translated from Spanish: RallyMobil begins new season after more than a year of pandemic recess

16 months after the engines of the Cars of the Copec RallyMobil were shut down, this March 26th and 27th the official start of the rally season in Chile will begin in the “Copa Mobil 1”.
The first event will take place on the outskirts of Santiago, where drivers and co-pilots can be re-founded as a good exhibition to kick off the season and once again start the gears of the competition.
This first race will take place in an enclosed enclosure, leaving access only to pilots, navigators, engineers, mechanics and some representatives of the press, complying with all the sanitary protocols required by the national authority.
This date will focus mainly on the television show, as it will have no score, through which fans will be able to know the new graphics, cars, drivers and all the changes for this season that is ad portas to start.
Thus, the so-called “Mobil Cup 1” will not allow public in the stands, a condition necessary for the Ministry of Health to authorize the development of the sporting event, which will have special tests on land and will be divided into two days.
The rally will be divided into a total of ten special ground tests that will be recognized from Friday the 26th morning, subtracting a Shakedown and the long protocol in the afternoon. The next day, on March 27, the race will be raced, with an itinerary that will exceed 90 kilometers of travel.
All the details of this first date of the Copec RallyMobil can be known through the platforms of Copec RallyMobil and +Motor, in addition to adding a special deferred transmission by ESPN, FoxSports 3, TVN and TV Chile, reaching a total of 27 countries.
In this way, the initial step is made for a season with live streaming airing and social media publications, which will allow motor lovers to follow the details of what is happened in the long-awaited sports competition.
What’s confirmed
There is news in the sporting field, starting with the re-brand change of the Joker Rally team, linked to Ford since 2018 in the national competition, but that from now on embarks on new course with The Citroen Racing, with a new car the Citroen C3 Rally 2. While the brothers rotate navigators and Alberto will go with Spaniard Marc Martín, it will be Pablo Olmos who will accompany Pedro again. 
Another successful team that manages the French citroen model is the ProCircuit team, which this season will be composed of brothers Benjamin and Vicente Israel behind the wheel.
Although CBTech’s Skoda would not arrive on time, the Checha brand will be strongly represented by the Peruvian Castro Yangali formation that, by triple, integrates with Eduardo Castro’s Fabia Rally2 Evo, Alex Heilbrunn and the long-awaited confirmation of Nicolás Fuchs, another big name of his country’s motorsport and who arrives in Chile with a world scepter and another South American , among many achievements in his successful campaign.
For his part, Francisco López will continue in his Peugeot 208 T16, Emilio Rosselot will ascend to the major division with the Mitsubishi Mirage that led Luis Ignacio, Martín Scuncio will give talk to the Hyundai i20, Joaquín Ruiz de Loyzaga premieres in this tournament his Skoda and Germán Lyon returns to the ring with his Citroen DS3. 
To these names, we must mention some of those who participate in the R3 and R2 classes, Patricio Muñoz and Eduardo Kovacs will race in a new Rally4 car, this season’s debutant will be Francisco Gatica, and return to the ring old acquaintances, José Hernández on the R3 and Julio Ibarra who will participate in the R2.
For his part, Carlos Prieto awaits the arrival from Peugeot Sport France of his 208 Rally4, awaiting the qualifying start to drive it and with José Quezada as a companion in which he was the R2L 2019 champion machine of the Portmontino.
In this first event will be the ideal time for the presentation of the new Renault Clio Rally5 aimed at the new Master class for drivers over 55 years old and that has as a promoter, coming with a new facet back to the Rally, ramón Ibarra. On this occasion his presentation will be at the hands of the renowned driver Jorge Martínez, current champion of the category and current leader of the Argentine Championship, who accepted the offer to show in action the modern product of the diamond for the discipline.

Original source in Spanish

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