4 of 15 events of this years championship is completed, and Rally Jordan is coming up. For the first time in the World Rally Championship there will be an event in the Middle-East. Jordan is the first Arab nation to host a WRC-event.

Jordan is a monarchy in the Middle-East, with borders to Syria in north, Iraq in north-east, Israel in the west and Saudi Arabia in south-east. Jordan has coastline to the Dead Sea in west. Jordan is a desert-country, 92.300km2 with nearly 6 million inhabitants. The main-language is Arabic, but most of the Jordanians speak English. The currency is Jordanian Dinar.

If you are going to Jordan, it is easy to fly into Jordans capital, Amman. Rally Headquarter and servicepark are placed along the Dead Sea, only 50k’s from Amman. Temperature is expected to be around 40 degrees Celsius during daytime, and around 20 degrees Celsius during night-time. The surface is gravel, and some of the stages are actually at 400 metres below sea level.

55 cars are on the entrylist for Rally Jordan, and the rally starts 24. April 2008.