Top names from the world of rallying are visiting this year's Race Retro, the international historic motorsport show held at Stoneleigh Park from 14th to 16th March,

Markku Alen, Bjorn Waldegard and Russell Brookes will be showing they've still got what it takes, with a series of demonstration runs on the Live Classic Rally Stage.

Finnish hero Markku Alen is one of the most successful rally drivers of all time. His rallying career started in 1969 in a Renault 8 Gordini.
His first professional drive was with Ford in a Mk1 Escort, after which he joined Fiat in 1975, driving for them and Lancia until 1989. Alen piloted the first Group B Lancia, the 037, and won 20 rounds of the World Rally Championship (WRC), including six victories on Finland's Rally of 1000 Lakes, his home event. He also won the 1988 Lombard RAC Rally.

Bjorn Waldegard posted many international wins in a Mk2 Escort RS1800. He began his rallying career in 1962and won the Swedish Championship in 1967 and 1968 In 1969 he won the Monte Carlo Rally in a Porsche 911

Waldegard moved to Ford at the end of 1976 and between then and 1980 notched up wins on the Safari, Acropolis, RAC, Swedish and Ivory Coast rallies, driving RS1800s. His successful career continued with Toyota. Last year, aged 64, he won the East African Safari Classic, with his son Mathias as co-driver.

Russell Brookes is one of the UK's most popular rally drivers and is forever associated with the Wolverhampton Andrews Heat for Hire-sponsored cars. He began competing in 1968, twice winning the British Rally Championship - in 1977 driving an Escort RS1800, and in 1985 at the wheel of an Opel Manta 400.

In 1973, he signed with Ford and
drove for the blue oval until the end of the 1979 season. He switched to Talbot for two years, then moved to Vauxhall/Opel, and in 1989 went back to Ford for the British Rally Championship. At the wheel of a Cosworth Sierra, he won the Manx Rally in 1989 and 1990.

These top drivers will be joined by some of Ford's rallying elite Malcolm Wilson, Mark Dean and Tony Mason.

Malcolm Wilson, a former WRC driver and British Rally Champion, is the boss of M-Sport who build and prepare the current Ford WRC cars, as well as running the works Ford Rally Team. He will be joined by Mark Dean, the newly-appointed Director of Ford TeamRS, Ford's motorsport division in Europe.

Ex-Ford Rally Manager Tony Mason, the winning navigator of the 1972 RAC Rally with legendary British driver Roger Clark in a Ford Escort Mk1, will complete the Ford line-up,

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