jonathan de León, who was accompanied by several of his councilors. From the first island institution, Jacobo Medina attended as vice president of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, as well as councilors Juan Monzón (Sports) and Jesús Machín Tavío (Territorial Policy). Other mayors also wanted to support the presentation, with Olivia Duque attending for Teguise and Jesús Machín for Tinajo, as well as the councilors of Sports of Arrecife (Eli Merino), Haría (Alberto de León) and the Mobility of Arrecife (Mario González), among other authorities. The director of the Open Mall shopping center, Santiago Arzola, was present and, on the sports side, the president of the FCA, Miguel Ángel Domínguez, and the president of the CD. Evesport and head of the organization, José Víctor Rodríguez.
All the speakers agreed on the importance that the island of Lanzarote once again takes within Canarian motorsport, as it is the most decisive of the Canarian rallies and with a good level entry and an organization that has already prepared all the organizational operation, both for the timed sections and for the different events that take place in Arrecife, in the surroundings of the Rambla Medular and the Open Mall. They also encouraged the members of the organization for the added effort of a two-day rally and thus contribute to not overlapping the event with the intense leisure and social activity of this weekend in Lanzarote.
Before the official presentation, the security coordination meeting was held between all the parties and organizations involved in it. As almost half of the rally is at night on Friday, all available elements and personnel will be reinforced and adapted to this circumstance. Likewise, urban traffic warnings by means of signs in the area of the start, finish, regroupings and assistance area, which will be located in the vicinity of the Open Mall and the BP service station -where the administrative checks and delivery of documentation will be-, to try to avoid as much as possible the collapse of traffic along the Rambla Medular.
The ROIL24 advertising poster has also been unveiled, which has taken an important turn with respect to the latest designs, again by the graphic team of the main sponsor of the rally, the Cabrera Medina Group with CICAR and Orvecame (also providing the caravan of security vehicles). A poster that includes a competition car that bears in its decoration the names of the seven municipalities of Lanzarote, with very characteristic backgrounds of the Lanzarote landscape and the iconic Monumento al Campesino.
