Thu 19 Sep 2024

They’re back! ERC fan awards return for 2024

The FIA European Rally Championship’s popular fan awards are returning for 2024 with voting for four categories now open.

From today, Thursday 19 September, ERC fans can vote for their favourites across the ERC’s social media channels from a shortlist of award nominees.  


There are four categories in 2024:  


ERC Drive of the Year  


ERC Livery of the Year  


ERC Most Improved Driver of the Year  


ERC Stage-End Quote of the Year  


The nominees for each section appear below with FIAERC.com publishing an overview of each award and the respective nominees from tomorrow (Friday).

ERC Drive of the Year
Alejandro Cachón, Rally Islas Canarias
Georg Linnamäe, SS14, Delfi Rally Estonia
Hayden Paddon, JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion
Dominik Stříteský, SS8, Barum Czech Rally Zlin  


ERC Livery of the Year
Yoann Bonato
Simone Campedelli
Castrol MEM Rally Team
Miko Marczyk  


ERC Most Improved Driver of the Year
Mathieu Franceschi
Mille Johansson
Andrea Mabellini
Simone Tempestini  


ERC Stage-End Quote of the Year
Johan Kristoffersson, BAUHAUS Royal Rally of Scandinavia
Efrén Llarena, Rally di Roma Capitale
Hayden Paddon, Rally di Roma Capitale
Petter Solberg, BAUHAUS Royal Rally of Scandinavia

ERC championship manager Iain Campbell said: “We’re really pleased to be bringing back the ERC fan awards for 2024. They’ve proved really popular since we introduced them in 2022 and it’s great to give the fans the opportunity to have their say. From looking at the list of nominees I can see the voting being really close and I look forward to seeing the final results.”  


Voting is available via the ERC’s social media channels and closes at midnight CET on 1 October. The awards will be presented at the ERC Awards night in Poland on 14 October.

Europe
Starts: Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 7:00:00 AM
Poland
Starts: Friday, October 11, 2024 at 9:30:00 AM
China
Starts: Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 3:00:00 AM