Rally is a wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive motoring elements such as speed tests often called rally racing, navigation tests, or the ability to reach waypoints or a destination at a prescribed time or average speed. Rallies may be short in the form of trials at a single venue, or several thousand miles long in an extreme endurance rally.
Depending on the format, rallies may be organized on private or public roads, open or closed to traffic, or off-road in the form of cross country or rally-raid. Competitors can use production vehicles which must be road-legal if being used on open roads or specially built competition vehicles suited to crossing specific terrain.
Rallying is typically distinguished from other forms of motorsport by not running directly against other competitors over laps of a circuit, but instead in a point-to-point format in which participants leave at regular intervals from one or more start points.
The Ceylon Motor Sports Club has been in the fore front when it comes to organizing & conducting Rally’s in Sri Lanka. The Lotus Rally was one of the main events that the CMSC conducted for over 55 years and could be considered the birth of rallying in Sri Lanka. Having started with the Lotus Rally the CMSC went onto conduct numerous other major rally’s such as the Monsoon Reliability Trials, TSD Rally’s and Speed Rally’s. As this form of motor sport gained popularity more and more events were organized in the form of Members Day, Economy Trials, Fun Rally’s and also Corporate Rally’s which had many competitors taking up to Rallying eventually.
