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Fans visiting the Eifel Rallye Festival should not only bring a heat and sunscreen to Daun but also a long lasting Edding pen. On the Rallywebshop autograph session on Friday morning, 10 to 12 am, on the Laurentiusplatz in the centre of Daun there will be no less than 17 VIP drivers on the show stage. Spectators can get autographs from:

Walter Röhrl, Björn Waldegård, Stig Blomqvist, Harald Demuth, Yves Loubet, Philippe Gache, Harri Toivonen, Robert Droogmans, Susanne Kottulinsky, Simo Lampinen, Piero Sodano, John Davenport, Niki Schelle, Matthias Kahle, Egon Culmbacher, Werner Ernst und Marc Duez.

With some last minute additions, the list of famous drivers coming to take part in the Eifel Rallye Festival on the last weekend of July has now grown to fourteen. Amongst them are three ex-World Rally Champions since one of the last names to be added is that of Stig Blomqvist, World Champion with Audi in 1984. He joins fellow World Champions, Walter Röhrl (1980 and 1982) and Björn Waldegård (1979). Another late arrival is Marc Duez who is as well known for his racing activities - he won the Nürburgring 24-Hour race four times and competed at Le Mans 24-Hour no less than twelve times - as for his rallying successes in both World and European championship rallies.

A passionate model car collector from Germany has already photographed what we can expect on the last weekend of July. His picture shows all championship-winning cars present on the Eifel Rallye Festival in a scale of 1:43. As one can see, the theme "40 years of the WRC" is not taken too strictly for this champions parade which also includes all makes champions from the pre-WRC era. 1968 and 1969 were the very first years when international makes champions were crowned in the European Rally Championship.

For the Eifel Rallye Festival, Wolf-Dieter Ihle is offering a ride with Harri Toivonen in a Opel Manta 400 Gr. B. This co-drive is being auctioned on eBay for a good cause. The profits from the auction will go to the benefit of an association charitable.

The highest bidder will enjoy a ride with Harri Toivonen in a Opel Manta 400 - 1983 - Gr. B over the spectacular new shakedown stage "Mantaloch" (6.5 km).

This exclusive co-drive that will take place on Thursday, June 25th, 2013 and can only be purchased via the online auction house eBay. The auction will start on Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 and ends on July 20th, 2013. The highest bidder will also receive two spectator tickets for the Eifel Rallye Festival plus an event programme. He will be kept informed concerning the details of his ride with Harri Toivonen directly by the organisers of the Eifel Rallye Festival.

After last year's great success, the Eifel Rallye Festival will once again host a photographic competition in which prizes will be awarded to the best pictures of the event. And there is a very exclusive prize for the winner: a co-drive on the 2014 Eifel Rallye Festival! The well-known and renowned WRC photographer, Reinhard Klein, will himself choose his favourite pictures from those submitted. This year, all entries will go into one category, there will be no division between "professionals" and "amateurs". But there will once again be a spezial prize for the most inventive image. The winning pictures as well as all the other pictures will be shown in a web gallery on the Eifel Rallye Festival website and will of course feature their photographers' names.

June 8th is an important date for all the entrants and fans of the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival since on this day the full entry list will be published.

A total of one hundred and fifty Slowly Sideways cars plus fifteen course-opening cars will take part in this unique event where there is no kind of competition and the whole three days is simply a rally festival for fans and drivers alike.