ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival (July 21-23 2022)
Press release 08
ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival 2022 – 3, 2,
1 – and finally, Festival!
- Full programme starting Thursday in and
around Daun
- Eifel Rallye Festival: Home of the
historic rally scene
- The rebirth of the 1975 Munari-Stratos
The countdown has started, and the
tension is rising
After two cancellations due to CV-19, the anniversary edition of
the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival will finally take place from July
21st. At the same time, this tenth edition of the largest mobile
rally museum will be celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the
World Rally Championship.
After shakedown at its new location in the Kelberger Land between
Bodenbach and Borler on Thursday, July 21st from 15:00 to 19:00,
the Welcome Evening will start from 20:30 onwards. The big stage
on the Laurentius Platz in the middle of Daun will become an
open-air rally cinema. Moving pictures from the history of
rallying by cult rally filmmaker Helmut Deimel with still photos
also framing the interviews.
During the technical inspection of the rally cars on Friday July
22nd from 08.00 in the Rally Mile at the centre of Daun, the fans
can get close to the automotive witnesses of rally history. From
11:00, the top drivers from the Festival including World Champion
Stig Blomqvist, Thierry Neuville, Harri Toivonen, Kalle Grundel,
Harald Demuth, Jochi Kleint and Niki Schelle will be available for
autograph hunters on the Laurentius Platz stage for one hour.
Afterwards, Demerath is the new sporting centre for Friday
afternoon and evening. The afternoon stage between Demerath and
Steineberg starts at 14:33 and, with its surface being 38 percent
gravel, will ensure spectacular driving scenes. In the opposite
part of Demerath, the evening show with the second special stage
will start at 19.48 hrs.
On Saturday, July 23rd, the participants and the fans can look
forward to a new rally stage as, in addition to the classics
'Risselberg' and 'Lehwald', the route will go around the
'Hochkelberg' for the first time. All three stages will be
completed in the morning and then repeated in the afternoon. As
always, the Rally Mile in Daun will attract visitors during the
extended lunch break when the rally cars are serviced, and their
crews refreshed. There are hardly any better opportunities to get
so close to these historic rally treasures and their drivers in
this open paddock. It is a paradise for photographers and
autograph hunters. The grand finale starts at 19:30 with the rally
party around the stage on Laurentius Platz with live music.
Eifel Rallye Festival: Home of the
historic rally scene
Even though the famous drivers are often in the foreground, the
real stars of the Eifel Rallye Festival are the cars. Nowhere are
there so many originals or faithful replicas of the automotive
contemporary witnesses from rally history collected in one place.
"At the jubilee of the fiftieth year of the World Rally
Championship, we can thus show a unique cross-section of the
history of this series," explains Reinhard Klein who, as the
head of Slowly Sideways, the Europe-wide association of owners of
historic rally cars, is responsible for putting together the
starting field. This is limited to one hundred and fifty-five
rally cars. "Slowly, the contemporary rally scene is becoming
more aware of the tradition of this fascinating sport. With the
Eifel Rallye Festival, we have created a home for this scene over
the past ten years, which makes us really proud."
As always, there are minor changes to the starting list since
often Corona illness makes them necessary. Sitting alongside Harri
Toivonen (#1, Lancia Delta S4) will be Juha Paajanen, who not only
used to sit in the 'hot seat' with him, but also with his brother
Henri. Fred Walter (#62, Lancia Beta Coupe) will get a prominent
co-driver for some stages as Simo Lampinen, who used to be a works
driver for Saab, Lancia, Peugeot and Triumph, will navigate for
him. The current list is always available on the website
(www.eifel-rallye-festival.de). Another top star of the current
WRC scene has announced his coming. As soon as the exact time is
fixed, the fans will be informed via the organiser's social media.
The rally scene supports the flood
victims in the Eifel
About a year ago, the flood disaster caused a lot of suffering in
the Eifel region. The participants, fans and friends of the Eifel
Rallye Festival showed an overwhelming willingness to donate in
order to support the flood victims. "We were able to provide
€50,000 in donations to the flood victims. This excellent
response shows the affection of all our participants with the
region in which we are able to celebrate our festival again this
year", explains Otmar Anschütz, the chairman of the
organising MSC Daun.
In connection with the flood, there were innumerable other
supporting actions, one of which comes to an end for the time
being at the Eifel Rally Festival. In the Ahr valley, a hall was
flooded that contained a wonderful collection of vintage cars. A
group around Volker Thull and Florian Treitz took the vehicles out
of the hall and distributed them all over Germany. They were able
to do this because, in response to a brief appeal, many people had
come forward to help clean up the flood damage. One of the cars
was also taken over by the MSC Daun. 15 of the cars could be saved
and are now back in their pre-flood condition. The entire
operation was accompanied by a TV team from SWR. In the presence
of the SWR, three of the cars will now be handed back to their
owners in exemplary condition on Thursday, July 21st at 19:00
before the start of the Welcome Evening on Laurentius Platz in
Daun.
The rebirth of the 1975 Munari Stratos
Sandro Munari and his co-driver Lofty Drews came second in the
1975 Safari Rally after an eventful rally with their Lancia
Stratos. The story is legendary that co-driver Drews, getting a
lift from a private car, pulled up at the Lancia service and
shouted for tyres. In a private car packed with three spare wheels
and tyres, he made his way back to Munari, who had had to park the
Stratos with only one complete tyre left. In 1976, their Stratos
was used as a training car and had an accident. The Kenyan Sergio
Lolli bought the crashed car, disassembled it and wanted to
rebuild it. However, the parts were strewn around his garden and
there is a legendary photo from 1990 when his dogs were using the
Stratos cockpit as a kennel. In between, parts of the Stratos were
stolen from the garden. Lolli was able to buy back some parts –
including the irreplaceable carburettors – from the thieves.
Lolli's son Ezio sorted everything out, collected all the parts
and shipped them from Nairobi to a restorer in Italy. Now
seventeen years later, the work is complete and the Stratos is
back as it was on Safari in 1975. So here forty-seven years later
at the Eifel Rallye Festival in Daun, it will celebrate its first
major outing following its rebirth. Drews, who is now eighty years
old, did not want to miss this opportunity and is travelling from
his new home in Australia to Daun. There, he will take his seat
next to Ezio Lolli in the Stratos with the starting number #140 at
the Festival.
From 'Down Under' to Daun
The furthest journey to the Volcanic Eifel will be made by
Australian Darryn Snooks, who will be driving a 1977 Datsun Violet
710 together with Tracey Dewhurst. in 2005 Snooks stumbled across
a Datsun 710 SSS in excellent condition in New Zealand. And so
began a long project to build a faithful copy of the original 710
SSS factory car. A worldwide search for parts meant the build took
almost eight years before he also found one of the very rare
twin-cam engines to complete the project perfectly. Darryn:
"When we started building the car, we had a vague dream of
maybe bringing it to Europe one day. Living and growing up in
Australia and watching legends like Stig, Ari, Henri and Walter,
it was a dream of mine to be there one day too." Now that
2019 is over, the 'Aussie' has once again shipped his Datsun in a
container to take part in the Eifel Rallye Festival – so,
welcome Tracey and Darryn!
Support from the far north
It has become a tradition that the Festival receives a lot of
support. The 'ADAC Team Nord' around Jürgen von Schassen from
Neustadt/Holstein are almost regular guests. Whereas at the
beginning there were just over ten people coming to help run our
event, this time the 'Nordlichter' are making the 680-kilometre
journey to the Volcanic Eifel with twenty-five people. "We
are bringing licensed and experienced team members with us to Daun
to actively strengthen the Festival. The fun of it all has brought
us together from a wide variety of ADAC clubs here in the north
and we're doing all we can to support this unique event." It
goes without saying that their experienced support is most welcome
in Daun.
The Eifel Rallye Festival - Timetable
Thursday, 21.07.2022
15:00 - 19:00
Shakedown in Bodenbach
from 20:30
Welcome evening in the Rally Mile Open-air rally cinema with cult
filmmaker Helmut Deimel
Friday, 22.07.2022
From 08:00 hrs
Vehicle scrutineering, Rally Mile in Daun
11:00 - 12:00
Autograph session with many VIPs and stars
from 14:30
Peugeot Super Stage with gravel sections between Demerath and
Steineberg
from 19.30
proWIN spectator circuit Demerath-Winkel at night
Saturday, 23.07.2022
08:30 - 17:00 h
asphalt tests in the volcanic Eifel
In-between
Rally Mile in Daun with many attractions
from 19:30
Rally party with prizes and awards
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