The new Citroen rally car, prepared by Team Procar of Pistoia, will race for the first time in the Rallye Sanremo driven by Rudy Michelini, with codriver Nicholas Angilletta.

"We are very proud to be able to debut the first race of the new rally car from Citroen" said Paolo Sabattini, Team Manager of Procar Motorsport – “Of course the new R5 has not yet seen action we see this race as a "test," durinh which we will try to collect as much information as possible to share with Citroen Racing

"We expect to achieve a competitive level and put Rudy in a position to get good results”.