There's less and less time left until the start of the race in Novorossiysk. First entry applications are already coming (including from foreign participants). The Novorossiysk event is once again setting the fashion for other Russian motorsport competitions, as it's not the first time that we're working with new documents, here under the European Rally Championship and Cup's regulations.

The first WRC candidate event in Russia concluded.

The chairman of «Novorossiysk Rally of Russia 2008» Sergey Uspenskiy summarized his first impressions soon after the competition had finished. And now, as the work on the second edition has already started, it turns out, that being a candidate event won't be the only international status of the rally in Novorossiysk.

Sergey Uspenskiy tells us of what he expects from the coming year:

Overall result:

1. Alexander Zheludov/Irina Kolomeitseva (Subaru)

2. Sergey Naryshkin/Anton Trostin (Ford Fiesta)

3. Mikhail Milov/Dmitry Kolomiets (Ford Fiesta)

A rally can hardly be called promising if there's not enough exposure in media. And whatever some people might say, but without journalists any motorsport event will become boring and even pointless.  That's why experienced organaisers pay so much attention to public relations and working with media. The best confirmation of this turned out to be the big and comfortable media centre of "Novorossiysk Rally of Russia 2008" and its experienced staff, which served in two languages - Russian and English. The results of such a work paid off immediately, as publications were widely spread, reaching even the "sanctum" of world rallying - the official website WRC.com.

  A new VIDEO section is now available on our website. There you can watch some video shootage of the rally.

  Please take into account, that most of the videos are recorded from the live coverage without any editing or cut. All videos are published in the original, without translation.

An unpredictable, wilful and insidious Novorossiysk Rally kept the sportsmen and spectators in suspense from the first till the last kilometer of the route. Nobody managed to predict all eventual winners correctly, and no wonder why - it was impossible to foresee such a historical result! But our traditional game "Pick'em" can't do without a winner.