First run in 2001 as a round of the Romanian championship held in the middle of the year, originally in August before settling into a July date. The event became an international event for the first time in 2012 when it was added to the Intercontinental Challenge and Romania was added to the event name as Sibiului Raliul Romania. It was one of four events added to the calendar and slid into a mid-season gap when Atlantic Ocean island event Rallye Açores was moved to the start of the season. The event survived the merger of the Intercontinental Challenge and the European Championship into 2013 when the rally acquired its current name.
Romanian drivers dominated the events early history, the first foreign victor was Finn Jarkko Miettinen in 2008. Simone Tempestini is the most successful driver in the events history, winning five times in total. Norwegian driver Andreas Mikkelsen won the first international event in 2012, with Czech driver
Jan Kopecký winning the first European championship round.
