Olympus Rally

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Ken Block, winner of the 2012 Olympus Rally

The Olympus Rally is an event in the motorsport of rallying. While it has usually been run as a national rally, in 1986–1988, it was a round in the FIA World Rally Championship, the most recent time a WRC rally has been run in the United States and the last in North America until Rally Mexico in 2004.

TSD Rally

The first Olympus Rally was held as a Time Speed Distance rally in 1968. It continued as a TSD rally until 1973 when SCCA started the SCCA Pro Rally Championship with the Olympus Rally as its second event.

World Rally Championship

After being observed by the FIA for WRC status in 1985, from 1986–1988, the Olympus was a round of the World Rally Championship. From 1985–1987, the rally was sponsored by Toyota.

The 1985 Olympus “World Championship Prototype” event was won by Hannu Mikkola and Arne Hertz in a Group B Audi Quattro S1.

Markku Alen emerged on top of the results as the 1986 Olympus first gained full World Championship status, taking a Lancia Delta S4 and co-driver Ilkka Kivimäki to victory.

In 1987, the Olympus was attended by a number of top international teams, including Nissan, Toyota, and Suzuki. Juha Kankkunen won overall, as his and other Lancia Delta HF 4WD’s dominated the podium.

Massimo “Miki” Biasion won the fourth and final Olympus World Championship Rally in 1988 – his fourth of the season for Lancia, on his way to being the first Italian FIA World Rally Champion.

Winners

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Year	Driver	Codriver	Car
1985	Template:Flagicon Hannu Mikkola	Template:Flagicon Arne Hertz	Audi Sport Quattro S1
1986	Template:Flagicon Markku Alén	Template:Flagicon Ilkka Kivimäki	Lancia Delta S4
1987	Template:Flagicon Juha Kankkunen	Template:Flagicon Juha Piironen	Lancia Delta HF 4WD
1988	Template:Flagicon Miki Biasion	Template:Flagicon Tiziano Siviero	Lancia Delta Integrale

National Rally

The Olympus Rally was first held as a stage rally in 1973. It was headquartered in Shelton, WA and was part of the SCCA Pro Rally Championship. It continued to be part of that championship through 1975. In 1976, it became part of the NARA (North American Rally Association) championship (which later changed its name to NARRA (North American Rally Racing Association)). It was part of that championship through 1979. In 1980, it switched back to the SCCA ProRally Championship and remained in that championship through 1987.

While the name was used for a regional rally supporting the 2001 Wild West SCCA Pro Rally, the Olympus Rally was not held from 1989 through 2005.

The Olympus Rally returned as national rally in 2006 and was part of the United States Rally Championship. In 2007, it switched to the Rally America National Championship and was part of that championship through 2012. After a dispute with Rally America, the rally was cancelled in 2013. It was originally scheduled to return as a NASA Rally Sport National qualifier round in 2014, however the issues with Rally America were resolved and the rally ran as a Rally America regional that year. In 2015, it returned to the Rally America National Championship. In 2017 it became sanctioned by the American Rally Association and has been a round in the ARA National Championship since then.

Winners

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Year	Driver	Codriver	Car	Rally HQ
1973	Template:Flagicon Gene Henderson	Template:Flagicon Ken Pogue	AMC Jeep	Shelton, WA
1974	Template:Flagicon Gene Henderson	Template:Flagicon Ken Pogue	AMC Jeep	Shelton, WA
1975	Template:Flagicon John Buffum	Template:Flagicon Vicki Dykema	Ford Escort	Tumwater, WA
1976	Template:Flagicon John Buffum	Template:Flagicon Vicki Dykema	Porsche Carrera	Olympia, WA
1977	Template:Flagicon Ron Richardson	Template:Flagicon Ray Hocker	Plymouth Arrow	Tacoma, WA
1978	Template:Flagicon John Buffum	Template:Flagicon Doug Shepherd	Triumph TR7	Olympia, WA
1979	Template:Flagicon Hendrik Blok	Template:Flagicon Damon Trimble	Plymouth Arrow	Olympia, WA
1980	Template:Flagicon Rod Millen	Template:Flagicon Dave Weiman	Mazda RX-7	Tumwater, WA
1981	Template:Flagicon Rod Millen	Template:Flagicon Bob Kraushaar	Mazda RX-7	Olympia, WA
1982	Template:Flagicon John Buffum	Template:Flagicon Doug Shepherd	Audi Quattro	Tumwater, WA
1983	Template:Flagicon Rod Millen	Template:Flagicon R. Dale Kraushaar	Mazda RX-7	Tumwater, WA
1984	Template:Flagicon Rod Millen	Template:Flagicon R. Dale Kraushaar	Mazda RX-7	Tumwater, WA
2006	Template:Flagicon Wyeth Gubelmann	Template:Flagicon Cindy Krolikowski	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Shelton, WA
2007	Template:Flagicon Ramana Lagemann	Template:Flagicon Mark Williams	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution	Shelton, WA
2008	Template:Flagicon Ken Block	Template:Flagicon Alessandro Gelsomino	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Pomeroy, WA
2009	Template:Flagicon Travis Pastrana	Template:Flagicon Christian Edstrom	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Aberdeen, WA
2010	Template:Flagicon Travis Pastrana	Template:Flagicon Christian Edstrom	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Ocean Shores, WA
2011	Template:Flagicon David Higgins	Template:Flagicon Craig Drew	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Ocean Shores, WA
2012	Template:Flagicon Ken Block	Template:Flagicon Alessandro Gelsomino	Ford Fiesta	Olympia, WA
2014	Template:Flagicon Hardy Schmidtke	Template:Flagicon Chris Kremer	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution	Shelton, WA
2015	Template:Flagicon David Higgins	Template:Flagicon Craig Drew	Subaru WRX STI	Shelton, WA
2016	Template:Flagicon David Higgins	Template:Flagicon Craig Drew	Subaru WRX STI	Shelton, WA
2017	Template:Flagicon David Higgins	Template:Flagicon Craig Drew	Subaru WRX STI	Shelton, WA
2018	Template:Flagicon Patrik Sandell	Template:Flagicon Per Almkvist	Subaru WRX STI	Shelton, WA
2019	Template:Flagicon Oliver Solberg	Template:Flagicon Denis Giraudet	Subaru WRX STI	Shelton, WA
2020	Template:Flagicon Barry McKenna	Template:Flagicon Leon Jordan	Škoda Fabia	Shelton, WA
2021	Template:Flagicon Travis Pastrana	Template:Flagicon Rhianon Gelsomino	Subaru WRX STI	Shelton, WA
2022	Template:Flagicon Brandon Semenuk	Template:Flagicon Keaton Williams	Subaru WRX STI	Shelton, WA
2023	Template:Flagicon Brandon Semenuk	Template:Flagicon Keaton Williams	Subaru WRX ARA24	Shelton, WA
2024	Template:Flagicon Brandon Semenuk	Template:Flagicon Keaton Williams	Subaru WRX ARA25	Shelton, WA

External links

• Olympus Rally
• WRC Olympus Rally pictures from prorallypix.com