Lotus Rally Pyrenees: Oct 2-12, 2027!

Our Pyrenees rally was conceived back in 2008 as the ideal follow-up to the first Liège-Brescia-Liège rally for microcars, and was run as Micro Marathon 2009. The route is fantastic, taking in all the best passes in the French Pyrenees, including some almost unknown ones with absolutely breathtaking scenery - and great driving of course, on remarkably quiet roads. Crossing into Spain, we head to the Atlantic coast at beautiful San Sebastian, before heading inland to the wonderful wine region of La Rioja (with a bodega hotel and wine tasting, of course!). Spain's interior has many stunning roads, like the one above, where wildlife is far more plentiful than traffic - we drive some of the finest as we head through this land of castles and passes, crossing south-east to glorious Tarragona, former capital of the western Roman Empire, on the Mediterranean coast. From there we head back up into the Pyrenees through the extraordinary Principality of Andorra, with the rally's highest pass at over 2400m. Returning to France, we traverse some more stunning passes before dropping down to a triumphal finish in the astonishing mediaeval citadel of Carcassonne - uniquely finishing right in the centre of the normally pedestrianised citadel. 

See our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/LBLRallies for daily reports from the full route recce, which we drove in our 1985 Lotus Excel in August 2026. This will soon be supplemented by daily reports from the October 2026 event. Run in 2009 and 2021 for microcars, 2014 for Jaguars, 2021 for Triumph TRs and 2023 for MGs, our Pyrenees rally is a great favourite and after running in October 2026 for all classics, it will return in October 2027 just for Lotus cars. 

The event is divided into three separate categories -
Authentic for Lotus or Lotus-engined cars of a type that could have competed in the original Liège rallies (up to end 1971)
Spirit for Lotus and Lotus-engined cars built up to the end of the Colin Chapman era
Youngtimer for Lotus and Lotus-derived cars of a type introduced post-Chapman (1983 on).

ENTRIES ARE NOW OPEN for LOTUS RALLY PYRENEES 2027, again on October 2-12 - contact us now for the full colour brochure and get yourselves on the Entry List!