A little bit of good ol’ nose candy earned rally driver and motorcycle team owner Paul Bird a ban from motorsport…
How much would you pay for a nearly 40-year-old car with less than 200 horsepower? Why not half a million bucks?
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Forget the WRC. This is how a real rally driver drives: flat out and then some.
Remember the amazing international rally program of, uh, Proton?
[Fans cluster around a pair of Escort Cosworths getting serviced in the Ford pits at the 1993 Monte Carlo Rally Photo Credit: Getty Images] Read more
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Modern WRC cars might not have the horsepower of their Group B grandfathers, but they are still hugely quick thanks…
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Small-time rallies and hillclimbs happen all the time, all around the world. Here are some of the most intense…
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Austria’s Dead Panda Team doesn’t just eat in the car (gasp!), but they eat in the car at speed. With videos of the…
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Flat out, all the time, everywhere: I will never stop loving the Fiat 126.
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What is it about this one corner in Poland that makes seemingly every single rally driver in the entire world crash…
[If a Subaru and an Evo can get along, so can we all. Photo Credit: Getty Images, Juha Kankkunen in the Subaru and Tommi Makkinen in the Mitsubishi at the 2000 Rally Sweden pictured.] Read more
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The only problem with Group B rally cars (other than the whole ‘they killed a lot of people’ part) was that rallying…
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There are many sensible reasons why the Hyundais with which you share the roads don’t shoot flames. That’s all well…
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This is no ordinary Ford econobox. And it’s no ordinary rally driver behind the wheel, either.
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Word to the wise: don’t stand in front of a rally jump.
[How many wheels do you really need to make a corner? One? One seems fine. Photo Credit: Getty Images, Francois Delecour in his Ford Escort Cosworth during the ‘95 RAC Rally pictured.] Read more
Since we’re on the subject of Colin McRae today, here’s a shot from the archives of the man doing what he did best. Read more
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“I thought we had it,” says David Nickel to his co-driver Aled Edwards. They were sitting in their Subaru, sideways,…
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Rally driver Ryan Millen met up with Jay Leno, with the pair taking a rally-spec Toyota Rav4 through the very dry…
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Before the Mitsubishi Evo, before the Subaru Impreza, before the Audi Quattro there was the Ford Escort MkII. Now…