Overview
- The FIA has scheduled a candidate World Rally Championship event for June 11–17, 2026 in Kentucky and Tennessee.
- The exercise will be conducted with ACCUS and observed as if it were on the calendar to measure compliance with FIA requirements.
- Officials will inspect stages and infrastructure, meet proposed promoter Podium Event Partners, and visit an ARA national round to engage the U.S. rally community.
- A positive evaluation would open the door for a U.S. round to be proposed for the 2027 WRC calendar.
- At this stage the U.S. is the only nation to file an official candidate-event application this year, and the series last raced in America at the 1988 Olympus Rally.