To most people motor-car windscreens are of two types. one simple and cheap and the other complex and expensive. The former is the "Standard" toughened variety lifted on Most production…

Although the clash between the authorities in Tanzania and the organisers of the East African Safari has resulted in the rally being routed within Kenya and Uganda only this year,…

Convention Conquers Complexity The complexities of today's ultra-fast rally Car, its power and performance completely controlled by printed circuits, delicate microchips and other products of electronic miniaturisation, may be fine…

Rallye du Maroc Whilst Championship rallies tend to get talked about far more than any other, there are quite a number of worthwhile events of International status which are not…

Nine years ago, among the ten qualifying events of the World Rally Championship for Makes was one which has never since been included; one which ranked with the Safari as one…

Ride a Crooked Trail They used to call it the toughest rally in the world outside Africa. In a way, it still merits that description, for it still uses special…

(Continued from last month) Apart from the Thousand Lakes, Finnish rallies do not allow practice, so that the science of making pace notes is not as advanced in Finland as…

Safari Rally If there is any motor sporting event which gathers unto itself technologies quite unconnected with the automotive industry, and which is based on considerably more than just a…

Motogard Rally of New Zealand As any schoolboy will tell you, the process of fact learning demands a conscious effort to commit to memory whilst other data, both useful and…

When Markku Alén, having spent considerable time developing and testing the Delta Integrale in Kenya prior to this year's Marlboro Safari Rally, was then withdrawn by Lancia from the event…

Big, bluff, curly-haired Bernie Marriner has been with Ford SA's Competitions Department at Port Elizabeth for so many years that it would not surprise us to find that his name…

Just a week alter the Swedish Rally there was another Nordic winter event, Finland's Hankiralli, a qualifier in both European and Nordic Championships. It didn't attract the works teams which…