Superb action from Ireland’s most prestigious sporting event, the world famous Circuit of Ireland Rally.
This Duke DVD highlights four classic years from the mid-’80s and the early ’90s. The famous battle between the Mantas of Jimmy McRae and Russell Brookes from 1985 gets proceedings off to a great start.
Then comes the year of the supercar, 1986, [...]
Another splendid video tribute from amjayes concerning the Group B era in rallying’s rich history.
Walter Röhrl described the visceral experience of driving one of the most iconic Group B supercars, the Audi Sport quattro S1, in Reinhard Klein’s Rally Cars book: “It must be the most extreme car I have driven in my career. First there was the [...]
BBC Rally Report video footage, uploaded by amjayes, of the 1986 RAC Rally featuring presenters William Woollard, Tony Mason, the late Barrie Gill and Sue Baker.
The rally had a much reduced mileage that year and no night stages due to FISA imposed sanctions in the wake of several tragedies in 1986. There was an impressive entry on [...]