The Costa del Gargano Rally is back. Now in its third edition, this year the competition (sponsored by the Puglia Region, Department of Sport and Health, ACI and the Province of Foggia, the Gargano Park and interested municipalities) will be held on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 April on the streets of Manfredonia, Mattinata and Monte Sant’Angelo. New this year is the fact that the race has gained ownership of the ACI SPORT 8th Zone Rally Cup, thus entering the calendar of the major national stages of the season. With a doubled number of crews compared to the previous edition, it will start at 5.30pm from the tourist port of Manfredonia.
There are fifty-two participants in the competition, organized by Gargano and Tecno Motor Racing Team with the patronage of the Puglia Region, the Department of Sport and Health, ACI and the Province of Foggia, Parco del Gargano and the Municipalities of Manfredonia, Mattinata and Monte Sant’Angelo, which represents the second of seven events on the discipline’s sporting calendar which began last month with the Lazio Rally.
The ‘Costa 2024’ – this is also the password to follow the information and results of the event on the Sportity app – will take place in 10 Special Stages along a route of 72.2 kilometers of timed sections and 303.88 kilometers in total including transfers . The competition program will open on Saturday 27 April with the technical-sporting checks followed by the shakedown in the race set-up car on a stretch of the PS Mattinata, from 10am to 2pm.
The starting point, Saturday at 5.30pm and arrival on Sunday 28 April at 6.18pm, will be the area of the tourist port of Manfredonia while the assistance has been located in the nearby Gargano shopping centre. The special tests: Macchia-Monte Sant’Angelo (Troiano Petroli) to be repeated twice on Saturday, once during the day and once at night at 6.22pm and 8.57pm with regroupings set for 6.38pm in Piazza della Beneficenza in Monte Sant’Angelo and at 9.55pm to the tourist port of Manfredonia.
The other eight special stages will take place on Sunday: the PS Mattinata – Tecnoedil to be repeated three times with passages of the first car scheduled for 10.04-14.17-17.10, the PS Carbonara – Automania at 10.20-14.33-17.26 and Carbonara-Tegliafilo at 10.48-15.01 ).
The route map, the rankings and all the information on the race are available on the official website and on the social pages of the event.
