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Who are your favorite rally drivers
MalP - 4/1/25 at 06:33 PM

Rally Drivers

My favorite is Hannu Mikkola followed by Ari Vatanen


MalP

Mike Wood - 4/1/25 at 08:35 PM

Penti Airikkala and Juha Kankkunen.

theconrodkid - 5/1/25 at 08:44 AM

in no particular order


Roger clark
Carlos Sainz snr
Colin Mcrae
Petter Solberg

just noticed that was my 10-000th post...do i get a medal ?

[Edited on 5/1/25 by theconrodkid]

adithorp - 5/1/25 at 02:39 PM

quote:
Originally posted by theconrodkid

just noticed that was my 10-000th post...do i get a medal ?

[Edited on 5/1/25 by theconrodkid]


No but you might get access to the shop.

jps - 5/1/25 at 08:17 PM

You lot are showing your age! No Rauno Aaltonen or Erik Carlson though, so maybe you’re not *that* old…

Rallying was *the* sport in my house growing up, my Dad being a clubman driver. I was in the forests of Yorkshire in the Group B days, albeit just under 5 years old in ‘86, we had a family sweepstake for the RAC winner each year. At the time my favourites were Russell Brookes (I got his autograph at the start of the National Breakdown one year) and Hannu Mikkola.

Nowadays I couldn’t pick one, there have been too many great rally drivers: Burns, McRae (Jimmy and Colin especially but Alister was no slouch either), Gronholm, Panizzi, Pond (hustling that big Rover around, absolute legend!), Alen, Evans (Gwyndaf and Elfyn), Mark Higgins (that IoM hot lap moment in the Impreza!), Mark Lovell (incredible on the Manx in the Sierra Cosworth), Patrick Snijers (ditto but in the BMW). The list is really is endless, every driver is incredible to watch…

Unfortunately the current WRC doesn’t excite me like the rallying of yesteryear, it just doesn’t seem as epic as it used to…

[Edited on 5/1/25 by jps]

MalP - 5/1/25 at 08:31 PM

A good reply JPS there were many good rally drivers in the 70's and 80's

Mal

robinsoncrusoe55 - 5/1/25 at 08:34 PM

Hannu Mikkola, Roger Clark Simon Mckinley, and Bjorn Waldegard

MalP - 5/1/25 at 09:07 PM

No one has mentioned the demon Irish driver Billy Coleman

Twobeers - 6/1/25 at 12:23 AM

Mark Lovell.

theconrodkid - 6/1/25 at 08:37 AM

quote:Originally posted by theconrodkid

just noticed that was my 10-000th post...do i get a medal ?

[Edited on 5/1/25 by theconrodkid]



No but you might get access to the shop.

went there once, bought a pork pie and a cup of tea

nick205 - 7/1/25 at 03:30 PM

Are they still selling pork pies?

jacko - 7/1/25 at 06:18 PM

No hot pot now

[Edited on 7/1/25 by jacko]