🇬🇧 1986 Lombard RAC Rally Car 3 - 🥈 🇫🇮 Markku Alen 🇫🇮 IIkka Kivimaki - Lancia Delta S4. The crew would finish the event 2nd overall 1 min 22 secs behind winners Salonen and Harjanne in their Peugeot 205 T16 E2. 🎥 @OfficialWRC @VHSRallies 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #uk #cars #rallying #lancia

🇯🇵 1988 Suzuki Swift 1.3 GTi 0–62 mph 8.6 seconds  Top Speed 112 mph 100bhp 750kg The Suzuki Swift 1.3 GTi (AA chassis / Mk1) is a legendary late-1980s hot hatch. Famous for its ultra-lightweight chassis, rev-happy engine, and exceptional power-to-weight ratio, it set a benchmark for lightweight performance cars of its era.  Engine & Powertrain Engine Code: G13B (1.3L DOHC 16-valve Inline-4)  Displacement: 1,298 cc  Fuel System: Electronic Fuel Injection (EPI)  Transmission: 5-speed manual, Front-Wheel Drive (FWD)  The G13B engine featured twin overhead cams and 16 valves, allowing it to rev eagerly up toward its ~7,000+ RPM redline. Chassis & Suspension: Independent front suspension with MacPherson struts and front/rear anti-roll bars provided sharp, responsive handling. Distinct Mk1 Styling: The 1988 model represents the final year of the square-body Mk1 (AA series) before the rounded Mk2 (EA series) replaced it in late 1988/1989. It featured deep front air dams, distinctive GTi side skirts, a rear spoiler, red accent striping, and sports bucket seats.  I remember someone in our home town had one and it could move 👏🏻👏🏻 📷 Darren Pearson owner and photographer #japan #suzuki #gti #uk

🇬🇧 🇩🇪 Ford Escort RS Cosworth 1 of 7,145 391 licenced and 857 SORN in the UK. The Ford Escort RS Cosworth (1992–1996) is a legendary homologation special designed for the World Rally Championship, featuring a 224bhp 2.0L turbocharged engine and iconic "whale tail" rear wing. Built in Germany to meet rally regulations, only 7,145 units were produced, making it a highly sought-after, expensive modern classic with exceptional performance.  📷 Daniel Collins 👏🏻👏🏻 @OfficialWRC @Ford @forduk #cars #rs #uk #turbo

⚠️ V10 and Rain ⚠️ 😇 🇨🇦 2003 Canadian Grand Prix Car 3 🇨🇴 Juan Pablo Montoya - Williams FW25 BMW V10 Qualifying - 🥈 Race - 🥉 Early in the race, Montoya made a mistimed move into Turn 1, causing him to spin his Williams FW25 onto the grass. Despite losing positions and dropping back behind the leaders, Montoya showed strong pace throughout the rest of the race to recover back up to 3rd place. The 2003 Canadian GP featured one of the closest four-car finishes of the season. The top four drivers—Michael Schumacher, Ralf Schumacher, Juan Pablo Montoya, and Fernando Alonso—all crossed the finish line separated by just 4.481 seconds. Montoya finished +1.355 seconds behind the winner. 🎥 @F1 👏🏻👏🏻 #cars #motorsport #canada #formula1

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 1986 Fram Filters International Welsh Rally Cars in order of the clip. Car 1 - 🥇 🇫🇮 Hannu Mikkola 🇸🇪 Arne Hertz - Audi Sport Quattro Car 2 - SS33 Accident 💥 🇸🇪 Stig Blomqvist 🇸🇪 Bruno Berglund - Ford RS200 Car 3 - SS32 Accident 💥 🇬🇧 David Llewellin 🇬🇧 Phil Short - MG Metro 6R4 Car 5 - 4th 🇬🇧 Russell Brookes 🇬🇧 Mike Broad - Opel Manta 400 Car 6 - SS1 Overtime limit 🇫🇮 Mikael Sundström 🇫🇮 Voitto Silander - Peugeot 205 T16 Car 7 - 🥉 🇬🇧 Mark Lovell 🇬🇧 Roger Freeman - Ford RS200 🎥 BBC 👏🏻👏🏻 @OfficialWRC @BRCrally #audi #ford #peugeot #cars

🇬🇧 1986 Lombard RAC Rally Car 6 🇸🇪 Kalle Grundel 🇸🇪 Benny Melander in their works Ford RS200. The crew would finish the event 5th overall 8mins 21secs behind overall winners Salonen and Harjanne. 📸 Credit to the photographer 👏🏻👏🏻 @OfficialWRC @Ford @rs200uk #uk #rallying #motorsport #classic

🇬🇧 1979 Lombard RAC Rally Car 1 🇫🇮 Hannu Mikkola 🇸🇪 Arne Hertz in their works Ford Escort RS. The crew would win the event overall by 10mins 29secs over Brookes and White. 📸 @McKlein 👏🏻 👏🏻 @OfficialWRC @Ford @jmikkola63 #cars #uk #motorsport #retro

🇫🇷 2000 Concorde with F1 and FIA personnel. The Flight & Occasion: Air France operated special supersonic charter flights (such as AF4565) connecting Nice and Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) to carry VIP guests, Formula 1 team members, and FIA officials attending the Monaco Grand Prix.  The Visual: The distinctive four-ring reheat (afterburner) exhaust trails behind the Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 engines during takeoff from Runway 22 at Nice, pushing the aircraft down the coastal runway. What an unbelievable sight but tragically 2 months later. This precise airframe, F-BTSC ("Sierra Charlie"), was the same aircraft that was lost two months later in the Air France Flight 4590 tragedy outside Paris on July 25, 2000. 🥹 A total of 113 people died in the Air France Flight 4590 crash on July 25, 2000. 109 on board the aircraft: All 100 passengers and 9 crew members. Four on the ground: Hotel staff at the Hôtel Hôtelissimo in Gonesse, France, where the aircraft struck. R.I.P to all the lost souls 🥹🙏🏻 🎥 Full credit to the original plane spotter 👏🏻👏🏻 @F1 @fia #concorde #planes #formulaone #france

Spin 😵‍💫 🇩🇪 1989 German Grand Prix Car 27 🇬🇧 Nigel Mansell - Ferrari 640 V12 Qualifying - 🥉 Race - 🥉 During the Sunday morning warm-up session at the 1989 German Grand Prix (July 30, 1989) at the Hockenheimring, Ferrari driver Nigel Mansell suffered a spin in the stadium section while encountering Stefan Johansson driving the Onyx (Onyx-Ford), which nearly resulted in a chaotic near-miss with his Ferrari teammate Gerhard Berger. Thankfully for the team both were able to start the race but as seen Mansell stalled the Ferrari. Just listen to the V12 🔥 🎥 @F1 👏🏻👏🏻 #ferrari #germany #italy #motorsport

🇮🇹 1985 Rally Costa Smeralda Cars in order of the clip Car 2 - DNF Lost Wheel 🇫🇷 Michele Mouton 🇮🇹 Fabrizia Pons - Audi Sport Quattro Car 5 - DNF Engine 🇮🇹 Giovanni Del Zoppo 🇮🇹 Elisabetta Tognana - Peugeot 205 T16 Car 1 - DNF Accident 🇫🇮 Henri Toivonen 🇫🇮 Juha Piironen - Lancia 037 Rally Car 8 - 🥉 🇮🇹 Fabrizio Tabaton 🇮🇹 Luciano Tedeschini - Lancia 037 Rally Car 6 - 🥇 🇮🇹 Dario Cerrato 🇮🇹 Giuseppe Cerri - Lancia 037 Rally 🎥 @OfficialWRC 👏🏻👏🏻 #lancia #audi #peugeot #italy

🇬🇧 1986 Lombard RAC Rally. SS31 Grizedale 2 - 10.19 km 🇫🇮 Juha Kankkunen 🇫🇮 Juha Piironen in their modified Peugeot 205 T16 E2. The crew did however finish 3rd overall 6min and 5sec behind teammates Timo Salonen and Seppo Harjanne. 📸David Harbey & Baggy’s World 👏🏻👏🏻 @OfficialWRC @PSCUK_ #cars #uk #classic #motorsport

🇬🇧 1979 Lombard RAC Rally Car 9 🇸🇪 Per Eklund 🇸🇪 Hans Sylvan in their works British Leyland Cars Triumph TR7 V8. The crew would finish the event 13th overall and 4th in class 4/4. Just look at the crowds 👏🏻 📸 Paul and LAT 👏🏻👏🏻 @OfficialWRC @TR7Owners #cars #motorsport #uk #retro

🇫🇷 1990 24 Hours of Le Mans The 58th Grand Prix d'Endurance des 24 Heures du Mans (1990 24 Hours of Le Mans) took place on June 16–17, 1990, at the Circuit de la Sarthe. It was a landmark event in endurance racing history, featuring significant track updates and intense competition among factory teams. Key Highlights & Context The Track Modification: 1990 marked the first year that two chicanes were added to the iconic Mulsanne Straight (Ligne Droite des Hunaudières) to comply with FIA rules capping maximum speeds and improving driver safety. 😭😭 Factory Showdown: The race featured a major battle among Group C machinery, notably between Jaguar, Nissan, Porsche, Toyota, and Mazda. Mercedes-Benz withdrew prior to the event due to rule changes regarding world championship points. Famous Pole Lap: Mark Blundell set a legendary pole position lap time of 3:27.020 in the #24 Nissan R90CK. During the qualification run, an overboost issue resulted in estimated engine output surpassing 1,000 hp.  Results Car 3 - 🥇 Drivers 🇬🇧 Martin Brundle 🇩🇰 John Nielsen 🇺🇸 Price Cobb Team and Car Silk Cut Jaguar - Tom Walkinshaw Racing - Jaguar XJR-12 Car 2 - 🥈 Drivers 🇳🇱 Jan Lammers 🇬🇧 Andy Wallace 🇦🇹 Franz Konrad Team and Car Silk Cut Jaguar - Tom Walkinshaw Racing - Jaguar XJR-12 Car 45 - 🥉 Drivers 🇬🇧 Tiff Needell 🇬🇧 Anthony Reid 🇬🇧 David Sears Team and Car Alpha Racing Team - Porsche 962C 🎥 @24hoursoflemans 👏🏻👏🏻 #france #cars #mazda #jaguar

🇫🇷 2003 French Grand Prix Car 3 🇨🇴 Juan Pablo Montoya - Williams FW25 BMW V10 Qualifying - 🥈 Race - 🥈 The 2003 Mobil 1 Grand Prix de France was the 10th round of the 2003 Formula One World Championship, held on July 6, 2003, at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours.  It was a dominant weekend for Williams-BMW, who secured a lights-to-flag 1–2 victory.  🏆 Podium & Highlights 🥇 🇩🇪 Ralf Schumacher (Williams-BMW) started on pole and lead every lap. 🥈 🇨🇴 Juan Pablo Montoya (Williams-BMW) Finished +13.813s behind his teammate and recorded the fastest lap of the race (1:15.512).  🥉 🇩🇪 Michael Schumacher (Ferrari) — Finished +19.568s back to claim the final step on the podium.  Ralf Schumacher held onto the lead off the line. Kimi Räikkönen made a strong getaway from 4th, jumping Michael Schumacher for 3rd position into Turn 1. Rubens Barrichello spun across the line at the end of lap 1, dropping him to the back of the grid before fighting his way back up to 7th.  Michael Schumacher managed to leapfrog both McLaren drivers through the pit stop cycles, regaining 3rd position. Both Renaults of Jarno Trulli and Fernando Alonso retired mid-race due to engine issues. Championship Impact: With back-to-back victories for Ralf Schumacher (having also won the European GP a week prior), the Drivers' Championship battle closed up significantly. Michael Schumacher retained his championship lead over Kimi Räikkönen, but the Williams drivers narrowed the gap substantially as the season reached its midpoint.  🎥 @F1 @candvbmw @WilliamsRacing @BMW #cars #France #motorsport #Colombia

🇲🇨 1994 Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo Car 7 🇬🇧 Colin McRae 🇬🇧 Derek Ringer in their works Subaru Impreza 555. The crew would finish the event 10th overall 49mins and 10secs behind overall winners Delecour and Grataloup. 📸 LAT 👏🏻👏🏻 @OfficialWRC @monterallye @subaruuk

🇲🇨 1985 Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo Car 2 🇫🇮 Ari Vatanen 🇬🇧 Terry Harryman in their works Peugeot 205 T16. The crew would win the event by 5mins 17secs after arguably one of Ari Vatanen best drives to victory. 📷 Credit to the photographer 👏🏻👏🏻 @monterallye @montecarlostyle @RallyFinland #car #motorsport #rally #monte

🇸🇬 2010 Singapore Grand Prix Car 11 🇵🇱 Robert Kubica - Renault R30 V10 Qualifying - 8th Race - 7th Kubica drove a competitive race, running comfortably in the points and battling closely with Rubens Barrichello for 6th place. With roughly 15 laps remaining, Kubica suffered a puncture, forcing an unexpected pit stop that dropped him back down to 13th place. Armed with fresh tires, Kubica put on a masterclass in overtaking on the unforgiving street circuit, slicing through traffic to pass six cars in the closing laps and cross the finish line in a hard-fought 7th position. Clip shows two of the overtakes and you will probably notice he isn’t even holding the steering wheel with both hands all the time 🤯 🎥 @F1 👏🏻👏🏻 #formulaone #singapore #renault #poland

🇲🇨 1984/85/86 Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo Cars in order of clip plus service. 1985 Car 5 - 9th 🇮🇹 Miki Biasion 🇮🇹 Tiziano Siviero - Jolly Club Lancia 037 Rally 1985 Car 3 - 🥈 🇩🇪 Walter Rohrl 🇩🇪 Christian Geistdörfer - Audi Sport Quattro 1985 Car 5 - SS30 Excluded 🇫🇷 Jean-Claude Andruet 🇺🇸 Sergio Cresto - Lancia 037 Rally 1985 Car 2 - 8th 🇫🇮 Markku Alen 🇫🇮 IIkka Kivimaki - Lancia 037 Rally 1986 Car 9 - SS31 Road Accident 🇮🇹 Miki Biasion 🇮🇹 Tiziano Siviero - Lancia Delta S4 1986 Car 5 - SS10 Accident Road Section 💥 🇬🇧 Tony Pond 🇬🇧 Rob Arthur - MG Metro 6R4 1986 Car 3 - SS16 Propshaft 💥 🇫🇮 Markku Alen 🇫🇮 IIkka Kivimaki - Lancia Delta S4 1986 Car 2 - 4th 🇩🇪 Walter Rohrl 🇩🇪 Christian Geistdörfer - Audi Sport Quattro S1 E2 1986 Car 7 - 🥇 🇫🇮 Henri Toivonen 🇺🇸 Sergio Cresto - Lancia Delta S4 1986 Car 6 - 🥉 🇫🇮 Hannu Mikkola 🇸🇪 Arne Hertz - Audi Sport Quattro S1 E2 🎥 @OfficialWRC 👏🏻👏🏻 #cars #France #motorsport #groupb

🇬🇧 1974 Lombard RAC Rally Car 3 SS26 Radnor 🇮🇹 Sandro Munari 🇮🇹 Piero Sodano in their Marlboro backed Lancia Stratos HF. The crew would finish the event 3rd overall and 1st in class 3-4/2. 👏🏻👏🏻 📸 Ian Carver 👏🏻👏🏻 @OfficialWRC @lancia_official #cars #lancia #italy #uk

🇬🇧 1979 York National Rally Car 6 🇬🇧 George Hill 🇬🇧 Ron Varley in their Vauxhall Chevette 2300 HS. The crew would finish the event 2nd overall 4mins and 5secs behind Wilson and Thomas in their Ford Escort RS MK2. 📷 Susan Wilding and others 👏🏻👏🏻 #cars #motorsport #vauxhall #uk