The quest for power has always been a popular pastime, but never has it been quite as widespread as during the years since the inception of Alec Issigonis' ADO 15.…

Hard on the heels of that great commotion which followed Spain's Catalunya Rally, after which the works Toyota Castrol Team was not only deprived of all its points for 1995…

Four years have passed since Jean Ragnotti won the Monte-Carlo Rally in a Renault 5 Turbo, generating all manner of speculation on whether there would be a return of the small…

Nostalgia, as any tycoon will tell you, has no place in business, and any profit-seeking company which allows its board the luxury of sentiment runs the risk of seeing that…

Audacity and Adventure When the marathon trail was blazed twenty years ago from London across Europe, through Iran, Afghanistan and India, across the Indian Ocean aboard the SS Chusan to…

African challenge Imagine a game of rugby between a team of thirty players and another of only three! It would be a bit one-sided, to say the very least, and…

Two consecutive wins in the opening rounds of the World Rally Championship are enough to make anyone favourite for the title. When they come hard on the heels of three victories…

Stab a pin into a list of European rallies and the chances are that you'll pick one which is little more than one series of short sprints after another, making…

Whatever else the London-Sydney Marathon may, or may not, have done, its result has certainly given the Rootes Competitions Department a shot in the arm; and no one will say…

Canada and the USA In the space of one month the World Rally Championship has become more than a simple international series contested by various manufacturers; it has developed very…

Rallying in Africa Although the AA of East Africa has announced with commendable, if rather obvious, diplomacy that the route of the 1973 East African Safari will pass through Kenya,…

Acropolis Rally Animals of rare species are generally, and quite properly, preserved from extinction by protection orders which make it illegal to kill them. All rarities should be so protected, among…