History and Archive
1971 - 1. rally started on May 8th. From the contemporary contest fans’ point of view this race consisted of „funny“ one special stage. At the beginning Rallye used to be run only as a local competition. Later with the growing level of its performance as the Championship of Slovakia. Although some teams from abroad usually participated in the race, the importance of this race never overpassed the borders of Slovakia.
1982 - The competition became a part of the Czechoslovak Championship series. Well known teams appeared at the starting line - Škoda Mladá Boleslav, Barum, Agroteam Slušovice, Chemopetrol Litvínov, Stavba Praha. They showed their driving skills to the spectators in 20 special stages in Košice surroundings. Excellent drivers like Sedlař, Blahna, Sivik, Trajbold, Pavlík, Sibera, Křeček, Abrahám, Arazim were among regular contestants. Rallye itself gradually was gaining not only its name but the space in media as well.
1994 - This rally represented a real breakthrough and a quantum leap. After 5 year break organisers succeeded in recovering the Rallye idea and prepared the 20th jubilee race. Recovered and ambitious team of organisers set up a very ambitious goal: to get this Rallye to the group of best races in Europe. It was the cooperation with Hungarian ASN and incorporation of the Rallye VSŽ Košice in the series of Hungarian Championship that contributed to the extension of drivers field and to the growth of the competitions quality. The competing cars introduced themselves to tens of thousands spectators on the routes in Košice vicinity. Also live transmissions of TV from attractive city „circuit“ special stages and permanently growing presence of domestic and foreign TV staffs and journalists contributed very much to the Rallye popularity. Slowly but steadily Rallye VSŽ Košice became an important event in the world of automotive sports.
1997 - FIA decided to incorporate the Rallye VSŽ Košice in the series of the FIA European Championship with the coefficient of 2.
1998 - The organisers prepared an extraordinary delicacy for the fans Košice event was counted in the FIA European Championship and Championships of additional three countries - Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic. This was something unprecedented! Top drivers could be seen at the starting line, the drivers that are seldom visible at contests with the highest coefficients: Enrico Bertone, European champion together with manyfold champion of Slovakia Michal Koči, champions of the Czech Republic Dolák and Palivec, actual champions of Hungary Tóth - Gergely, present Hungarian #1 crew Kiss - Bukki, Slovak champions Bereš - Kurus and so on. And what about the cars? Just a bit of statistics would do. There were 85 cars at the starting line, 13 of them were of the strongest class A-8, four of them in WRC version. As many as 14 cars competed in the A-7 class including Škoda Octavia kit car, 17 vehicles were in the N-4 class. The Rallye could be savoured directly at the track by as many as 300 thousand viewers at places, or at the screens of the Slovak television. The record number of 98 journalists and 25 TV representatives were accredited.
1999 - 2004 - Under the new name Rallye Košice already traditionally perfectly organised competition counted for the FIA European Championship, Championship of the Slovak Republic and Cup of the Slovak Republic.
1982 - The competition became a part of the Czechoslovak Championship series. Well known teams appeared at the starting line - Škoda Mladá Boleslav, Barum, Agroteam Slušovice, Chemopetrol Litvínov, Stavba Praha. They showed their driving skills to the spectators in 20 special stages in Košice surroundings. Excellent drivers like Sedlař, Blahna, Sivik, Trajbold, Pavlík, Sibera, Křeček, Abrahám, Arazim were among regular contestants. Rallye itself gradually was gaining not only its name but the space in media as well.
1994 - This rally represented a real breakthrough and a quantum leap. After 5 year break organisers succeeded in recovering the Rallye idea and prepared the 20th jubilee race. Recovered and ambitious team of organisers set up a very ambitious goal: to get this Rallye to the group of best races in Europe. It was the cooperation with Hungarian ASN and incorporation of the Rallye VSŽ Košice in the series of Hungarian Championship that contributed to the extension of drivers field and to the growth of the competitions quality. The competing cars introduced themselves to tens of thousands spectators on the routes in Košice vicinity. Also live transmissions of TV from attractive city „circuit“ special stages and permanently growing presence of domestic and foreign TV staffs and journalists contributed very much to the Rallye popularity. Slowly but steadily Rallye VSŽ Košice became an important event in the world of automotive sports.
1997 - FIA decided to incorporate the Rallye VSŽ Košice in the series of the FIA European Championship with the coefficient of 2.
1998 - The organisers prepared an extraordinary delicacy for the fans Košice event was counted in the FIA European Championship and Championships of additional three countries - Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic. This was something unprecedented! Top drivers could be seen at the starting line, the drivers that are seldom visible at contests with the highest coefficients: Enrico Bertone, European champion together with manyfold champion of Slovakia Michal Koči, champions of the Czech Republic Dolák and Palivec, actual champions of Hungary Tóth - Gergely, present Hungarian #1 crew Kiss - Bukki, Slovak champions Bereš - Kurus and so on. And what about the cars? Just a bit of statistics would do. There were 85 cars at the starting line, 13 of them were of the strongest class A-8, four of them in WRC version. As many as 14 cars competed in the A-7 class including Škoda Octavia kit car, 17 vehicles were in the N-4 class. The Rallye could be savoured directly at the track by as many as 300 thousand viewers at places, or at the screens of the Slovak television. The record number of 98 journalists and 25 TV representatives were accredited.
1999 - 2004 - Under the new name Rallye Košice already traditionally perfectly organised competition counted for the FIA European Championship, Championship of the Slovak Republic and Cup of the Slovak Republic.
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Winners gallery of the Rally Kosice
Rok | Posádka | Štát | Team |
1971 | Július Ivan – Ján Mertiňák | SK/SK | AMK Poprad |
1972 | Jiři Iman – Juraj Ondrejčák | SK/SK | AMK Košice |
1973 | Jaroslav Jurek – Vojtech Bezecný | SK/SK | AMK VSŽ Košice |
1974 | Jozef Studenič – Vladimír Jozefek | SK/SK | Dukla Nitra |
1975 | Ivan Pallag – Eugen Jurkovič | SK/SK | AMK Stavba Košice |
1976 | Ivan Pallag – Eugen Jurkovič | SK/SK | AMK Stavba Košice |
1977 | Jozef Schreiner – Milan Skyva | SK/SK | AMK Calex Zl. Moravce |
1978 | Pavol Podolaj - Peter Rosival | SK/SK | AMK Rallye Bratislava |
1979 | Ján Hybáček – Pavol Hrevuš | SK/SK | AMK Bratislava IV. |
1980 | Ivan Pallag – Eugen Jurkovič | SK/SK | AMK Stavba Košice |
1981 | Ladislav Horňák – Juraj Horňák | SK/SK | AMK VSŽ Košice |
1982 | Pavel Valoušek – Karel Jirátko | CZ/CZ | Agroteam JZD Slušovice |
1983 | Daniel Turcsányi – DanielTurcsányi ml. | SK/SK | AMK Rally sport Sp. Nová Ves |
1984 | Milan Filo – Ivan Filo | SK/SK | AMK Topolčany |
1985 | Ján Rakottayi – Mikuláš Pallay | SK/SK | AMK ČSAD Rožňava |
1986 | Leoš Pavlík – Karel Jirátko | CZ/CZ | Agrotea JZD Slušovice |
1987 | Václav Blahna – Pavel Schovánek | CZ/CZ | JZD AK Slušovice |
1988 | Leoš Pavlík – Karel Jirátko | CZ/CZ | JZD AK Slušovice |
1989 | Pavel Sibera – Petr Gross | CZ/CZ | AZNP Mladá Boleslav |
1994 | Jozef Béreš – Michal Koči | SK/SK | Styllex Tunning Košice |
1995 | Jozef Béreš – Michal Koči | SK/SK | Styllex Tunning Košice |
1996 | Toth János ml. – Gergely Ferenc | H/H | Aral Rallye team |
1997 | Ranga Lásló – Buki Ernó | H/H | MOL Rallye team |
1998 | Kiss Ferenc – Buki Ernó | H/H | MOL Rallye team |
1999 | Stanislav Chovanec – Karel Holáň | CZ/CZ | Rallye team Matador |
2000 | Michal Gargulák – Jiři Malčík | CZ/CZ | Slovnaft Rallye team |
2001 | Jánusz Kulig – Emil Horniaček | PL/SK | AMK Mikona |
2002 | Tibor Cserhalmi - Karol Bodnár | SK/SK | Mimex s.r.o. |
2003 | Tibor Cserhalmi – Martin Krajňák | SK/SK | Mimex- Charouz systém |
2004 | Tibor Cserhalmi – Martin Krajňák | SK/SK | Mimex Miva Motosport |
2005 | Túri Tamás - Kerék István | H/H | TP+2K Auto-Motorsport Kft |
2006 | Grzegorz Grzyb - Robert Hundla | PL/PL | RUFA SPORT |
2007 | Igor Drotár - Vladomír Bánoci | SK/SK | Slovakia rally System |
2008 | Jozef Béreš jn - Róbert Miller | SK/SK | Tempus Styllex Motorsport |
2009 | Jozef Béreš jn - Róbert Miller | SK/SK | Styllex Motorsport |
2010 | Béreš Jozef jn - Muller Róbert | SK/SK | Styllex Motorsport |
2011 | Béreš Jozef jn - Muller Róbert | SK/SK | Styllex Motorsport |
2012 | Kajetanowicz K - Baran Jaroslaw | POL | Lotos Dynamic Rally Team |
2013 | Grzyb Grzegorz - Hundla Robert | POL | Rufa Sport |
2014 | Norbert Herczig - Igor Bacigál | HU/HU | Škoda Rally Team Hungária |
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