The three-day challenge, designed to test the range and performance of some 100 alternative-fuel vehicles, will be taken for Tesla by Rudi Tuisk, Tesla’s Australia general manager and former chief European technician and former Formula One driver Erik Comas.
"It’s a great honor to be participating something that has deep historical roots yet is simultaneously pushing the rally culture into the future,” Tuisk said at the starting point of the race, in Annecy-le-Vieux, France.
The record Tesla set last year in the competition involved an electric blue Roadster who traveled 387 kilometers from Valence, France and finished the race with 61 kilometers of remaining range. This record was later shattered by Simon Hackett, who drove his Roadster for 501 km on a single charge.
The legs of the rally are as follows:
- Thursday March 25: scrutineering at Lugano (Switzerland), Clermont- Ferrand (France), and Annecy-le-Vieux (France)
- Friday March 26: Start of the Concentration leg from Lugano (Switzerland), Clermont-Ferrand (France), and Annecy-le-Vieux (France).
- Saturday March 27: start of the Valence-Monaco Common leg consisting of two regularity challenges: Bourdeaux – Sahune and St Andre de Rosans – Eyguians.
- Sunday March 28: Spelugues Super Special from 10h00. Closing lunch and awards at 12h00.
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