Car presentation 2024

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This Quattro A2 is part of the huge Audi Tradition collection and is usually at home in Audi’s museum in Ingolstadt. But it will be activated for the 2014 Eifel Rallye Festival and – as in 1984 – driven by Swedish rally ace, Stig Blomqvist. Mehr >

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Frans Verbass made this Opel Astra in 1996 with parts from Opel Spain, Sydney Meeke, Vauxhall Sport and Brian Ashwood and it is a full works spec car with a Swindon engine and X-trac gearbox. He was also Dutch Rally Sprint Champions in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001. For 2023 the Astra was fully restored and changed to the colour that Freddy Loix drove in 1995. Mehr >

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This Ford is a factory car (chassis #9) built by M-Sport and managed by M.L.P. It is the first WRC built by M-Sport and not a "rebuilt" Group A as the first Chassis 1-6 were. The car appears in the livery of the 1997 San Remo Rally where the team unfortunately retired due to gearbox failure. Over the last 3 years the car has been extensively restored and is now to "active" factory standard with X-Trac sequential gearbox and active front and centre differentials and has a large 378mm Brembo front brake. Mehr >

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After the Acropolis Rally in 2009 this Ford was rebuilt by Paul Bird Motorsport to compete in Catalunya as part of the Stobart Ford Team and has competed since in 74 rallies with 23 outright wins and a further 20 podium finishes. In 2019 Frank Bird took over the driving seat and added another 10 overall wins to its record. In 2023 the Bird family decided to sell the car to Darrell Taylor who will bring it to slowly sideways events from than on. Mehr >

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As a true motorsport enthusiast Jan did a lot of circuit driving before he was introduced into the rally world by GP Elite. He did many events and driving course on tarmac, gravel and snow all across Europe. When in April 2021 this Ex-McRae Subaru Impreza come up for sale, it was a quick decision. With this car comes a great piece of history back onto the rally stages. Mehr >

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Thomas Schöfer has turned this Porsche 924 Carrera GT from a standard road car to a rally car by himself. He choose this Porsche for two reasons: Thomas wanted to have a car of the pre-Group B era, and he wanted a car with turbocharging since he is involved in the development of turbochargers in his regular job. Although the choice was limited – most cars of that era were normally aspirated – Thomas Schöfer found a car meeting both requirements, and this was the 924. Mehr >

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Erich Müller had always been a big fan of Peugeot’s rally history. He started his collection with a self-made copy of a 205 T16 E2, later he also got to know Marcus Grönholm. Therefore, the next Peugeot rally car had to be a Grönholm car. When one of the cars of the former World Champion was on offer, Erich Müller did not hesitate and bought the original car from Rally Argentina in 2000. As he is also a Panizzi fan, third in line was a Peugeot of Herve and Gilles. Mehr >

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This 306 Maxi was a customer car with chassis number 85 in 2004 and first drove numerous rallies in France with Philippe Gomez. Until 2015 it was on the road there with changing drivers before Stefan Malter brought it to Germany in 2017 and gave it the factory livery from 1997. Mehr >

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This Renault was acquired in the late 90s as a normal road car and then converted into a group A rally car. After taking part in some competitions in his home country, Robin Meeuwsen had to give up this hobby for health reasons and initially devoted himself to a completely different hobby, namely sled dog racing. Then he visited the Eifel Rallye Festival several times and decided to make his 21 Turbo a copy of the works car that Philippe Bugalski drove in Corsica in 1988. Mehr >

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Christian Klein bought this R5 Turbo in 2013 when it was still in the French Rally Group F configuration, but had not been raced for years and was not in good condition. He completely rebuilt it from the bare bodyshell to bring it back to the Group B configuration of the DIAC Chatriot version with the prospect of competing in Slowly Sideways rallies. Mehr >