World Rally Championship Guide 2001

The World Rally Guide is the perfect companion not only for the professionals who cover the World Rally Championship, but also for those passionate enthusiast in love with rallying. This is the first edition of the guide, a compilation of results, references and statistics for all the 596 rounds between 1973 and 2019. For the first time in the pages of the same book, you will find the special stage winners and the rally plates for each of the 596 WRC rounds. For each of the 38 drivers with at least three wins, you will find their complete WRC records. With more than 500 photos, The World Rally Guide is the perfect gift for any enthusiast.

Drawing upon interviews with key people in the World Rally Championship as well as trans-local ethnographic research, this book explores questions of commerciality and sporting identity, tackling the sport's controversial handling of the shift into 'the commercial age'. It is essential reading on combining sporting heritage and commercial progress.

The Middle East is one of the fastest growing and significant markets in world sport, as well as a powerful source of investment in sport. Bids for the Olympics in 2020 and the soccer World Cup in 2022, as well as remarkable investments in Formula One motor racing, horse racing and English Premier League soccer clubs, demonstrate the strength of interest, the depth of resource and the technical expertise maintained by sport business interests in the region. Sport Management in the Middle East is the first book to offer a serious and in-depth analysis of the business and management of sport in the region. Written by a team of world leading researchers in Middle Eastern sport, and illustrated in full colour throughout, the book examines the importance of sport in the Middle East and introduces its particular management processes, structures and cultures. As well as providing an overview of the region’s sporting strategy and key stakeholders, the book also offers a number of detailed case-studies of sport in individual Middle Eastern countries. A unique guide to sport management in a region of fundamental importance in world sport, this book is essential reading for any serious student or scholar of sport management, sport business, Middle East studies, or sport and society.

From the very first round in 1973 the rallying world has striven to push boundaries, forge passion and pursue excellence in the sport we love. Traveling through a time when uncertainty is an inevitable constraint that opposes consistency and even the strong ideas that constitute the guideline we strive to keep, The World Rally Guide pursues its mission. Powered by passion, the guide is once again intended to be the perfect companion, not only for the professionals who cover the series, but also for those passionate enthusiasts in love with rallying. The fifth edition of The World Rally Guide comes with a hard cover, rich in information, 440 pages, 641 rallies and 51 years with results, references and statistics. For the first time in the pages of the same book, you will find the special stage winners, the rally plates and the winners photo for each of the 641 WRC rounds. For each of the 80 drivers with at least one win, you will find their complete WRC records. With more than 600 photos, The World Rally Guide is the perfect gift for any enthusiast.