The European Rally Championship 2024 is the 72nd season of the FIA European Rally Championship, the European continental rally championship series. The season consisting of 8 stages, offers a variety of routes that will put drivers and their cars to the test.
Rally Hungary will be the opening event of 2024 ERC season, promoted by the HUMDA Hungarian Mobility Development Agency, a member of the Széchenyi University Group. The Hungarian European Championship race, which is now on the calendar for the fifth time and the third time with the support of the Agency, will be held on 12-14 April in and around Veszprém, on gravel stages. The Rally European Champion will be crowned on the basis of the results of three events on gravel and five on asphalt.
The second round of the FIA European Rally Championship includes a total of 13 special stages between May 2 and 4. One of the great novelties is in the start ceremony, which is moved to Wednesday, May 1 and changes its location without leaving Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
In total, the teams competing in the 48 Rally Islas Canarias will have a total of 193.12 timed kilometers ahead of them out of a total of 617.68, the equivalent of 31.3%.
One of the novelties of this edition is found in the departure ceremony. Not only does it go ahead one day, but it returns to a central location in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and with an undoubted link to the event.
On the night of Wednesday, May 1, José Mesa y López Avenue will once again host, after many decades, the competition caravan of the Rally Islas Canarias. Without a doubt, one more way to bring the motorshow closer to all fans.
The 2024 ERC Royal Rally of Scandinavia is a thrilling motorsport spectacle captivating audiences across Europe. It takes place amidst the picturesque landscapes of Scandinavia, featuring a grueling route that tests the skills and endurance of drivers. Top-tier rally teams from around the world showcase their prowess, battling treacherous terrain and unpredictable weather conditions. Spectators are treated to heart-pounding moments as drivers maneuver through forests, icy tracks, and challenging tarmac roads. The event celebrates the rich rallying heritage of the region while pushing the boundaries of automotive technology and driver capabilities.
Super-fast stages, smooth and, in places, technical gravel roads, with numerous jumps and crests, demand pin-point pace note accuracy. At such speed there is no room for error. If a driver does make a mistake, the pace is so high that it is extremely difficult to regain those vital dropped seconds.
The progression of this asphalt event from Max Rendina’s Motorsport Italia organisation, is impressive. Having first run in 2013, Rally di Roma Capitale made its ERC debut in 2017 as Italy returned to the European championship for the first time since 2013 when Rallye Sanremo was on the calendar. It proved a big hit and continues to flourish. While COVID-19 restrictions meant no visit to Ostia for the seaside superspecial in 2019, the popular stages around Pico to the far south east of event hub Fiuggi remained. By also counting as an Italian championship round, local participation is often strong.
Ever-present on the ERC schedule since the championship’s streamlining in 2004, Barum Czech Rally Zlín is based in the South Moravian university city, 300 kilometres south of the Czech capital Prague. It is a Tarmac test like no other due to the bumpy and sometimes broken nature of the road surface. To add to the challenge, several stages feature high-speed blasts through forests and intermittent showers are always possible. While the weather might be hard to predict, huge numbers of fans follow the action, especially on the opening night-time Zlín superspecial stage. The long-term ERC rally turns 50 in 2021.
The 2023 event, won by Osian Pryce and Stephane Prevot, was a huge success – attracting tens of thousands of rally fans and generating over £3 million of economic benefits to the local hospitality and tourism sectors across Aberystwyth and Ceredigion.
This year’s event is set to deliver even more as it steps up to become the UK’s round of the FIA European Rally Championship, attracting some of the world’s most aspiring rally drivers and delivering a significant global media coverage with all the action broadcast live in partnership with WRC Promoter.
Rally Silesia, a new stage included in ERC 2024 starting in Katowice, will take place on asphalt roads full of speed.
A challenging route that will test ERC drivers.
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Hayden Paddon (born 20 April 1987) is a New Zealand rally driver. He was PWRC world champion in 2011 and won the New Zealand Rally Championship in 2008, 2009, 2013, 2018 and 2021.
In 2007 he made his World Rally Championship debut competing in the Production World Rally Championship category at his home event in New Zealand as a wildcard entry.
Paddon’s 2011 PWRC season proved to be a breakthrough as he took 1st place in four rallies consecutively: Portugal, Argentina, Finland and Australia, where he became 2011 P-WRC Champion.
The 2012 season saw Paddon move to the S-WRC championship in a Škoda Fabia S2000.
2014 saw Paddon’s first stage win in the World Rally Championship during the Rally Catalunya in Spain.
In 2015, Paddon took his first ever lead of a WRC event in the Rally d’Italia.
In 2016, on the 4th round, the YPF Rally Argentina, Paddon took his – and New Zealand’s – first WRC win by 13.3 seconds from Sébastien Ogier.
In March 2022, Hayden Paddon teamed up with Hyundai New Zealand to enter a car into WRC2.
In 2023 Hayden Paddon will compete in the ERC championship in a car run by BRC Racing Team.
John Kennard (born 11 February 1959) is a rally co-driver born in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Kennard has been a co-driver to numerous drivers, the most notable being Hayden Paddon at Hyundai motorsport. They had their first win at Rally Argentina in 2016. In the 2023 Kennard will be Hayden Paddon’s co-driver.
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