The word ‘quattro’, chosen by Audi for its pioneering high-performance four-wheel-drive cars, immediately captures glamour and excitement in the minds of all motorsport enthusiasts. This book, written by a leading journalist and quattro devotee, explores 24 years of factory-prepared and factory-supported quattros in motorsport, from 1980 to ......
Asked to sum up the Ford Escort, Markku Alén put it in fourwords: "Its a winners car." The front-engined, rear-wheel drive car triumphed all around the world, whether it was at the 1970 World Cup Rally, the East African Safari, in Swedish snow or on Finlands high-speed tracks. At its home event, the RAC Rally, the Mk1 and Mk2 versions proved ......
This edition of the book is limited to only 250 numbered copies, contains a hand signature of Hannu Mikkola and comes in a luxuary linen slip case.
The legendary Mk1 & Mk2 in rallying
Asked to sum up the Ford Escort, Markku Alén put it in fourwords: "Its a winners car." The front-engined, ......
In 1968, exactly 50 years ago, Porsche won the Monte Carlo Rally for the first time.
That is more than enough reason to take a look back at the Porsche cars that have taken part in the most famous rally in the world.
The very first Porsche team entered the rally in 1952. However, in the overall classification the ......
Rally cars do not make history every day but one that did hit the headlines was the Escort RS1600 that won the East African Safari Rally in 1972. For twenty years, the Safari had been won by drivers from within the East African community and this was despite all attempts by the European rally hierarchy to change that. Acknowledged as the ......
This book describes the birth, development, and rallying career of the original Ford Escort, one of Europe‘s Landmark Rally Cars in the early 1970s, providing a compact and authoritative history of where, how and why it became so important to the sport.
The Escort MkI delivered everything its predecessor, the Lotus-Cortina, had promised. ......
The Audi Quattro is a Rally Giant because it was the first to combine four-wheel-drive and a turbocharged engine – not the most sophisticated, but it was the first, and very successful. It was also the first to run with more than 300bhp. As it was re-homologated/transformed from Group 4 into Group B in 1983, it was also the first successful ......
When Fiat entered rallying in 1970, its ultimate aim was to become World Rally Champion - and the 131 Abarth of 1976-1980 provided the machinery to make that possible. Within the Fiat-Lancia empire, the 131 Abarth not only replaced the 124 Abarth Spider sports car, but was also favoured ahead of the charismatic Lancia Stratos. By 1970s ......
The Targa Florio occupies a unique place in the history of motor sport. It was the sheer challenge of racing in some of the worlds fastest sport cars on the narrow mountain roads of Sicily that has ensured the Targa Florio an honoured place in motor racings unofficial Hall of Fame.
AUSTRALASIAN SAFARI 2013
A seven-day off-road motorsport marathon is the Australasian Safari, Australias toughest motorsport event.Every competitor who crossed the finish line was a winner for completing a gruelling seven days of competition covering approximately 2,500 competitive kilometers off-road on beaches, through sand dunes, ......
Colin McRae, the 1995 World Rally Champion, combined natural speed and a win-or-bust approach, to become the favourite of rally fans worldwide. The word McRae became superfluous, Colin was … just Colin. He drove for a variety of top teams including Ford, Citroën and Skoda, however the flying Scotsman is best remembered for his exploits in blue ......
A beach dash along the Indian Ocean from Kalbarri to Geraldton in Western Australia he finale of the seven-day off-road motor marathon Australasian Safari, Australias toughest motorsport event
The greatest test of any vehicle in Australian motorsport is to survive an epic Around Australia Trial. With a reputation born out of the famous Redex Trials of the fifties, Holden, Australiaâ??s â??own carâ??, has always featured in the forefront of those classic enduros. Never more so than in the 1979 Repco Trial, when motor racing icon, ......
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