In Greece, we are not very famous about our activity in motorsports. Although most of us tend to believe that we are something between Sebastian Loeb and Michael Schumacher, the truth is that we are as much relevant with motorsports, as the British with basketball... Nevertheless, we can be proud of the Acropolis rally. A race that was first organized back in 1951 and because of its success, it became international in 1953. Over the years, only in 1974 the rally was not held at all, whereas in 1995 it was not part of the World Rally Championship. After that break and a long period of it being in the WRC, in 2014 it was downgraded to the European Rally Championship (ERC). But still, it didn't lose all its glory. Unfortunately, the Greek Motorsports Federation recently announced that there will be no Acropolis rally next year, but hopefully it will return to the calendar of the 2020 ERC. It seems that within the vortex of the economic crisis, even that race was affected. Of cou...
