New-look calendar brings added excitement and appeal to ERC in 2024

Following FIA World Motor Sport Council approval, WRC Promoter GmbH – the promotional force behind the ERC – has revealed an exciting and significantly revamped calendar for the upcoming season, with three events on gravel and five on asphalt spread geographically across the continent.

Revving into action in Hungary in April, the ERC schedule includes stops in Spain (Canary Islands), Sweden, Estonia, Italy, Czech Republic and Great Britain prior to Poland hosting the season decider in October.

“We’ve worked hard to deliver a calendar that blends new events with rallies that have, for many years, played a key role in the ongoing success of the ERC,” said championship manager Iain Campbell. “We are very pleased with the balance that’s been achieved as it’s important to freshen up the calendar whenever it’s practical and beneficial to do so, without losing out on the opportunity to include more long-standing events.”

The 2024 calendar represents one of the biggest overhauls of events since 2013 while continuing to maintain several rallies integral to its long-term success.

Following on from its 70th-anniversary season in 2023, the ERC will visit flagship events such as Rally Islas Canarias, Rally di Roma Capitale and Barum Czech Rally Zlín. But there’s a new-look Rally Hungary, and two events untried in the ERC, Rali Ceredigion in the United Kingdom and Rally Silesia in Poland.

The second running of Royal Rally of Scandinavia gets a date one weekend before Mid-Summer (13 – 15 June). It’s part of efforts by the event organiser to further increase fan attendance and underline the Swedish rally’s festival focus with a music festival running in parallel to the rally.

Having hosted the WRC to great acclaim between 2020-2023, Rally Estonia maintains the ERC’s strong Baltic connection with its fourth appearance in the championship in early July.

Only Royal Rally of Scandinavia is carried over from 2023 as ERC newcomers Rali Ceredigion and Rally Silesia join the list of dates that includes Rally Islas Canarias – back after a one-year break – and Rally Estonia, which ast tested the Junior ERC stars in 2016.

While Rally Hungary hosted the dramatic three-way title decider last month, it’s changing location and surface for 2024. That means the new-season opener will be an untried addition to the Junior ERC schedul

The six-event calendar for FIA Rally4 and Rally5 cars provides an even split of asphalt and gravel events and is the first to follow a new rotation system. For 2024 Junior ERC stalwart events Rally di Roma Capitale and Barum Czech Rally Zlín won’t form part of the Hankook-equipped championship although both are in line to return in 2025.

FIA EUROPEAN RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP CALENDAR 2024:
12 – 14 April V. Rally Hungary* (Gravel)
2 – 4 May Rally Islas Canarias* (Asphalt)
13 – 15 June Royal Rally of Scandinavia, Sweden* (Gravel)
5 – 7 July Rally Estonia*, ** (Gravel)
26 – 28 July Rally di Roma Capitale, Italy (Asphalt)
16 – 18 August Barum Czech Rally Zlín (Asphalt)
30 August – 1 September Rali Ceredigion, United Kingdom* (Asphalt)
11 – 13 October Rally Silesia, Poland* (Asphalt)

ERC1, ERC3 and ERC4 categories will count their seven best scores out of eight

*denotes Junior ERC round

**Subject to contract