A lot of car racing sports are born in England, the Rallycross also. In november of the year 1967, RAC Rally, one of the future world’s championship Rally, was cancelled because of a viral epidemy. To avoid race’s cancelation, and more of all to honored televisual contract with BBC, organizers drawed on the circuit of Lydden Hill, not far from Douvres, a race track with bitum and ground. With their rally cars, pilots started races on the same line of four, for three laps. Rallycross was born. Since 1968, regulation defined this new car competition in England, before that nordic countries, Holland and Belgium adopted the discipline… The first french contest proceeded in Loheac, sunday 5 september of 1976, on a little race track of 850 meters of long, traced quickly with a bulldozer in a wheat field. Since 1977, French Championship has been created and since that times, the competition’s form didn’t change that much. 

The French Rallycross Championship is the oldest competition of Rallycross in the world. French Rallycross has existed since 1976. It’s also the biggest in terms of number of events (9) by season, established in the whole french territory, including Loheac event, part of the World Rallycross Championship. In a international development context, a new regulation has been adopted with one goal, make the competition more dynamic. Since 1982, French Rallycross is administrated by AFOR (Association Française des Organisateurs de Rallycross) and support by FFSA (Fédération Française du Sport Automobile). French Championship is know since 2014 by the name « Rallycross France ».

From the arrival of Rallycross in France in September 1976, an association was established: the FAR (France Association Rallycross). In 1982, AFOR (Association Française des Organisateurs de Rallycross) took over. AFOR fulfills several roles: securing national partners, organising the Rallycross France Trophy (TOP 10), managing the FFSA Women’s French Cup, and promoting the winning female driver of this competition. AFOR is also responsible for overseeing the overall communication of the French Rallycross Championship, whether through print, media, or digital platforms. From 2014 onwards, AFOR, through Rallycross France, expanded into digital communication in order to strengthen engagement with its audience. Currently, the President of Association Française des Organisateurs de Rallycross (AFOR) is Françis Pottier.

The Fédération Française du Sport Automobile (FFSA) was founded in 1952 to regulate, organise, manage and develop all forms of motor sport in France. It has established numerous French Championships and French Cups across the various disciplines of motor sport, including rallying, circuit racing, hill climbs, gravel racing, Rallycross, Autocross, gravel rallies and cross-country rallies. Today, the FFSA represents 70,000 licence holders across 218 Automobile Sport Associations (ASA), grouped into 20 Regional Committees. Each Rallycross event is part of the French Rallycross Championship, the first edition of which was created in 1977. The FFSA defines and enforces the sporting and safety regulations for all Rallycross events. A single, unified Rallycross Championship — covering all categories — existed until 1995, when it was replaced by separate Championships or Cups for each category.

Currently, there are:

• Two French Championships: Supercar and Super1600,

• A French Junior Championship within the Rallycross France Challenge by Yacco,

• The FFSA Women’s French Cup,

• Two French Cups for Division 3 and Division 4.

The current President of the FFSA is Pierre Gosselin.