Croatia Joins the 2025 ERC Calendar: A Historic First!

Hello rally fans :)!

As I already mentioned (and our amazing community admin @ssekulji wrote about it) Croatia will host European Rally Championships (ERC) in 2025. On Monday (18th November) FIA had published an exciting revamped calendar for the 2025 season, and for the first time, Croatia is will be a host country. This is truly a monumental moment for Croatian motorsport :). (Thanks Mr. Šaškin🙇🏼‍♀️!)
Yes, we had WRC which is a category for itself, but ERC is just as as important and cool :).

The 2025 ERC calendar features eight rounds spread across Europe, with Croatia debuting as the eighth and last event on the schedule from October 03 to 05.

With a strong legacy of rallying and an an incredibly massive community of motorsport fans, Croatia’s inclusion in the ERC is really just a proof of “hard work pays off” to all of the work of everyone involved (myself included). As a proud Croatian and a rally fan, I can’t wait to see our roads host this event too :).

I hope people will realize just how BIG rally community is and how nothing goes unnoticed. It’s incredibly important to have @ssekulji representing Hive globally, both on rally and outside of it.

The 2025 ERC season will kick off in it’s (also) first visit to Rallye Internacional Sierra Morena🇪🇸 (in April 4-6), then Rally Hungary🇭🇺 will get its 5 minutes of fame (in May from 9-11), Royal Rally of Scandinavia🇸🇪 is next (in May from 29-31) and Rally Poland🇵🇱 (June 13-15) *They returned to the ERC after one season in WRC (in my opinion it wasn’t a very good rally.. a lot of safety issues). Other rounds on the calendar include Rally Roma di Capitale🇮🇹 (in July from 4-6), Barum Rally Zlín🇨🇿 (August 15-17) and Rali Ceredigion🇬🇧 (September 5-7).

Drumroll please!!!
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Croatia rally as a new season finale, with a new date, moving from April to October 3rd to 5th🥳🥳

*Rally Islas Canarias has been promoted to the WRC next season
*Rally Estonia that got re-promoted back to the WRC, it’s a deal with Latvia where the two Baltic countries will swap annually, allowing both to feature in the championship on a shared basis.

But for me, the highlight is undoubtedly Croatia’s debut in this legendary European championship. So proud to be Croatian :) (for now🤣!)

*Photo credit to FIA ERC!