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1974 1000 Lakes Rally
The 1974 1000 Lakes Rally (formally the 24nd Jyväskylän Suurajot) was the third round of the shortened 1974 World Rally Championship. It took place between 2 and 4 August 1974. The 1000 Lakes Rally didn't use special stages at this time to decide a winner. Instead all of the route was competitive - with the driver with the lowest accumulation of penalty time between time controls being declared the winner. Report The 1000 Lakes Rally being the third round of the World Rally Championship The Race have 36 stages and won by Hannu Mikkola. The system of points for 1st to 10th is the Ford take 20 points for the Hannu Mikkola and the 2nd, the 3rd Markku Alén of Fiat take 12 points, Stig Blomqvist and Simo Lampinen of Saab take 10 points, the 6th and 7th not take points by the 3rd and 5th, in this case the 8th Anders Kulläng Anders Göran Kulläng (23 September 1943 – 28 February 2012) was a Swedish rally and rallycross driver. His biggest success was to win the 1980 Swed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 World Rally Championship
The 1974 World Rally Championship was the second season of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) World Rally Championship (WRC). Due to the worldwide oil crisis, it was significantly reduced from its inaugural season, consisting of 8 events versus the previous 13 events. Notably absent were the Monte Carlo and Swedish rallies, though these would return the next year and remain part of the series to this day. However, other rallies such as those in Poland and Austria would never return to the WRC calendar. 1974 was the only year the WRC held two events in North America, though it would mark the last year for both of these events on the world stage. Alpine-Renault proved unable to repeat its dominance from the previous year, with Italian manufacturers Lancia and Fiat vying for the title through the year. Fiat's Abarth 124 gained an early lead with a win at Monte Carlo, but fell to a strong performance by Lancia's Stratos HF which won three rallies, placing second a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |