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Press-/media accreditation

The Press-/media accreditation is available now. You can find the necessary informations under http://www.eifel-rallye-festival.de/en/Accreditation-Info.html

The Beetles are coming!

This spring, the Klein family from Cologne/Germany faced the usual “problem”. Once the entry list for the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival (July 24-26, 2014) had opened, entries kept coming in via all possible means including e-mail, fax and regular mail. Reinhard Klein, the head of the Slowly Sideways group, was busy with his inbox, commented: “We have received 200 entries but can only allow 150 cars, thus we had to sort the various entries. In order to achieve our goal and reach a maximum variety of cars, we have only accepted one identically-liveried example of a particular model but we have still reached 120 participants easily.”

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Flyer of the Eifel Rallye Festival 2014 (Update)

Highlights 2014

  • The legendary Walter Röhrl as patron of the event

  • Participants from 12 countries worldwide

  • Vehicles from at least 30 manufacturers and 5 decades of rallying history

  • Open air cinema showing rally films from H. Deimel

  • Including all-gravel Bosch Super Stage

The idea – unique in Europe

  • Living rally history

  • A chance to see the cars that made the history of rallying: from the two-stroke Saab and Trabant up
    to the wild Group B supercars

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Belga Escort model car set

Last year our Belgian friends came with no less than 3 Belga Ford Escorts to our Eifel Rallye Festival und they made a truly great show, especially our VIP guest driver Robert Droogmans. The Belga trio is also available as a model car set in scale 1:43 and with the original decals from the 2013 Eifel Rallye Festival. As you can see, the background picture shows the three cars during a photo shoot on the Daun airfield.

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ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival 2014 – Stand back !

The entry list is officially open from today – Saturday, February 15th – and the organisers of the Eifel Rallye Festival are expecting to be overwhelmed by a flood of entries. They can accept 150 historic rally cars for their three-day demonstration event but the list is always over-subscribed and will fill up long before the event is held on the last weekend of July.

The message for owners of cars who want to participate in this year’s Eifel Rallye Festival is clear – get moving and get in the queue or you might just be unlucky !

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Entry list opened

The entry list to the Eifel Rallye Festival 2014 has been opened. The entry form and entry form to the service park are available in the download area. The registration to the service park is to be submitted with the entry form.

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A date for your diary – an event for the calendar

It has been announced that the date for the 2014 edition of the Eifel Rallye Festival will be July 24th/26th.
In 2013, more than 40,000 fans came from all parts of Europe to watch one hundred and fifty historic rally cars tackle two days of classic stages just south of the Nürburgring and at the same time celebrate the fortieth birthday of the World Rally Championship. The Eifel Rally Festival is not, however, a competition since the cars and crews drive the stages untimed merely to demonstrate the sights and sounds of rallying as it was in years past.

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Eifel Rallye Festival 2013 DVD

This DVD of the 2013 Eifel Rallye Festival comes back on the event with action videos, as well as presentations of famous cars, great onboard footages, and captivating interviews with the stars of rallying like Walter Röhrl, Stig Blomqvist and Björn Waldegård.

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Eifel Rallye Festival - Special exhibition of Automotive Tradition

The special exhibition of Automotive Tradition, the “Bosch Fotogruppe” and the “Bosch Oldtimerschraubern” at the Bosch headquarters in Stuttgart is coming to an end and will soon move to Abstatt. The theme of the exhibition is the connection between emotions and Bosch recreational activities.

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Eifel Rallye Festival 2014

The organizers of the Eifel Rallye Festival are pleased to announce that the Eifel Rallye Festival in 2014 will be continued.

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Spectator Voting 2013 – The winners

The winners of th spectator voting 2013 have been found. The organising team of the Eifel Rallye Festival would like to thank all participants in this spectator voting and we send our congratulations to the winners. We look forward to welcoming you back next year and wish you a lot of fun with the prizes.

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Photographic Competition - The winners are selected

729 pictures taken by 192 photographers from ten different countries, the photographic competition held in conjunction with the 2013 Eifel Rallye Festival was once again a huge success. But it was not just the quantity of entries that enthused the head judge of the competition, famous rally photographer Reinhard Klein, but also the quality and variety of the pictures submitted. "The fans have captured the action and the spirit of the Eifel Rallye Festival on really brilliant photographs. I am especially impressed how good the pictures of the 'amateur' photographs that do not have a press ticket are. In the end, we had selected around 15 images which were all good enough for a trophy. Thus it was really hard to pick the very best ones. And since there were so many great 'photoshopped' images, we decided to creat another prize for the best 'photo art' picture."

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A blazing success!

Good weather combined with an entry of over 160 cars and a dozen star drivers from all over Europe saw the attendance levels at the Eifel Rallye Festival soar well above the 40,000 mark attained in 2012.

For all those involved, it was good to see that everyone from spectators and car owners to organisers and sponsors fully enjoyed the event. Typical comments were:

Peter Schlömer, chief organizer: “Our new shakedown location was a huge success. One of the participants even said that this special stage, ‘Mantaloch’, came up to WRC standard. And we also had more spectators there than ever before on a Thursday as there were over 6,000 people present. The innovation of a long midday break on Saturday also gave the fans enough time to visit the Rally Mile in Daun and talk to drivers and get autographs.”

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Greatest Car of the Eifel Rallye Festival – a triumph for Triumph

Spectators of the Eifel Rallye Festival could vote for the greatest car of the event on the basis of stars. All in all, nearly 10,000 stars were “collected” by the 160+ historic rally cars during the last few days and there was a real “shower of stars” for the winning car, the Triumph TR7 V8 of Rob de Vos/Marcel Benning taking part with start number 103 with its unique eight-cylinder sound. Second place went to the exotic Safari-style Volvo PV544 driven by Ralf Kleinemenke/Hans-Bernd Böing (#17) while third place was taken by the beautiful Lancia Stratos of Claus Aulenbacher and Andreas Mirow (#76) in the legendary Alitalia colours.

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Eifel Rallye Festival 2013 - Video from the Shakedown

The official video from the shakedown of the Eifel Rallye Festival 2103 is available now here: http://www.rallyemovie24.de/?p=2331

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