Sébastien Ogier, who is playing the 2025 part -time season, will play the Canaries rally, which returns to the calendar, at the end of April.
Absent from the rallies of Sweden and Kenya, after winning the Monte-Carlo rally at the start of the season, Sébastien Ogier will participate in his second rally of 2025 on the occasion of that of the Canaries, which will take place from April 24 to 27. The French pilot has competed in WRC part -time WRC seasons for four years now, which does not prevent him from sometimes being in the race for the title, and he decided, in agreement with his Toyota stable, to take part in the Spanish asphalt rally, which joined the global calendar this year after having long been part of the European calendar. In addition to the 41 -year -old Frenchman, Toyota will line up four pilots: the leader of the Elfyn Evans championship (winner in Sweden and Kenya), the former world champion Kalle Rovanperä, the Japanese Takamoto Katsuta and the Finnish Sami Pajari.
Last season, Sébastien Ogier had taken part in ten rally, a little more than expected, because in the heart of summer, he ended up in the race for the title and tried everything for the whole (he finally experienced many problems in Greece, Chile and central Europe and finished fourth). This year, he has already announced that he would compete less. But with a single rally on the clock, the Gapençais already has more points than his compatriot Adrien Fourmaux, who begins this season with Hyundai, the Rivale stable of Toyota, or that his teammates Ravanperä, Katsuta and Pajari.
Fourmaux advantage?
But Fourmaux could leave with an advantage to the Canaries, because he won the rally when he ran in ERC in 2020, driving a Ford. The rally will take place around Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the capital, and will be an opportunity for the pilots to test the Hankook tires (which has provided the WRC since this season) on asphalt in different weather conditions of the Monte-Carlo rally. On this occasion, the fuel will be supplied by Totalenergies, which replaces the P1 Racing Fuels at the raised foot, placed in receivership.
