“Maximum Markku” was second behind his teammate
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The 1985 RAC Rally was set to be a classic with the best entry of the that year’s World Rally Championship. Manufacturer entries came from Audi, Peugeot, Lancia, Austin Rover, Nissan, Opel and Mazda.
The scene was set for a titanic battle but no one could have predicted [...]

With the WRC fight resuming this week for a battle between Loeb, Hirvonen and Latvala let’s take a look back at some classic 1000 Lakes footage. When men were men (as certain FIA WRCC members would say) and the event was commonly known as the “Finnish Grand Prix”.
1973

1983

1984

1985 and possibly one of the greatest WRC events ever

1986

1991

McRae displaying [...]