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Rally Bulgaria is the most prestigious and also the oldest rally event in Republic of Bulgaria. It was confirmed for the 2010 World Rally Championship season as the seventh of all thirteen planned events. Year 2010 was also the first and so far the only one that Rally Bulgaria has been in the World Rally Championship, having previously hosted races for the European Rally Championship〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rally Bulgaria put on WRC calendar for 2010, official says )〕 instead. The application of the country was accepted by the FIA despite the fact that Rally Bulgaria's candidate event in July 2009 ended in an accident which killed Italian co-driver Flavio Guglielmini〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2010 World Rally Championship events agreed )〕 and seriously injured Swiss driver Brian Lavio.〔 Bulgaria was the only new candidate for the 2010 World Rally Championship season, although Rally Argentina had made a reserve application just in case Bulgarian rally failed.〔 The latest HQ of the rally is town of Samokov (2013-2015) and the route of the event contains special stages in Bulgaria's Sofia Province and Pazardzhik Province. The route, including some of the special stages, passes through the famous Borovets ski resort which was HQ from 2002 to 2012, meaning that it has also hosted the 2010 World Rally Championship season〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rally Bulgaria enters the World Rally Championship in 2010 )〕 event. ==A brief history of the Bulgarian Motorsport== Through the years Bulgarians have always been interested in the motorsport in one way or another. For the first Bulgarian Motorsport event is considered the 1914 race held around the capital Sofia and the winner there was Bulgarian Dimitar Pehlivanov. Many years of various motorsport events followed after this first try and every time the races grew bigger and more complicated than the previous ones. Initially only Bulgarian, year by year, the events acquired international status because of the participation of pilots firstly from the Balkan Peninsula countries (Romania, former Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey), then from the former Soviet Union countries (like Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, etc.), and later - from most of the West European countries (West Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, etc.). The first years of the Bulgarian Motorsport have been the years when the car, as a necessity, was not a normal thing as it is today. In this initial period (from the end of the 19th Century until the mid 20th Century) the motorsport in Bulgaria was a privilege only for limited number of people – dealers, owners of factories or service-stations, and some enthusiasts (mechanics, chauffeurs, etc.). The second period of nation’s motorsport development had begun in the mid 1950s, when the automobiles in Bulgaria were already comparatively widespread. The newest history of the Bulgarian Motorsport dates back to 1958 when the Bulgarian Automobile Tourist Club (BATC) was established. A year later, in 1959, the first true rally event has been organised. Its start was in the capital Sofia and the itinerary covered 275 km in the West and North-West of the country. In the next 1960 it has been decided that the Bulgarian Rally Championship for that year would be proceeded as a "Circuit of Bulgaria". The first motorsport activity, which shows the interest of the Bulgarian women in the sport – the inaugural ladies' rally "8th of March" – was held in 1961. The first Kart Race has been organised two years later - in 1963, while in the following 1964 the Renault Factory in Plovdiv (the second biggest town in Bulgaria) opened its doors having great positive influence in the Bulgarian Motorsport later on. One by one, different rally events appeared some years later and several of them became traditional rounds of the Bulgarian Rally Championship: * Rally Stari Stolici – established in 1970; existing nowadays; translated: Rally Old Capitals; counts for the Bulgarian Rally Championship; HQ is town of Shumen; * Rally Hebros – established in 1972; not organised in 2014 for the first time in its history; in the recent few years it counted for the Bulgarian Rally Championship only, but in the past it was also part of the European Rally Championship with coefficients 5 and 10, and later on the event counted for the then European Rally Cup (now European Rally Trophy) with coefficient 5; HQ is town of Plovdiv; * Rally Sliven – established in 1976; existing nowadays; counts for the European Rally Trophy with coefficient 3 and for the Bulgarian Rally Championship; HQ is town of Sliven; * Rally Tvarditsa(-Elena) – established in 2005; existing nowadays; counts for the Bulgarian Rally Championship; HQ is town of Tvarditsa; * Rally Sredna Gora – established in 2004; existing nowadays despite some problems with the organisation lately; name in the period 2004-2011: Rally Trayanovi Vrata; counts for the European Rally Trophy with coefficient 2 and for the Bulgarian Rally Championship; HQ is town of Panagyurishte (HQ in the period 2004-2011 - town of Kostenets); * Rally Vida – established in 1971 and held up until 1989, reborn in 2007 as part of the Bulgarian Rally Championship, but nowadays counts for the Bulgarian Rally Sprint Championship instead; HQ is town of Vidin; * Rally Boruy – not existing nowadays; HQ was town of Stara Zagora; * Rally Osogovo – not existing nowadays; HQ was town of Kyustendil; But preceding all of the above-mentioned rallies, in the summer of 1970, the first International Rally Zlatni Piassatsi (translated: Rally Golden Sands) has been organised in the famous Bulgarian summer resort of the same name, as 36 crews from Bulgaria, Poland, former Yugoslavia and East Germany took the start. In the following years the rally has changed its name several times (Rally Zlatni, Rally Albena, etc.), while in 2002 it has also generally changed its location as well - from the glamouros and sunny Bulgarian coastline to the heart of the gorgeous Rila Mountain - some 500 km to the West - in the Borovets ski resort. Since then (despite in 2013 the HQ moved another 10 km to the North-West in town of Samokov) the rally is known as Rally Bulgaria. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rally Bulgaria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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