Which country has the most (non-WRC) rallies each year?

[DR1665]

First post, although I'm something of a lurker. WRC brought me to rally, but meeting local clubman level rallyistas has made the sport that much more exciting. (Well, that, and there aren't ANY WRC events in my country.)

I was just curious if anyone knew how many rallies were in various countries. Like how many rallies in Germany or Ireland or France. Thought it might be interesting to know which country is the most hooked on this wonderful sport.

Thanks!

[Tsjoen]

In Belgium (Calender championship 2010)

Haspengouw Rally (Landen)
T.A.C. Rally (Tielt)
Rallye de Wallonie (Namur)
Sezeons Rally (Bocholt)
Ypers Westouhk Rally (Ypres)
Omloop van Vlanderen (Roulers)
East Belgium Rally (sankt vith)
Condroz Rally (Huy)

[VFTS]

I have no figures on that, but normally it is the biggest countries that have most rallies.

In Europe I will guess France, Italy, Spain , Germany and Great Britain.

[Mirek]

For sure Italy, it's approximately 100 official events per year.

[Tsjoen]

in France (Asphalt)


Rallye du Touquet
Lyon-Charbonnières
Region Limousin
Midi Pyrenées
Mont Blanc
Critérium des Cevennes
Var

=>7 Rounds

No Alscace-Vosges in 2010

[MartijnS]

Belgium also has a lot of rallies and rallysprints. About 60 in total I think.

[Wim_Impreza]

Here are all the German events this year with the most important Austrian rallies too:
http://www.rallye-magazin.de/forum/showthread.php?t=13798

Note: PRS Havellandrallye Berlin-Brandenburg was cancelled.

[Steve Boyd]

According to the last annual report (2009) of the Motor Sports Association in the UK they issued 8993 rally licences to competitors & 922 rally event permits in 2008. Those figures will include every type of rally from Rally GB down to small local club events and will also cover events running on normal open public roads as well as special stage rallies.

[Boris Ivanov]

In Bulgaria we have rally championship, hillclimb championship and something like touring car championship... We call it "track" (with rally cars on some junction in several citys).

We have 7 rallys (this year rally Bulgaria will be a WRC round), 9 hillclimbs and 8 "tracks".

We have autocross and rallycross championship too.

[urabus-denoS2000]

Italy , 200 rallys per year

[Jarek Z]

In Poland, each year we have about 8 Polish championship rounds and about 10-12 Polish Cup rounds (a kind of second league championship). Apart from that, a lot of smaller local rally events are held.

[DR1665]

Crikey! That's a LOT of rallies. I think we might have 20-30 in the States these days. :(

In your respective countries, how many events do you enter a year? Does having so many events mean organisers have to fight for entries or are there so many events because there are so many people who want to rally?

[Barreis]

Italy , 200 rallys per year

I agree..

[eloyf1]

If I haven't done mistakes, this year we should have 220 rallyes or rallysprints in Spain...

That said, we have around 20 regional or provincial championships...

[Luis Pacheco]

And I thought that in Portugal there are too many official rallyes... Almost 60 this year.

[JRodrigues]

And I thought that in Portugal there are too many official rallyes... Almost 60 this year.

But we don't have those kind of rallysprints.

[Jarek Z]

And I thought that in Portugal there are too many official rallyes... Almost 60 this year.

And still your main championship suffers from bad entry lists :(

[Hartusvuori]

In Finland there are around 50-60 rally events a year, including championship events, F Cup, Historic Rally Trophy and others. Championship events are the only ones with recce (+ NORF of course), others are blind rallies. This is an estimation by the head organisation AKK. I think I could count the correct number somewhere.

On top of this there are also around the same number of rallysprint events also.

[Hartusvuori]

In Finland there are around 50-60 rally events a year, including championship events, F Cup, Historic Rally Trophy and others. Championship events are the only ones with recce (+ NORF of course), others are blind rallies. This is an estimation by the head organisation AKK. I think I could count the correct number somewhere.

On top of this there are also around the same number of rallysprint events also.

As counted from the AKK's system there isn't more than 39 rallies this year and few more rallisprints. I don't how accurate that is, but it shows the average number at least. I think there could be few more, like smaller club races, that aren't mentioned there.

It should also be mentioned that there are no rallies organised in November and December or in late March and April due to weather conditions on gravel roads - they are either not frozen yet or melting which makes them too loose to drive at places, let alone to organize a rally.

[Steve Boyd]

Crikey! That's a LOT of rallies. I think we might have 20-30 in the States these days. :(

In your respective countries, how many events do you enter a year? Does having so many events mean organisers have to fight for entries or are there so many events because there are so many people who want to rally?
In the UK there is competition for entires. I can remember when there were more rallies than are now and when events used to run full entry lists (120 to 180 cars depending on the event) with a reserve list. These days very few events have over 100 starters so organisers have started running multiple events. For example the next round of the British Rally Championship, the Pirelli International Rally, will run over 12 stages totalling 100 miles. Sharing part of the route will be the Pirelli Historic Rally (MSA Historic Championship, 6 stages), Pirelli Tour of Cumbria (MSA National Gravel Championship, 9 stages) and the Pirelli Challenge Rally (BRC Challenge, 6 stages). There will also be a separate event over the full distance for Land Rovers (mostly armed forces), giving a total of five events requiring five MSA rally permits. The event web site (http://www.pirelliinternationalrally.co.uk/2010/) curently shows 33 International entries, 54 Historic, 15 Tour of Cumbria and 16 Challenge. The list for the Land Rovers hasn't been posted but I would expect 6 to 8 of them giving about 125 entries over the five events.

On your second point, I don't compete but I'm on the organisation committee as Results Officer for Rally Isle of Man (http://www.mir.co.im) and assisted with the results service at 16 other meetings last year. The Pirelli will by my 5th meeting this year so far.