1985 RAC Rally video: Tony Pond wows on Metro 6R4 debut
Top quality video footage of the 1985 Lombard RAC Rally once again uploaded by dgr64. This footage tells the full story of the ‘85 RAC and captures the Metro vs Lancia battle perfectly.
The rally, that year, had one of the most demanding routes in the history of the RAC, devised by Clerk of the Course Dave Whittock, and featured 65 blind stages (two would be cancelled during the… Continue reading
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Legend Boucles de Spa 2009 videos
Videos of the 2009 Legend Boucles de Spa which featured such rallying luminaries as Markku Alen, Patrick Snijers, Robert Droogmans, Freddy Loix, Bruno Thiry, Guy Colsoul, Francois Duval, Guy Frequelin, Marc Duez, Bernard Munster, Gregoire de Mevius, Pascal Gaban etc. etc.
The Group 4 and Group B machines they were competing in consisted of Porsche 911s, Ford Escorts, Opel Kadetts, Opel Manta 400s, Talbot Sunbeams, a Lancia Beta Montecarlo… Continue reading
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Too Fast to Race – Documentary on the Group B Rally cars
A documentary chronicalling the history of the Group B category in rallying. The film begins in the late seventies when FISA, the governing body of world motorsport, consider a new formula and Lancia unleashes the Stratos.
Group B was implemented in 1982 with quite a bit of technological freedoms allowed for the manufacturers encouraging Formula 1 like performance. The resulting machines looking very unlike their production counterparts but catching the public… Continue reading
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