Lombard RAC Rally 1980: Henri Toivonen becomes the youngest WRC event winner in the Talbot Sunbeam-Lotus

Henri Toivonen became, at 24, the youngest winner of a world rally championship event (that is if we regard 1973 as being year zero, otherwise Simo Lampinen would still hold the record even today by winning the 1963 1000 Lakes aged just 20) on the 1980 Lombard RAC Rally driving the Talbot Sunbeam-Lotus.

Some say he was fortunate, being gifted the rally after the punctures that befell Anders Kullang’s… Continue reading

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2009 IRC provisional calendar released: events from four continents included

The provisional calendar for the 2009 Intercontinental Rally Challenge has been released and contains the same events that were included in the draft last week.

Monte Carlo kicks the series off in January then a new event from Brazil forms round two in March. Four continents will be visited with other events such as the Safari Rally (still TBC), Ypres, Rally Russia, Rally Japan, the RAC MSA Rally of Scotland… Continue reading

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Roger Albert Clark (RAC) Rally 2008 results & videos: Malcolm Wilson wins in the Pirelli Stobart Energy Kick Mk2 Escort

Malcolm Wilson took victory on the Roger Albert Clark Rally (RAC) driving a Stobart Mk2 Escort.

Wilson, who had fellow M-Sport man and former Motoring News Road Rally champion John Millington sitting with him, won the event by nearly six and a half minutes ahead of David Stokes in a Mk1 Escort. Irishman Seamus O’Connell took an excellent third o/a in his Mk2 Escort.

Wilson wins the RAC Rally… Continue reading

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Group B video clips from Youtube

Spectators Portugal 1985

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=WuIfpyWaF1E[/youtube]

1986 footage

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cisgCspgMd8[/youtube]

Finland 85

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=r5N5C3UzIE8[/youtube]

Group B sounds

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5UYUP4U3L6U[/youtube]

Euro Group B

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bTba_51qFLw[/youtube]

RAC 1985 featuring the S4 and 6R4’s debut

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=hm8eGHZeHtk[/youtube]

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