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12/15/2025 15:00

Press release 2026 - 02

ADAC Eifel Rally Festival: The MSC Daun forest is growing

Since the end of November is the best time for planting, the members of MSC Daun fulfilled their charity promise from the 2025 Eifel Rallye Festival during that month. For each participant, as well as for all other vehicles used in the organisation of the Festival, one tree was planted. By means of this initiative, the Festival organisers once again made an active contribution to environmental protection and global re-forestation. At the same time, these efforts also offset the carbon footprint of the event. As with the 2024 planting campaign, the two hundred new trees were chosen in such a way that they themselves can withstand the effects of climate change. Forester Jan Reinert, responsible for the forests of the town of Daun and accompanied by Sebastian Holz, not only selected the certified trees, but also contributed his professional expertise by personally accompanying the planting campaign.

Press release 2026 - 01

ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival: An unforgettable weekend full of fun

he typical Eifel weather showed who was boss at the thirteenth edition of the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival (July 24th to 26th, 2025). Before the event, the traditional group photo with over one hundred and sixty original or faithfully reproduced rally cars and their teams was taken in the rain. However from then on, through the ensuing technical inspection to the final rally party on Saturday evening, it remained dry. Indeed the sun shone down on the international field of starters and the fans who had also travelled from all over Europe. <br>Just Europe? No! The James Blakemore/John Buffum team travelled from Vermont in the USA with their Ford Escort MK2. Geoff Mayes flew in from Kenya, making him the photographer who had travelled the furthest.

Press release 2025 - 10

ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival: An unforgettable weekend full of fun

Press release 2025 - 09

ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival: Finally, it's time

Participants and fans alike are eagerly awaiting the thirteenth edition of the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival, which will take place from July 24th/26th, 2025. The world's largest rolling rally museum will again transform Daun and the surrounding Vulkaneifel region for a weekend into an international meeting place for the historic rally world. Thursday is “Daun Town Day”, offering fans the chance to experience the vehicles and teams up close in the Daun Rally Mile. Highlights include the public scrutineering of the cars followed by the presentation of all vehicles and teams on the starting ramp, the autograph session and the Welcome evening with open-air cinema.

Press release 2025 - 08

ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival: 166 cars that, in their day, were driven by 86 stars

The entry list for the thirteenth edition of the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival is extremely diverse and top-class. From July 24th to 26th, the Vulkaneifel region around Daun will be rocked by one hundred and sixty-six original or faithfully reproduced cars from rally history, all of which were previously driven by eighty-six different stars of the rally scene as it then existed. “Our idea of showing the cars of various stars this time around was a real hit. We never expected such diversity,” says Reinhard Klein, head of Slowly Sideways and the man responsible for putting the entry list together.

Press release 2025 - 07

ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival 2025 – Fact sheet

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05/12/2025 14:30

Press release 2025 - 06

ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival: Audi Tradition will bring two Dakar winners to Daun

Audi Tradition will be bringing more highlights to fans of the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival (July 24th–26th, 2025) held in the Eifel region. Jutta Kleinschmidt, the 2001 Dakar winner, will be driving the Audi RS Q e-tron with which Carlos Sainz won that classic rally-raid in 2024. Sitting alongside her will be Fabrizia Pons, also one of the most successful women in rallying. Two-time German Rally Champion Harald Demuth will team up with Christian Fellinger from the Ingolstadt treasure trove to drive the Audi Sport Quattro in which Walter Röhrl finished second in the 1985 Monte Carlo Rally.

Press release 2025 - 05

ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival: The reigning World Rally Champion is to be our patron

Fans of the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival (July 24th to 26th 2025) can look forward to an additional highlight. Reigning 2024 World Rally Champion Thierry Neuville will once again come to the Vulkaneifel region around Daun and take over the patronage of the largest rolling rally museum. This is what Neuville says about his reasons for taking on this role: “I was very pleased to be able to take on the patronage of this very special event. I have already attended the Eifel Rallye Festival as a fan as well as driving in it myself. In Daun, you only meet people who are interested in our sport and its history. Due to the lack of timekeeping on the demonstration stages, the entire event is completely stress-free – everyone is just there for the joy of rallying.” His two brothers, Yannik Neuville and Tom Heindrichs, will also be in Daun again.

Press release 2025 - 04

ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival: Early entry deadline is on February 28th, 2025

This year too, the entry list for the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival (July 24th to 26th, 2025) has to be closed early. “Less than three weeks after the opening of the registration portal, we already have over two hundred entries, but we can only accommodate around one hundred one hundred and sixty rally cars in the centre of Daun. For this reason, we are definitively closing the entry list on February 28th, 2025,” explains Reinhard Klein (Slowly Sideways) with a smile but also a sad eye. “The huge interest from the international friends of historic rallying is inspiring. The variety and quality of the registered vehicles are impressive. We are closing the entry portal to keep the number of rejections down”.

Press release 2025 - 03

ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival: The entry list will open on February 1st 2025

A very important step in the preparation for the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival that will run from July 24th to the 26th 2025 is the opening of the entry list. From February 1st, 2025, the race for the coveted starting places will begin. The first enquiries show that there will be great interest again this time in the demonstration drives in the Vulkaneifel region around Daun of the largest rolling rally museum. The selection of the entry of original or faithfully reproduced rally cars from the last sixty years is this year will be based on their former drivers. True to the 2025 motto ‘The Cars of the Stars’, the aim is to put together a selection of vehicles that is as diverse as possible all coming from drivers ranging from A for Aaltonen to Z for Zeltner. ‘Aaltonen and Zeltner and their cars will be in Daun in July, but there is still plenty of room in-between for other great cars from well-known drivers,‘ says Reinhard Klein who is looking forward to receiving the entries from the prospective applicants.

Press release 2025 - 02

ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival 2025: The maxim has been established

Every year, fans eagerly await the maxim that guides the basis of selection for the line-up at the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival. On the weekend of July 24th to 26th, 2025 the focus will be on the selection of historic rally cars driven by famous drivers. ‘We will try to get the cars of as many great rally drivers as possible to the start. From Aaltonen to Zasada, the number of different cars of these former drivers in the entry should be as extensive as possible,’ explains Reinhard Klein (Cologne) who, of the organising team, is the one responsible for putting together the entry list. ’To ensure the great variety that is desired, we will not be able to allow absolutely identical cars. But we also look forward to entries of rare automotive witnesses of rally history that may not have been driven by the front row of WRC stars.’

Press release 2025 - 01

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.

Press release 2024 - 10

Rally history at your fingertips

The twelfth edition of the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival (August 15th to 17th, 2024) is now history. It was another weekend on which the largest rolling rally museum of over one hundred and sixty cars from rally history brought the Volcanic Eifel around Daun to life. Tens of thousands of enthusiastic fans from all over Europe celebrated alongside the crews. The atmosphere was fantastic, with participants and fans beaming in the sunshine. As the head of Slowly Sideways, Reinhard Klein (Cologne), is responsible for putting together the entry list. He draws a positive conclusion from this weekend: “With this twelfth edition of our Festival, we have taken another big step towards modernisation. For example, we now also have Super2000 and WRC vehicles included, despite the fact that it is often not easy to keep their technology ready to drive.

Press release 2024 - 09

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."

Press release 2024 - 08

Eifel Rallye Festival:Preparations are in full swing

reparations for the twelfth edition of the Eifel Rallye Festival are now in full swing. Participants, fans and the organisers are all looking forward to the weekend of August 15th/17th 2024. The Festival traditionally begins with a shakedown for the rally cars and their crews which will once again be held around Bodenbach on Thursday from 3:00pm onwards. The Festival’s Welcome Evening on Daun's Laurentiusplatz just adjacent to the Rally Mile and which starts from 8.30pm is an event that has achieved cult status. The introduction of the stars, who will be giving a lot of internal details and background information about their careers, will be accompanied by suitable film clips from the archive of specialist filmmaker, Helmut Deimel.