Classic viewing from Ford films of the 1978 Sedan Products British Open Rally Championship and the 1979 World Rally Championship.
A Little Bit Sideways features action from the Circuit of Ireland, Welsh, Scottish, Burmah, Manx and RAC rallies.
Works entries from Ford, Fiat, Vauxhall and BL, put the series on a par with the world championship and featured top drivers which [...]
Video clip (uploaded to YouTube by dgr64) inspired by amjayes’ “This is Rallying” masterpiece.
The opening sequence contains footage from Helmut Deimel’s seminal film “The Evolution of Rallying”.
Covering almost 50 years of rallying, the clip features driving gods such as Aaltonen, Alen, Airikkala, Burns, Blomqvist, Clark, Gronholm, Hopkirk, McRae, Makinen, Mikkola, Pond, Rohrl, Salonen, Sainz, Toivonen, Vatanen, Waldegard etc [...]
Action from the inaugural Kenmare Historic Rally, which saw victory go to Ray and Elaine Cunningham in their Mini Cooper S. The pair led from start to finish and in the end won by over two minutes ahead of Philip Wylie’s MGB. Mervyn Johnston ’The Tullyhommon Flyer’ finished third in his Mini.
Ford Escort driverMike Quinn won the Modified Classic section, while Sean Lockyear was the Post Historic [...]