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Rally Liepaja
Status	active
Genre	motorsporting event
Frequency	annual
Location(s)	Liepāja
Country	Latvia
Years active	11
Inaugurated	2013
Website	www.lvrally.com/en

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.

History

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.^[1]

Winners

Sourced from:^[2]

Year	Winner	Car
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.

References

^ Howard, Tom (17 February 2023). "Latvia joins WRC calendar from 2024". Motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
^ eWRC-results.com. "rally database". eWRC-results.com. Retrieved 2019-10-23.

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v t e Rally Liepāja
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