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Articles and Opinion Pieces
- NAVIGATOR - A vital component in any road rally car
- It seems that drivers are obsessed with finding the latest component to give their road rally car that extra boost of performance. Usually this involves a fixation with engines, gearboxes, brakes or tyres. I’d like to suggest an item that really should be given serious consideration, it’s called Navigator.
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- RALI CILWENDEG - The MN Championship Years 1968 to 1987
- For twenty years the Cilwendeg was a round of the Motoring News Road Rally Championship, the most prestigious competition that the sport has known. And for most of that time it was acknowledged as the premier event in the country. It was the only rally to have been a round of the championship for every year from 1968 to the demise of the series in 1987.
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- STICKY TAPE - Why the results team hate you
- Today’s proposition is that Mr Snell, Mr Oace and Mr Eastwood of the 3M Company are amongst the greatest villains in World History. In January 1946, as if the previous six years of world warfare hadn’t caused enough misery, this trio invented electrical tape, a product that has become the most hated item in existence - well as far as Rally Results Teams are concerned anyway.
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- FOOT & MOUTH DISEASE - Why road rallying came to a halt in 2001
- There is a point in H G Wells’ War of the Worlds where the author highlights that, as Martians land on Hersall Common, the normal activities of life continue in the nearby town, the people being unaware of the disaster that was about to befall them. On reflection, the rally community seemed to be in the same situation in 2001.
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- ORGANISING YOUR DREAM RALLY - It ain't going to happen
- Ah, the joy of sitting down as an organiser with an empty map in front of you and planning the perfect rally. Enjoy the moment because real life will quickly intrude on your dream.
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- JJ BROWN MEMORIAL RALLY 1987 - The end of the Motoring News Series
- The 1987 JJ Brown Memorial brought to an end a type of road rallying where a commercially supported national series was the pinnacle of the sport; where at times ex-works cars charged through the lanes. Before we get too misty eyed about the past, it should be noted that the JJ Brown wasn’t a grand finale; in many ways it was a mere shadow of the rallies that had taken place in the heyday of the MN Championship.
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- RAC BRITISH RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP - All event winners 1971 to 1977
- Between 1971 and 1977 the British Rally Championship consisted of just stage rallies, previous to this some road rallies had been included. During this period the championship was open only to British Competition Licence holders. In 1978 the series was replaced by the British Open Championship, where drivers of all nationalities were able to score points.
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- ENDURANCE RALLYING - A good concept that failed
- The concept, the brainchild of Philip Young’s fertile mind, was developed at the turn of the Millennium. The announcement that there would be no endurance rally championship in 2016 was sad but far from unexpected news. The format has struggled for both competitors and events for most of its existence.
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- THE WORST RALLY CAR IN THE WORLD ... EVER - Our struggles with an RS2000
- The car was a very second hand Mark One RS2000, registration HRH 339N. We’d previously been campaigning a 1.3 Escort, so this was our introduction to the big power league. I’ve still got its bonnet in the barn. I kick it every now again.
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- RALLYING ON SALISBURY PLAIN - Event listing from 1967 to 2017
- The historic Wiltshire military training area has been the venue for over 200 stage, road and classic rallies since the mid-Sixties. This table gives details of those events.
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- EAGLE RALLY 1998 - A daylight road rally before its time
- As organisers we then went through a slow but logical thought process: Many road rallies are decided on sections that use tracks and forestry roads off the public highway; Why not run a rally with all competitive sections on private land? Despite a wide spread myth, there is no rule stopping the multiple use of roads on a road rally; Why not use somewhere, such as Sweet Lamb; We could use a number of 'laps' to bring the mileage up to an acceptable level? If there are no competitive sections on the public highway, why not run the event during the day?
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