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Eifel Rallye Festival from July 24th to 26th, 2025

The historic journey continues since the next ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival will once again take place in and around Daun in the Vulkaneifel from July 24th to the 26th, 2025. Over one hundred and sixty original or faithfully reproduced rally cars from the history of this fascinating sport will once again delight tens of thousands of fans who will be watching the largest rally museum on wheels. “What started as an idea in 2012 has now become an important part of safeguarding the history of rallying.” says Reinhard Klein happily, “Our participants are realising more and more how important it is to preserve their cars true to the originals. The quality of our starting field is growing from year to year.” This development is also thanks to Slowly Sideways, the Europe-wide association of owners of historic rally cars of which Klein, from Cologne, is the head. “Our concept is gaining more and more friends.

Eifel Rallye Festival: It's finally starting!

Excitement is building ahead of the twelfth edition of the Eifel Rallye Festival to be held from August 15th/17th, 2024. Indeed, the entire Volcanic Eifel region around Daun is already in a state of rally fever. The region will once again host the world's largest rolling rally museum with over one hundred and sixty original or faithfully reproduced cars from the history of rallying. Thorsten Krämer, Mayor of the Shakedown Centre in Bodenbach, puts it in a nutshell: "The local community of Bodenbach warmly welcomes the international field of participants and fans from all over Europe". And what should not be forgotten is that, in addition to the fascination of motorsport: "Their physical well-being is also being taken care of."

Eifel Rallye Festival: Impressive variety

he entry list for the Twelfth Edition of the Eifel Rallye Festival that is published today shows just how colourful and diverse the starting field is going to be. Between August 15th and 17th, 2024, one hundred and sixty historic rally cars will reverberate the forests of the Volcanic Eifel around Daun. Cars from makes such as Alfa Romeo, Alpine, Audi, Citroën, Ferrari, Ford, Hyundai, Opel, Peugeot, Porsche, Renault, Trabant, Triumph, Volvo and VW will be represented. In addition, there are the different vehicle types to be considered, many of which are variants and evolutions that emerged during a particular car’s years of use.

ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival: The entry list closed early!

The rush to enter the 12th edition of the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival that is to be held between August 15th and 17th 2024 around Daun in the Volcanic Eifel is, once more, simply "It always hurts not to be able to say ‘yes’ to everyone who wants to come to our Festival with their historic rally car. We had to close the application for entries, otherwise the list of cancellations would have become even longer," says Reinhard Klein (Cologne), explaining the early closure of the application for a entry in the Twelfth edition of the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival to be held from August 15th to17th, 2024.

ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival: Rally Cars from A – Z

Participants and fans who attend the Twelfth edition of the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival from August 15th to 17th, 2024 can once again look forward to a special experience. The list of accepted entries for the largest rally museum on wheels will be made even broader in order to document the diversity of the history of rallying as comprehensively as possible. Thus this year's motto is: “Rally Cars from A to Z”. Cars from almost fifty different manufacturers ranging through Alfa Romeo, Citroën, Chrysler, Datsun, Renault, Ford, Lancia, Fiat, Audi, Opel, Peugeot, Hillman and Wartburg have filled the Festival field in previous editions.

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. WRC star Thierry Neuville travelled from his pre-rally testing in Finland to be present at the spectacular performances of his brothers Yannik Neuville and Tom Heindrichs in a Ford Fiesta WRC and Citroën DS3 WRC that Thierry used to drive himself in the WRC. Many people had arranged to meet at the Eifel Rallye Festival for what is certainly one of the world's largest reunions of historic rallying.

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. The head of 'Slowly Sideways' was once again not to be envied for his task, because he could only allow a part of the many entries received to start.