Rothmans White Blue Red Wall Art

Rothmans White Blue Red — 5 museum-grade prints in this palette. Mazda's Group B RX-7 programme represented the marque's most visible rotary rally effort outside Japan — a Rothmans-sponsored campaign that leveraged the FB platform's lightweight coupe architecture against turbocharged piston rivals. The 13B engine's compact dimensions and high-revving character offered a distinct driving philosophy on gravel stages, even as Group B's escalating power and safety concerns reshaped the FIA rulebook. The Opel Kadett 400 sat alongside Manta and Ascona Group B programs as GM Europe's compact hatch homologation ambition — Rothmans sponsorship linking British tobacco branding to German engineering in a livery instantly recognizable on 1980s rally broadcasts. While Audi quattro rewrote traction physics, rear-drive and front-drive Opel specials still earned forest-stage respect through lightweight hatch silhouettes and Rothmans Opel Rally Team service-park presence. The Skoda Fabia R5 became the defining car of the FIA R5 era — a category that let national champions and factory second teams fight on realistic budgets while producing stage times that embarrassed older WRC machinery. Škoda Motorsport's Czech factory program turned the Fabia nameplate into a rally synonym across Central Europe, while Jan Kopecký's domestic dominance and Esapekka Lappi's international breakthrough proved the platform's versatility on gravel, snow, and tarmac.

Updated 14 Jun 2026