New Rules From January 1st new rules will govern the sport of rallying in Britain, rules aimed more at what has come to be called road rallying than those events…

RAC Rally of Great Britain The popularity of the RAC Rally of Great Britain by competitors and spectators alike has become so manifestly enormous that any attempt to describe the…

It has long been felt that Swedes and Finns have been the masters of the forests, the only Britisher capable of even getting to grips with them being Roger Clark,…

Gulf London Rally Purists, however businesslike their outlook, tend to regard the infiltration of sponsorship into the sport as a kind of pollution. I number myself among the purists, along…

East African Safari As technical knowledge increases year by year, and rockets become faster, eggs quicker to boil, labour-saving devices more plentiful, traffic heavier and prices higher, so our lives…

There are some rallies in the world which need, in order to attract entries of worthwhile quality and in worthwhile numbers, the prop of inclusion in a major series. They…

Imagine a Wembley cup final taking place after the champions had clinched their position in a semi-final. Such a match, merely to determine runners-up, would be low in spectacle, devoid…

Next round of the World Rally Championship is Finland's Rally of the Thousand Lakes, this year moved by a calendar shuffle from its traditional late August date to the first…

When we wrote in the June issue of the Autoglass Tour planned for 1989, a revival and extension of the former Tour of Britain, we mentioned that the organisers' publicists…

After that came a drive southwards to just beyond Voi, visiting the Chyula and Taita Hills before returning via sisal plantations and the road through Loitokitok under towering Kilimanjaro. Kirkland…

New Zealand and Argentina Because manufacturers' rally teams are concentrated in Europe, the non-European qualifiers of the World Rally Championship consume a sizeable chunk of their annual budgets, and each…

Different racing circuits must, I suppose, have character differences, but nowadays they seem all to be lost in ferro-concrete, advertising and protective barriers, a far cry from the days of…