RAC Rally Action!

by Tony Gardiner

Overview

This book truly represents an enthusiast‘s view of the RAC Rally: allowing you to relive the events if you were there, or offering the next best thing if you weren‘t. Tony always took a week of his annual leave to watch 'The RAC', and reckons he covered more than 28,000 miles chasing rally stages around the country. Luckily for us, he always took his trusty Zenit camera and recorded hundreds of moments of RAC Rally action, each now frozen in time for posterity. These images, which have not previously been published, have an energy which brings the rally back to life and reminds us how far removed modern rallying is from the much simpler pre-WRC era._x000B_ For all who love the ‘Rally of the Forests' period of top level rallying, here is an incredibly involving evocation of three decades of great motorsport. All aspects of the event are covered including rare photos from manufacturers' archives, rally documents (regulations, programmes, road books, crew notes), and a full colour cutaway illustration of a famous winning car._x000B_ This publication has full approval of the Royal Automobile Club and the Motor Sports Association.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845847234
Publisher:	Veloce Publishing
Publication date:	05/03/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	21 MB
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About the Author

Worthing, West Sussex resident, Tony Gardiner, is a highly experienced professional illustrator who has maintained a lifelong interest in motor sport, including club events, rallies, sprints and hillclimbs, as a spectator, official and competitor._x000B_ Tony first became interested in motorsport in 1957 when the Ecurie Ecosse team of D Type Jaguars won at Le Mans. Other forms of motorsport, including rallies like the Monte Carlo and LiÈge-Rome-LiÈge, with competitors driving over Europe _x0019_s mountain roads and snow-covered goat tracks at high speed, captured Tony _x0019_s imagination. He quickly became aware of Britain _x0019_s own RAC International Rally which covered some two thousand miles of British roads each November. As _x0018_The RAC _x0019_ became more and more competitive with new forest stages, his interest grew._x000B_ In 1964 he spectated at the RAC _x0019_s start at the Chelsea Barracks in London and decided there and then that, next year, he would follow the Rally round its entire route. This started some fourteen further such ventures covering thousands of miles in a Mini Cooper, Vauxhall Magnum and a Leyland 1800. Tony even persuaded the Press Office of the Royal Automobile Club to issue him with passes and rally plates which helped him immensely getting in and out of stages quickly._x000B_ The result of Tony _x0019_s passion for the RAC Rally is that he amassed, between 1964-1983, over a thousand photographs in black and white and colour, plus a large collection of RAC Rally memorabilia, much of which is reproduced in this book.

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From the Publisher

"Tony Gardiner is first and foremost an enthusiast and that really comes through in his book. Near enough all the pictures are ones that he has taken ... he has also accumulated various passes, programs, paintings and memorabilia ..." – Havoc, Ford AVO Owners Club