""I once saw Tom Pryce go round Druids like that, Don, (Goodyear tyre test at Brands Hatch, 1975 I think) but I'm not sure it was intentional!""

There were a number of rallycross types who eventually got, but Rod was the first to make it pay.

One rainy Saturday afternoon there was a bunch of bikers right on the peak, just inside the safety fence. They'd been giving Rod some stick during practice, because he had some problem with the car.

Come the first race, he overshot the turn in point by about ten yards, going sideways with his back wheels just on the edge of the grass. Wheels spinning in third on full throttle, he must have delivered a couple of hundredweight of wet mud and grass right over the fence.

They must have heard the cheers as far away as Canterbury.

The method largely disappeared when the Group Bs were banned from rallies, and picked up by the Rallycross boys.

Once the contenders such as Will Gollop changed to the Metro 6r4s,drifting was neither easy nor desireable.

Don T.