Hannu Mikkola & Stig Blomqvist – Fisher Engineering Summit 2000 Rally
Video clip featuring world champions Hannu Mikkola and Stig Blomqvist contesting the Fisher Engineering Summit 2000 Rally.
This one-off single-venue Millennium event was held in the Sean Quinn quarry complex, counting as a round of the 2000 Toshiba Computers Irish Tarmac Rally Championship. The late Bertie Fisher was the key person who organised the rally, which raised £50,000 for cross-border charities.
Mikkola and Blomqvist contested the event
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Video of Marlboro Safari Rally 1985 – Juha Kankkunen and Fred Gallagher take rookie win
Rare French video footage of the 1985 Safari Rally where Juha Kankkunen and Fred Gallagher shocked the establishment to win in the Toyota Celica TC Turbo.
The rally attracted the might of Audi, Lancia and Peugeot, but their supercars proved too fragile for the African marathon with Salonen the only one to finish out of the lot.
Meanwhile, Opel should really have won with the Manta 400s of either Rauno Aaltonen and Erwin… Continue reading
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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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