This is Rallying – A Tribute Video

Stirring video tribute to rallying’s heroes and legends from the past 40 years, or so, made by amjayes and uploaded to MotorsportMAD.

This is Rallying features the greats such as Alen, Makkinen, Clark, Biasion, Panizzi, Toivonen, Galli, Lampinen, Aaltonen, Mikkola, Gronholm,Vatanen, Munari, Waldegard, Rohrl, Kankkunen, Sainz, McRae, Loeb etc., etc.

All the iconic events appear from the Safari to the RAC, Acropolis, Monte, San Remo, 1000 Lakes, Portugal and so on.

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Sanremo Rally 2001: Gilles Panizzi wins in Peugeot 206 WRC

The story of the 2001 San Remo Rally in which Gilles Panizzi won for the second year in a row behind the wheel of a Peugeot 206 WRC.

The rally also heralded the arrival of Sebastien Loeb as a serious WRC contender with him finishing 2nd overall in a Citroen Xsara and he was only 11s behind Panizzi. Colin McRae and Richard Burns though, had a forgetable event with Burns crashing his… Continue reading

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Gilles Panizzi, Juho Hanninen and Jan Kopecky will form a three car Skoda team for IRC Rallye Monte Carlo 2009

Auto-Hebdo magazine has revealed that Gilles Panizzi, Juho Hanninen and Jan Kopecky will drive in a three car Skoda Fabia S2000 team for Rallye Monte Carlo in January.

All three drivers have been recently testing for Skoda Motorsport, driving Fabia Super 2000’s in the French Alps, Austria and the Czech Republic as the team prepares for Monte Carlo. This fuelled… Continue reading

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