Clerk of the course Jürgen Krabbenhöft has been on a visit to Gran Canaria in mid-October and made contacts there eagerly. So he met, among others, Citroen pilot Jonathan Suárez Saavedra, one of the quickest local rally drivers. Suárez came in fifth place in group A C2 with more than 90 starters at the 47th edition of the rally “Isla de Gran Canaria” at the end of May last year and left behind some more potent vehicle. Now Suárez along with sponsors from the island works on a plan to shift crew and vehicles cheaply to Northern Germany to participate in the ADAC Wikinger Rallye.

Later on Krabbenhöft visited a hill climb in San Miguel on the neighbouring island of Tenerife. More than 5.000 spectators followed the action on an approximately 5 km long and extremely challenging route. Of course “el Jefe” drummed up business for his own event here as well.
Certainly football is the first sport on the Canary Islands and in the rest of Spain. But also motorsport has a top-ranking in Spain and especially on the Canary Islands. That was made obvious not only by the huge number of spectators at the hill climb in San Miguel de Abona, but also by the interest of a television programme at Radio-Television Insular.

After editor Fidel Hernández had found out that a rally official from Germany was visiting the island he invited him directly to his show “La voz de la cantera”. In the quite warm television studio interpreter Willi Petersen provided for a good mutual understanding during the 20-minute interview. Still, just a person with perfect knowledge of Spanish can answer the question, whether the entire interview was understandable.
Anyway, the atmosphere among each other was top! According to accounts received there are already several queries for a further cooperation.

Here is the video of the TV show (60,2 MB):