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Again no major format change, just more driver profiles and a lot more info on rally cars. Specialty of the book is that it includes top-10 results for WRC rallies for 1975 and most of 1976.
Text is by Martin Holmes and photographs by Hugh Bishop or Holmes himself. Photography mainly black-and-white with several pages of color photos in an appendix.
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Talbot Sport - competitions department
For a fourth time Holmes visits works competition department. At this time, Talbot's competitions department still was an independent unit operating in United Kingdom under Des O'Dell. First part of the article explains the history of the diminutive team and second part goes into its inner workings.
Thoughts of Cesare Fiorio
Fiat Group's Caesar continues Holmes' series of interviews of major rallying figures. Interview covers the Fiorio's early career in a surprisingly length, moves on to expansion of Lancia's rallying activities, gives a glimpse of Cesare's private activities like motorboat racing and briefly touches regulations and FISA with a somewhat critical tone. Interestingly, Lancia/Fiat rally activities are not covered at all. Perhaps that was interviewees wish.
A change for the better
An article about the then imminent change in FISA Appendix J, the homologation bible. Article starts by explaining the then current practise with old numerical groups 1 to 5 and various problems old homologation process had. Even if change to the rules is agreed to have been necessary, most of the article is then devoted to the problems that change brings about.
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Foreword - Ari Vatanen...........................................7
Talbot Sport - competitions department...........................8
Thoughts of Cesare Fiorio.......................................16
A change for the better.........................................20
The World Championship for Rallies 1975 and 1976 results record.26
World class drivers.............................................34
1981 World Championship Rounds - reports and results............43
Monte Carlo.....................................................44
Sweden..........................................................50
Portugal........................................................56
Safari..........................................................62
Corsica.........................................................68
Acropolis.......................................................74
The year in colour..............................................80
Codasur (Argentina).............................................82
Brazil..........................................................88
1000 Lakes......................................................94
San Remo.......................................................100
Ivory Coast....................................................106
RAC Rally......................................................112
Rally cars.....................................................118
Results appendices for 1981....................................130
Co-drivers.....................................................132
Obituaries.....................................................137
European Championship for rallies..............................134
Other major rally results......................................144
International and national champions...........................148
English speaking national championships........................150
The year in retrospect.........................................157
Stop press.....................................................159
Errata.........................................................159
International calendar for 1982................................160
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Facts
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Published in England (1982)
by Osprey Publishing Limited
160 pages
ISBN: 0-85045-424-7
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