KimA
23 November 2001, 13:32
Taken from World Rally News:
"Jack Kemsley, the man widely regarded as the founder of the modern Rally GB, died this morning aged 90.
Kemsley took the rally into the forests in 1960 and changed forever the face of what had previously been little more than a touring assembly. In subsequent years, special stages replaced driving tests to create 'the rally of the forests' as we know it.
It is somewhat ironic, but perhaps fitting, that his death came just as competitors on this year's rally began the first forest stage of the event."
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"Jack Kemsley, the man widely regarded as the founder of the modern Rally GB, died this morning aged 90.
Kemsley took the rally into the forests in 1960 and changed forever the face of what had previously been little more than a touring assembly. In subsequent years, special stages replaced driving tests to create 'the rally of the forests' as we know it.
It is somewhat ironic, but perhaps fitting, that his death came just as competitors on this year's rally began the first forest stage of the event."
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