Rally: Road Competition with an imposed average speed run entirely or partly on roads open to normal traffic. In its annually published International Sporting Code, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) includes the following definition of rally:
Road rallies are the original form held on highways open to public traffic. Rallying is typically distinguished from other forms of motorsport by not running directly against other competitors over laps of a circuit, but instead in a point-to-point format in which participants leave at regular intervals from one or more start points. Competitors can use production vehicles which must be road-legal if being used on open roads or specially built competition vehicles suited to crossing specific terrain. Rallies may be short in the form of trials at a single venue, or several thousand miles long in an extreme endurance rally.ĭepending on the format, rallies may be organised on private or public roads, open or closed to traffic, or off-road in the form of cross country or rally-raid. Rallying is a wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive motoring elements such as speed tests (often called 'rally racing'), navigation tests, or the ability to reach waypoints or a destination at a prescribed time or average speed. Petter Solberg driving a Subaru Impreza WRC on gravel at the 2006 Cyprus Rally, a World Rally Championship event For other uses, see Rallying (disambiguation).
