Few cars ever achieve the cult status enjoyed by this week’s classified spotlight. So distinctive is the Italian stage hero that anyone with an interest in hot hatches must have…
By Tony Jardine Anticipation is a wonderful thing, as it can cloud the reality when you arrive at the startline. Everything was going to plan. After three-and-a-half days of intense-but-joyous…
By Tony Jardine Since 2008, the magical Joule Donegal International Rally has perpetually drawn me to the North West of Ireland with its natural beauty of the Great Atlantic Way,…
We were saddened to hear of the death of Erik Carlsson – one of rallying's all-time greats – today. Here we re-post Richard Heseltine's 2010 feature with 'Mr Saab' You…
Had history been a benign guide rather than a harsh teacher, Kris Meeke might have followed the wheel tracks of fellow Northern Irishman Paddy Hopkirk and won a Monte Carlo…
Despite being the chairman of Prodrive, David Richards has never been too busy to chat. Within 24 hours of sending an email asking if he had any time to spare,…
Photographer Chris Taylor drew our attention to this great video of the 1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally, filmed by his late father Colin for Duckhams Oil. London to…
1973 Timo Mӓkinen/Henry Liddon, Ford Escort 1974 Timo Mӓkinen/Henry Liddon, Ford Escort 1975 Timo Mӓkinen/Henry Liddon, Ford Escort 1976 Roger Clark/Stuart Pegg, Ford Escort 1977 Bjӧrn Waldegård/Hans Thorszelius, Ford Escort…
How would you define a ‘great’ racing car? Race wins and championship titles are an obvious place to start – and admittedly, when we began the process of rounding up…
When the steering wheel came off, it still steered from the rear...John Davenport hears about a saloon with an attitude problem. Ove Andersson is now best known as the President…
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Since Hans Tak kicked off Mercedes-Benz's rally career by winning the 1954 Tulip Rally with the light, powerful, spaceframe 300SL gull-wing, the Three-Pointed Star has been in and out of…
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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…
