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A few ideas:

1) Rally America, which could be based in Denver. Denver is a major urban area, but the beauty of it is that the city is hard up agaisnt the Rocky Mountains. If it was run at the right time of year, it could be a combination tarmac-gravel-snow event, which I think would become very popular very quickly.
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Access to roads in Colorado is very difficult. Locating service parks would be extremely difficult.. See there's a lot of really rich people who want to be left alone to enjoys the emptiness. Roads are narrow, extremely steep in many places and off highways, can be very torn up=---lots of geniuses in V8 Jeep type crap that dig up the roads, LOTS of them

Then there's the fact there is a bunch of nice guys in Colorado but none are or want to be organisers.
I introduced America to Finland's great F-Cup, arguably the best rally series in the whole world, and one friend down there has become maybe the biggest F-cup fan and advocate in America..
In other words, they're dyed-in-the-wool clubbies, highly suspect and not impressed with what we refer to as the Rally America Dog and Pony Show.

So no base, no existing structure.

(Note: where I am is where we last had WRC rally in America back in 1986/87/88...WE here in the PNW have roads by the 10s of thousands of miles, but no political clout and extremely limited access to the woods, and vastly less than in the 80s.
The skyrocketing costs of entry fees since SCCA "sold the series" to multi-millionaire Doug Havir to operate as a privately held corporation have devastated rally as have the portrayal of rally as a "big spectacle" which results in many younger guys say "I can't afford a $200k monster car like Blockstrana, so i ain't interested. So who chooses to participate has changed.. It is promoted as a idle passtime for already rich "has beens" in goofy sports that appeal to 12-14 y.o. boys in Orange County. (an affluent area of endless grids of suburbia South of Los Angeles. A consumerist paradise of endless shopping malls after shopping malls. WE here no longer have the manpower to pull of low level 30-40 car clubbie cars withouit "importing" "help" from Rally America headquarters---very very expensive help....
Sub-note.
The "party line explaining the $1000-1200 entry fees is the same stand-by excuse as 25 years ago "Oi! the Insurance premiums are skyrocketing!!! Oi!" That may be a part, but it is the combined sanction fee+ insurance fee, and the sanction fee and what that includes is never discussed.)

So no go in Colorado, No go in SoCal, NorCal, Pacific North West, Western Canada...US Deep South forget it.