BBC Archive | 1973: RABAT To CASABLANCA - A Rally Adventure | Wheelbase | Classic Motorsport | BBC Archive @BBCArchive | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
"A real rally, if it's to mean anything, has got to be an adventure."
Michael Frostick covers the 16th International Rally of Morocco, the roughest rally of the year, raced over 2,800 miles of fast, dangerous desert, in all manner of terrain.
Competitors featured include Bernard Darniche and Alain Mahé in their Alpine-Renault A110 1800, Rauno Aaltonen and John Davenport in the Fiat Abarth 124, Shekhar Mehta and Geraint Phillips driving a Datsun 240Z, Bob Neyret and Jacques Terramorsi in the Citroën DS 23, Pierre Pagani and Jean-Claude Refuveille in a Volkswagen K 70, Richard Bochnicek and Sepp-Dieter Kernmayer in another Citroën DS 23, Björn Waldegård and Fergus Sager in their Fiat Abarth 124 Rallye, Jean-Pierre Nicolas and Michel Vial in another Alpine-Renault, and a host of teams driving works Peugeot 504s - namely Hannu Mikkola and Atso Aho, Tony Fall and Mike Wood, and Timo Mäkinen and Henry Liddon.
Clip taken from Wheelbase, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 29 May 1973.
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"A real rally, if it's to mean anything, has got to be an adventure."
Michael Frostick covers the 16th International Rally of Morocco, the roughest rally of the year, raced over 2,800 miles of fast, dangerous desert, in all manner of terrain.
Competitors featured include Bernard Darniche and Alain Mahé in their Alpine-Renault A110 1800, Rauno Aaltonen and John Davenport in the Fiat Abarth 124, Shekhar Mehta and Geraint Phillips driving a Datsun 240Z, Bob Neyret and Jacques Terramorsi in the Citroën DS 23, Pierre Pagani and Jean-Claude Refuveille in a Volkswagen K 70, Richard Bochnicek and Sepp-Dieter Kernmayer in another Citroën DS 23, Björn Waldegård and Fergus Sager in their Fiat Abarth 124 Rallye, Jean-Pierre Nicolas and Michel Vial in another Alpine-Renault, and a host of teams driving works Peugeot 504s - namely Hannu Mikkola and Atso Aho, Tony Fall and Mike Wood, and Timo Mäkinen and Henry Liddon.
Clip taken from Wheelbase, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 29 May 1973.
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