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The winners of the 2023 photo competition

The winners of the 2023 photo competition have been announced. We would like to thank 93 participants from 8 nations for the photos they sent in. The winners have been notified in the meantime and will all receive a 2024 fan package (2 weekend tickets, 1 programme booklet, 1 voucher for the Welcome Evening, 1 baseball cap, 1 complete set of autograph cards and 2 event stickers). The winning photo 2023 was "shot" by Frederico Acosta from Berlin. Congratulations!

 

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Auction: The Festival Gondola of the Hintertux Glacier Lift (Update)

Anyone who has ever been on the Hintertux glacier may already have sat in the gondola with the #53. Now it is standing in the middle of the rally mile in Daun at the EIfel Rally Festival and is being auctioned off to the highest bidders. But not just like that. Before leaving, three-time ski world champion Nicole 'Niki' Hosp signed the gondola.

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ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival – The rally festival in Daun

The ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival (July 27th/29th, 2023) is now past, the teams have taken down their colourful tents in the city centre of Daun, which has been transformed into the Rally Mile. The more than one hundred and sixty original and faithfully reproduced cars from the history of rallying once again attracted tens of thousands of fans from Europe – and beyond – to the Volcanic Eifel. The VIP’s present were World Champion Stig Blomqvist, Rauno Aaltonen, Bruno Thiry, Kalle Grundel, Nicky Grist, Harald Demuth, Rui Madeira, Rudi Stohl and Niki Schelle all of whom fulfilled countless autograph requests.

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ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival – 3, 2, 1 - Festival

The final spurt is on for the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival (July 27th/29th, 2023) and the preparations for the biggest rolling rally museum are in full swing. The first participants and guests have already taken up their quarters in the Volcanic Eifel. The organisation team is growing steadily as more and more helpers are joining the core team to assist with the tasks that now lie ahead. Over the Festival weekend, more than seven hundred people will be active on a voluntary basis to provide the participants and the tens of thousands of fans with the best possible conditions for this worldwide meeting of the rally scene.

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Wanted! The best pictures of the 2023 Eifel Rallye Festival

The photo competition of the Eifel Rally Festival will take place again this year.

Attractive prizes await the winners, including the official book "Eifel Rally Festival 2011-2022" with VIP autographs.

 

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Ride-along with Stig Blomqvist in the Audi Sport Quattro S1 Group B

Bid for a ride with Stig Blomqvist in the Audi Sport Quattro S1 Group B during the Shakedown at the Eifel Rallye Festival 2023. The ride is provided by Audi Tradition. The shakedown ride will take place on Thursday, 27.07.2023, between 3 and 7 p.m. and will be auctioned off to the highest bidder on eBay. The profit will be donated to a good cause, "nestwärme e.V. Deutschland" in Trier (https://nestwaerme.de).

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Ride-along with Harri Toivonen in the Skoda Fabia Rallye2 Evo Group Rally2

Bid for a ride with Harri Toivonen in the Skoda Fabia Rallye2 Evo Gruppe Rally2 during the Shakedown at the Eifel Rallye Festival 2023. The shakedown ride will take place on Thursday, 27.07.2023, between 3 and 7 p.m. and will be auctioned off to the highest bidder on eBay. The profit will be donated to a good cause, "nestwärme e.V. Deutschland" in Trier (https://nestwaerme.de).

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ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival – Meeting of the great classics

What the fans have been waiting for is finally here since the entry list for the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival (July 27th to 29th, 2023) has just been published. More than one hundred and sixty crews and their historic rally cars will shortly transform the Volcanic Eifel into the largest mobile rally car museum. "We can once again offer the friends of historic rallying a very diverse starting field. Among them are vehicles that are rarely seen, but also real exotics like the Ford Mustang that the French singer and actor Johnny Hallyday drove in the 1967 Rally Monte Carlo," explains Reinhard Klein.

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Eifel Rallye Festival 2011-2022 - The official book

For Demuth, a reunion also meant driving the ultimate ’winged monster‘, that Audi Sport Quattro E2 Pikes Peak in which Walter Röhrl won the 1987 Race to the Clouds. ”I was involved in the development of this car from the very beginning and was allowed to drive during the testing. For me, this E2 is the ultimate of all Audi Quattros“. Demuth had a special experience the year before. He was allowed to drive the über-Quattro on the original mountain in the Rocky Mountains

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Dispatch of tickets and programmes started today

Over 4 tons of printed material have been produced and are in our warehouse and at the RallyWebShop. The mailing of tickets and programmes started today, the "rest" just has to be bagged and distributed.

 

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Ride-along with Niki Schelle in the Suzuki Ignis Super 1600 Group A

Bid for a ride with Niki Schelle in the Suzuki Ignis Super 1600 Group A during the Shakedown at the  Eifel Rallye Festival m2023. The ride in the shakedown will take place on Thursday, 27.07.2023, between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. and will be auctioned off to the highest bidder on eBay. The profit will be donated to a good cause, the "nestwärme e.V. Deutschland" in Trier (https://nestwaerme.de).

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Ride-along with Harald Demuth in the original Audi 200 Quattro Group A

Bid for a ride with Harald Demuth in the original Audi 200 Quattro Group A at the shakedown of the Eifel Rally Festival 2023. The ride is provided by Audi Tradition. The shakedown ride will take place on Thursday, 27.07.2023, between 3 and 7 p.m. and will be auctioned off to the highest bidder on eBay. The profit will be donated to a good cause, "nestwärme e.V. Deutschland" in Trier (https://nestwaerme.de).

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ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival – The historic rally world meets in the Volcanic Eifel

In the region around Daun, anticipation is mounting for the return of the biggest rolling rally museum. The ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival (July 27th to 29th, 2023) will once again bring over one hundred and fifty historic rally cars to Daun. They will not just be on display at the service areas along the Rally Mile in the middle of Daun, as fans can also watch these cars from rally history in action on the demonstration stages in the Volcanic Eifel.

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Ride-along with Bruno Thiry in an original Group A VW Golf GTI 16V

At the shakedown of the Eifel Rallye Festival you can bid for a ride with Bruno Thiry in an original VW Golf GTI 16V. The vehicle is provided by the owner Wolf-Dieter for this purpose. The ride in the shakedown will take place on Thursday, 27.07.2023 between 3pm and 7pm and will be auctioned off to the highest bidder on eBay.

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Eifel Rallye Festival 2011-2022 - The official book

Co-organiser Christian Geistdörfer had set an ambitious goal for the 2015 Festival which was to have five World Rally Champions present. A close look at the history books reveals that in the long history of the World Rally Championship, there had been only one event in which Walter Röhrl, Sandro Munari, Hannu Mikkola, Stig Blomqvist and Timo Salonen all took part. The RAC Rally of November 1977 was the only time that these five World stars had driven on the same event – that is until July 2015.

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