Participants will depart from Place du Champ de Mars in Valence, which will host the 27th edition of the event from February 1st to 5th.
Competitors will arrive in the Drôme in the afternoon of January 31st, and the first special stages will begin the next day at 7:30 AM.
Vehicles from the period between 1911 and 1983 will be allowed, navigating the curves of the Vercors passes throughout the day. The stage will include four regularity tests: Col Gaudissart/La Cime du Mas (SR1), Les Nonnières/Chichilianne (SR2), La Piarre/Valdrôme (SR3), and La Motte-Chalancon/Saint Nazaire-le-Désert (SR4).
After crossing the regions of Dauphiné, Hautes-Alpes, and Drôme Provençale, participants will return to Valence for the overnight stop.
The following three days will be dedicated to the special stages of the joint event. On Sunday, drivers will venture into Ardèche with four special stages, including two new ones between Saint-Julien-du-Gua and Col des Quatre Vios (SR5) and Saint-Bonnet-le-Froid/Vanosc (SR7).