The FIA has confirmed that Córdoba will stage a World Rally Championship candidate event in March 2027, creating a formal assessment route for Rally Argentina to rejoin the championship from 2028.
The three-day event will run as part of the FIA CODASUR Rally Championship. FIA delegates will evaluate sporting operations, safety and medical arrangements, infrastructure, stages and service-park delivery against World Championship requirements.
A successful candidate rally would make the event eligible for World Motor Sport Council confirmation and subsequent inclusion in the WRC calendar. MRI is therefore treating 2028 as the target created by the agreement, not as an unconditional calendar entry before the assessment and approval process is complete.
WRC Promoter says it has reached a multi-year agreement with the Government of Córdoba. The promoter and FIA also describe plans for a WRC Arena around Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes, combining the service park with a spectator area, while route development is considering the return of stages including El Cóndor.
Those plans create a delivery programme for the local organiser, venue contractors, safety and medical providers, temporary-infrastructure suppliers, freight operators, hospitality businesses and regional tourism partners. Neither official announcement identifies suppliers, tenders, promoter fees, public investment, event budgets or the final commercial-rights structure.
The FIA says the candidate event will be used to identify any further development required. That distinction matters because infrastructure concepts and a multi-year commitment do not remove the sporting and operational conditions that must be met before a World Championship round can be confirmed.
Rally Argentina last appeared in the WRC in 2019. The proposed return follows the championship's planned expansion into the United States, United Kingdom and Italy in 2027, but the official releases do not yet provide the final 2028 calendar, rally dates, route length, service-park capacity or spectator forecasts.
MRI compared the FIA and WRC canonical URLs, Rally Argentina, Córdoba, the Automóvil Club Argentino, WRC Promoter, the March 2027 candidate event and the 12 November announcement date against existing coverage. MRI's articles on Rally US, WRC commercial rights and the 2027 championship structure concern different agreements and events.
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