Rally DNA Podcast

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This week Jamie and Killian discuss a topic that's been on the cards for a while - the tail end of Group 4 and its cross over into Group B. We have selected 8 cars from that time, most of which ended up homologated into Group B when those rules came in. We had a laugh doing this one and think its an interesting subject and produced plenty worthy of discussion. Warning: terrible accents and mispronunciations abound in this one!

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This week we welcome a very talented journalist and someone flying the flag for the bobble hat brigade in the world of motoring journalism - Henry Catchpole! Henry is perhaps best known for his work with Evo magazine, more lately for his top quality videos on YouTube channel Carfection and now featuring on Hagerty. Henry has driven a plethora of rallying greats as well as competing on various events over the years and his knowledge and love for the sport shows in the work he does, which made him a great fit for joining us on the pod to make us green with envy at the list of rallying icons on his CV.

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The era of the Tarmac Specialist in the World Rally Championship was brief, but exciting, particularly when you paired them with a screaming manic front wheel drive French hatchback on steroids and ran amok when you plonked them onto the likes of the Tour de Corse or San Remo, much to the ire of the established teams. These specialists sometimes evolved into somewhat of a "super sub" driving works cars on specific events with the demise of the F2 Kit Cars until, ironically the arrival of a certain Frenchman seemed to put to bed the relevance of such a driver in the championship any more.....

Joining us to discuss this fascinating sub plot from the peak of the World Rally Championship is veteran broadcaster and WRC commentator Jon Desborough, well positioned to help us out in this chat, even if he claims he doesn't know what a differential is...

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This week we trekked (virtually) across the Atlantic to chat to the Motorsport Director of Subaru Motorsports USA, Dan Anctil of Vermont SportsCar the dominant force in North American rallying. Dan took a break from prepping for a Rallycross test to talk to us about how his love of the sport came about, the journey to get to his current role, the current season and what lies ahead for Rallying in the US. An all round great guy for sure. Enjoy and as ever please subscribe to us, turn on notifications leave us a rating or review and feel free to comment with your feedback on Instagram or Facebook

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On this episode of Rally DNA, we look at some also rans of the Group B12 category and then move onto some cars that never ran in the formula but were spawned to do just that.

Featuring:

• Controversial opinions

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The man behind the run of 8 limited "Best Impreza, McRae Edition" Group A continuation cars joins us to fill us in on his own background, what led to getting this project off the ground and some more insight into the development of the car itself including assistance from Pierro Liatti.

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With the noisy arrival of Best Engineering's "Best Impreza McRae Edition" onto our social media feed courtesy of an Evo Magazine feature, we couldn't help but reach out to the lucky sod who travelled to Italy for an early taster of these stunning continuation Group A cars to ask what it was like. Adam Towler, Deputy Editor of Evo Magazine and a full paid up member of the Group A fan club joins us on this episode of Rally DNA.

Part 2 of our look at the Best Impreza project will feature Carlo Boroli, the guy responsible for these fascinating cars and will be released next week.

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Prodrive veteran Paul Howarth joins us to kick off Season 2 and talk about the Group A BMW E30 M3 as prepared by Prodrive. Paul's first role with Prodrive was working on the M3s and he has a fantastic insight into what remains an iconic car.

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