No rally car thread is complete unless you have Carlos throwing his helmet into the rear window of his broken Toyota, 500 mtrs from the finish line and those same 500 mtrs away from his World Championship win.
Damn right! I vividly remember one stage of the RAC Rally took place at Longleat, the cars traveling to it on public roads.
At that time the A350 trunk road from the M4 down to Poole went past the top of my road, just a few metres from my house, so all these rally cars were going past at legal speeds.
Then a Stratos went past. I could hear it when it got out onto the 60 mph road, about a quarter mile away, and for what seemed like the next ten minutes.
By which time it would have been entering Melksham, about seven or eight miles away…
A hair-raising, banshee wail!
Awesumz.
Mine – Woodpecker Stages this year, Haye Park (Mortimer Forest), Ludlow. Also used Bringewood, Hopton & Radnor. Lucky for a keen mtb’er……. Hobbies with joint benefits.
1360cc XS
Bloody expensive sport, but awesome, it is a bug. Big area here for it around here, everyone knows someone who rallies, outside of the towns, I co-drive and navigate (not the same thing) a bit too. Chris Ingram, a friend of mine narrowly missed out on the junior European title this year in a works Opel Adam.
Welsh Farmer – I’m desperate to do a road rally over Hay Bluff and down through Llanthony. Just need a navigator.
welshfarmer – Andy Burton is an almost neighbour of ours and I know his boys well, followed that car for years, it is an absolute beast, but sadly now parked up in a shed in bits, covered in chicken s**t by all accounts.
This is one of my all time favourite cars:
Campaigned to British Championship victory in 1994 by Malcolm Wilson and Bryan Thomas. My mum went to school with Bryan and I now deal with him a lot through work.
This car belongs to a friend, they rally it in the BTRDA series, Talbot Sunbeam (in red) with a 1400cc Vauxhall engine (approx. 170bhp). Proflex suspension, dog box.
They’ve had a tough year, lots of retirements, but shown some mega pace. This is from the recent Wyedean Stages where they managed to go 6th fastest through one stage, in a field of 300bhp+ turbo 4wd cars and big power escorts and the like:
Here in sanremo / molini they have the irc rally and the historic rally every year in march/April. My god the smell and the noise of the group B’s is immense
I’ve been looking for the pictures that lead to this wreck too
I remember there being quite a good series of pictures in a magazine at the time but can’t find anything online now. A few cars clipped the stump, Gwyndaf showed them how it was done.
I was spectating on the Manx Rally that year when the Ari clip was show at the evening highlights in the Rally HQ – there was a collective ‘OHhh’ from the audience !
I was also spectating just down the road the year he totaled the black escort – I saw him seconds before over the Starvey yump landing half on the grass …. he only lasted a few hundred yards further before the crash.
good (cycling) mate of mine has been rallying for years, still does – was in a 3.0 911 RS, now Escort RS rebuild – will see if I can dig out some pics.
If it’s “rally talk” it’s got to include Escorts, that’s the rule 🙂 , cheers for posting that pigface, sent it to my mate who won his class in the RAC Rally back in mid 90’s with this cosworth escort below – it’s just as well he owned a car bodyshop n’ garage along with a deep wallet as he always drove 10/10ths at all times.