Meeke quickest in Canarias shakedown

Kris Meeke has set the fastest time during shakedown for Rally Islas Canarias, round four of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge.

The Peugeot UK driver set a time of 1m27.7s over the 2.3-kilometre practice stage on the last of his five permitted runs. “It went fine, no problem at all,” said Meeke’s co-driver Paul Nagle.

Jan Kopecký beat Škoda Motorsport team-mate Juho Hänninen for the runner-up spot by one-tenth of a second with a best of 1m28.7s. Peugeot Portugal’s Bruno Magalhães equalled Hänninen’s time with Spain’s Sergio Vallejo fifth quickest in his Ford Fiesta S2000.

Guy Wilks could only manage the sixth fastest time in his Škoda UK Motorsport-run Fabia but spent the session fine-tuning his car’s set-up rather than chasing times. He was unable to take part in Monday’s pre-event test due to delays transporting various components to Gran Canaria.

Top seven shakedown times

1 Kris Meeke 1m27.7s
2 Jan Kopecký 1m28.7s
3 Juho Hänninen 1m28.8s
4 Bruno Magalhães 1m28.8s
5 Sergio Vallejo 1m29.9s
6 Guy Wilks 1m30.0s
7 Thierry Neuville 1m30.0s