Car presentation

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Bernard and Stéphane both work in Belgium for DG Sport, which organises our partner event in Belgium, the Ardenne Rally Festival, among other things. The Eifel Rallye Festival will be the first event for the newly rebuilt Escort Mexico. Mehr >

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In the 1980s, Wolfgang Peuker drove a normal Opel Manta road car himself and the Manta 400 seemed like an unreachable dream car to him. But then in 2013, this Manta was for sale and he grabbed it, not knowing its history which came as a plesant surprise later. A complete restauration began and in 2014 it came out of Wolfgang’s workshop in its new and old Jim Beam livery, just as it was driven by Sepp Haider in 1985. Mehr >

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Josef has owned this Ford Escort since 2024 and drives it at show events as well as in historic rallies in Spain and Portugal. Mehr >

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This Fiesta was sold to Italy in 2012 and was initially driven there by Edoardo Bresolin. It remained in Italy until 2020, with a number of different drivers, before Maurizio Stasia took it over in 2021. This Fiesta has competed in a total of 133 events to date. For the 2025 Eifel Rallye Festival, it will be given the original livery from Latvala's victory in the 2011 Wales Rally GB. Mehr >

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Autosport Veghel in the Netherlands built this copy of the Audi Quattro S1 E2. Some time ago it took part at the Eifel Rally Festival in Bobby Unser's colours of the Pikes Peak hill climb in the USA in 1986. For 2023 it got the usual HB colours from Audi Sport again. Mehr >

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George Vasilakis has been rallying since 2016, mainly in Greece, of course, both in modern cars such as a Ford Fiesta Rally2 and in historic ones too. He was able to acquire the original Droogmans 911 SCRS and is driving it for the first time at the Eifel Rallye Festival. His co-driver is none other than the son of Terry Harryman, who won six World Championship events with Ari Vatanen in the 1980s. Mehr >

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The van Laar brothers built this Ford Escort in 2004 and have been driving it since 2005 at selected events such as the Cologne-Ahrweiler Rally and the Dutch Historic Championship. In 2025, they gave their Escort the design of the winning car of the 1976 RAC Rally. Mehr >

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This BMW was built by Detlef May over many years of painstaking work, and Wolfgang Schröder drove it in numerous rallies with Detlef. Over the last three years, Wolfgang and his new co-driver Peer have restored it even further to its original 1972 condition with an Alpina engine, Getrag gearbox, exhaust system and other small parts. Rather than trying to make the car look like new with new parts and a new paint job, they are embracing the Slowly Sideways philosophy of preserving a certain patina. Mehr >

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Warren has been rallying since 1978. He spent many years driving various Ford Escorts, from 1995 to 2008 in a MG Metro 6R4 in national British events and, since 2010, back in historic Ford Escorts. However, he rarely takes his original 1974 Triumph Dolomite works car out of storage. Mehr >

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Based on a Lancia Delta 16V that had its own history in the Spanish Rally Championship, this model came into Vitor Lopes’ hands in 2017. After an extensive restoration, detail by detail, the all the work brought the car to its final goal: a faithful copy of the legendary factory car driven by Didier Auriol. Mehr >