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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.



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



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.

 



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).



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).



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.



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.



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.



The preparations for this year's ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival (July 27th to 29th, 2023) are in full swing. The entry list is bulging and offers a diverse selection of cars from the history of rallying. "Our motto 'The Great Classics' means that there are cars on the entry list that have not been seen before at our event," explains Reinhard Klein, who as the brains behind Slowly Sideways is responsible for putting together the entry. "With the development of what we understand to be rallying today, there were events in the past that we had a hard time classifying. Imagine one where two people sit in a rally car and one drives while the other navigates.



Since the concept for the running of the previous year‘s event had proven successful, it was adopted for 2014 with only a few tweaks. However, the organisers were very anxious to see whether the theme chosen for the year could be realised as planned. The title of ’Diversity‘ was to bring as many different marques and vehicle models as possible



This year, the Autostadt in Wolfsburg was for the first time a sponsor of the Eifel Rally Festival. ”An automobile manufacturer can be happy to support such an event,“ said Managing Director Otto F. Wachs when he watched the historic event in Daun. ”It is rare to find so many enthusiastic automobile fans who have petrol in their blood.“ He added that the brand diversity of the Autostadt was ”impressively echoed at this historic motorsport Festival“.



This year's ADAC Eifel Rally Festival (July 27th/29th, 2023) will be marked by many anniversaries from the history of rallying. The entry list of the largest rolling rally museum can accept a maximum of one hundred and fifty cars. This list has long been fully booked and illustrates these anniversaries as well as the great rally classics. <br>Around Daun in the Vulkaneifel there will be 'moving' memories of Alpine Renault and their title victory in the first World Rally Championship in 1973. Jean Rédélé from Dieppe started in 1953 with his Alpine light-weight cars based on chassis from Renault.



After the first Eifel Rally Festival was such a complete success, the MSC Daun quickly decided to have a second edition. In doing do, the organising team further expanded the platform for historic rallying in Europe. They also decided that, in the future, not only were the cars to be shown, but there would also be a special thematic focus each year. These did not necessarily have to be exact anniversaries since the memory of particular events could also become a theme. In 2002, the last traditional Safari Rally took place in East Africa – for the time being, that was – which was reason enough to commemorate this legendary rally ten years later.



In the morning hours of 28 April 2023, the last (classification) test for our sports comrade Petra Müller ended. The members of the MSC Daun and the organising team of the Eifel Rally Festival are very sad about her much too early death. She was not only active in the board of MSC Daun and in the organising team of the festival, she was above all a lovely, friendly and always helpful person.



The first 10 editions of the Eifel Rally Festival are summarized in an extremely readable book with many unique photos on over 300 pages. It all started in 2011 with the birth of a new kind of event. The idea of giving the Slowly Sideways troupe its own stage as the largest rolling rally museum in the world was a huge success right away.




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