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Rally Liepāja
The Rally Liepāja is an international rallying event that travels northwards along the coastline of the Baltic Sea from Liepāja to Ventspils in Latvia. The event is a round of the European Rally Championship and the Latvian Rally Championship.
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The Rally Liepāja is an international rallying event that travels northwards along the coastline of the Baltic Sea from Liepāja to Ventspils in Latvia. The event is a round of the European Rally Championship and the Latvian Rally Championship.
The rally was run for the first time in 2013 as the first international auto racing event to be held in Latvia since gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and just the second motorsport event after the motorcycle Speedway Grand Prix of Latvia.
Originally the rally was designed as a snow rally and unlike its neighbour in the ERC calendar, the Jänner Rallye, was not a tarmac based event but a traditional snow rally similar to events like Rally Sweden.The inaugural event was won by Finnish driver Jari Ketomaa driving a Ford Fiesta RRC in a one-off appearance for the British Autotek Motorsport team in the European Rally Championship.
In 2016 the rally was moved to a September date, becoming a gravel rally, before settling into October in 2017.
The rally joined the World Rally Championship calendar as Rally Latvia in 2024.
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| Year | Winner | Car |
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| 2013 | Jari Ketomaa | Ford Fiesta RRC |
| 2014 | Esapekka Lappi | Škoda Fabia S2000 |
| 2015 | Craig Breen | Peugeot 208 T16 R5 |
| 2016 | Ralfs Sirmacis | Škoda Fabia R5 |
| 2017 | Nikolay Gryazin | Škoda Fabia R5 |
| 2018 | Nikolay Gryazin | Škoda Fabia R5 |
| 2019 | Oliver Solberg | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 |
| 2020 | Oliver Solberg | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 |
| 2021 | Nikolay Gryazin | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 |
| 2022 | Mārtiņš Sesks | Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo |
| 2023 | Mārtiņš Sesks | Škoda Fabia RS Rally2 |
| 2024† | Kalle Rovanperä | Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 |
† — Rally was part of the World Rally Championship.
- Official website
- European Rally Championship
- Rally Liepāja at eWRC-results
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