Rally Estonia

Rally Estonia
Status	active
Genre	motorsporting event
Date(s)	July
Frequency	annual
Location(s)	Tartu, Otepää, Elva
Country	Estonia
Inaugurated	2010
Website	rallyestonia.com
	2018 Rally Estonia

Rally Estonia (officially Shell Helix Rally Estonia) is a rallying event organised each year in Estonia. It is the largest and most high-profile motor rally in the country. Rally Estonia runs on smooth gravel roads of Southern Estonia. City of Tartu hosts the ceremonial start and finish. Two street stages are also held during the rally, in Tartu and Elva. Rally headquarters and service park are based in Otepää, at the Tehvandi Sports Center. From 2014–2016, Rally Estonia was a round of the FIA European Rally Championship.

History

Alexey Lukyanuk (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X) leaving the start podium on the 2014 rally.

Valeriy Gorban driving a Mini John Cooper Works WRC on the 2018 rally.

The inaugural event, known as Mad-Croc Rally Estonia for sponsorship reasons, was held in 2010 as a part of the Estonian Rally Championship and was won by Markko Märtin. In the following year, the rally became known as the auto24 Rally Estonia. In 2014, it became a round of the European Rally Championship.^[1] The event was in hiatus in 2017 and returned in 2018, known as Shell Helix Rally Estonia for sponsorship reasons.

Winners

Year	Driver	Co-driver	Team	Car
2010	Markko Märtin	Kristo Kraag	MM Motorsport	Ford Focus RS WRC 03
2011	Mads Østberg	Jonas Andersson	Adapta AS	Ford Fiesta RS WRC
2012	Mads Østberg	Jonas Andersson	Adapta World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta RS WRC
2013	Georg Gross	Raigo Mõlder	OT Racing	Ford Focus RS WRC 08
2014	Ott Tänak	Raigo Mõlder	MM Motorsport	Ford Fiesta R5
2015	Alexey Lukyanuk	Alexey Arnautov	Chervonenko Racing	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X
2016	Ralfs Sirmacis	Māris Kulšs	Sports Racing Technologies	Škoda Fabia R5
2017	Not held
2018	Ott Tänak	Martin Järveoja	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT	Toyota Yaris WRC

Detailed results

Rally name	Podium finishers					Statistics
Rally name	Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Stages	Length	Starters	Finishers
1. Mad-Croc Rally Estonia 2010 16 – 18 July 2010 Round 3 of the 2010 Estonian Rally Championship	1	1	Markko Märtin Kristo Kraag	MM Motorsport (Ford Focus RS WRC 03)	1:33:19.1	12	189.83 km	115	62
	2	6	Ott Tänak Kuldar Sikk	MM Motorsport (Subaru Impreza WRX STi)	1:36:09.4
	3	5	Toni Gardemeister Tapio Suominen	GPOWER Ky (Ford Fiesta S2000)	1:37:32.5

2. auto24 Rally Estonia 2011 15 – 16 July 2011 Round 4 of the 2011 Estonian Rally Championship	1	1	Mads Østberg Jonas Andersson	Adapta AS (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)	1:15:19.9	9	162.20 km	125	74
	2	6	Markko Märtin Kristo Kraag	MM Motorsport (Ford Focus RS WRC 03)	1:15:43.9
	3	2	Martin Prokop Michal Ernst	Czech Ford National Team (Ford Fiesta S2000)	1:18:57.4

3. auto24 Rally Estonia 2012 20 – 21 July 2012 Round 3 of the 2012 Estonian Rally Championship Round 5 of the 2012 Latvian Rally Championship	1	1	Mads Østberg Jonas Andersson	Adapta World Rally Team (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)	1:20:20.8	12	167.76 km	121	67
	2	2	Thierry Neuville Nicolas Gilsoul	Citroën Junior WRT (Citroën DS3 WRC)	1:20:47.3
	3	3	Georg Gross Raigo Mõlder	MM Motorsport (Ford Focus RS WRC 08)	1:22:05.7

4. auto24 Rally Estonia 2013 19 – 20 July 2013 Round 4 of the 2013 Estonian Rally Championship Round 5 of the 2013 Latvian Rally Championship	1	1	Georg Gross Raigo Mõlder	OT Racing (Ford Focus RS WRC 08)	1:07:55.9	9	143.26 km	130	67
	2	5	Karl Kruuda Martin Järveoja	MM Motorsport (Ford Fiesta R5)	1:08:35.2
	3	3	Alexey Lukyanuk Alexey Arnautov	Autostils Rally Technica (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX)	1:08:37.6

5. auto24 Rally Estonia 2014 17 – 19 July 2014 Round 7 of the 2014 European Rally Championship Round 4 of the 2014 Estonian Rally Championship	1	1	Ott Tänak Raigo Mõlder	MM Motorsport (Ford Fiesta R5)	1:49:36.4	15	231.55 km	61	30
	2	16	Alexey Lukyanuk Alexey Arnautov	EAMV – RPM (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X)	1:50:23.5
	3	9	Timmu Kõrge Erki Pints	MM Motorsport (Ford Fiesta R5)	1:50:31.8

6. auto24 Rally Estonia 2015 17 – 19 July 2015 Round 6 of the 2015 European Rally Championship	1	15	Alexey Lukyanuk Alexey Arnautov	Chervonenko Racing (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X)	1:32:25.4	16	202.86 km	56	35
	2	16	Kajetan Kajetanowicz Jarosław Baran	Lotos Rally Team (Ford Fiesta R5)	1:32:38.1
	3	17	Rainer Aus Simo Koskinen	LEDrent Rally Team (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX)	1:33:32.4

7. auto24 Rally Estonia 2016 15 – 17 July 2016 Round 6 of the 2016 European Rally Championship	1	3	Ralfs Sirmacis Māris Kulšs	Sports Racing Technologies (Škoda Fabia R5)	1:44:16.2	16	211.45 km	40	28
	2	1	Kajetan Kajetanowicz Jarosław Baran	Lotos Rally Team (Ford Fiesta R5)	1:45:50.7
	3	15	Rainer Aus Simo Koskinen	ALM Motorsport (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX)	1:48:01.0

2017 rally not held

8. Shell Helix Rally Estonia 2018 13 – 15 July 2018 Round 1 of the 2018 Baltic Rally Trophy Round 5 of the 2018 Estonian Rally Championship Round 4 of the 2018 Latvian Rally Championship	1	1	Ott Tänak Martin Järveoja	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT (Toyota Yaris WRC)	1:12:31.9	16	146.40 km	104	52
	2	3	Hayden Paddon Sebastian Marshall	Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT (Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC)	1:13:31.0
	3	2	Craig Breen Scott Martin	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT (Citroën C3 WRC)	1:15:44.3

References

↑ "auto24 Rally Estonia". Fiaerc.com. Retrieved 17 July 2016.

External links

Official website

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[1] "auto24 Rally Estonia". Fiaerc.com. Retrieved 17 July 2016.