World Of Sport Scottish Rally Coverage 1982

[Klippie]

Christ this is good, the rally action starts at 3.55 mins - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NNsFXtOGeMA

[anonymous-user]

Fantastic footage.

When Rallying was fantastic to watch.

The rally was all over Scotland and had a huge amount of stages.

Now you are lucky to get three stages per rally

Unfortunately I doubt you will get many people posting about it.

The FIA really have killed rallying and I doubt even with the new cars next year it will get any better.

[rossub]

So many household names in that line up...... I can't name a single current WRC rally driver. Sad days

[Klippie]

Interesting to see the Audi Quattro racing in that event it must have been early in its life before turning into the full blown group B car.

What a monster - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDRkHXMHqFo

This is good too about group B cars - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xni7c5_still-too-...

[k-ink]

I actually prefer the character of the simple RWD NA rally cars.

[Private Pile]

Thanks for posting op, loved that!

[Unexpected Item In Bagging Area]

Wonderful! Thanks for posting

[wibblebrain]

Brings back memories. I graduated that year (finished my exams) and toured Scotland with some mates watching this event.

I was into photography in those days and took the following photos: the side photo of Vatanen's car was published in 1989 in Motoring News or Cars and Car Conversions (I don't remember which, but I have the remittance slip from Link House).

I'll never forget the sight of Ari Vatanen at full tilt - men were men in those days, that's for sure.

[Dinoboy]

Great photos, thanks for sharing. Sad how uninspiring modern rallying has become.

[Steve_F]

Video and photos are great, thanks for posting both!

Have series linked this years rally highlights for the first time in a lot of years. The coverage and shots they're getting from helicopter, drone and in car is really good but it's still not enough to bring back the popularity.

Really don't get the current cars either, do sales of the Hyundai i20 really increase off the back of a good result?

[rossub]

Let's face it, they need to change the cars in WRC. Nobody really wants to watch Fiestas, Polos, i20s and the like with little 1.6 engines do they?

Let VW loose with the Golf R, Ford with the Focus RS and Audi with the S3. Subaru might have a go too and maybe someone can persuade Honda to stick a prop and rear diff down the arse of the Type R and then we can have something interesting to watch!

[sjabrown]

Brilliant photos. Whiteash Wood is still used for rallying - often on the Speyside Stages. Culbin hasn't been used for a couple of decades now.

wibblebrain said:

Brings back memories. I graduated that year (finished my exams) and toured Scotland with some mates watching this event.

I was into photography in those days and took the following photos: the side photo of Vatanen's car was published in 1989 in Motoring News or Cars and Car Conversions (I don't remember which, but I have the remittance slip from Link House).

I'll never forget the sight of Ari Vatanen at full tilt - men were men in those days, that's for sure.

[Jerry Can]

rossub said:

Let's face it, they need to change the cars in WRC. Nobody really wants to watch Fiestas, Polos, i20s and the like with little 1.6 engines do they?

Let VW loose with the Golf R, Ford with the Focus RS and Audi with the S3. Subaru might have a go too and maybe someone can persuade Honda to stick a prop and rear diff down the arse of the Type R and then we can have something interesting to watch!

standard modern rallier bashing post is that.

in the 1980's you would have queued for hours to metro's, 205's, delta's, and to this day we still talk about them. They were fairly awful road cars.

Modern WRC is good and next year should be amazing with the regs allowing much more powerful cars. WRC is ace, and far better than the drone - athon that is F1

[R8Steve]

Amazing! To think that was only a mile away from my house at the time as well.

[k-ink]

Great black and white photos

[bodysnatcher]

Thanks for the link, I was there that day in Strathclyde park when Mikkola and Herz came backwards down the stage at a great rate of knots. I was towards the end of the stage so never saw how they broke the wheel / steering until now. Mystery solved after 34 years - it just fell apart!

[poing]

That brings back some memories! I was 8 years old and we had just flown back into the UK to visit my grand parents in Scotland. My father (I suspect mostly as an excuse to escape the in-laws) took me out to a couple of stages. I'd only ever seen club level stuff up to that point but I remember being showered by gravel from one of the cars on this.

I even vaguely remember seeing this sports show on TV, it was nice when sports shows actually showed something other than football.

[Alex Langheck]

Jerry Can said:

Modern WRC is good and next year should be amazing with the regs allowing much more powerful cars. WRC is ace, and far better than the drone - athon that is F1

So good that it receives the least interest of all the major series.....

The current WRCars are the fastest rally cars through a stage we’ve ever seen. The ‘problem’ is they don’t appear fast; there’s very little drama. Actually live stage side, they’re fantastic – but on the official WRC TV coverage they don’t seem that way.

The cars aren't the problem; its the woeful promotion of the sport; it's invisible.

Edited by Alex Langheck on Monday 19th September 10:34

[kwk]

Takes me back to my early driving days where, with my mates, we spent nearly every weekend travelling the country, mostly at night, watching all sorts of rallies. Good also. to see World of Sport again

[jamiem555]

Some great pics there. My old man is standing behind Ken Wood with the video camera.