That bloke could drive and get the best out of anything, he really was one of the driving god's.

Thanks for sharing comments!.. I just love rallying from the 70-80's real drivers, real cars!. Natural aspired engines! Rear wheel drive!. What's not to like!?

Great the fog...... what a heroes

Juha was 25 years old at the time...

Skills of drivers far higher than the rest of us, also balls of steel !

Practice, practice, practice

I can answer that as I did some prep work on that car, welding mainly, at Cowley. The reversing lights activated due to this, the rear axle an diff would overheat due to the massive torque loads. The only way to cool it sufficiently was to use coolant injectors, the power for this was taken from wiring loom to rear lights, so under heavy loads as you can see the lights came on as circuit was being used. Hope this clears up that little mystery, as you can see the lights only come under higher loads, tight corners, wheels spinning, etc.

Rover Vitesse V8

Regulations. When you retire all race numbers must be removed. It was illegal at the time to display racing numbers on a motor vehicle on the public highway unless competing and often on the way to and from an event a strip of black electrical tape was placed over the number to nullify it.Hope this helps.