Britain's WRC wait can end in Germany
It's over 12 years since a Briton won a WRC round, but this weekend Kris Meeke has a very real chance of ending that drought in Germany. DAVID EVANS explains why
A Tusker or two was definitely called for. The cold ones came and went and the night grew longer and more interesting. Colin McRae had just won his second World Rally Championship round on the bounce and his 2002 season was on the up.
Little did we know, on that Sunday night in Nairobi, that a decade in the wilderness lay ahead. A generation would come and go before the next chance to write another best of British headline from rallying's top flight arose.
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