Rally Racing Cars Classic Clásicos Históricos en Matadepera y Costa Brava (Catalunya) (JC)

Rally Racing Cars Classic Clásicos Históricos en Matadepera y Costa Brava (Catalunya) (JC)

The Rally Catalunya (originally and in Catalan Rally Catalunya), officially RallyRACC Catalunya-Costa Daurada (Rally of Spain), is a rally car race that takes place annually in Catalonia, in the northeast of Spain, since 1957 and organized by the RACC. It is scoring for the World Rally Championship since 1991 and was scoring for the Spanish Rally Championship from 1973 to 1987 and for the European Rally Championship from 1980 to 1990.

The parallel championships of the World Championship have also been scoring. For the Junior World Rally Championship (2001-2010, 2012-2013), for the WRC3, previously the Production Championship (1991-1993, 1995-2001, 2011-2014) and for the WRC, initially Super 2000 Championship, since 2012 .

The Spanish and French pilots are the great dominators of the race where they have been imposed on thirty-nine occasions. The Citroën team was unbeatable in Catalonia from 2005 to 2012 with Sébastien Loeb, who won eight times in a row and with three different cars. The French drivers with nineteen victories also won the double on three occasions: 1999, 2001 and 2003. By brands, Citroën has the most wins with nine (1999, 2005-2013), followed by Lancia with eight (1976, 1983 , 1985-1990).