Rally Liepāja–Ventspils

The Rally Liepāja–Ventspils is an international rally racing event that travels northwards along the coastline of the Baltic Sea from Liepāja to Ventspils in Latvia. The event is a round of the European Rally Championship and the Latvian Rally Championship. The rally has been design as a snow rally and unlike its neighbour in the ERC calendar the Jänner Rallye is not a tarmac based event but a traditional snow rally similar to events like Rally Sweden.

The rally was run for the first time in 2013 as the first international auto racing event to be held in Latvia since gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and just the second motorsport event after the motorcycle Speedway Grand Prix of Latvia.

The inaugural event was won by Finnish driver Jari Ketomaa driving a Ford Fiesta RRC in a one-off appearance for the British Autotek Motorsport team in the European Rally Championship.

List of winners

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YearWinnerCar
2013 Finland Jari Ketomaa Ford Fiesta RRC
2014 Finland Esapekka Lappi Škoda Fabia S2000
2015 Republic of Ireland Craig Breen Peugeot 208 T16 R5

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