Event Highlights

The rally starts with an interesting day of Regularities and Tests in Flanders over some well-rallied roads. Along the way there will be many poignant reminders of the battles fought between 1914 and 1918. From there it’s on to Spa, another famous rally – and race – town for yet more competitive sections.

The next few days see us enter Germany and drive through the Eifel with its wonderful winding roads and lush vegetation. Then, onwards through the former East Germany, where away from the main cities, one could often imagine being in the 1960s, before arriving in the Czech capital Prague for our first rest day.

Fully refreshed, we head southeast through the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary and Romania – four countries in five days. Rallying is a popular sport in these parts and we are relying on local enthusiasts for some excellent and varied Tests and Regularities. Our final rest day is in the Romanian capital Bucharest where the world’s largest parliamentary building, constructed in the 1980s by former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, will be hard to miss.

From Bucharest we head east and spend a night on the shores of the Black Sea, before heading back into the mountains around one of Bulgaria’s major wine centres, Plovdiv.

The final frontier on the event takes us into Turkey, where we will stay near the narrow straits of the Dardanelles. Finally, we skirt the coast of the sea of Marmara before arriving in Istanbul and our luxury hotel overlooking the Bosphorus, the gateway to Asia.

We hope you can join us!