Classic rally footage from the halcyon Group 4 days of the 1979 Sanremo and RAC rallies uploaded to motorsportmad.com.
Witness some fantastic battles between the best drivers and cars in the world at the time. All the stars feature such as Alen, Wadegard, Mikkola, Tabaton, Tony, Lampinen, Airikkala, Brookes, Blomqvist, Pond, Salonen, Vatanen etc etc. The cars were very much the stars as well with the Group 2 and 4 machines like the Escort, Stratos, Sunbeam, Chevette, TR7 et al.
A Tale of Two Rallies
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