ERC Historic

[Jarek Z]

Latvala won every single stage.

[Andre Oliveira]

Too much dominant.

[focus206]

Latvala is the best driver by far and drives one of the newest cars accepted by the championship - which is AWD vs mostly RWD cars.
Dumas is a good asphalt rally driver but not on Latvala's level, and drives a 70's Porsche. The only other drivers I recognize outside of the Historic championship bubble are Johansson (did few WRC events in the 2005 with private Impreza WRC), Tony Fassina (winner of WRC Sanremo '79 with a private Stratos, he's now 79 years old!).
Then there's Rosenberger and Madeira but they are not eligible because I guess they drive too modern cars (and they were miles behind Latvala anyway).

[dupanton]

There's even a guy with BMW M1 (#42). I have never seen this car in action!
https://www.ewrc-results.com/entries...ta-brava-2025/

That guy has a small collection of cars, and he is driving them all (together with his son):
https://breitt-gallery.com/breitt-ra...res-de-rallye/
https://breitt-gallery.com/breitt-ra...es-de-circuit/
https://breitt-gallery.com/breitt-gallery/show-room/

(not everything is on the website yet)

[tbazsi95]

Jari-Matti Latvala FULL ONBOARD - Toyota Celica Turbo ST185 - Rally Costa Brava 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knBWbKndIyI

[Jarek Z]

That guy has a small collection of cars, and he is driving them all (together with his son):
https://breitt-gallery.com/breitt-ra...res-de-rallye/
https://breitt-gallery.com/breitt-ra...es-de-circuit/
https://breitt-gallery.com/breitt-gallery/show-room/

Wow! Mate, this is beautiful!!!

[Jarek Z]

Speaking of historic cars, two weeks ago I was spectating the second round of European Historic Rally Championship, Vltava Rallye in Czech Republic. On rough and damaged tarmac some of those historic drivers were driving very carefully, but on the hairpin bends in the mountains those cars looked and sounded very good. Unfortunately, there was not much fight, because Latala won all but one stage

Here is my short photo gallery from this event:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/photo/9...llye-2025/473/

[focus206]

Latvala won 5 stages out of 8 at Rallye d'Antibes but then retired on the 9th and final stage for electrical issues, he had 1m 06s gap on the 2nd.

[Sal yet again]

Not sure what joy JML will be getting from this series as obviously head and shoulders above the rest of the field both experience and machinery wise. I think some of the drivers would be better off doing demo events like Eifel Rallye certainly some of the cars with original provenance must be getting too expensive to risk in full competition.

[focus206]

I think he really enjoys driving his Celica, I guess that he still prefers to do timed stages instead of shows like Eifel. Historic ERC doesn't have a high level of competition, but it's still the highest historic rally competition there is, no much choice.
On another note, Jari-Matti never won a title in his career, if I were him (or other top WRC drivers who never won titles, like Hirvonen) I'd also try something like that. I'd rather see him in ERC, but he can't drive his Celica there