New DVDs from RPM!

Posted: January 4, 2008 9:00 PM

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IN-CAR DONEGAL WITH SEBASTIEN LOEB
Sebastien Loeb and Daniel Elena’s visit to the 2007 Donegal International Rally has provided Tyndall Productions Ltd. with an opportunity to give you the `inside track` on the greatest rally driver in the world, as he learns to adopt the World Rally Car Citroen C4 to the fast, narrow and extremely bumpy Irish tarmac stages.

Using the expertise the BBC`s Special Camera Unit, you can enjoy the multi World Champion at work from many angles, as he races over such classic stages as the Knockalla and Atlantic Drive coast roads, and through the famed Donegal Hills on the High Glen and Port Lake Stages.

This DVD takes you `all the way` through these great tests, and from the RPM archives you can get an insight into some of the notorious pitfalls awaiting drivers on these challenging stages in the rugged north west corner of Ireland.

There is action and reaction as the most successful rally driver of all time and the Citroen Team face a new challenge, and conquer the difficulties to give the WRC C4 its fifth International Rally win.
Cost £25 (36 Euros)

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THE MODIFIED MASTERS – RPM`s Top Ten Modified Marques and the mighty men who drove them.
WRC and Production cars may have the times tumbling and the records rocking, but it’s still the seriously sideways merchants who keep the punters on the hedgerows long after the big boys have passed. This DVD is `the full of the rack` all the way as RPM pick through their archives to bring you their top ten modified marques and much previously unseen sideways footage. Enjoy the thrills and the memories of many of the great entertainment aces.

BMW 2002s, Nissan 240RSs, Sunbeam Lotuses, Darrians, TR7 V8s, Lancia Stratus & 037s, and Toyota Starletts all make appearances in this epic DVD, but whats your choice when it comes to entertaining action?

The Opel Ascona & Manta 400s? How can we ever forget, James Cullen, Henri Toivonen, and the much-missed Bertie Fisher in these cars?

The Porsche 911s that were out front in two decades?

The Vauxhall HS & HSR Chevettes? Pentti Airikkala, Terry Kaby, and Jimmy McRae were amongst the many entertainers in the DTV machines.

The BMW M3s? Bertie Fisher and Austin McHale made the Bavarian machines scream.

The Opel Kadetts? A little car that became big news because of John Lyons and Kieran O`Neill.

The Escort G3 hybrids? Specials that in Eugene Donnelly hands, became very special!

The Sierra Cosworths? These `whale tail` turbo cars livened up the Group A years.

Or the Escort Mk I & IIs? Cahal Curley, Billy Coleman, Bjorn Waldegard, Frank Meagher, Connie Smith, Ari Vatanen, all the magic Escort names are in this DVD recalling their glory days in the most loved of all rally cars.

So if you like it seriously sideways, this is the one for you!
Cost £25 (36 Euros)

TARMAC 2007 – Playing with the Professionals
The prowess of the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship positively exploded in 2007 when the WRC Works teams came to play with our regular sealed surface aces, in preparation for Rally Ireland.

For Eugene Donnelly and Paul Kiely, it was a reality check on their way to a historic consecutive fourth championship win, as they mixed it with the Ford and Citroen WRC Teams in Galway, Donegal and Cork and battled with the multiple British Rally Champion Mark Higgins and his Irish Co-driver Rory Kennedy, throughout the eight round season.

Enjoy the WRC and Group N highlights in this annual review of the greatest Irish rallying season to date, which recalls Donnelly’s battle with Gronholm in Galway; Mark Higgin`s mighty win on the Easter Stages; Kris Meeke`s amazing drives in Killarney and Ulster; Donnelly`s dominance of the Jim Clark and Manx International rallies; and Sebastien Loeb`s learning curve in Donegal and then total dominance in Cork.

In this DVD there are sequences not previously aired on TV, as you sit in with the top men over entire runs through some of the classic stages.
Cost £22.50 (33 Euros)

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