"A Quick Origin"

Rallying, yeah that bad-ass driving sport where fans wait hours upon hours(sometimes in the rain) only to catch a few seconds of some fantastic driving. Rallying or rally racing a form of motor competition that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars. Rallying motorsport is distinguished by running not on a circuit, but instead in a point-to-point format in which participants and their co-drivers drive between set control points(stages), leaving at regular intervals from one or more start points. Rallies may be won by pure speed within the stages or through a timed trial.

It was fairly hard for me to find the true origins of rallying. It definately started in Europe. It seems that the sport has roots in both France and Italy. The term 'rallying' first came to use from the first Monte Carlo Rally of January 1911, but the term didn't come to full usage until the late 1920s.

Apparently, rallying itself can be traced back to the 1894 Paris-Rouen Horseless Carriage Competition (Concours des Voitures sans Chevaux) the first automobile race in history, sponsored by a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal(1863-1944), which attracted considerable public interest and entries from leading manufacturers. Prizes were awarded to the vehicles by a jury based on the reports of the observers who rode in each car; the joint winners were Panhard et Levassor and Peugeot, two companies still in business today. Another source says that Count Jules de Dion on a De Dion-Bouton won the race. I'm not sure which statement is correct. Please feel free to comment on and clarify the confusion. Peaceness.


~Ronski