He Citroën Rally Team It is consolidated as the team with which the new talents of national motorsports stand out. One more year, the sports structure that Citroën Spain founded in 2019 once again bets on a young promise to continue disputing the top positions of the S-CER (Spanish Rally Super Championship). A unique opportunity in our country, of which he will be a creditor this season Diego Ruilobacurrent champion of the single-brand organized by Stellantis Motorsport between Spain and Portugal. “I am very excited”, confesses the Praviano whose objective is “to ride, do kilometers and try to improve little by little”.
The 22-year-old Asturian driver makes the leap to the Citroën C3 Rally2 that Sports&You manages. A state-of-the-art vehicle, endowed with ideal qualities for the development and training of new talents, with which Citroën Spain won consecutively, between 2019 and 2020, the last two editions of the CERA (Spanish Asphalt Rallies Championship). and the first two of the S-CER (Supercampeonato de España de Rallies). “As the season progresses, we will try to climb positions. Let’s see if for the northern tests we can already be fighting for the top positions“, says Ruiloba.
After taking over from him in the Stellantis Motorsport Iberian championship, Diego Ruiloba takes over from Alejandro Cachón as official driver of the Citroën Rally Team in the S-CER (Spanish Rally Super Championship). The same project with which Citroën Racing’s new World Cup pupil became the great revelation of 2022, winning two victories, the Junior Trophy and third position in the national competition at the end of his first campaign driving the Citroën C3 Rally2.
Diego Ruiloba’s career thus continues to evolve in parallel to that of his countryman Alejandro Cachón (24 years old), whom he initially succeeded as champion of Volan FAPA, the promotional championship of the Asturian federation, also backed by Stellantis Motorsport, with which they began Both the driver from Pravia and the driver from Cangas del Narcea were trained at the controls of a rally car.
All the details of the program that Diego Ruiloba and his new co-driver, Ángel Vela, are going to star in as standard-bearers for the Citroën Rally Team in the S-CER (Spanish Rally Super Championship) 2023, will be announced on Thursday the 16th, during the official presentation that Citroën Spain has organized in Córdoba, where the season will start next week with the 40th Sierra Morena Rally.
