BACK TO THE ROOTS

In 2016, Slowly Sideways France created the Event: Group B cars, those legendary vehicles that had disappeared from the roads 30 years ago, were back.

Alongside them were all the iconic cars that had made rallying history. For the first time in France, they were on display for the amazed spectators, some of whom weren't even born when they raced in the World Rally Championship. The Vosges Rally Festival was born. After two editions in La Bresse, followed by a foray into Alsace, the Festival will return on 1st, 2nd and 3rd October 2026 to its original home, the Vosges.

ALSACE RALLYE FESTIVAL IS BACK

For its sixth edition, the Alsace Rallye Festival is heading to northern Alsace.

A region which saw the birth of our nine-time world champion, Sébastien Loeb. But Northern Alsace is also one of the birthplaces of the automobile. From the end of the 19th century, Eugène de Dietrich manufactured motor cars in his Reichshoffen factory, with a young engineer named Ettore Bugatti on his team.

MICHELE MOUTON INAUGURATE THE EXHIBITION "LES LEGENDES DU RALLYE"

On Monday evening, the Musée National de l'Automobile de Mulhouse - Collection Schlumpf inaugurated the exhibition entitled “Rally Legends”. Organized in collaboration with Slowly Sideways France, the exhibition brings together 22 cars that have written the history of rallying.

Guillaume Gasser, general manager of the museum, and Jacky Jung, president of Slowly Sideways France, welcomed Michèle Mouton, who agreed to be the event's godmother. After sharing her memories with the public, she and Cathy Muller cut the inaugural ribbon.

The assembly discovered than a condensed version of half a century of World Championship racing. The Peugeot 404 of the Safari Rally is the oldest of this exhibition, which takes visitors right up to the C4 WRC that enabled Sébastien Loeb to win the title on home soil on the Rallye de France - Alsace 2010. In between, there are many nuggets to discover, such as the Opel Ascona with which Walter Röhrl won the 1975 Acropolis Rally. This car, the first Opel to win a world championship event, remained in Greece and was found years later by a German collector. A little further on,