RAC Rally!

[Housey]

Yea, I know they have something going on in Wales, but here is when the RAC was a PROPER rally, with PROPER cars. Probably the greatest group of cars ever in my book, 1985! We lost the Quattro in 1986 but gained the RS200 but I think Quattro was more special.

Video 1, all I'm going to say is 2.41 seconds, get the volume up and await spine tingles!

Video 2

Other videos out there, but these give a feel for what it was like. I followed the 85 Rally all over the UK, when it was actually a Rally of Britain!

 

[Housey]

I actually speak as someone who was 19 when this rally took place, me and 5 mate dived into my car and simply drove around the country following the Rally, it was imence and had a 'whole of the country' feel that the current homogenised rally simply doesn't get close too. For clarity there were no pace notes on the RAC in those days, simply audinance survey maps! Modern motorsports simply isn't as exciing as it was and the 70's and 80's, really it just isn't and though the cars are much quicker and clever they have lost a lot if their appeal. I thing the rallying has actually suffered less, WRC cars are still exciting at full chat and very quick...but just listen to that Quattro and 6R4, nothing sounds like that today and they were a real handful too, nothing like as clever as the modern cars and to me better for it.