The Yalta Rally (also known as Yalta Rally Fest and Prime Yalta Rally) is a motorsport event for rally cars, located in Yalta, Ukraine at the Crimea peninsula. The first edition of the rally was held in 1986 and was held for 4 years, before it was canceled in the 1990s. In 2005 the Yalta Rally was revived as part of the Ukrainian Rally Championship. In 2011 the rally became part of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge with Juho Hänninen becoming the first international winner in the event. The event continued to be part of the IRC before its merger with the European Rally Championship in 2013.
Following the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the rally was cancelled. A revival of the event was scheduled in 2018 as part of the Russia Cup, but that event was cancelled as well.
List of winners Sourced from: YearNameWinnerCar 1986 Yalta Rally Ivars Čaune VAZ 2105 VFTS 1987 Yalta Rally Eugenijus Tumalevičius VAZ 2105 VFTS1988: Not Held 1989 Yalta Rally Canceled 1990 Yalta Rally Sergey Alyasov Lada Samara 1991 Rally Yalta-Krym Nikolay BolshikhBMW M3 1992 Antika Rally Nikolay BolshikhBMW M31993–2001: Not held 2002 Antika Rally Stanislav GryazinMitsubishi Lancer Evo VI2003–2004: Not held 2005 life:) Yalta Rally International Yuriy Protasov Subaru Impreza STi N8 2006 Nemiroff Yalta Rally Volodymyr Petrenko Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 2007 Prime Yalta Rally Oleksandr Saliuk Jr. Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 2008 Prime Yalta Rally Yuriy Protasov Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 2009 Prime Yalta Rally Oleksandr Saliuk Jr. Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 2010 Prime Yalta Rally Igor Chapovskyi Subaru Impreza STi N12 2011 Prime Yalta Rally Juho Hänninen Škoda Fabia S2000 2012 Prime Yalta Rally Yağiz Avci Ford Fiesta S2000 2013 WOG Yalta Rally Fest Oleksandr Saliuk Jr. Škoda Fabia S2000 2014–2017: Not held 2018 Mriya Yalta Rally Cancelled
Oleksandr Saliuk Jr. raced with Kazakh racing license in 2013
References
External links The official website for the rally