Stellantis Rally Cup 2026: SMRC4 and SMRC6 calendars revealed*

Just a few days before their 2025 finals at Rally du Var (November 27-30), Stellantis Motorsport unveiled a draft calendar for its two brand cups, the SMRC4 and the SMRC6, for the 2026 season. With, incidentally, some interesting new features.
Stellantis Motorsport is embracing diversity and making some adjustments. While the official federal sporting calendars still need to be validated by the upcoming Steering Committee, the teams at 19 Allée des Marronniers have already revealed their intentions for their 2026 sporting programs.

The first key point is the continuation of the dual SMRC4/SMRC6 program. As a reminder, at the start of the season, and in order to allow owners to Peugeot To continue its development with the added challenge of competing in rounds of the French Rally Championship, Stellantis Motorsport decided to create a specific competition for cars homologated in group F-RC6. This is good news for the continuity of the Stellantis series.

In terms of the calendar, eight events have been selected to host these two competitions. Four of them will simultaneously feature SMRC4 and SMRC6. The new element is that each of the two cups will also consist of two independent events, thus creating calendars of six rounds per one-make cup.

EARTH AND 2ND DIVISION ON THE PROGRAM

Often overlooked, gravel makes a grand return to the SMRC4 with two events on the calendar, as was already the case in 2024. Corsica will thus host the SMRC4 protagonists for the third round of the season during the Rally Terre d'Aléria, before a new challenge on this surface at the end of August with the Rallye Terre de Lozère, in Mende.
The rest of the calendar consists, in opening, of the Rallye Le Touquet – Pas-de-Calais in March, the Rallye du Rouergue in July, the Rallye Cœur de France in September, and – also new – the Critérium des Cévennes in October, which will serve as the final of the championship.

While the SMRC6 will also be competing in Le Touquet, Rodez, Vendôme and the Cévennes, it will also be attending two events in the French Rally Championship 2nd Division: the Dieppe Rally in May, and then, for its final, the Rallye de l'Automne – La Rochelle in November.

An enticing program, then, to find the successors to the 2025 winners.

*Subject to validation by the FFSA Steering Committee.