The anecdote has thus far been delivered by detour and digression. Wynne Mitchell is doubled up in mirth as he recounts a story surrounding Tony Pond’s third-place finish on the 1985 RAC Rally of Grea

He spent the best part of 30 years trying to make racing cars go faster, then the next quarter of a century striving to make them safer. But Peter Wright, who died in November aged 79, was an understa

30 years ago, Colin McRae flew, drifted and slid his way from WRC frontrunner to sporting megastar

Tough conditions, with snow and ice in Wales, made for a challenging rally.

CONVERSATION WAS conducted at high volume, and with many emphatic gestures. It was a typically chaotic Ferrari press conference, or at least it was until Il Commendatore spoke, held in December 1966,

By tradition, the World Rally Championship should have been decided in a thick soup of mud and mist, the sport’s top stars slithering through treacherous British forest roads on a good old Rally GB wi