Janne's Designs

 A year ago the rallying world got hit with sad news. Hannu Mikkola had passed away. To pay my tribute to the great late legend of rallying, I've replicated Hannu's livery from his last WRC event win with the mighty Ford Escort Mk II. The rally in question is of course the 1979 Lombard RAC Rally.  Sadly, due to me being on a deadline to release this still on the 25th, and due to eWRC-results being down, I can't give much more info about the rally than that Hannu won the rally by 10 minutes and 29 seconds ahead of Russell Brookes. Hannu won 24 stages of the event's 59. Hope you guys can also achieve great wins with this livery! DOWNLOAD (Updated at 1:41 UTC+2 on 26.2.2022) Here's some pictures of the skin in action. Photos by me.

This car made history. This car helped Juha Kankkunen become the first world champion in the history of the World Rally Championship to successfully defend his title. Juha had a good rally in RAC 1987, winning it ahead of Stig Blomqvist and Jimmy McRae. Winning here meant that Juha passed teammates Miki Biasion and Markku Alen in the final championship standings. That meant that Juha became the first driver to win back to back world titles in rallying history. This rally was also Juha's last World Rally Championship appearance for Lancia at the time being as he moved to Toyota for seasons 1988 and 1989 before returning to Lancia in 1990. Later on Juha would go to win two titles more in 1991 and 1993 to become the first four time world champion in rallying history. Later on Tommi Mäkinen and some French Sebastiens have wrecked the records. Of the 4 or more -club I do rate Kankkunen's accomplishments the highest, as he was able to win the titles with three different manufac...

This skin makes the 1989 Lombard RAC Rally the most featured rally on my blog so far. With the massive amount of two entries. I feel though that some 80s Rally Finland may get the top step on the podium later on.... I made this livery because 1989 Lombard RAC Rally was one of the few rallies I had as an VHS when I was growing up. And I also do adore the Skoda Favorit 136L in RBR too. It was challenging to find enough resource material for this project but with the help of Myra43 and Voittanen I finally managed to create this one, thanks to you both! Kilu's rally was not something to tell the grandkids about I'd presume. With the very few interviews he had on the VHS he constantly talked about how easy it would be to break your car in RAC. And then he had a puncture on special stage number whatever (there where like 123094 stages in RAC back in the day) where he lost 5-ish minutes. Eventually his rally grinded to a halt on special stage number 123093, which was the p...

The first skin to be released on this site is this skin of Pentti Airikkala's Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 from the 1989 Lombard RAC Rally. I've created this skin originally last December but I've noticed some low quality bits on it so I've made it better now. DOWNLOAD