So who would like to see these classic cars go head to head?

Audi Sport Quattro

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History

  • Audi Sport No.5
  • Race: 1985 WRC Rally San Remo
  • Drivers: Rohrl

1985 Audi Sport quattro. The car featured an inline 5‐cylinder 2.1 litre engine and produced, unofficially, 500 bhp at 8000 rpm and could accelerate from 0‐60 mph in 3 seconds. The car proved to be an immediate success in the rally circuit,  helping Walter Röhrl and Christian Geistdörfer win the 1985 San Remo Rally.

The Scalextric Model

Digital Plug Ready (DPR) – convert for use with the Scalextric Digital range in under sixty seconds using the C8515 Digital Plug.

Special Features

  • Digital Plug Ready
  • Easy Change Pick-ups
  • Magnatraction
  • Working Headlights
  • Working Rear Lights
  • High Detail

History

  • Team: Racing – Shell Oils, No.15
  • Race: 1986 RAC Lombard Rally
  • Drivers: McRae

MG Metro 6R4 – No.15

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Jimmy McRae from Lanark, Scotland was a highly successful driver in the British Rally Championship, winning the title five times in 1981, 1982, 1984, 1987 and 1988.

In the European Rally Championship for drivers, he was runner‐up in 1982, while his highest placing in the World Rally Championship was fifteenth in 1983. He is the father of World Rally  Championship driver Alister McRae, and the late 1995 World Rally Champion Colin McRae.

Throughout his career, McRae drove for a number of different teams, reaching a pinnacle during his spell in the Rothmans Rally Team. During his time at Rothmans, his team mates were Ari Vatanen, Walter Röhrl and Henri Toivonen. McRae still occasionally competes on historic rallies and some Scottish Rally Championship events, with some occasional outings on the Wales Rally GB. In 2006 he won the Roger Albert Clark Rally in a Stobart Motorsport sponsored Mark 2 Ford Escort.

The Scalextric Model

Digital Plug Ready (DPR) – convert for use with the Scalextric Digital range in under sixty seconds using the C8515 Digital Plug.

Special Features

  • Digital Plug Ready
  • Easy Change Pick-ups
  • Magnatraction
  • Working Headlights
  • Working Rear Lights
  • High Detail

Ford RS200

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History

Race: 1991 Rallycross Championship, Lydden Circuit
This famous rallying Ford RS200 is one of the very distinctive liveries sponsored by Haynes of Maidstone.  Trevor Hopkins won the British Rallycross Championship for four years in a Ford though never in the RS200 which he campaigned for many
seasons through the 1980s and 90s.

The Scalextric Model

Digital Plug Ready (DPR) – convert for use with the Scalextric Digital range in under sixty seconds using the C8515 Digital Plug.

Special Features

  • Digital Plug Ready
  • Easy Change Pick-ups
  • Magnatraction
  • High Detail

So come on Scalextric how about a new Digital Rally Group B set?

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