LEJOG
The hardest endurance rally in Europe, perhaps the world, Returns!
Congratulations to everyone who took part in and completed LE-JOG 2025
🥇 The Gold Medal Winners of LE-JOG 2025 are:
12. Kevin Haselden (GB)/Ryan Pickering (GB) - Mini Cooper S
18. Mark Godfrey (GB)/Martyn Taylor (GB) - MG B
48. Andy Lane (GB)/Iain Tullie (GB) - Mazda Eunos Roadster
58. Eric Michiels (LU)/Aswin Pyck (BE) - Porsche 924S
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🥈 The Silver Medal Winners of LE-JOG 2025 are:
23. Stewart Christie (GB)/Andy Ballantyne (GB) - MG B GT
44. John Lomas (GB)/Pete Johnson (IM) - Volkswagen Golf GTi
56. Reiner Seume (DE)/Julian Seume (DE) - Porsche 944
(full results can be downloaded at the bottom of this page)
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The Route
Event Schedule
Scrutineering & Documentation – 04 & 05 December 2025
Scrutineering and Documentation sessions will take place during Thursday afternoon and Friday morning before newcomer crews have the opportunity to receive an insight into the ethos of LEJOG from the HERO-ERA team and experienced past competitors. From late morning the crews will have the chance to plot the route for most of the first two legs of the event whilst enjoying lunch in the Lands’ End Hotel, later in the afternoon there will be a final briefing by the Clerk of the Course and then crews will have the chance for a well-earned rest before the rigours of the event start in earnest the following morning.
07:30 to 17:00 – 06 December 2025
Saturday morning, with a cold wind blowing in from the Atlantic and before the first light of dawn appears on the horizon, crews can be found coaxing cars to life, getting the heater going, and a final check of the belts. Suddenly the noise level rises, spotlights pierce the darkness and the first car blasts of the line into the first test of the event, there's no time for nerves, LEJOG 2025 has started! Over almost as soon as it starts, its onwards to the first Regularity, and from there the route will traverse Cornwall and Devon with some new roads as well as some LEJOG classics and test venues likely to challenge the crews as they head to an historic lunch stop of old.
Fully fuelled we plan to venture into pastures new through some favourite rally roads of yesteryear moving from Devon into Somerset. Heading north we look to include a section on the Somerset lanes to break up the trek up the M5 before crossing into Wales for the final regularity of the day hopefully at a testing venue for the crews before the two-hour supper halt in Monmouthshire.
19:00 to 02:00 – 06 & 07 December 2025
Leg Two sees crews heading west and deep into Wales before climbing over Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) and taking in a series of challenging regularities and tests using some of the classic roads historically associated with both LEJOG and the heart of Welsh road rallying. The action intensifies with the now traditional sting in the tail Time Control section in the Welsh Marches and South Shropshire hills that will keep both crew members on their toes before the overnight stop in Telford.
09:00 to 19:30 – 07 December 2025
Fully refreshed after a well-earned break, the route will see crews head cross county through the Shropshire and Staffordshire lanes and into the beautiful driving roads of the Peak District as we battle through the M62 corridor. With a lunch stop on the way, we hit the North Yorkshire Moors and with more tests as the afternoon draws in we are now truly in the north at this point; but there’s more action to follow as darkness will contrive to increase the challenge of the final regularities before crews arrive for their overnight halt in Gretna Green.
8:00 to 22:00 – 8 December 2025
The long run to JOG starts and the pressure is maintained with a series of tests, route checks and regularities taking us into Scotland for a late lunch to the north of Glasgow. The day is only half done at this stage, and we push further north onto the more remote roads that the area has to offer for five more regularities and another test before a rest halt at Fort William. Crews that have competed in previous LEJOGs will know how the weather can change in this area and appreciate the unique challenges of competing on the event experienced by crews over the last 30 years.
01:00 to 10:30 – 9 December 2025
Hopefully all being equal we will once again to run the ‘Loch Ness Monster’ regularity which will require maximum concentration if medals are to be retained. The Battle will continue as the route heads further north through the final sections on the eastern coastal route and on to a much-welcomed breakfast halt before the final push reaching its conclusion, accompanied by the strains of the piper, at the finish line in John O’Groats.
Leg 1
Leg 2
Leg 3
Leg 4
Leg 5
