Rally of South America in Misiones: the beginning of the promotion was launched and tomorrow, the first stage will take place in Alem

After two days of waiting at the Argentinean customs, the coup de sending of the first date of the South American rally to the cascade of the Costanera de Posadas was launched. The 25 pilots presented their vehicles to the inhabitants of Puebla who came to know the cars that will run this weekend in Alem, Caá Yari, Concepción de las Sierras, Tres Capones and the Apostles.

In his opening address, the president of AMPYNAR "Nacho" Allende stressed the security of the event "we ask people to respect and pay attention to the police. pilots know what we are willing to do when we get in a car, it's a very high-risk sport and these European cars go from 0 to 100 in 4 seconds ", a- he declared.

The last time Misiones hosted the rally of South America, it was in 2012. In the afternoon of yesterday, the drivers have laid out the roadmap and tomorrow will be the first stage of Alem to Caá Yará (21 km) and Caá Yará to Alem. (24 km), where there will be a Super Prime. On Sunday, it will take place in the southern zone of Concepción de las Sierras for 12 km, then in Tres Capones for 16 km and finally on the paths of the apostles. "Saturday is much more technical and Sunday is faster, the heat will play against," said Roberto Saba, a Bolivian driver. There will be 11 Paraguayan, 6 Argentinean, 2 Brazilian and 6 Bolivian teams.

What happened at the customs?

The teams should have arrived in Posadas two days ago, but the customs bureaucracy has detained 15 teams from the other side of the Roque González International Bridge and so boarded the provincial capital last night. "We delayed the sports work that we had to do 42 hours," said Allende.

According to the president of AMPYNAR, a company had been hired to occupy the customs offices. It badumes that the missing documents requested by the Argentine Customs to the Paraguayan and Bolivian pilots were not included in the initial list of requirements.

"Everything was done in advance and at the time we had to miss things," said the Deputy Governor, the Minister of Tourism and Sports and even the President of the Argentino Automobile Club. , thanked Allende.

The Bolivian team of Roberto Saba had three days of travel to reach the border with Encarnación and two more days waiting for the procedures to unlock, the pilot highlighted the actions of AMPYNAR to resolve the conflict. "This has an impact on the weather because we were half-done today in the overhaul of the car and everything is tighter, but it will be a nice rally," he said.

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