Excellent, always wondered what the back story to Dirtfish is. You guys do a great job on bringing it home to us who can't make it out to the stages anymore.
A really great interview with Steve,was really interesting to hear about his life and how he created dirt fish. I’d love to visit one day especially when I found out twin peaks was filmed on your site. Looking forward to part 2 . 🙏
Thank you from a 76 year old rally fan in Canada! This is for me the most meaningful interview regarding rallying and perhaps its future North America.
@@MOSSFEEN Excellent that it's not a garage queen and properly used! My 83 urq has over 300k miles (not all from my ownership though!) I hope to one day drive a sport q
Steve comes across as a proper bloke. Living just down the road in Chorley, listening to him is like a local motor club meeting! Looking forward to Part 2
Fantastic vid Living in part of Preston on the Fylde coast and BAE systems on my doorstep! This just felt like a part of home. Amazing video Can’t wait to have a rundown of all the cars
I was a foreign university student in Seattle in the mid 80s, who grew up watching rallies in my native Philippines both live and on TV. I ended up a volunteer marshal at several Washington state rallies, including a couple of Olympus rounds, and THE world championship round as well (and even the not-so-secret debut of the S1 Quattro in plain off white!) Those days were, and still are, some of my absolute best motorsport memories! Thank you Steve Rimmer for bringing rally passion to the US, and most of all to the PNW!
What an amazing life journey this man has had hopefully he can use his influence to bring back proper homologation cars the kind of which we could buy close to the rally car in your local car dealership I mean look how many Subaru Imprezas sold down to mainly Colin McRae thrashing them round a stage flamboyant artistry driving style. Todays R1 cars hybrid etc space frame costing millions of pounds and unobtainable in your local dealership
@dirtfish this was grandads Audi, I was brought up with both cars and traveled to many of the races with him. His other Audi the pikes peak version is now in the Audi museum. we have loads of pictures and videos of all the races in the family. It would be a dream to see the car again one day
I had the good fortune of attending, and marshalling, at a number of the Lombard RAC rallies when Group B existed. No form of motorsport or era of motorsport comes close to Group B. The Delta S4 was my absolute favourite, in the Martini livery. I also briefly knew Tony Ponds as a consequence of owning a TR7, as he used to rally one before he moved on to the 6R4.
Fascinating video Colin. I actually still work at the same Aerospace site in West of Scotland that Steve worked at many years ago and I remember seeing that red/orange MKII Escort on site a couple of times. Looks like dream car collection he has acquired.
Fascinating. When the Motoring News dropped through the door the first thing you looked for was the road rally results, the second was the advertisements. Sadly both are shadow of what used to be. Road rallying is just as strong these days with ovetsubscribed entries. Don't be apologetic for the best grass roots area of our sport.
I could listen to Steve for a good few hours sounds like a down to earth guy Yes I remember that Yellow Ferrari 308 on my local Rally 1986 Zanussi West Cork Rally seeing the Ferrari was like seeing a Spaceship especially when the competition were driving Sunbeams, Escort G3, Fiats, Mantas. I saw it on a few more rallys after that early 1990s Dont know if it is still around
