Ben Branch
May 5, 2021
The damage sustained to these Ford Focus RS WRC body panels tells the story of Colin McRae and Nicky Grist’s near win in the 2001 World Rally Championship. The two men went into the…
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Ben Branch
January 14, 2021
The Audi S1 E2 was one of the true monsters of the Group B rally world, the bodykit alone looked lethal but underneath it you’ll find a turbocharged inline five-cylinder engine producing upwards…
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Ben Branch
December 31, 2020
This Renault 5 Turbo 1 is a rare original Marlboro livery team car that was driven in the European Championship R5 Cup – a race series that was a supporting event to the…
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Ben Branch
October 26, 2020
On the 3rd of March 1980 when Audi first showed their new Quattro to the world it was seen as an unusual and intriguing new car, but no one could possibly have guessed how…
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Ben Branch
September 24, 2020
The car you see here was one of the original Alpine A110s that contested and ultimately won the inaugural World Rally Championship (WRC) for constructors in 1973. As with many rally cars of…
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Ben Branch
May 27, 2020
This is the Tamiya R/C Volkswagen Beetle Rally, it’s an homage to all of the Beetle-based rally and desert racing vehicles that have been built from the 1950s right through to the present day….
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Ben Branch
May 22, 2020
The Lancia Rallye 037 is one of the most beloved cars from the legendary Group B rally era, despite the fact it didn’t have the complex all-wheel drive systems of the Audis and Peugeots…
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Ben Branch
May 15, 2020
This is the Lego version of the 1985 Audi Sport quattro S1, unlike many more curvaceous classic cars the boxy Sport quattro S1 is perfectly suited for immortalization in Lego form. Although it’s often…
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Ben Branch
May 3, 2020
This is the Austin Rover Rallysprint from 1984, it’s a goldmine of ’80s-era racing that’s only recently been transcoded from VHS and uploaded to YouTube by VHS Rallies. The event includes some of the…
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Ben Branch
March 29, 2020
This documentary covers the introduction of the Peugeot 205 T16 into the Group B class of the World Rally Championship (WRC) in 1984. The French automaker had their work cut out for them, they…
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Ben Branch
November 12, 2019
This 1975 Ferrari Dino 308 GT4 Safari was built to answer a single question – what would the 308 GT4 have looked like if Ferrari had opted to take it rallying to compete with…
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Ben Branch
October 20, 2019
The Ford Escort RS Cosworth is one of the most beloved British-Fords of its era, it was developed for rally, with the homologation requirements meaning that a road-going version was also offered to the…
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