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🇬🇧 1985 Lombard RAC Rally

Running order

Car 3

🇫🇮 Markku Alen - 🇫🇮 IIkka Kivimaki - Lancia Delta S4

Car 10

🇬🇧 Tony Pond - 🇬🇧 Rob Arthur - MG Metro 6R4

Car 6

🇫🇮 Henri Toivonen - 🇬🇧 Neil Wilson - Lancia Delta S4

Car 8

🇸🇪 Per Eklund - 🇸🇪 Bjorn Cederberg - Audi Quattro A2

Car 5

🇫🇮 Juha Kankkunen - 🇬🇧 Fred Gallagher - Toyota Celica Twincam Turbo

Car 14

🇬🇧 Jimmy McRae - 🇬🇧 Ian Grindrod - Opel Manta 400

Car 17

🇬🇧 Terry Kaby - 🇬🇧 Kevin Gormley - Nissan 240RS

Car 25

🇳🇿 Rod Millen - 🇬🇧 Brian Rainbow - Mazda RX-7

Car 9

🇸🇪 Ingvar Carlsson - 🇸🇪 Benny Melander - Mazda RX-7

More fantastic action by @VHSRallies 👏🏻👏🏻

@VHSRallies 👏🏻👏🏻

#wrc #uk #cars #motorsport

[Markes_84 @84Markes]

@patinaresearch No doubt, the best F1 documentary I've ever watch. I download long time ago. Pure gold. Thank you! Now I want to watch it again!!

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🇦🇺 1991 Tooheys 1000

Car 5

🇦🇺 Peter Brock/ 🇦🇺 Andrew Miedecke - Holden VN Commodore SS Group A SV

We ride in car with the legend Peter Brock as he battles with a pack of Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth’s and the Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R.

Brock and Miedecke would finish the event 7th overall.

The V8 sounds amazing but the RS500 was beyond fast. The R32 was even quicker.

Amazing times at one of the best tracks in the World.

🎥 Channel 7 👏🏻👏🏻

#cars #ford #holden #bathurst

[Juan Sánchez @JSanchezTorron]

El programa de "La Clave", “Muerte de García Lorca”, se emitió en Televisión Española el 21 de junio de 1980. La tertulia estuvo precedida por la emisión de una película-documental titulada "Federico García Lorca" (1976), dirigida por Humberto López y Guerra. El debate duró unas tres horas y contó con la siguiente mesa de invitados:

Ian Gibson: Hispanista y uno de los principales biógrafos del escritor.

Luis Rosales: Poeta, miembro de la Real Academia Española y amigo personal en cuya casa de Granada estuvo refugiado Lorca antes de su detención.

José Luis Vila-San Juan: Periodista y escritor, autor de investigaciones sobre su asesinato.

Santiago Ontañón: Escenógrafo y amigo que trabajó directamente con el poeta en proyectos como la compañía teatral La Barraca.

José Caballero: Pintor y estrecho colaborador artístico de Lorca.

César Torres Martínez, que fuera gobernador civil de Granada.

En 1987 TVE emitió la serie "Lorca, muerte de un poeta", dirigida por Juan Antonio Bardem, que incluye referencias explícitas a su homosexualidad, incluida la alusión a la polla en su correspondencia con Dalí.

En la escuela, con 12 años (1986) leímos fragmentos del Romancero Gitano y del Poeta en Nueva York. No nos dijeron que lo habían matado por "maricón", pero tampoco nos dijeron que a Muñoz Seca lo mataron por ser de derechas.

No os han robado ningún referente. Nacisteis ayer y pecais de adanismo.

El programa de La Clave, aquí:

https://t.co/C9mT1faGft

[Darío Madrid @Dario_Madrid_F]

¿Saben ustedes q en tiempos de la conquista de México, tres españoles escalaron un volcán de 5.500 M. de altura, una vez en la cumbre uno de ellos bajó al cráter atado por los pies y extrajo azufre para poder fabricar pólvora? Atendía por el nombre de Francisco de Montaño (Sigue)

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Breitt Racing Car Collection

New addition

🇬🇧 1996 Ford Escort Cosworth Group A

🇪🇸 Carlos Sainz and 🇪🇸 Luis Moya ex works car.

The 1996 Ford Escort RS Cosworth Group A represents the final evolution of Ford’s "Big Turbo" rally era before the transition to the World Rally Car (WRC) regulations in 1997.

It was a homologation special built to dominate the World Rally Championship, blending a compact chassis with an over-engineered powertrain.

Technical Specifications

The Group A variant was a significant step up from the road-going version, featuring modifications allowed under FIA regulations to enhance durability and performance.

Engine: 2.0L Inline-4 Longitudinal Cosworth YBP.

Turbocharger: Garrett T3/T04B with a 34mm restrictor (per FIA Group A rules).

Power Output: Approximately 300 bhp (restricted) and over 450 Nm of torque.

Drivetrain: Permanent four-wheel drive with a 7-speed sequential Xtrac gearbox (in later 1996 specs).

Differentials: Active electronically controlled center and rear differentials.

Brakes: Ventilated discs with 8-piston calipers (tarmac spec).

Aerodynamics: The iconic "Whale Tail" rear wing was not just for show; it provided essential high-speed stability and downforce. The 1996 version featured optimized front splitters and cooling ducts for the brakes and intercooler.

Chassis: Based on a shortened Sierra RS Cosworth floor pan, giving it a stiffer, more agile footprint than its predecessor.

Water Injection: To manage the extreme heat generated by the anti-lag system (ALS), the car utilized a water-injection system to cool the intake charge.

Competitive Legacy

The 1996 season was a transitional but successful year for the Ford factory team (managed by Boreham and later M-Sport).

Despite facing stiff competition from the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and the Subaru Impreza 555, the Escort Cosworth remained a fan favorite due to its aggressive "anti-lag" pops and flames and its status as one of the last true silhouette-style rally cars.

📷 Breitt 👏🏻👏🏻

#wrc #fordrs #cars #rallycar

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🇮🇪 1982 Rothmans Circuit of Ireland

Car 3

🇫🇮 Hannu Mikkola and Arne Hertz in their Audi Quattro having all sorts of issues with the clutch.

The answer??

Coca Cola and flour

The crew would actually manage to finish the event 6th overall 18mins 44secs behind winners McRae and Grindrod on their Opel Manta 400.

🎥 ITV Sport with Dickie Davis. 👏🏻👏🏻

R.I.P Hannu and Dickie 🥹

@CocaCola

#audi #ireland #wrc #cars

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

245 years ago today, a 35-year-old Spanish nobleman fired a single artillery shell that redrew the map of North America, broke British power in the Gulf of Mexico, and arguably saved the American Revolution. His name was Bernardo de Gálvez. He's not in your textbook. He should be.

When Spain entered the war against Britain in June 1779, the American cause was bleeding out. Washington's army was unpaid and shrinking. The Continental dollar was worth pennies. The British had taken Savannah and were preparing to take Charleston. France was helping, but France alone couldn't bankrupt the British Empire.

Spain could. And in New Orleans sat the man who would prove it.

Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid was 33 years old, the governor of Spanish Louisiana, a battle-scarred career officer who had been wounded fighting Apaches in northern Mexico and Algerians in North Africa. The day he learned Spain had declared war, he didn't wait for orders from Madrid. He raised an army of Spanish regulars, Louisiana Creoles, free Black militia from New Orleans, Acadian refugees, German settlers, and Choctaw scouts, and he went on the attack.

In three months he took Manchac, Baton Rouge, and Natchez. The next year he took Mobile. The British presence on the Gulf shrank to one last fortress. Pensacola, the capital of British West Florida, defended by Major General John Campbell with 1,500 redcoats, the 3rd Waldeck Regiment of German mercenaries, loyalist battalions from Maryland and Pennsylvania, and a powerful alliance of Creek and Choctaw warriors led by the brilliant mixed-race chief Alexander McGillivray.

Gálvez arrived off Pensacola in March 1781 with 7,000 men and a fleet. The Spanish naval commander, Admiral Calbo de Irazábal, refused to enter Pensacola Bay. The entrance was narrow, raked by British guns at Fort Barrancas Coloradas, and treacherous with sandbars. So Gálvez did something insane. He boarded his own little brig, the Galveztown, hoisted his personal pennant, and sailed her into the bay alone, in full view of the British batteries, daring the Royal Navy to sink him. The British fired and missed. The Spanish fleet, shamed, followed him in. For this he was awarded the right to put the words "Yo Solo," meaning "I alone," on his coat of arms by the King of Spain.

The siege ground on for two months. Gálvez was shot in the abdomen and the finger directing artillery and refused to leave the field. The British defenses at the Queen's Redoubt, also called the Crescent, held against everything thrown at them. And then, on the morning of May 8, 1781, a Spanish howitzer crew lofted a shell over the parapet. It dropped, by pure luck or perfect skill, directly into the open powder magazine.

The explosion killed roughly 100 defenders in a single instant. Waldeck grenadiers, British regulars, loyalists, all gone. The blast tore the redoubt's wall open like paper. Spanish grenadiers and Louisiana militia poured through the breach within minutes and turned the captured British guns on the inner works. Campbell knew it was over.

The next morning, May 9, white flags went up. By May 10 the entire province of West Florida belonged to Spain. Over 1,100 British troops marched out as prisoners of war.

The strategic consequences were catastrophic for Britain. The Gulf Coast was lost. The Mississippi was a Spanish river from source to sea. Britain could no longer reinforce its southern armies by sea from the Caribbean, and the Royal Navy's Caribbean squadron had to be redeployed. Five months later, Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, in a siege funded in part by 500,000 silver pesos that Gálvez and the people of Havana raised in a matter of days to pay French Admiral de Grasse's fleet to come north.

Without that money, no French fleet. Without the French fleet, no Yorktown. Without Yorktown, no independence on those terms.

Gálvez was made Count of Gálvez and Viscount of Galveztown. The bay he charted in Texas still bears his name, Galveston. His portrait hangs in the United States Capitol by act of Congress. In 2014, he was made an honorary citizen of the United States, an honor given to only eight people in American history, including Lafayette, Churchill, and Mother Teresa.

He died of yellow fever in Mexico City at 40 years old, three years after the war ended.

Most Americans have never heard his name.

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🇲🇨 1992 Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo

🏁 Overall results

🥇 🇫🇷 Didier Auriol and Bernard Occelli - Lancia Delta HF Integrale

🥈 🇪🇸 Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya - Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD (ST185)

🥉 🇫🇮 Juha Kankkunen and Juha Piironen - Lancia Delta HF Integrale

🎥 Credit to the fan capturing this fantastic clip. 👏🏻👏🏻

#wrc #lancia #ford #rallycars

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🇮🇹 Lancia Delta HF Integrale Test

🇫🇷 Didier Auriol and 🇫🇷 Bernard Occelli.

Didier Auriol and the Lancia Delta represent one of the most dominant eras in World Rally Championship (WRC) history.

While Auriol is famously known as the first Frenchman to win the WRC title (which he did later with Toyota in 1994), his years with the Lancia Martini team cemented his status as a "Tarmac Specialist."

The 1992 Season

A Record-Breaking Run Auriol's 1992 campaign in the Lancia Delta HF Integrale "Evoluzione" remains one of the most impressive statistical feats in rallying history.

Auriol won six rallies in 1992 (Monte Carlo, Corsica, Greece, Argentina, Finland, and Australia). This record for most wins in a single season stood for 12 years until Sébastien Loeb broke it in 2004.

Despite those six victories, Auriol finished 3rd in the championship. Mechanical failures and a retirement at the final round in Great Britain allowed Carlos Sainz (Toyota) and Juha Kankkunen (Lancia) to overtake him in points.

Notable Victories

1990 Monte Carlo Rally

Auriol took his first "Monte" win driving the Delta Integrale 16V, beating Carlos Sainz by less than a minute.

1992 Monte Carlo Rally

He repeated the feat in 92 dominating the event and winning by over two minutes.

Tour de Corse

Known for his incredible speed on tarmac roads, Auriol won his home rally in Corsica three times while driving various iterations of the Lancia Delta (1989, 1990, and 1992).

Auriol never won the drivers Championship for Lancia but the partnership between Auriol and Lancia helped the Italian manufacturer secure a record six consecutive Manufacturers' World Championships (1987–1992).

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#wrc #cars #motorsport #rallycar

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🇮🇹 1983 Italian Grand Prix Monza

The Curva di Lesmo were two distinct, tricky right-handers that required high commitment.

The first was famously blind but the second as shown required immense concentration and skill.

Overall Race results 🏁

Car 5 🥇

🇧🇷 Nelson Piquet - Brabham BMW BT52B V6 Turbo

Car 28 🥈

🇫🇷 Rene Arnoux - Ferrari 126C3 V6 Turbo

Car 16 🥉

🇺🇸 Eddie Cheever - Renault RE40 V6 Turbo

🎥 #f1 👏🏻👏🏻

#monza #italy #ferrari #cars

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Cologne tank duel, 1945

[PATINA RESEARCH @patinaresearch]

This is a tribute to Henri Toivonen and Sergio Cresto, who passed away on this day 40 years ago. A bit of a longer video, but it’s what a legend deserves. Rest in peace, rally legend.

[Paul McGinnes @PaulMcG1992]

Simply known as 'The Pass'...

During the 1996 Monterey Grand Prix at the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Alex Zanardi passes Bryan Herta at the The Corkscrew during the final lap of the race.

[Combat_Clips @Combat_Clipss]

German WWI veteran describes killing a French corporal during a bayonet charge and articulates his view on war as a whole

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🇲🇨 1998 Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo

🇯🇵 Subaru Impreza S5 WRC 98 Test

Car 3

Colin McRae and Jimmy McRae testing the Subaru Impreza S5 WRC 98 prior to the event.

Colin with just headphones/intercom and Jimmy with a bobble hat 🤣

McRae and Co-driver Grist would finish the main event 3rd overall 1min and 1sec behind overall winners Sainz and Moya in their Toyota Corolla WRC.

🎥 Credit to original broadcaster 👏🏻👏🏻

#subaru #mcrae #wrc #cars

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1993 Network Q RAC Rally

Car 1

Juha Kankkunen and Nicky Grist in their works Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD (ST185)

The crew would win the event overall by 1min 44secs over Eriksson and Parmander in their works Mitsubishi Lancer Evo I.

Unbelievable car control 🔥

🎥 #wrc

#toyota #uk #japan #kankkunen

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1995 Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo

Monte-Carlo Subaru 555 Test

Car 5

Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya in their works Subaru Impreza 555 testing prior to the event.

The testing clearly worked as the crew would win the event overall by 2mins 25secs over Delecour and Francois in their Escort RS Cosworth.

🎥 #wrc

#montecarlo #carlossainz #luismoya #subaru

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GP Monaco 1997 #F1