2025 Dates are ready! Easter weekend sees us at Neston Park, between Bath and Corsham to run on Saturday afternoon and Sunday on a fantastic new stage. On Saturday evening be entertained by Hero Drivers at our social and a classic car show joins on Sunday. What a way to start our year! The last weekend in June sees the fourth running of Lombard Rally Festival Grimsthorpe Castle, Bourne in Lincolnshire, on its fantastic all tarmac stage. The last weekend in July takes us to a venue in the North East of England, followed four weeks later by Lombard Rally Festival Craufurdland Castle at Kilmarnock. Run for the first time in 2024, this mixed forestry and tarmac stage produced a fantastic event and promises to be even better in 2025. Revesby in Lincolnshire follows two weeks later with a new stage to improve spectator viewing. Finally of course, Lombard Rally Bath will complete the year as usual in October
No other series of historic rally car demonstration events offers such venues for the drivers, combined with such a spectacle for the spectator. Each event will offer a special hospitality zone for spectators, the chance to interact with the drivers and the cars, with other displays and attractions for the family.
We are proud to have organised the UK's first historic rally tour with untimed special stages in 2018 in Bath and started bringing the concept to other parts of the UK in 2019. The process continues with our Rally Festivals around the country. We hope that you can join us, whether as an entrant or as a spectator.
Back in the 1970s and 1980s the competitive sections of the Lombard RAC Rally took place largely in forests which were not easy for spectators to visit. In 1977 the concept of the first day visiting spectator stages at stately homes and other more accessible venues. Our events are designed to recreate that, to allow you to get up close to cars from that period.
If you fancy having a go, we can organise a hire car for you from a number of independent suppliers - you don't have to be as sideways as this! Some tuition in the car before the event will also be available.
On our events at more than one venue there will be some navigation involved which is deliberately designed to be as easy as possible. Once again, it is possible to organise tuition for this as well. So taking part in one of our events can be a truly family affair!
Other events have followed our lead, as they say, imitation is the sincerest type of flattery!
Join us on the original and the best historic rally car demonstration events in the UK.
We look forward to seeing you soon on a Lombard Rally Bath or Lombard Rally Festival event.
Organised by Rally Enthusiasts for Rally Enthusiasts and others who want to learn about a period frequently described as the 'Golden Years of Rallying'.
Whether amazing cars from the period, or amazing drivers from the period, they each have great tales to tell. We welcome the drivers who want to recreate what those lucky enough to have taken part, experienced at the time - make sure that you join us! Whether you join us to spectate, or whether you would like to hire a Ford Escort Mk2, a Vauxhall Chevette HSR or a MG Maestro and enter - we can help.