Good morning fellow rally fanatics!

I‘m looking for some advice for my visit to the 2027 Arctic Lapland Rally.

Has anyone here already been?

I‘m a seasoned rally spectator and travel all around europe for rallys, but I‘ve never been to finland and never visited a snow rally before, so many firsts and I have a few questions for my planning.

1. What would be the best mode of transport around Rovaniemi? I am planning on renting a car, or would a snowmobile actually be better for the rally? (This question might be ridiculous for finnish people but hey😂)

2. Access to the stages seems to be quite limited, so do you usually park at the start or finish of the stages and just walk on the stage to your spot? I did this alot for Tour de Corse Historique for example, just not sure how relaxed finnish marshalls are about this.

3. With all the snowbanks, how is parking near the stages? Should you come a lot in advance?

These are my main worries for now, hope that someone might shine a light!😅

Greets from Luxembourg!

Hey rally-community, I am Tim (m26) from germany and currently building a Puma Coupe Group G Rally Car (German Rally class for close-to-original cars)

The plan is to start at rallysprints or smaller local rallies. My wife is gonna be my co-driver. (she is the one with the biggest trust in my driving I know and can easily read, while I push though the forests. And she loves rally too)

At the moment I am trying to build my car after the german motorsports regulations. That sadly, is hella expensive. And its only Group G, which is kinda simple, when looking to some faster rally cars.

I am no mechanic, but I do almost everything on my own. The cage gonna be really expensive. Also the bucket seats with their mounting consoles. I am speeking about 4-5k€ (incl. the motorsports verification through engineers). And that only to allow that car, to participate. Not even the starting price or my licence.

Now I am planning to look for financial support. How do i really find sponsors?

I cant imagine, that if I walk up to our local Ford seller, that he will give me some money to print his ads onto my rally car. I am a total nobody in motorsport (besides 5 years of Simracing and Simrace-commentary) How do I start logically? Or is everthing on my own bank account?

Conductores, fans o copilotos de Rally: ¿cuál es su experiencia honestamente horrible, o en qué se han encontrado que haya salido mal? ¿Cuál a sido en cambio la mejor experiencia?

Curiosidad, supongo

I can get a 3k Subaru or something and build it up but for stage rally, I don't know anyone who is or would be a co driver. How did you get started? I could do rallycross that's not bad but I prefer stage. Could I just do recce by myself and trust my own instincts? Lol. I have no delusions of championships or anything, just have fun

I know FIA's and ARA's rulebooks are very different so I don't expect to see an 03 WRX with a home build cage out there but it would be rad to see a US based team out there in some way. Are we going to see Subaru/VSC on stage? Even as exhibition? Would Block or Quintero be able to run their ARA cars?

From this weekend

First time on gravel in 19 years, so just getting comfortable.

1997 Mitsubishi Pajero Evolution in Ralliart livery

1994 Toyota Celica GT-4 WRC - well built out running 380hp @20psi

Threw in my wife’s ‘21 Lexus RC-F Fuji-speedway for fun.

Truly an incredible sound, like a symphony of savagery

https://playrallyclub.app/

https://discord.gg/kax74AkUeg

We have launched Rally Club, a real time rally cross and rally game, daily rallies which are different every single day. Want to compete with set stages join the championship or enter Rally Cross for some real-time ranked racing! Maybe you just want to relax and do single player career mode! You can use Controller or keyboard!

The Audi Sport Quattro was not the first All wheel drive,in rallying before that a little Jeep was here. the videos is available in 8 subtitles diferrent !

Hi everyone!
I made a vlog about the final round of the World Rally Championship in Sardinia!
Available with English and German subtitles.
Thanks for watching!

I figured I'd share this interesting article after Elfyn's recent test with the 2027 car in which he shared his thoughts about the new car.

Basically to sum it up he mentions:

\- the obvious difference in power

\- he says it's very different from a Rally2 car (which he also says he doesn't have a lot of experience with)

\- he says new cars are 70% cheaper than previous cars (as expected)

\- he says new car has made large improvements since his last test in April

Most interestingly to me, he talks about the new cars being quite tricky to handle at high speeds due to lack of aero compared to the previous cars which were more stable. He says he thinks drivers might experience "some surprises" during jumps and in very high speed sections next year - Let's hope the safety cell continues to provide the safety necessary for any offs so noone will get hurt.

https://web.archive.org/web/20001008051917/http://www.spike.co.jp/the-rally/index.html