Rally Chile organizer earns suspended €15,000 fantastic – DirtFish

The Rally Chile organizer has been given a suspended €15,000 fantastic and reprimanded for a security breach involving a automobile driving via stage seven within the mistaken route.

On Saturday’s opening stage an “unauthorized car” entered SS7 by way of the flying end, passing “through a police control and the stop control” per a Rally Chile stewards’ report.

The FIA medical delegate automotive met the unauthorized automobile whereas passing via the stage roughly 40 minutes earlier than the stage begin, “almost causing a collision” in doing so. Special stage entry closes 90 minutes previous to the primary automotive’s begin time.

Stewards flagged the shortage of communication to Rally HQ that the automotive had entered the stage when not permitted to take action, with the primary report of the unauthorized automotive coming from the FIA medical delegate’s automotive after its close to miss.

“The clerk of the course admitted that there was a lack of communication and apologized for the incident that occurred,” said the stewards’ report.

In addition to a suspended fantastic and reprimand, the rally stewards warned a repeat would result in the rally being dropped at a halt and never resumed.

The stewards’ report learn: “The stewards, under the authority delegated to them through Article 11.9.3.r of the 2025 FIA International Sporting Code, will immediately and permanently stop the competition should another safety issue arise during the remainder of Rally Chile BioBio 2025.”

Four phases stay of Rally Chile 2025 with solely Sunday’s leg to go.