I MAY be in danger of showing my age here, but back in the day I covered a lot of rallying for this newspaper and I have lots of wonderful memories of that time. Of course the mid-eighties was a period of what might be termed ‘rallying in extremis’ for it was of course the wild and very dangerous era of Group B cars which was ultimately banned in the wake of the deaths of such stars as Henri Toivonen and Attilio Bettega.

THE MICHELIN Race of Champions motorsport spectacular in Gran Canaria, in its 16th year, will have its usual and exciting head-to-head Race of Champions as well as the fifth running of the ROC Nations Cup team competition.