Anyone that was there has been in love with it ever since. Most that weren’t have religiously read about it, or endlessly rewatched the tapes.
Few eras of rallying have ever been as galvanizing as the Formula 2 Kit Car generation – when front-wheel-drive was the answer and revs were king.
F2 certainly had its moment in the World Rally Championship, when Citroën’s Philippe Bugalski severely put noses out of joint with two overall wins in 1999 – ahead of the so-called top class World Rally Cars.
But it’s in national championships where the Kit Cars really earned their cult status – not least in the British Rally Championship.
To celebrate 25 years since the era’s pomp, Donagh Kelly hosted a BRC reunion for the Formula 2 days at his Stables Motorsport Centre in Ireland – reuniting the stars with their cars for a weekend of reliving old, and creating new, memories.
In this week’s SPIN, The Rally Pod, DirtFish speaks to those that were there to give you the inside track on the weekend, and to learn more about why the F2 period is remembered with such fondness.
