RAID: new youngtimer and oldtimer rally only for youngsters

YOUNGTIMER The RAID organization launches the new and unique "RAID Young Raiders Challenge". Young drivers have the opportunity to get a taste of rallying at a reasonable price across Switzerland on a weekend in May at this young and classic car rally. The first rally exclusively for drivers under 35 will take place on the weekend of May 13 and 14, 2017. Volkswagen [...]

Editorial - January 14, 2017

It is the mascot of the RAID Young Raiders Challenge: VW Golf GTI owned by AMAG

The first rally exclusively for drivers under 35 will take place on the weekend of May 13 and 14, 2017. Volkswagen supports the first "RAID Young Raiders Challenge" as presenting partner. The Challenge offers participants a unique experience: to exchange ideas with rally-interested drivers, to rediscover spring and Switzerland by car and to actively participate in the exciting rally life.

If you would like to participate but don't have a youngtimer in your garage, the organizers will be happy to help.

Inspire young talent
The aim of this event is to inspire young drivers for such classic rallies and for the automobile in general. To this end, the entry fee has been set low: the 350 francs per person includes organization, hotel, food, roadside assistance, regulations, rally sign and side numbers. And for the first time at a RAID event, youngtimers born in 1997 or earlier are also welcome. The rally will start at the AMAG Autowelt Zürich in Dübendorf ZH. After the first day of the rally, the drivers will drive into Fribourg. Dinner will be followed by a networking event in a relaxed atmosphere. The next day, exciting routes, tests and an excursion to a TCS safety center await the participants. Here, the participants have to prove their flair for safe driving. After further rally kilometers and tests, the rally ends with the award ceremony in Bern. The winner of the first "RAID Young Raiders Challenge" receives the new Golf for free use for one year.

As usual, the race will be driven with roadbook and map.

To register to the RAID Yound Drivers Challenge it goes here.

If you are now wondering which models fall into this era, you will find answers in our picture gallery (click on the picture for info). At the very end, a film report by the NZZ gives an insight into the RAID Suisse-Paris.