Chile is coming close to becoming the second WRC event in South America alongside Argentina, with an expected debut in 2019. It will run a candidate event a week before next year's Rally Argentina and is close to agreeing terms for a full-scale world championship round. The decision as to whether it becomes the 14th round will be made by the WRC promoter and the FIA. WRCP chief Oliver Ciesla said that such an event, based in the city of Concepcion, would likely be popular with WRC drivers. 'We are very close to an agreement,” he said this week. “It would be a forest-based rally with really nice, smooth roads, with stages going from sea level up to 6,000 ft in the...
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