World champion Neuville joins WRC stars for Monza Rally Show

Newly topped world rally champion Thierry Neuville will headline a number of World Rally Championship stars set to compete on the Monza Rally Present subsequent month.

The occasion has returned this 12 months to rejoice Pirelli’s four-year stint because the WRC’s sole tyre provider with the championship set to welcome South Korean tyre manufacturer Hankook to offer its management tyre from subsequent season.

Occasion organisers have confirmed that Neuville, who lifted a maiden WRC title finally weekend’s Rally Japan season finale, will pilot a Hyundai i20 N Rally1 automotive.

Neuville will likely be joined on the 5-8 December occasion by two-time WRC champion Kalle Rovanpera, eight-time title winner Sebastien Ogier, M-Sport-Ford’s Adrien Fourmaux (piloting a Ford Puma Rally1), Hyundai driver Dani Sordo and newly topped WRC2 champion and Toyota Rally1 signing Sami Pajari.

Toyota crew principal Jari-Matti Latvala can also be set to be in motion throughout the weekend.

The WRC drivers will take turns over the three days to deal with the Monza Rally Present course with friends within the passenger seat. Then, on Sunday, Neuville, Ogier, (Pajari in a Rally2 automotive), Sordo and Fourmaux will compete within the Masters’ Present on the primary straight.

The Monza Rally Present will get below method with the shakedown on the Friday. The programme options 9 particular levels, protecting a complete of 154.38 timed kilometres.

“We’re delighted to convey the World Rally Championship again to Monza, which we take into account our house,” stated Terenzio Testoni, Pirelli Rally exercise supervisor.

“For us, it will likely be a possibility to look again at our time as sole provider to the WRC, 4 profitable years, throughout which we discovered a terrific deal.

“It is going to even be the event to say goodbye to the world championship whereas reiterating that rallying remains to be an necessary exercise for us.”

The occasion started in 1978 and has largely been held yearly attracting a few of rallying’s largest names. Nevertheless, MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi is the occasion’s most profitable driver recording seven wins.

Monza has beforehand hosted the ultimate spherical of the WRC through the COVID-19-affected 2020 and 2021 seasons. Toyota’s Ogier gained each editions to safe his seventh and eighth WRC titles.