1992 Lombard RAC Rally preview: Colin McRae meets Roger Clark

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This short feature, originally broadcast on BBC Top Gear and presented by Tony Mason, brings together 1972 RAC Rally winner Roger Clark with the man hotly tipped to follow up his home success on the event in 1992: Subaru star Colin McRae.
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@RussellCooper 9 ай бұрын

Love that last remark from Roger, "All the prizes are at the finish"

@Christosan88 2 жыл бұрын

All the prizes are at the finish *wink-wink. Finish the ralley Colin

@creepingjesus5106 2 жыл бұрын

The best advice of all!

@David_King_05 2 жыл бұрын

Albert, Colin, Lotus Cortina. All boxes ticked. Wonderful 🥰

@VHSRallies 2 жыл бұрын

I know!!

@rooramblingon895 2 жыл бұрын

So weird watching the gearstick move on its own...😆. Legends, all three of them!

@WerdnaLiten 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff, from a great era for the sport in the UK. Now, not only don't we have a WRC qualifier, the event doesn't even run - how has that happened?

@user-gt1mm3wf8b 6 ай бұрын

Filmed in the woods across the road from Silverstone as a promo for Charringtons Oils - then title sponsors of the RAC Historic Rally... a forerunner of the now Roger Albert clark Rally, I guess. Was a great day out filming.

@peterwilkinson3694 2 жыл бұрын

The legend of Roger Clark just need to see him in his Mark 2 Escort with Cossack sponsorship.

@paulcaswell2813 2 жыл бұрын

LAR 800P 🙂

@chojny23 7 ай бұрын

OMG what a great material!!

@bens4043 2 жыл бұрын

I can vaguely remeber watcing this when it aired. Cheers for the upload ;)

@stephen6378 2 жыл бұрын

Great clip

@razorrs25 2 жыл бұрын

Super upload thanks!

@VHSRallies 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the visit

@Javier_eu 2 жыл бұрын

Thnks a lot for this

@VHSRallies 2 жыл бұрын

Most welcome 😊

@bogsplash8612 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the upload. Wonderful to see and really interesting to see them mix n match.

@VHSRallies Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@d-d-i 2 жыл бұрын

Automatic gearbox, now that's something haven't seen before in these old clips.

@jack4688 2 жыл бұрын

In the video for the 1992 British championship there was a little feature on it one rally. I think it was the Scottish Rally because there was a short interview with all 3 McRaes - Jimmy McRae mentioned he didn’t have to contend with buttons on the steering wheel. I’ve got a feeling it was mentioned again on the Manx

@davids2361 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I thought I was seeing things when I saw the shifter moving without him touching it. LOL

@d-d-i 2 жыл бұрын

@@jack4688 So they had sort of sequential system already in the early 90's ? Yet, Subaru's had manual stick shifting still in 1999.

@PaceWorks 2 жыл бұрын

@@d-d-i Sort of exactly what I was wondering , I remember when the f2 fwd escorts had Sequential in the late 90s it was like a revolution but where did this tech go was it banned for a few years or something 🤔👌🤙

@d-d-i 2 жыл бұрын

@@PaceWorks Well it wasn't banned, since Mitsubishi had it already in 1995 iirc, and WRC Escort got it in 1997. Subaru was very late to the party.

@minibus9 2 жыл бұрын

great video

@donswier 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks from the USA. Cool to see three legends (and legendary cars) mix it up. Funny now to see a Group A Legacy being referred to as high-tech. In relation to the Cortina, I suppose!

@VHSRallies 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@LRSNRCNG309 2 жыл бұрын

What the hell a button shifter? Never seen that before especially on that car

@jack4688 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder what forest that was filmed...

@keystar33 2 жыл бұрын

You got the one where RC did a rally with some reporter? Great stuff as always.

@VHSRallies 2 жыл бұрын

In at the deep end, with Chris Searle? Yup. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atGUipd1t720cqs.html

@keystar33 2 жыл бұрын

@@VHSRallies That's the one. Cheers

@johnjames01 7 ай бұрын

Does anyone know why Prodrive didn't bring in the paddle shift gearbox until 1999, given they had this system in 1992? Maybe it was a reliability thing?

@PaceWorks 2 жыл бұрын

Wait what , I didn't know the Legacy had a semi Auto Gearbox 😳 the first Impeza didn't have it though from what I remember, 🤙was it banned for a year maybe ?

@VHSRallies 2 жыл бұрын

Don't think it was banned. Think it needed testing - at every possible opportunity. It was definitely used on at least one national (maybe Scottish championship) event in the Legacy, I'm sure. But this filming day would have been another good opportunity to run with it outside of competition.

@PaceWorks 2 жыл бұрын

@@VHSRallies Thank you ye I never remember this system being used but I was only born in 92 🤣🤙👌💯

@paulcaswell2813 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe just too complicated for a mass-produced road car...