The Story Of The Metro 6R4 PART TWO 

RIP tony. Magic cars, I was thrown off Castle Coombe in one as it blew the circuits noise limiter!

Tony pond a wat legend wel spoken

This car takes corners like you wouldn't believe it

best sounding engine tho

The death of a legend

not the cars at fault, but stupid insane people standing in the path, organisers at fault to for letting them do that!!!

They don't make cool cars anymore

The problem was that the engine was fundamentally flawed. It was very unreliable & suffered a variety of problems throughout its "works" usage. David Wood had a racing/technical background & no experience of the rigor's of top level rallying & made no allowances for this with the engine regularly suffering terminal damage due to stones & debris being ingested into the cam-belt system. Another problem was that the guy in charge had no real idea on how to run a competition department & was running his own agenda which ultimately led to him spending time on an enforced holiday at her majesty's pleasure.

Really, a very flawed Groub B rallycar, mainly because of the engine. Hopelessly slow against the competition, especially against the likes of the 205 Turbo 16 or the Delta S4 which were the fastest of these monsters.

It was the spectators fault not the rally drivers. If you had half a brain you learn which curve to stand on or which corner a car might go off on. Fast corners are fun but be up high It's because they can't drive. For spectators to stand mid stage on a dangerous corner is stupid.we had whistles to warn the car approaching and we used to shout car!!! It's all about inertia you know.