Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Television presenter Chris Serle tests his nerve in the gruelling, high speed world of rallying. His target is one of the world's toughest motoring events, the RAC Rally, co-driving for Britain's top star, Roger Clark.

Rally aces Rauno Aaltonen and John Taylor have only two months to teach weekend driver Chris how not to go for a spin; Jackie Stewart and Stirling Moss give Chris a crash course in fast driving on the circuit at Brands Hatch, and international co-driver Ellen Morgan throws the book at him. But even with all this expert advice nothing can prepare Chris for what the RAC Rally has in store.


Clip taken from In at the Deep End: Rallying, originally broadcast on BBC One, 21 September, 1982.





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