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The last one is now largely remembered as the event J.McRae was excluded from first place for suspension bushes that did not comply with Group N. The earlier Tours of Britain were largely successful with entries on the back of a fairly healthy Group One racing scene? - despite being firmly biased towards rallying by 1976. Plethora of racing regs now means it would be near impossible to put entries together for a "modern" event? The 99 proposal was originally based on Group One (and Gp3??) up to the expiry in 1981 of that version of Appendix J but then seemed to be moving towards a more general historic bias. Its difficult to see how more extreme categories of vehicle would be compatible with long road sections today. The Roger Albert Clark Rally has not exactly overflowed with period entries, perhaps because it cannot really recapture the true flavour of the old events with modern road conditions and law interpretation on driving through the night etc.
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