Lombard returns
Fred Henderson /David Nicholson at the start of 1976 Lombrad RAC Rally
The Lombard name returns to rallying next year with the Lombard Rally Bath 2018, taking place from 19 to 21 October.
In the seventies and eighties Lombard was associated with the UK’s sporting event that attracted the largest number of spectators, the Lombard RAC Rally.
Alongside the social side of the event, the Lombard Rally Bath’s main element will be a tour on the Saturday based on the tarmac special stages of that part of the 1976 event held in the South West – including Longleat Safari Park, Cricket St. Thomas, Wiscombe Park and Porlock.
Featured drivers expected on the tour currently include Stig Blomqvist, Harri Toivonen, Rosemary Smith, Louise Aitken-Walker, Graham Elsmore and Terry Kaby, some driving period rally cars actually driven by them at the time
The Rally will be based at the luxury Bath Spa Hotel with accommodation also available at the nearby three-star Limpley Stoke Hotel.
'Jumping' Jeff Williamson - 1976 Lombard RAC Rally
Entry costs:-
Friday and Saturday dinners plus Saturday tour
Paid in full by 31 December 2017 - £300 and with passenger £425
From 1 January, 2018 - £325 and £460
All payments by 31 July 2018
Accommodation:-
Friday and Saturday nights 19/20 October 2018
Twin / Double room at Bath Spa Hotel £550
Twin / Double room at Limpley Stoke House £200
Rally car hire:-
To the specification used in period, from £600
Full details from
Lombard Rally Bath.
