Rally History We're going back Way back

The Beginning

Cannonball 8000 was created on July 29th, 2002. Conrad with his love of cars, his philosophy of living life to the full in his own unique down to earth style, saw a gap in the market to establish a luxurious, extravagant, adventurous, exclusive rally event, but to make that event more accessible to everyone by running it over a long weekend, rather than demanding a week or fortnight of its entrants time. And so the Cannonball 8000 was born.

 

Where we've been

The inaugural 2003 event, began with 46 cars / 92 drivers. The route, from London to Monaco via Paris. For 2004 the rally grew to 83 cars/ 166 drivers, then in 2005, 2006 and again in 2007 we have run at the maximum level of 120 cars/ 240 drivers.

The Cannonball 8000 rally route changes every year, with the idea being to drive some of the best roads that Europe has to offer, but also to introduce our drivers to some routes and roads they would perhaps otherwise never have cause to drive on!

 

The Cannonball Effect

Cannonball 8000 work with local governments, council departments and mayor's offices, in order to build relationships and to utilise the optimum reception for the rally in each location, thus aiding tourism to individual locations. These relationships have allowed us to gain permissions never before (or since) attained by any of our competitors. For instance Cannonball 8000 2006 started its Prague leg to Budapest from the spectacular Prague Castle, a location so protected, that even many of the locals could not believe that we had managed to pull this off!   And 2007 our event in Zagreb was hosted by the Mayor of the city.  We continue to strive to build these invaluable relationships.

Cannonball 8000 is now looking forward to doing it all again on the 2008 event.