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

**Jarek Z** · 10th April 2010, 11:32

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** · 12th April 2010, 17:01

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** · 12th April 2010, 17:38

Originally Posted by urabus-denoS2000

Italy , 200 rallys per year

I agree..

**eloyf1** · 12th April 2010, 17:46

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** · 12th April 2010, 18:40

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

**JRodrigues** · 12th April 2010, 19:31

Originally Posted by Luis Pacheco

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** · 12th April 2010, 21:21

Originally Posted by Luis Pacheco

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** · 12th April 2010, 22:20

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** · 13th April 2010, 14:24

Originally Posted by 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** · 13th April 2010, 16:57

Originally Posted by 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?

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.