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It's bright red, true blue British sports-car, with the charisma and presence of Sir Anthony Hopkins, but will any of the post-rush hour drivers let it join the traffic flow?…
Ari Vatanen – Ford Escort RS 1800 reg. no. RRK 425 W Ari Vatanen was the first Finn to win the World Rally Championship, no thanks, he tells John Davenport,…
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As the song says about love and marriage, they could have been made for one another. Henri Toivonen and the Group B rally cars of the mid-1980s seemed to share…
The 1,000 Lakes proved to be even more exciting and competitive than was predicted last month, though not exactly for the reasons suggested. There was indeed full works participation from…
Roger Clark MBE, Britain's greatest rally driver of the pre-four-wheel drive era, and arguably its finest ever exponent of the art, died on January 12, following a stroke. He was…
By Robert Kubica's standards the answer was short, albeit tinged with the Pole's slightly off-beat humour, which has endeared him to the rallying fraternity since he took up the sport…
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Day two of Rally Finland, noodling slowly along a public road between special stages three and four, near a place called Kukkaro, Kimi Räikkönen and co-driver Kaj Lindström have pulled…
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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…
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My old history master used to say to us that "history is about people, not events." If that's true, then the history of rallying covering the last 25 years is…
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Ten years ago British rallying got the same kind of boost as that recently experienced by English cricket when, on November 22 1995, Colin McRae captured the title of World…
I was writing freelance rally reports for Motoring News when I first encountered Roger Clark. In those days, Christmas Day had to fall on a Saturday to prevent my participation…
At last weekend's Goodwood Festival of Speed I was lucky enough to catch a ride with Sébastien Loeb around the Forest Rally Stage. The word lucky doesn't really cut it…
At the very beginning of 2014 I spent five days on the Dakar Rally with the Race2Recovery team. You can read about the trip in the April issue of Motor…
You may be looking forward to a busy season. You may, like the guys at Red Bull, already be feeling the pressure. So much to do and so little time.…
We are going to see a sideways Villeneuve again! In a typically maverick move, Jacques will race in the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The Indy 500 winner, Indycar champion and…
The Dakar is a formidable challenge in much the same way as the old Nürburgring in an F1 car is quite scary. It’s a monumental undertaking and even today fewer…
