Nothing will make you appreciate ABS and traction control quite like this video.

You're watching the 1977 Lombard RAC Rally, the UK's WRC event. It was run without pace notes, , a third of which was run on flat-out competitive stages, day and night, from race tracks to the darkest depths of the forest. To say it was a test of man and machine would be an understatement.

Just go through the video and you'll get a sense of how hard these top drivers had to work and you'll understand how much a modern computer-aided automobile assists you behind the wheel. Just seeing the live rear axle Mk. II Escorts squirm under braking raises my blood pressure.

Man, that looks fun.

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