Bouffier starts first on the road in Canarias

Intercontinental Rally Challenge leader Bryan Bouffier will start first on the road on the opening day of Rally Islas Canarias El Corte Inglés.

Driving a Peugeot France 207 Super 2000 alongside navigator Xavier Panseri, the Rallye Monte-Carlo winner will head off from the service park in Las Palmas for the opening stage at 13:00hrs local time.

With drivers starting according to their official FIA priority seeding, Bouffier, an A priority driver, heads defending IRC champion and FIA B seed Juho Hänninen in a Škoda Fabia S2000. Four-time IRC event winner Giandomenico Basso starts third on the road in his PROTON Satria Neo S2000.

Crews star in one-minute intervals. The top 10 starting positions are as follows:

1 Bryan Bouffier/Xavier Panseri (Peugeot 207 S2000)
2 Juho Hänninen/Mikko Markkula (Škoda Fabia S2000)
3 Giandomenico Basso/Mitia Dotta (PROTON Satria Neo S2000)
4 Andreas Mikkelsen/Ola Fløene (Škoda Fabia S2000)
5 PG Andersson/Emil Axelsson (PROTON Satria Neo S2000)
6 Freddy Loix/Frédéric Miclotte (Škoda Fabia S2000)
7 Guy Wilks/Phil Pugh (Peugeot 207 S2000)
8 Jan Kopecký/Petr Starý (Škoda Fabia S2000)
9 Toni Gardemeister/Tapio Suominen (Škoda Fabia S2000)
10 Thierry Neuville/Nicolas Gilsoul (Peugeot 207 S2000)