No more stage fright Sitting before the start of the Portuguese Rally at the event's headquarters in Cascais, the fishing port and tourist resort some twenty miles west of Lisbon,…

Monte Carlo Rally Throughout Europe in the past few years, rallying has steadily become so sophisticated that it is almost beyond comparison with the adventurous, shovel-laden journeys of pre-war and…

Spawn of the North Sandstrorms are inevitable in the Sahara; the Cook Straits will never be without their winds; and snow is a meteorological certainty during a Swedish winter. Each…

There was a time when everyone felt that the home of the RAC Rally was in London. The base near Heathrow was popular among overseas visitors and even with British…

Results : General Classification : 1st : R. Clark/G. Robson; (Lotus-Cortina) 2,221 penalties. 2nd : S. Lampinen/J. Davenport; (Triumph 2000) 2,777 penalties. 3rd : R. Fidler/A.J. Taylor (Triumph 2000) 3,393…

Rough stuff Whilst a World Championship qualifier was struggling to generate interest in the Ivory Coast, an European Championship round in the Eastern Mediterranean was enjoying a healthy start-list and…

Morocco Rally The roughest rally ever to grace the International Championship for Makes took place during the last week of April on the rocky desert tracks and wild mountain roads…

Ivory Coast Back in the 'seventies, after a string of sometimes vociferous complaints by competitors, the organisers of the Ivory Coast Rally announced an improvement. They decided to run many…

”Are you going to do the Flowers"? So one competitor used to ask another in years past to enquire whether someone planned to compete in the Rally of the Flowers,…

Rally review Fiat's sweeping success There was a time when Italian sporting people appeared on rallies in a variety of hotly-tuned Fiat 500s, the occasional Alfa Romeo or one or…

Although it is the last qualifier of the 1992 World Rally Championship, both sections of which will have been settled before it takes place, Britain's qualifying round has nevertheless attracted…

Two celtic internationals were to have featured in this month's Motor Sport; instead there is only one, for the Scottish Rally was needlessly cancelled by the RSAC when a petrol…