When: Monday, February 24th
Where: Westhill, first two stages of the Rally!
Server: RG World Rally Cup


*Server will be passworded in race day, all the participants will be sent the server password.


After a spectacular World Rally Cup debut in Blackwood, won by SSM x Silva, the circus moves to the United States for the most epic Rally of the season.

It's time for the Westhill Rally: big stages, high speeds, lots of dangers around the course, this rally is going to split the man from the boys and maybe create some upsets in the overall standings!

Westhill Rally begins on monday, February 24th, with two stages: a more technical Prologue stage, built around the famous WestLodge Hotel, and a big Stage 1, with over 12 km in lenght!


Let's dive into the details of each stage, take notes Rally Drivers!



PROLOGUE STAGE
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A very technical debut stage in Westhill.
A short stage, but very tricky, with lots of technical bits and dangerous points, where you'll have to stay clean to avoid time penalties!
Some big jumps too and an iconic section around the WestLodge Hotel of Westhill!

TIMED RUN





SPECIAL STAGE 1
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Biggest stage of the season (SO FAR), with over 12 km's of lenght.
This stage offers a wide variety of terrains and challenges: some slower, technical parts paired with super fast, full-throttle section.
A good balance in the setup between off-road and tarmac will be needed to be fast here!

This stage will start to shape up the overall classification, before the Westhill's Super Stage, planned on March 10th.

TIMED RUN






EVENT SCHEDULE

19.00 - Free Practice
20.00 - Prologue Starts
20.30 - 10 minutes break
20.40 - Stage 1 starts
21.10 - end of event


All times CET (GMT+1)



EVENT SPECIFIC RULES

- All the stages besides the Bonus race will feature the "Autocross start".
This means that when you'll join the start gate, you'll see a countdown counter.
When it reaches zero, you can start for your timed run!

- Each driver will be called on reverse champ order.

- 1 minute of gap between drivers calls.

- The drivers will be called on reverse championship order

- Rally is a matter of precision: be careful to not HIT objects around the track to avoid TIME PENALTIES

- There won't be the need for a co-driver are there are plenty of road signals around the course.
Anyway, if you want to have one, there's no limitation on that.



MORE INFO

You can find all the info you need in the main thread of the championship, including cars, points system, sign ups and much more!

https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/110363-World-Rally-Cup-2025-%7C-Informations-and-Sign-ups



SIGN-UPS STILL OPEN

Sign-ups will be open till the day before the last event of the season.

You can find a Sign-Up guide here
https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/110363-World-Rally-Cup-2025-%7C-Informations-and-Sign-ups


CURRENT WORLD CUP STANDINGS

Hello Rally drivers!
It's Race Day for World Rally Cup!!

Tonight, 2 spectacular special stages to begin the Westhill Rally!

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SERVER PASSWORD: sent to the signed-up drivers. Check messages!


EVENT SCHEDULE

19.00 - Free Practice
20.00 - Prologue Starts
20.30 - 10 minutes break
20.40 - Stage 1 starts
21.10 - End of Event

All times CET (GMT+1)


Sign-up: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/110363-World-Rally-Cup-2025-%7C-Informations-and-Sign-ups
Stage Info: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/110609-World-Rally-Cup-2025-%7C-Westhill-Rally-Stages-1-2

The Westhill Rally started with two stages, earlier this week: a super technical prologue stage, set around the famous Westlodge Hotel of Westhill, followed by a much bigger, flowing and fast Stage 1 around the east part of the course.

23 Rally drivers showed up for the challenge, and the Prologue was off to a spectacular start: [MRC] TimDC and SSM X Silva battled till the last second for the stage win.
Tim pressured Silva, who eventually touched a tyre and received a 2 seconds time penalty, demoting him to second at the chequered flag!

It was the first stage win of the season for [MRC] Tim, followed by Silva and TAV-Suforr in 3rd.

Stage 1 was the biggest stage of the season so far, and saw much bigger gaps between drivers: the long, fast but still technical course provided plenty of challenges for the drivers, and lots of mistakes all around the field translated into another exciting battle at the front.

This time, it was Kyr1l? the main rival for SSM x Silva: the two of them had a pretty much evenly matched run through the rally, till the last sector where Silva created a bit of time difference.
At the end, the norwegian ace managed to pull off a 2.4 seconds gap on the russian rival, but another 2 seconds time penalty for Silva meant that he won the stage by just 4 TENTHS!

Insane close gap after a nearly 7 minutes long stage.


RALLY HIGHLIGHTS





SSM x K@nflict had a very fast run, slotting in P3 for his best result of the season with the new SSM Colours: SGR Madjester was another protagonist, with a good run for P4, and ZFRL Thehemuli confirmed his improvement in this rally so far, with a solid P5.

Here it is a detailed look at the stage results!



PROLOGUE RESULTS




STAGE 1 RESULTS




RALLY TIME STANDINGS AFTER 2 STAGES

(only the drivers who completed all the stages are counted for the classification)




The World Rally Cup now takes a week break, before jumping into the longest and most spectacular stage of the all season.

The Westhill Super Stage, a challenge that will split the man from the boys and will determine the Westhill Rally winner.

Who will master the Super Stage and write his name into the World Rally Cup Hall of Fame?
The Bonus Race will also make a comeback after the Super Stage, and it will be a spectacular one!

See you on monday, March 10th for the event!