My bank holiday to 01/04/2024. Watching this legendary video 👍 James Hunt and Murray Walker properly enjoyed the sprint race, proper job!

legend after legend after legend, both the cars and the drivers. What a brilliant piece of archive rallying.

@VHSRallies

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, was very pleased and excited when it popped up on the screen during capture.

Tony pond was an absolute legend

@reneflippe3286

2 жыл бұрын

Fucking useless, never achieved anything ....

@carcontrolcommitment

2 жыл бұрын

@@reneflippe3286 congratulations, you are the first person I've ever seen that has insulted Tony Pond.

Tony Pond put on a show by himself!!!

@VHSRallies

2 жыл бұрын

Certainly plenty of incidents in the race...

Brilliant. An event like this is inconceivable today.

@d-d-i

2 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking the same, that events like these should be still held for current and former racing drivers. Also, using older RWD cars like in here.

Both Pond and Eklund were rally drivers who never really fulfilled their potential, though I believe that was mainly personal choice, driving for less well financed teams or cars or only doing part seasons. At the race start, looks to me like Per moved over on Pond to get position, and Pond took revenge by pushing him back! They were both on the same team (BL TR7) was it friendly banter or competitive rivalry? Someone should ask Per! As far as British rally stars go we have so few that survive to later years, Clark, Brookes, Pond, Burns, C McRae, Lovell, Fisher all gone before their time! Watched them all, met them all, miss them all.

Love that rx7 race! James hunt laughing 😆

Oh man, thanks so much, nearly 41 years since I saw this, utterly epic.

@VHSRallies

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. I must admit I had a little giddy giggle when I saw it capturing, and my prayers that it was complete were answered!

I like the mention of Tony pond when he drives the TR7 British Leyland gets mentioned now I am from Leyland through and through and remember selling papers at the front of Leyland Motors at 6 and a frozen morning when I was 12 years old saving up for a ZX Spectrum very proud to be Leyland going through thanks everybody is put this together regards Dean

This is what we need to see more of; Rallysprints, single venue, single stage, easy format. Until recently we had Haye Park, Sweetlamb.....

Absolutely brilliant video. .thank you...

@VHSRallies

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Tr7 V8 😍 Tony pond 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

Awesome thanks VHSR…. I think there may have been a few lunch time bevies before the rx7 race…hilarious

Scheckter backing the Mazda into the Old Hairpin on lap 1 is now one of my favourite motorsport moments. God I wish the race of champions was this format… but which drivers would you invite?

Good old MW, The RX7s gained 5hp during the race

@tahustvedt

2 жыл бұрын

I noticed that too. :)

This was fkn awesomw, wish there was more like it..

Love to see the Strato's!!

This stuff is GOLD mate, please never stop!!!

@VHSRallies

2 жыл бұрын

It has to end sometime!

@flammenjc

2 жыл бұрын

@@VHSRallies nooooo

If Per Eklund had been driving a TR-8 instead of the Stratos he would have blown everyone away. Per finished 3rd at the the 1980 1000 Lakes Rally in a TR-8!

What a fun video, thank you for uploading this!

@VHSRallies

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Fantastic; great sounding rally cars and a very entertaining circuit race!

It's a shame that James Hunt didn't have a pop at this.

See Pond at Brookes' corner? Right on the edge of grip. He was a wizard.

Who ever owns that right hand stratos, is now sitting on a pile of gold…

I really enjoy watching the rally wedge cars against the MK2

That was worth paying the licence fee for. Shame Ari couldn't do this one.

I do wonder why they use identical track cars but not identical rally cars. Just availability of vehicles?

I think this is the first time I've ever heard a British announcer pronounce Lancia correctly 😂 What an iconic lineup of drivers and cars 👍👌🤘❤️

@VHSRallies

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's hard to imagine something like this happening these days!

@hazy33

2 жыл бұрын

@@VHSRallies The "management teams" and insurers wouldn't allow it :-(

marvelous entertainment...

Lancia Stratos 🤩🤩🤩🤩

Dear old Murray, “Russel Brooks is in 4th place with Jody Shekter in 3rd and that’s Per Elkins in 4th” I was totally confused by the end but who cares. 🥰

295/300 hp was big back in the day.......these days mums suzuki alto has that

@Revup1

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but Mum's Suzuki Alto is also nowadays 3 times heavier than a 1980's rally car!

Back when 300 bhp was a lot,That Stratos 😍

RWD rally is just more entertaining to watch!

The Stratos is unique as it’s not a original Stratos as no works or original Stratos were ever built as RHD.

@lightfootsnr2739

2 жыл бұрын

Have a read of Richard Heseltine's biography of Graham Warner, owner/proprietor of "The Chequered Flag". Warner purchased two genuine works Stratos rally cars in his bid for UK rallying glory. The first was a crashed Stratos in Italy sold to him by Cesare Fiorio (Lancia's competition manager) which Warner's team stripped, straightened and rebuilt. After a number of rallies this particular Stratos caught fire in the 1976 International Welsh Rally and was totally burnt out/destroyed - beyond repair. Lancia declined to provide a replacement Stratos but pointed Warner to a factory Stratos used in Kenya as a recce car for the Safari Rally which the team had left there in Africa. When Warner's men arrived in Kenya (having tracked this car down) they discovered why the works Lancia team hadn't taken it back to Italy after the event. It too had been crashed! Nevertheless they purchased it, brought it back to England and set about the rebuild (the team were getting quite good at this by then!). And yes, at one point it WAS converted to RHD for Billy Coleman to use in Ireland as Billy didn't really like LHD. This rally sprint took place around that time hence it being a right-hooker for this event although it was then subsequently re-configured back into a LHD car (not difficult to do apparently). If you're interested in the UK Stratos run by The Chequered Flag (along with their Porsche 911, Triumph TR7 V8 and Fiat-Abarth 131) then Heseltine's book is a good read.

38:10 "Tony Pond tested an Arrows GP car" sounds intriguing, does anyone know details about this?

@carcontrolcommitment

2 жыл бұрын

he tested it at Donington. His view before the test was " if it has 4 wheels and a steering wheel, I don't think I should be scared of it"

You can see the racing drivers can't use the 'digging in' side of the tire grip, or pendulum techniques.

Great,Far Better than the Modern cars That sound Terrible and are Not as sidways as Cars From 43 Years Ago So Much for Progress ,If We Had WRC in 2023 with 40 BDA Escors and Similar it would be a Lot Better.

Screw your mid-engined purpose built rally car, I got a Buick V8!

TR7 V8 is A TR8 numpty

@LB1973

2 жыл бұрын

Actually , numpty, the rally car was homologated as a TR7v8

@hazy33

2 жыл бұрын

No one calls Murray Walker a numpty, how dare you! :-)

@reneflippe3286

2 жыл бұрын

@@hazy33 I do muppet

@hazy33

2 жыл бұрын

@@reneflippe3286 hey who you sleep with is your private affair. Why you'd share that here I've no idea.

@cvtt3194

2 жыл бұрын

When boomers think they know everything, vol. 1

very unpatriotic with the flag. you should be ashamed of yourselves.

‘The Yump’