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From Brägger's rally diary from the seventies - Please open the door before rolling over

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Created on October 14, 2012

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Bernhard Brägger

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Renault 12 Gordini (1974) - on the traditional gravel of the Lugano Rally - no walk in the park for the front-wheel drive car

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Lancia Fulvia HF (1974) - The start and finish of the 1974 Rallye di Lugano was on the Piazza della Riforma in the center of Lugano

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Ford Escort RS 2000 (1974) - Hansjörg Elmiger and co-driver Max Heinzer are always good for a spectacle on gravel

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Alpine-Renault A110 (1974) - Hugo Müller and Louis Hafner at the 1974 Rallye di Lugano - between Laino and Pigra above Lake Como

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Alpine-Renault A110 (1974) - the successful rally drivers from Eastern Switzerland - Mathias Schreier and Max Graf

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Summary

In the 1970s, two rallies were very popular with Italian and Swiss rally drivers: the Rallye di Lugano and the Coppa Liburna. In his rally diary, Bernhard Brägger reports in five episodes on events, opponents and vehicles from this hot rally era of the seventies. In the second episode, he explains how to prevent a roll sideways with the co-driver's door open and what the roads of the special stages looked like back then.

This article contains the following chapters

Please open the door before rolling over
"Läck - that was fast!"

Estimated reading time: 4min

Preview (beginning of the article)

The Rallye di Lugano was always good for stories, stories that reflected the rally sport of the 1970s in all its facets. The first samples could be read in the report "From Brägger's rally diary of the seventies - the fast lady in the Coppa Liburna " . In the early seventies of the last century, the Rallye di Lugano also made the leap into the age of modern rallies. The special stages were now timed, the routes were closed off and monitored. Only the sometimes long and fast overtaking stages in congested evening traffic were still reminiscent of past rally concepts, such as that of the Rallye de Genève, which took place on unclosed mountain roads until the 1970s.

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