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After the first ever intercontinental rally - the London-Sydney in 1968 - there was widespread enthusiasm for an even more difficult test. With the Football World Cup being held in Mexico in 1970, it was the perfect opportunity to hold a parallel, much tougher challenge - the World Cup Rally. Organisers John Sprinzel and John Brown secured sponsorship from the Daily Mirror and planned a unique high-speed event, lasting six weeks and covering 16,000 miles from London to Mexico City via some of the most varying, tortuous and difficult terrain on three continents. Serious works teams such as Ford and British Leyland spent tremendous amounts choosing and developing new cars, completing months-long route surveys, and analysing every detail of diets, oxygen provision, and the number of crew members. Despite all this planning, out of an entry of more than 100, only 23 cars made it to the finish. It was, and remains, the toughest rally of all time.
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Graham Robson possesses a world-wide reputation as a motoring historian, and has been close to the sport of rallying for many years. Not only as a competitor, team manager, organiser, reporter, commentator and observer, but above all as an enthusiastic historian, in more than forty years he has never lost touch with the sport. His experience of rallying is worldwide. Not only has he competed in many British and European events, but reported on marathons in South America, and acted as a travelling controller in the legendary London-Mexico World Cup rally. As a recognised authority on many aspects of classic cars and motoring of that period, he is the most prolific of all authors, with more than 120 published books to his credit. Over the years he has owned, driven, described and competed in many of the cars featured in this Landmark Rally Cars series, and his insight into their merits is unmatched.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
The book is an excellent retrospective of the World Cup Rally of 1970 with the right balance of photographs, factual data & accounts of events that took place. If you are a classic car fan you will also enjoy it from this perspective. After all this event is at the root of todays World Rally Championship and gave birth to the Ford Escort Mexico and the subsequent derivatives. Very Competitively priced on Amazon.
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SpeedReaders.info Review
6 Sep 2010
Robson was a traveling controller on this rally and intends this book as an homage. Beginning with the first-ever intercontinental rally, the 1968 London-Sidney ("far too easy!"), he explains the why and how and who. The tales it tells may sound tall but probably aren't. It really was a different time. From works-prepared and -supported rally cars to privately entered Rolls-Royces (which did not finish) it was a checkered field that took the checkered flag. It's all here, from getting lost to breaking down to handing over a piece of turf from Wembley Stadium to the football organizers at Aztec Stadium.
The text is enlivened by numerous quotes and anecdotes. Interspersed are such useful bits as a list of the prize money (cleverly the 1970 sums are related to other values of the time--such as the price of cars--and so give a sense for buying power), bookies' handicapping lists, maps, even the rather pointless 1995 WCR "re-creation." Each stage lists the fastest times; the photos are mostly of cars and drivers but also some local color. The 23 finishers are listed in all pertinent detail and the seven top finishers are further immortalized by brief biographical notes about themselves and the car. The Index is a bit sparse but does list competitors (unintuitively all listed under "W") but not cars--that data is given earlier in the book, pp. 60-62.
Most entertaining and engaging. Robson's passion for the subject is palpable; if anything the book is too short!
Full review at <speedreaders.info>. Copyright 2010, Sabu Advani
The text is enlivened by numerous quotes and anecdotes. Interspersed are such useful bits as a list of the prize money (cleverly the 1970 sums are related to other values of the time--such as the price of cars--and so give a sense for buying power), bookies' handicapping lists, maps, even the rather pointless 1995 WCR "re-creation." Each stage lists the fastest times; the photos are mostly of cars and drivers but also some local color. The 23 finishers are listed in all pertinent detail and the seven top finishers are further immortalized by brief biographical notes about themselves and the car. The Index is a bit sparse but does list competitors (unintuitively all listed under "W") but not cars--that data is given earlier in the book, pp. 60-62.
Most entertaining and engaging. Robson's passion for the subject is palpable; if anything the book is too short!
Full review at <speedreaders.info>. Copyright 2010, Sabu Advani
Robson strikes again
28 Aug 2010
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Graham Robson writes as usual, factual, emotionally, personally. Unfortunately Veloce, who published the book continued their habit of having tangential boxes of other information scattered throughout the chapters breaking up the continuity. But to give them full credit, the photographic reproduction is first rate.
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