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	Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Monte Carlo Rally (officially Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo) is a rally racing event organized each year by the Automobile Club de Monaco who also organize the F1 Grand Prix of Monaco and the Monaco Kart Cup.
		From its inception in 1911 by Prince Albert I, this rally, under difficult and demanding conditions, was an important means of testing the latest improvements and innovations to automobiles.
		This rally features what is possibly the most famous rally stage in the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rallye_Automobile_Monte_Carlo

	RALLY MONTE CARLO
		Rallying on the flat roads of the Netherlands is very different from the tortuous hilly terrein you encounter in the Monte Carlo Rally.
		The 66th Monte Carlo Rally took place from 18 to 21 January 1998.
		In among the heavyweights of the rally world like Colin McRea, Carlos Sainz and Tommi Makkinen, was the only Dutch challenge, number 83, Johan Deen and Remko Knol in their Fiat Cinquecento Sporting.
	home.planet.nl /~deen0104/monte1998ENG.html

	Monte Carlo Rally '97
		The famous Monte night has, however, been omitted, so that there were no real night stages in the rally this year.
		The real contenders for the title this year are Carlos Sainz, Tommi Makinen, and despite his retirement in Monte, Colin McRae.
		The rally started and ended with a super special on the streets of the Monaco waterfront, partly on the same roads as the Formula One circuit.
	www.worldrally.net /97/monte97.html

	Monte Carlo Rally
		The 68th Monte Carlo Rally begins on Thursday, January 20 at 10.20.
		Spaniard Carlos Sainz has rejoined Ford, which is making an all-out bid for the title after a tough season developing the sophisticated but fractious Focus World Rally Car, while Toyota's other refugee Didier Auriol has moved to VW-owned Spanish team Seat.
		However, the 2000 car wasn't tested until the beginning of January and neither Sainz nor team-mate Colin McRae - billed by Ford as the world's fastest rally driver - are impressed with the maximum power of latest, Cosworth-developed engine.
	www.worldrallynews.com /events/mc_00/preview.html

	CNNSI.com - Motor Sports - McRae has narrow lead in Monte Carlo rally - Saturday January 20, 2001 06:36 PM
		MONTE CARLO, Monaco (AP) -- Britain's Colin McRae clung to a 3.5-second lead over Finnish rival Tommi Makinen on Saturday after the second stage of the Monte Carlo rally in the French Alps.
		The Monte Carlo Rally is the first of 14 events in the 2001 World Rally Championship.
		Drivers are to race over the mountains near Monte Carlo before returning to the tiny Mediterranean principality for the finish.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /motorsports/news/2001/01/20/monte_carlo_ap

	Rally Action News: Rally Monte Carlo
		I always thought we could challenge for a victory in Monte Carlo but a 1-2-3 is better than I expected, that's for sure.
		He is likely to return strongly in Sweden next month, as are Subaru, who were unable to give Finland's Tommi Makinen his fifth straight Monte Carlo win after both he and Norwegian Petter Solberg went out on Friday.
		The most evocative rally on the calendar, run over 14 stages and 415 timed kilometres in the snowy Alps, was the first under a new scoring system.
	www.rally-action.com /news/2003/1/2621.shtml

	Rally Action News: Rally Monte Carlo - Subaru preview
		Renowned as the most prestigious rally in the Championship calendar, Rallye Monte Carlo's combination of glamour, opulence and high-octane action close to the principality of Monaco, makes it one of the most eagerly anticipated WRC events of the year.
		Essentially an asphalt rally run on the twisty mountain roads of the region, the unpredictable Alpine weather conditions conspire to make it one of the most challenging events of the season.
		The 555 Subaru World Rally Team will be using data gathered by their ice crews, who drive through each stage ahead of the competitors, before selecting which tyre to use.
	www.rally-action.com /news/2004/1/4466.shtml

	Datsun Fairlady Roadsters in The Monte Carlo Rally
		For a picture gallery and commentaries on the 1968 and 1969 Monte Carlo Rallies see below.
		July 2001, Provence Moulage Datsun 2000 Monte Carlo Roadster
		Hannu Mikkola, in one of his first 'Works' outings, finished 9th overall and 3rd in Class in the 1968 event.
	www.datsun.org /fairlady/Monte.htm

	World Rally Championship - Monte Carlo Rally 1999
		Tommi Makinen (Mitsubishi) took a convincing victory on the Monte Carlo Rally to give him the perfect start to the year and put him on track for a fourth consecutive world title.
		Ford have failed in their bid to get the exclusion of the Focus WRC from the Monte Carlo Rally overturned.
		Carlos Sainz (Toyota) crashed out on the first stage.
	freespace.virgin.net /matthew.routh/rally/mc99.html

	Eurosport - Motorsports - WRC Rally - Live and results. - Monte Carlo
		Petter Solberg and Marcus Gronholm fell victim to incompetent spectators throwing snow onto the road on Stage 12 of the Monte Carlo Rally.
		Citroen's Sebastien Loeb has won a highly controversial Monte Carlo Rally on Sunday, becoming only the third driver to win the season-opener three years in succession.
		Gilles Panizzi's third position on the Monte Carlo was his best-ever result in the Prinicpality and Mitsubishi's first podium since 2001.
	www.eurosport.com /home/pages/v4/l0/s42/e7620/sport_lng0_spo42_evt7620.shtml

	readaBet.com - MONTE CARLO RALLY OF MONACO BETTING PREVIEW
		Monte Carlo never fails to capture the imagination, whether it be the Formula One cars hurtling around the harbour in the summer or the sounds of screaming tyres as the rally season hits the mountains around the town.
		If Loeb does not win the rally, Martin will be waiting to have a pop, and providing he finishes, he should be in the top three, with a very real chance of victory.
		Last season saw a Citroen 1-2-3 as the team brought home Sebastien Loeb, Colin McRae and Carlos Sainz.
	www.readabet.com /index.php/home/article/3405

	Rallysport Magazine On-line - Monte Carlo Rally 2005
		Monte Carlo ‘05 was also a rally of many different factors.
		Early in the rally the Citroens had proved to be completely unbeatable then Francois Duval, fastest on the shakedown test and lying second on stage six behind Loeb, crashed and had to retire.
		It was a rally that confirmed pre-season promises with four out of the six registered teams all finishing the first round of the championship with only one point between them.
	www.rallysportnews.com.au /cms/A_103798/article.html

	The Monte Carlo Historic Rally
		All the cars are currently parked up on the Monte Carlo seafront (as of 5.20pm UK time) in a few hours, the next stage will begin and cars will rally through the night and then return to Monaco.
		He was part of the team’s service crew during the Monte Carlo Rally.
		From Vals-les-Bains there were several regularity stages before the whole show moved along to Monte Carlo to complete the last regularity stages and, hopefully, finish at the quayside in view of all the millionaire yachts in the harbour.
	www.miniworld.co.uk /content/monty/monty.html

	Monte Carlo Rally '96
		Monte wasn't this year in the group A World Rally Championship.
		A Ford Escort Cosworth, took the lead in the early stages of the rally as Armin Schwarz had problems with the transmission of his Toyota Celica.
		Francois Delecour with the Peugeot 306 Maxi absolutely dominated the F2 category and finished second in front of Schwarz who had a major off during the last night of the rally.
	www.worldrally.net /pakar/96/monte96.html

	AllRefer.com - Monte Carlo, France (French Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Among the sporting events of the town are the famous Monte Carlo car rally, the Monaco Grand Prix, and the Monte Carlo Open tennis tournament.
		Monte Carlo[mONtA´ kArlO´] Pronunciation Key, town (1982 pop.
		In 1954 the concession came under the control of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis but has since been returned to the Monaco government.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MonteCar.html

	The 1969 Monte Carlo Rally
		The Datsun Fairlady 2000 in the 1969 Rallye Monte Carlo
		The highly developed 1969 Monte Carlo Datsun Fairlady 2000s ran 170bhp, and sported strengthened hardtops which were riveted to the body.
		The Monte starters all suffered the worst of the weather, with fog and rutted snow and ice, which did not suit the F/R setup of the Datsuns.
	www.datsun.org /fairlady/MonteCarlo69.htm

	BBC ON THIS DAY 21 1966: Future of Monte Carlo rally in doubt
		The Monte Carlo rally has ended in uproar over the disqualification of the British cars expected to fill the first four places.
		The BMC says it spent £10,000 on preparing for the Monte Carlo rally - and is now considering withdrawing from next year's race.
		The confusion arose because the rally organisers initially said the race would be run under the old rules - and only announced the switch after entries had been accepted.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/21/newsid_2506000/2506863.stm

	Monte Carlo Rally
		The rally is based in Karlstad in central Sweden, in the province of Vaermland.
		The only true winter rally in the World Championship, the Swedish is the preserve of north European snow specialists with an instinctive feel for driving on studded tyres at high speed.
		Sweden's Stig Blomqvist is the most successful driver in the rally's history, with seven wins.
	www.worldrallynews.com /events/s_00/history.html

	Motor Books - Monte Carlo Rally 1965-1966 67 mins.
		The 35th Monte Carlo rally co-incided with the Principality of Monaco's Centenary Celebrations and the Standard Triumph crew produced a wonderful period movie of the action.
		In one of the toughest ever Monte Carlo Rallies only 35 out of 237 starters survived the howling blizzards to struggle to the finish line on time.
		Here we have the most notable years of this most famous of all Rallies - the Monte Carlo.
	www.motorbooks.co.uk /notes.asp?bookid=36002

	Tommi Makinen Wins Monte Carlo Rally
		The final day of the rally began before dawn in Gap and competitors had to negotiate ultra-demanding, ice-covered stages high in the Alps as well as near-dry asphalt stages closer to Monte Carlo and the Mediterranean.
		Marlboro Mitsubishi Ralliart has made a superb start to the 2000 FIA World Rally Championship with a decisive victory on the Monte Carlo Rally, thanks to Tommi Makinen and his Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution.
		Thousands of spectators flocked to the rally as usual, many of them waving banners and sounding klaxons as they cheered on their favourites.
	www.winktimber.com /prorally/press/000122wrc.htm

	female in monte carlo rally
		The 2004 Monte Carlo Rally is also the first time an MG ZR Super 1600 has been entered in a World Rally Championship (WRC) event although former British Champion Gwyndaf Evans and Claire Mole won the GpN class for standard showroom cars in an MG ZR160 at the WRC Wales Rally GB last November.
		The Monte Carlo is quite a challenge as I've done a recce for it before, but never actually contested the rally.
		However, when the opportunity arose to go for the Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC) with the KF Concept backed Risbridger Motorsport Solutions Team this year in a competitive car, partnered by Welshman Carl Williamson, she didn't hesitate.
	www.filmtvdir.com /2004/motor/carnews2004/femalerallymg.htm

	World Rally Championship - Monte Carlo Rally 1999 Preview
		The 1999 FIA World Rally Championship kicks off on the 17th January with the Monte Carlo Rally.
		Last year Carlos Sainz won on the Toyota Corolla's first outing in the WRC while others failed to finish, giving him a fantastic start to the year.
		Juha Kankunen is a past master of this rally and may do well on his debut with the Subaru Impreza.
	freespace.virgin.net /matthew.routh/rally/mcp99.html

	RTÉ.ie Sport - Loeb leads Monte Carlo Rally
		Frenchman Sebastien Loeb is on course for a second successive victory in the Monte Carlo Rally after grabbing the lead in the season opener in the French Alps yesterday.
		Spain's Carlos Sainz is fourth for Citroen- who enjoyed a clean sweep last year when Colin McRae took second place - with Belgium's Francois Duval fifth in the other Focus.
		Officials had to scrap the first special stage of the season for safety reasons because too many spectators has headed into the Alps to watch the cars speed past at around 100mph.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2004/0124/montecarlo.html

	8th Segny - Monte Carlo Rally
		Finally Fons and Ornella arrive with the rally stickers: With a black frame as if we are in mourning, and with the letters of the driver and navigator written in times roman size 10 - Invisible but with a microscope.
		The rally edition and year appear as a patch over the previous sticker, in slightly different colour.
		Police has blocked the entrance to the town and we are nearly truly buggered but at one post the policeman in charge is talking to his girlfriend on his portable and we sneak in.
	users.forthnet.gr /ath/theopapa/smr8.html

	The Monte Carlo Rally
		In the fifties, the Monte Carlo Rally was a premier event in the sporting calendar and Galton and Simpson made good use of it here.
		Hancock takes part in the Monte Carlo Rally, in an 1896 car supplied by Sid.
		At Monte Carlo, the whole town turns out to cheer them and the Mayor presents them with a cheque for 200,000 francs and then Hancock wakes up from his dream to find he's been given a parking ticket for being stuck on the starting line for four days.
	www.tonyhancock.org.uk /radio1-12.html

	Rally Monte Carlo
		Alan Scorcioni, driving his first rally in an Ignis run by Czech team JM Engineering, has ended the rally in a career-best third place, after an excellent drive over all three days.
		He too enjoyed a hundred percent reliability, although the Italian questioned some of his tyre choices in the early stages of the rally.
		The car has been more fantastic than I can describe and I never believed that I could start off with a result like this on such a famous rally.
	www.alanscorcioni.it /SimpleViewer_v17/MonteCarlo/indexMontecarlo.html

	7th Segny-Monte Carlo Rally (1999)
		While the Col was covered in dampy grey clouds, down in Menton (the "Meyrin of Monte Carlo" according to Mike) the sun was shining.
		Everybody familiar with rallying will know that the "Turini" is the most famous rally stage in the world.
		The rally started Thursday May 13 at 8:30am at the house of the organizers, Alain Blondel and Meg Gawler.
	root.cern.ch /~rdm/Smc99.html

	Ananova - Sport - Monte Carlo Rally
		Sebastien Loeb is on course for a second successive victory in the Monte Carlo Rally after grabbing the lead in the season opener in the French Alps.
		The first special stage of the season-opening Monte Carlo Rally in the French Alps had to be cancelled for safety reasons.
		Sebastien Loeb is within sight of a second successive victory on the Monte Carlo Rally despite another day marred by safety problems in the French Alps.
	www.ananova.com /sport?keywords=Monte+Carlo+Rally

	UNHCR - UNHCR launches fundraising drive at Monte-Carlo rally
		The 7th Historical Rally of Monte Carlo will be held from January 30 to February 4, featuring some 350 cars with models from 1955 to 1977.
		While the principality of Monaco is hardly a refugee hotspot, it is the site of the 7th Historical Rally of Monte-Carlo through which UNHCR hopes to promote awareness and raise funds for its refugee operations around the world.
		The five-day rally will flag off today in Copenhagen, with different starting points for participants setting off from Spain, Italy, France and Monte-Carlo tomorrow.
	www.unhcr.ch /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/news/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=401a248c4

	Monte Carlo Winter Rally
		Starting from Brooklands on the 31st January the car will be driven by MD Roy Meekings through France ending up in Monte Carlo on Friday.
		The car is a Rover P4 originally built in 1962 and has been refurbished in the workshops over the last twelve months and included a respray and under sealing to protect the car on its arduous journey using some of their standard paint systems.
		Universal Applied Coatings a close associate company of ours, has entered a car into this years Winter Run.
	www.colorlites.com /pr05.htm

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