News & Events
07-09-2012
Check Solutions has Launched its new ver ...Check Solutions has Launched its new version of the "SS Tracking System", in its aim to offer to the Rally Of Lebanon's Administration, better tracking and visibility in the Special Stages, minute by minute.
05-09-2012
Sibling rivalry at the topThe giants will meet another time in Rally of Lebanon this weekend. Seven RRC and R4 cars will face each other (Nasser Al-Attiyah won’t make it unfortunately), in what promise to be an epic battle at the front, a flashback of the early 2000 days. It’s the Class 2!
05-09-2012
FWD Title or the Clio paradeAs we told previously on the article concerning the GrN, Rally of Lebanon 2012 will surely witness big fights. One of them will be in the FWD category or Class 5, where everything will be played. 3 drivers never let each other during the whole season but now it is the time to declare one of them FWD ...
05-09-2012
Amiouni targets the finish at ATCLNicolas Amiouni is the youngest Lebanese driver of the season. In 2012, he scored his first ever win in a local Jordan rally and was competing well in the Lebanese local rallies. He will be on Mitsubishi Evo X R4 codrived by Chadi Beyrouthi, the competition will be tough for him as the majority of t ...
05-09-2012
Ghassan Khoury: No bad memory, I love ra ...Ghassan Khoury is leading the FWD Rally Champioship, and is 5th overall. With his Renault Clio R3 and Cathy Derousseaux he will try to stay in front of Aaraj and Bou Hamdan to secure a win in the category, the 5th on a row.
Overview
ffdg 1952, It has all started then.

The first rally being run in the Middle East, "Rallye Liban - Syrie" with Mr. Pierre Hneineh being the winner on Renault Frigate, was organised by the Automobile and Touring Club. Thus, marking them the Middle East Pioneers of motor sports.
Yet, the concretion of the Middle East pearl of rallies had not started until the year 1968 when the 1st edition of the Rallye de Montagne took place with 14 foreign entrants out of fifty seven participants, of whom Springe the British and Sandro Munari the Italian were among them.

Other editions took place in 1970, 1973 and 1974 but, 1975 came and with it came the devastation that hit Lebanon.

The Rally had recommenced in 1980 but it was not until 1986 when the rally hit the Middle East Rally Championship doors with its candidacy, joining it in 1987 with 69 contestants. Hence, retrieve its leading role in motor sports in the region.

In 1993 the event adopted the title of Marlboro Rallye de Montagne and was renamed as the Marlboro Rally of Lebanon in the year 2000. That year, and as the result of years of expertise an persistence, the Rally of Lebanon got its candidacy to the World Rally Championship.





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