When Ford took a hiatus at the end of the 1979 World Rally Championship season to focus on the incoming Group B era, the car on the drawing board wasn’t the RS200. The Group B rulebook for 1982 had very few specificities and mostly focused on safety-critical components and minimum weight. This resulted in a variety […]
How To Super Tourer, The Nissan Way
If Mark’s recent story on three race replicas hitting the streets of Japan doesn’t prove that the BTCC Super Tourer era truly transcends language and distance barriers, nothing else will. The late-1990s Super Tourer race series was designed to push sales of everyman four-door saloons. But while the cars loosely resembled their road-going counterparts, under the skin they […]
Not Your Grandma’s Suzuki Hatchback…
There were a lot of familiar rally cars in action at Race Retro 2023 a couple of weekends back, but scattered amongst the usual suspects was one I’d never seen before in person. The vehicle in question was the diminutively-proportioned ex-JWRC Suzuki Ignis S1600, resplendent in its luminous yellow paint scheme. Initially known as the Super 1600 (S1600) Drivers Championship, […]
The Rally Side Of Race Retro
Stoneleigh Park in the UK Midlands is usually known for its contributions to the agriculture and farming industry. Dozens of businesses invested in both current and future of farming are scattered throughout the estate. But for one weekend a year, bovine and seeds are replaced by anti-lag, oversteer and vendors displaying their finest motorsport wares. […]