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The Liège continued as uncompromisingly an open road event run to an impossible time schedule, and remained Europe's toughest rally until 1964, by which time it had turned to the wilds of Yugoslavia and Bulgaria to find traffic-free roads ; but in the end the pressures were irresistible.
According to the 1924 LHA Guide the Seedling Miles were intended " to demonstrate the desirability of this permanent type of road construction " to rally public support for government-backed construction.
Although his parents were opposed to the idea, Clark started his racing in local road rally and hill climb events driving his own Sunbeam-Talbot, and proved a fearsome competitor right from the start.
In a road rally, competitive driving takes place ( in part or whole ) on the open public highway.
The 16-valve engine was first used in the Chevette 2300 HS, but initially heads were in such short supply that road car production was delayed and the rally team continued to use the Lotus heads they were familiar with.
* Bullrun, a reality television show on Spike TV based on the Bullrun road rally
The Tour of Mull is a closed road rally event held on the island every October.
However, the Triumph Royal Wedding T140LE Bonneville celebrating HRH the Prince of Wales ' nuptials was a popular collector's item for 1981 and that year a 750 cc TR7T Tiger Trail won the Rallye des Pyrénées on / off road rally.
The road-going RS200 was based on Ford's Group B rally car and was designed to comply with FIA homologation regulations, which required 200 road legal versions be built.
Cooper's development of the British Motor Corporation Mini — the Mini Cooper — was adored by both rally racers and ordinary road drivers.
Targa Newfoundland is an annual long road rally.
In Wacky Races, Dastardly was one of the drivers who competed in each episode for first place, in a long and hazard-filled cross-country road rally.
Since 1992 the event has lent its name to a modern recreation, staged half-a-world away in the form of the famous road rally Targa Tasmania held on the island state of Tasmania, found off the Southern coast of Australia.
Instead of the heavy steel chassis of the road version STC-16, the rally version used a much lighter FRP chassis, combined with a modified engine.
It has since been resurrected by Pedro Dávila and Eduardo de Leon as a classic road rally.
The Iron Butt Rally is a competitive motorcycle road rally held in the United States.
The Gumball 3000 is an annual British international road rally which takes place on public roads, with a different route around the world each year.
The Audi Quattro is a road and rally car, produced by the German automobile manufacturer Audi, now part of the Volkswagen Group.
On his debut, in January, he won his first ever tarmac rally in Monte Carlo, beating Sébastien Loeb by over a minute, albeit beaten by the Frenchman on the road with the championship's unliked ' Superally ' regulations coming to his rescue as a shunt for the Citroën hastened its exit from Leg One.
At the next rally, the 2007 Rallye Deutschland, Grönholm got distracted by a cow along the road and made a driving error while trying to secure a second place ahead of hard-charging François Duval, dropping him to fourth place behind his team-mate.
A road rally is a car rally that takes place on the public road.

road and is
Thus jazz is transmuted into something holy, the sacred road to integration of being.
The road, a comparatively new one, is very good, winding along inlets, coves, and bays of deep and brilliant blue.
Across the road is the kitchen, and waiters bearing great trays of dishes dodge traffic as nimbly as their French colleagues at the restaurant in the Place Du Tertre in Paris.
Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.
The road to a guaranteed-neutral, coup-proof Laos is today almost as difficult as warfare on that nation's terrain.
A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.
`` Unless the oyabun has been working on it '', he said, then checked himself and added: `` You can tell Kayabashi-san that the back road is in very good condition and will be quite safe for his party to use ''.
This system is divided into a forest highway system, administered by the Secretary of Commerce, and a forest development road and trail system, administered by the Secretary of Agriculture.
The existence of road systems permits an intensity of management and use for all National Forest purposes that is not otherwise possible.
An almost too-simple-to-be-true way to set forth on such adventures is just to put yourself behind the wheel of a car and head for the open road.
Look Jed, this is an open and shut case and I have to relieve my men at the road block soon.
A Highway Department source said there also is a plan there to issue some $3 million to $4 million worth of Rural Roads Authority bonds for rural road construction work.
The house is on Old Annapolis road a mile south of Severna Park, at Jones Station, police said.
If nothing is done, the prospect is that that road will be in default of interest in 1962.
It is a land of long fjords, few people, a single-lane road miles away -- and of wild stags, Greylag geese, wild swans, dolphins and porpoises playing in the waters.
Or you could wish your daddy would really do it -- kill Gratt Shafer like he said when you all the time, all along, could feel the nerve draining out of him like air out of a punctured tire when you are on a muddy road alone and it is raining and at night.
The primary use of asphalt is in road construction, where it is used as the glue or binder mixed with aggregate particles to create asphalt concrete.
The road between Lubango and Namibe, for example, was completed recently with funding from the European Union, and is comparable to many European main routes.
Progress to complete the road infrastructure is likely to take some decades, but substantial efforts are already being made in the right directions.
The economic purpose of the Chaco road system is shown by the presence of luxury items at Pueblo Bonito and elsewhere in the canyon.
Armenia's main rail and road border-crossing with Georgia ( at ) is along the Debed river near the Armenian town of Bagratashen and the Georgian town of Sadakhlo.
The McMurdo – South Pole Highway is a 900-mile ( 1450 km ) road in Antarctica linking the United States McMurdo Station on the coast to the Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station.
No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

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