Manufacturers had entered works cars in rallies, and in their forerunner and cousin events, from the very beginning: the 1894 Paris-Rouen was mainly a competition between them, while the Thousand Mile Trial of 1900 had more trade than private entries.
The main change over that period has been in the cars, and in the professionalisation and commercialisation of the sport. Drives the to first of three wins in the. Since 2008, it has been held in South America.
From amateur beginnings it quickly became a massive commercial circus catering for cars, motorcycles and trucks, and spawned other similar events. In 1979, a young Frenchman, Thierry Sabine, founded an institution when he organised the first 'rallye-raid' from Paris to Dakar, in Senegal, the event now called the Dakar Rally. These were followed in 1974 by the London-Sahara-Munich World Cup Rally, and in 1977 by the Singapore Airlines London-Sydney Rally. The of Hannu Mikkola and Gunnar Palm won. Not to be outdone, the rival sponsored in 1970 the London-Mexico World Cup Rally, linking the stadia of two successive football World Cups, on a route that crossed Europe to Bulgaria and back before shipping out from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, after looping around South America, and a run through some of the most frightening sections of Peru's road race, the Caminos del Inca, they wrap it up being shipped to Panama and a final run up Central America.
'Baja' events now take place in a number of other countries worldwide.ġ968 brought the first of a series of British-organised intercontinental rallies, the, which attracted over 100 crews including a number of works teams and top drivers it was won by the of Andrew Cowan/Brian Coyle/Colin Malkin. In 1967, a group of American offroaders created the Rally, a tough 1,000-mile race for cars and motorcycles which ran the length of the Baja California peninsula, much of it initially over roadless desert, which quickly gained fame as the Baja 1000, today run by the organization. Gruelling long distance events continued to be run. At the same time, fields have shrunk dramatically, as the amateur in his near-standard car is squeezed out. Some of the older international events have gone, replaced by others from a much wider spread of countries around the world, until today rallying is truly a worldwide sport. The increasing costs, both of organization and of competing, as well as safety concerns, have, over the last twenty years, brought progressively shorter rallies, shorter stages and the elimination of nighttime running, scornfully referred to as 'office hours rallying' by older hands. Since then, the nature of the events themselves has evolved relatively slowly. It placed a premium on fast driving, and enabled healthy programmes of smaller events to spring up in Britain, France, Scandinavia, Belgium and elsewhere.
In his at the 2003 The introduction of the special stage brought rallying effectively into the modern era. By the end of the 1960s events had not only begun in and the, but also on the far-flung. Rallying also took off in Spain and Portugal and by the 1960s had spread to their colonial territories in the mid-Atlantic. In 1961, was able to persuade the to open their many hundreds of miles of well surfaced and sinuous gravel roads, and the event was transformed into one of the most demanding and popular in the calendar, by 1983 having over 600 miles (970 km) of stage.
This meant it had to rely on short manoeuvrability tests, regularity sections and night map-reading navigation to find a winner, which made it unattractive to foreign crews.ģ min - Uploaded by Upty2Rally Trophy 2 Mod Video. The had formally become an International event in 1951, but Britain's laws precluded the closure of public highways for special stages.