53 RallyRACC, day 2: The tarmac starts

07/10/2017

Day 2, Saturday, 7 October: Novelties on tarmac

Saturday and Sunday will be dedicated exclusively to tarmac stages. Saturday will have three special stages that will be covered twice: 'El Montmell' (24.40 km), 'El Pont d'Armentera' (21.29 km) and 'Savallà' (14.12 km), in addition to 'Salou' (2.24 km), the urban stage, that will be identical to the last two years, as the closing stage of the day.

'El Montmell' is the same stage as in 2016 with 260 metres that have been added at the end. The second passage of this stage will be broadcasted live by the TV stations that have the respective rights, which, in Spain, are TVE-Teledeporte, TV3-Esport3 and the digital platform movistar+. El Pont d'Armentera' is new and corresponds to the Querol stage from 2016 but raced in opposite direction. The third stage is called Savallà' and is completely new, located nearby Santa Coloma de Queralt and running between Rauric and Conesa.

A 30-minute service in PortAventura World will allow participants to set-up their vehicles anew in order to get ready to face the loop for a second time. Both in the morning and in the afternoon, there will be a refuelling facility in Santa Coloma de Queralt. The timed kilometres of that day are 121.86 km. This is the schedule for Saturday:

06:45h - Start from PortAventura World
08:00h - SS7 'El Montmell' (24.40 km)
09:07h - SS8 'El Pont d'Armentera' (21.29 km) *
09:54h - SS9 'Savallà' (14.12 km) *
11:20h - Regrouping in PortAventura World (15')
11:35h - Service in PortAventura World (30')
13:08h - SS10 'El Montmell' (24.40 km) (live TV)
14:15h - SS11 'El Pont d'Armentera' (21.29 km) *
15:02h - SS12 'Savallà' (14.12 km) *
16:37h - Regrouping in Salou (20')
17:00h - SS13 'Salou' (2.24 km)
17:20h - Parc fermé in PortAventura World (10')
17:30h - Service park in PortAventura World (45')
18:15h - Parc fermé in PortAventura World
(*) New stages in 2017