Ford Escort RS1800 (eBook)

Graham Robson (Autor)

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2014
128 Seiten
Veloce (Verlag)
978-1-84584-771-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The Ford Escort MkII was a worthy successor to the original MkI. It became Ford's most successful rally car and the cars are still winning historic events today. It brought new standards to the sport, inspiring many others to copy it. Contains full details of every 'works' Escort MkII that went rallying, plus driver and personality profiles, and detailed car evolution.

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Escort RS1800 (Escort MkII) : This is a Rally Giant because it was consistently the fastest, most successful and most versatile car in the second half of the 1970s. Developed from the MkI, it was a conventional front engine/rear drive machine, which rallied with 2-litre engines of up to 270bhp. Rally successes were legendary - British (RAC), Safari, Acropolis, Finland (1000 Lakes), Sweden, Portugal, Canada, and many more. The cars won 17 World Rallies between 1975 and 1981. RS1800s won the World Makes Championship in 1979, and were always close to victory, always competitive. Escort drivers like Bjorn Waldegard (1979) and Ari Vatanen (1981) won the World Drivers' Championships. Over the years hundreds - and this is no exaggeration - of RS1800s were built for motor sport, and were the ideal car for almost any condition in the world because they were very powerful, but simple and rugged. The RS1800 was also the layout template which was copied by other manufacturers for cars like the Talbot Sunbeam-Lotus, the Vauxhall Chevette HSR and the Nissan GTs of the late 1970s/early 1980s, which were really all Escort 'clones'.
Ford claims, and it may be right, that RS1800s have won more rallies, at World, International and National level than any other car in the world.

Autor

Graham Robson possesses a worldwide reputation as a motoring historian, and has been close to the sport of rallying for many years, as a competitor, team manager, organiser, reporter, commentator and observer; in more than forty years he has never lost touch with the sport. Not only has Graham competed in many British and European events, he's also reported on marathons in South America, and acted as a travelling controller in the legendary London-Mexico World Cup Rally. As a recognised authority on many aspects of classic cars and motoring of that period, he is the most prolific of all authors, with more than 130 published books to his credit. Over the years Graham has owned, driven, described and competed in many of the cars featured in the Rally Giants Series, and his insight to their merits is unmatched.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Rally Giants
• Verlagsort: Exeter
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Motor- / Rad- / Flugsport
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Schlagworte: 1000 Lakes • 1970s • 978-1-787111-09-7 • 9781787111097 • Acropolis • Ari Vatanen • Bjorn Waldegard • British RAC • British rally • competition cars • Escort • Ford • Ford Europe • Graham Robson • Lotus-Ford • Mark 2 • MK 2 • New Edition • rally car • rally car history • Rally Giants • rallying • Reprint • RS1800 • Safari • sports car • V4140 • V5109 • Veloce • works cars • world rallies
• ISBN-10: 1-84584-771-7 / 1845847717
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84584-771-5 / 9781845847715