Location: Islas Canarias, Spain, Atlantic Ocean Western by Morocco.

Surface: Asphalt
Last Winner of Rally Islas Canarias 2011: Juho Hanninen

In the shakedown today with the best time is Andreas Mikkelsen (1.26:9 min) second is Jan Kopecký with +0.5 sec and third is Sepp Wiegand with +1.2 seconds slower than Andreas.
In the two days rally is schedule all 15 stages in total rally length of 240.92 km, 519 km liason, and total length of 760 km, with 31.7% rally length.
The longest stage is in day 1 Artenara 1 and 2 with length of 24.67 km.
The big pretenders for the rally are Andreas Mikkelsen and Jan Kopecky.