Central Europe Rally Central Europe Rally The Central Europe Rally was a rally raid endurance race held in Romania and Hungary. It was held in 2008 as a replacement for the canceled 2008 Dakar Rally. It was organized by the Amaury Sport Organisation. The event began in Budapest on April 19 and finished at Lake Balaton in Hungary on April 26, 2008. Here is a table with the locations of the start and finish points of each stage of the Rally, as well as each stage's distance. 1. David Casteu (KTM) 12:21:14<br> 2. Francisco López (KTM) +2:58<br> 3. Alain Duclos (KTM) +19:39<br> 4.
Lake Balaton on Lake Balaton, including Balatonfüred and Hévíz, have long been resort centres for the Hungarian aristocracy, it was only in the late 19th century that the Hungarian middle class began to visit the lake. The construction of railways in 1861 and 1909 increased tourism substantially, but the post-war boom of the 1950s was much larger. The last major German offensive of World War II, Operation Frühlingserwachen, was conducted in the region of Lake Balaton in March 1945, being referred to as "the Lake Balaton Offensive" in many British histories of the war. The battle was a German attack by Sepp