Rally Cars

by Reinhard Klein
Text by David Williams, John Davenport and Colin McMaster

Since the very birth of the motor car, man has devised an array of motor sport challenges. The hugely popular sport of World Championship rallying provides the most varied and demanding of all these environments. For nearly half a century, a multitude of car manufacturers from all over the world, both great and small, have recognised it and risen to the challenge.

Rally fans have been captivated by a plethora of evocative machinery, ranging from the lightly modified production cars that prevailed until well into the 1960s, to the fire-breathing, 500-horsepower monsters of the 1980s and the computer-aided, exotically constructed cars of the new millennium. The rules governing eligible cars for rallying have evolved in parallel with design advances. However, a common theme has prevailed: almost all rally cars are derived from production-based, roadgoing models. Part of the sport's mass appeal is that the man in the street can marvel at the skill of the world's greatest drivers yet still identify with the cars he sees competing.

The engineering excellence applied to rally car design has benefitted millions of motorists across the globe, as technical innovations derived through rallying have often been transferred to the production line.

This lavishly illustrated book provides a detailed insight into the technical evolution of the rally car from its modest beginnings to the present day. There have been close to 200 rally cars which have made a significant impact on the international history of the sport and this book documents them extensively, combining the photographic and writing skills of a contrasting yet complimentary editorial quartet, in addition to the views of many respected and distinguished alumni from the sport.

Contents:

• Up to 1966
• 1966-1973
• 1973-1982
• Group B 1982-1987
• Group A 1987-1997
• Kit Cars
• World Rally Cars since 1997

Buch, Hardcover, 25 x 29,5 cm, 600 Seiten, ca. 1.000 größtenteils farbige Abbildungen, englischer Text
Könemann Verlag, 2000
Einzelstück - Zustand: sehr gut