Porsche 911 on the Targa High Country
Targa High Country is a road rally in north east Victoria in Australia. It includes classes for modern cars and historics from a number of eras and offers dramatic closed-road, high-speed stages ideal for tarmac rally experts
The now-legendary film of Ari Vatanen’s attempt on the hill at Pikes Peak in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado. On board the Peugeot 405 T16 Vatanen had 600 BHP, 4-wheel drive, 4-wheel steering, giant spoilers and just 900 Kg. He set a new hill record in 1988 Continue reading
In fifteen years time this will be just another old car. You’ll be able to put it on a classic car insurance policy, park it outside on the street and take it out for a spin when it’s not raining
Maybe…
In the hands of Hannu Mikkola and Björn Waldegård these Escort RS1800 Group 4 rally cars drift effortlessly across the ice. Also there is Gunnar Palm in Ari Vatanen’s Ford Fiesta 1600 Monte Carlo Rally car
The venue: an ice-covered Swedish lake. The date: February 1979, just after the Swedish Rally
If you think twin drift is a modern Japanese invention you’ll see a great example here from thirty years ago
