Cork 20 Rally

The Cork 20 Rally is a long-standing motor endurance test lasting twenty hours which is held annually in the vicinity of Cork in Munster, Ireland. It is now a well established international event, and a round of the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship drawing competitors from Ireland North and South, Britain, Europe and further afield. The rally was part of the National Rally Championship between 1966 & 1976. It became a full International Rally in 1977.

Currently run under the auspices of the Munster Car Club, the Cork 20 Rally is one of the oldest motor rallies in the world, the 2010 event was the 95th. The first rally was held in 1912.

In the 1950s the Cork and Munster Motorcycle Club, based at the neo-classical building Vernon Mount gave strong support to the Cork 20 Rally.

In 2007 WRC drivers Sébastien Loeb C4 WRC, Daniel Sordo Xsara WRC, Mikko Hirvonen Focus RS WRC 06/07 all started the rally heading a field of 130 of which 17 were World Rally Cars . With Sébastien Loeb winning out after two days and 14 stages.

The recent courses are in the region of 280 km (170 mi) in length.

Organisers of the Cork "20" Rally are the Munster Motor Cycle & Car Club Ltd. Vernon Mount,Kinsale Rd Cork. Clerks of the Course are as follows :

The event has been run in most parts of Cork county since the 1960s, Kinsale was the main hub throughout the 1970s while Cork city has been home to the event a few times also. The final stage of the 1980 event started on Patrick Street and went through Grand Parade and the South Mall in front of thousands of spectators. In later years the event has run in the north and east Cork regions with various forays into mid Cork as well and the event returned to West Cork in 2010.

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