Not so long ago, Didier Auriol was known as the unluckiest driver in the World Rally Championship. During his days driving a Fina-backed Jolly Club Lancia he suffered setback after…

Explorers often endured all manner of hardship and disappointment before the reward of some startling and momentous discovery. Climbers sometimes come very close indeed to giving up an attempt before…

What would be the reaction, we wonder, if some international body were allowed to decide whether Wimbledon could remain a venue for international tennis, or whether Arms Park was still…

New cars dominate Lombard RAC Rally Had we been asked a few years ago whether we believed it possible for a new car to be entered in a round of…

Among industries suffering from a lack of skilled manpower, the helicopter industry, according to the Royal Aeronautical Society, is a particular case, and the society's Rotorcraft Section Committee is planning a…

Unsophisticated, crude. rugged, sweaty, even primitive; these are adjectives which, on the face of it, can hardly be considered complimentary. Yet when they are applied to the East African Safari…

World Championship to Lancia For people involved with World-Class International Rallying, the months of October and November can hardly have been equalled in terms of tight schedules and concentrations of…

It has been almost a decade and a half since the last really wet Safari Rally, and in that time the event has become steadily more Europeanised as the blanket…

Reflections on Canada and Italy Putting aside for a moment the World Championship duel between Ford and Fiat, there is a more personal feature common to both the Criterium du…

Lancia privateer ensures second World Championship to Turin Zambian event shows Safari promise Time was when nearly all French rallies, save those which took place in Winter, were very close…

The magic of Africa Ten, even twenty years ago, Motor Sport warned that any attempt to meddle with the make-up of the Safari Rally by any form of Europeanisation should…

In the days when first Peugeot, then Lancia, dominated World Championship rallies, events late in the year were hard pressed to attract a good spread of worldwide entries. The championship…