Sentences with phrase «successful rally cars»

It cleaned up in many European national championships, too, becoming what's often claimed to be the most successful rally car of all time.

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Not only has the championship attracted one of the world's most successful drivers with Sebastian Loeb, rally stars Petter Solberg and Gigi Galli as well as circuit drivers Jacques Villeneuve, Yvan Muller and DTM champion Mattias Ekstrom have all got behind the wheel of WRX cars.

Tuthill Porsche development chief, Graham Moore, talks about the challenges of building a successful modern - day Porsche 911 rally car

Mitsubishi claims that its successful history in rallying has brought inspiration to the concept's design, with footage of the car tackling Gran Turismo 6's off - road stages suggesting this car could be a design influence in the next high performance Evo road car.

Now synonymous with the world's most successful historic Porsche rally cars, and having worked with rallying's greatest names, Tuthills also build winning Porsche circuit racers.

A successful first raid on this event, followed by victory in the 1993 London to Sydney Rally, meant enthusiasts all over the world heard about Tuthill Porsche, leading them to the small workshop in Wardington, Oxfordshire where Francis built his adventure - focused Volkswagen cars and buses.

There's Rod, holder of the record at Pikes Peak for so many years that they started calling the place Millen's Mountain; there's Steve Millen, rally driver, road racer and performance parts maker at Stillen; there's Rhys, son of Rod, himself a rally driver, successful Pikes Peak racer and driver of who - knows - how - many stunts in all those «Fast and / or Furious» movies; and now there is Ryan, a lad so polite you almost want to hire him on the spot to do public relations work at Disneyland, maybe for a souped - up version of Autopia where the cars leave the track and drift wildly through the Magic Kingdom.

We both have a special aircraft heritage and a successful history in rallying, and our cars are known as dynamic, safe and fun to drive.

Wilson's M - Sport company runs successful World Rally Championship and endurance racing teams, and builds winning rally and rallycross cars for competitors all over the world and at all levels of the sRally Championship and endurance racing teams, and builds winning rally and rallycross cars for competitors all over the world and at all levels of the srally and rallycross cars for competitors all over the world and at all levels of the sport.

Richard Burns was successful in numerous events with the car during 1992 before joining the World Rally team to drive the Impreza in 1993.

The 2010 Race of Champions will feature some of the most successful racers from around the world, but also some of the world's most famous names: Sébastian Loeb (seven - time World Rally Championship winner and three - time Race of Champions «Champion of Champions»), Andy Priaulx (three time WTCC champion), Jason Plato (double British Touring Car Championship winner), Alain Prost (four - time Formula 1 world champion) and the German pairing of seven - time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher and the recently - crowned 2010 Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel.

The Mini Cooper and Cooper «S» were sportier versions that were successful as rally cars, winning the Monte Carlo Rally four times from 1964 through to 1967, although in 1966 the Mini was disqualified after the finish, along with six other British entrants, which included the first four cars to finish, under a questionable ruling that the cars had used an illegal combination of headlamps and spotlirally cars, winning the Monte Carlo Rally four times from 1964 through to 1967, although in 1966 the Mini was disqualified after the finish, along with six other British entrants, which included the first four cars to finish, under a questionable ruling that the cars had used an illegal combination of headlamps and spotliRally four times from 1964 through to 1967, although in 1966 the Mini was disqualified after the finish, along with six other British entrants, which included the first four cars to finish, under a questionable ruling that the cars had used an illegal combination of headlamps and spotlights.

This car also carved out a highly successful career in motor sport, where it was three - times winner of the Monte Carlo Rally.

The Fiat Abarth 131 was a very successful group 4 rally car, winning the manufacturers» World Rally Championship three times: in 1977, 1978, and in rally car, winning the manufacturers» World Rally Championship three times: in 1977, 1978, and in Rally Championship three times: in 1977, 1978, and in 1980.

Heading up the internal group AM Annex which later became AM 9, Mizuguchi oversaw a series of very successful high velocity racers including Sega Rally Championship, Manx TT Superbike, and Sega Touring Car Championship.