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Monte Carlo Rally
Sign in to saveAlso known as Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo, Rallye Monte Carlo, Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo
annual rallying event held in Monaco and France
Key facts
- Status
- Active
- Genre
- Motor Sport event
- Date
- January
- Frequency
- Annual
- Locations
- Europe, Africa
- Founder
- Prince Albert I
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Monte Carlo
- Country
- Monaco
- Founded by
- Albert I, Prince of Monaco
- Location
- Monaco
- Sport
- motorsport
- Official website
- acm.mc/en/rally-events/rallye-monte-carlo
- Image
- Placa Rally Montecarlo (1963).jpg
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo
- topic's main category
- Category:Monte Carlo Rally
- inception
- 1911-01-00
- topic has template
- Template:Monte Carlo Rally
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
The Monte Carlo Rally or Rallye Monte-Carlo (officially Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo) is a rallying event organized each year by the Automobile Club de Monaco.
From its inception in 1911 by Prince Albert I, the rally was intended to demonstrate improvements and innovations in automobiles, and promote Monaco as a tourist resort on the Mediterranean shore. Before the format changed in 1997, the event was a “concentration rally” in which competitors would set off from various starting points around Europe and drive to Monaco, where the rally would continue to a set of special stages.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Monte Carlo Rally” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.