The Historic Rally Trophy, which starts with the Mikkeli race, is run with old rally cars classified before 1991.
The Historic Rally Trophy season starts on Saturday with the Mikkeli race.
The start and finish of the rally are at Mikkeli square. The first cars start around 11 o’clock and the race director Jarno Neuvonen estimate that the first cars will arrive at the finish line from 4 p.m.
Maaherrankatu in the center is partly closed to other traffic due to the competition.
The competition includes five special tests, totaling approximately 64 ek kilometers.
104 cars have registered for the rally. According to Neuvonen, there are other rallies at the time, so he considers the number of participants to be reasonably good.
The service park is in the yard of the Xamki campus. The public has free access to the service park and the market.
The Historic Rally Trophy series is run with old rally cars. Currently, cars classified before 1991 are accepted as cars. Cars of different ages compete for their respective age championships. In addition, the classes are divided according to different cubic volumes and degrees of tuning.
The series has been run since 2005.