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After the Covid-19 Pandemic forced the cancellation of the 2020 FIA European Historic Sporting Rally Championship, the series returns in 2021 with nine events in seven European countries. Seven of the events featured on the 2019 calendar, with one returning to the championship after an absence of five years, the Sanremo Rally Storico, and the Rallye International du Valais making its EHRC debut.

The 2021 FIA European Historic Rally Championship is due to get underway next month with the first of nine rallies planned on this season’s calendar. After an exciting and action packed 2019 season the competitors are looking forward to getting back onto the stages across Europe after the 2020 was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The FIA European Historic Rally Championship (EHRC) returns in 2021 and is a chance to see some of the most evocative rally machinery from a bygone era in all their glory. From the Touring Cars and GTs of the ‘50s and ‘60s to Groups 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the ‘70s and finally the unmistakable Groups A, B and N of the ‘80s, the FIA EHRC is a veritable time machine for rally fans around the world.

Entries for the 2021 FIA European Historic Rally Championship are now open, with competitors being invited to enter for the upcoming season at https://registrations.fia.com/ehrc

The FIA Historic Motor Sport Commission has confirmed that the final of the 2021 FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies will be hosted by the Rally Poland Historic on the 11-14 November 2021, the tenth anniversary of this highly popular event.

The last week of FIA meetings, which included the World Motor Sport Council and the General Assembly, led to several new developments in the historic motor sport landscape.

On the final day of the Alpine Challenge in Switzerland, the no7 Opel Ascona 2000 of Belgian crew Michel Decremer and Patrick Lienne continued to lead the way, finishing the event at the head of the classification with 860 net penalty points and lifting the 2020 FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies.

The no7 Opel Ascona 2000 of Belgian crew Michel Decremer and Patrick Lienne set the pace on a weather interrupted day 2 of the Alpine Challenge in Switzerland, the host event of the FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies.

The first day of the final of the 2020 FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies, the Alpine Challenge, saw the no7 1979 Open Ascona 2000 of Michel Decremer and Patrick Lienne finish the first five regularity stages with a total penalty of 31.1, with the no3 1965 Morris Mini Cooper S of compatriots Jean-Jacques Martens and Aswin Pyck in second place with 39.9.

The final of the 2020 FIA Trophy Final for Historic Regularity Rallies will be hosted by Alpine Challenge this weekend and will be centred on the Swiss Alps resort of Villars-sur-Ollon.