Audi Sport quattro – 1985 Monte Carlo and Swedish Rally – video

Video featuring the Audi Sport quattro on the 1985 Monte Carlo and Swedish rallies, uploaded to YouTube by Marvdogger.

Footage includes the epic ‘85 Monte where Walter Rohrl, in the short wheelbase quattro, attempted to win the rally for the fifth successive time but was outdriven and outsmarted by Peugeot rival Ari Vatanen. Rohrl had to settle for second with his Audi teammate Stig Blomqvist finishing… Continue reading

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Kenny McKinstry – Ford Escort RS1800 Mk2 – Ulster and Manx rallies 1985

Video clip uploaded to MotorsportMad featuring Kenny McKinstry driving the Ford Escort RS1800 on the Ulster and Manx rallies of 1985.

The Escort was an ex-MCD machine being driven previously by Roger Clark and Ari Vatanen in 1981 and ‘82 respectively.

Kenny McKinstry video clip Ulster and Manx 1985

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Classic Manx Rally incidents from the ’80s on MotorSportMAD.com

Memorable Manx Rally moments from the 1980s uploaded to MotorsportMAD.com

Clips feature; Russell Brookes and Mark Lovell controversial team-orders 1989, Britain’s most arrogant marshal, Patrick Snijers being done by the police, Russell Brookes reversing over a flying finish line and Bertie Fisher’s rearranged Opel Manta 400 on the first stage of the 1985 event following a coming together with a Manx wall.

Brookes / Lovell team-orders controversy 1989

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