The rally car collection of your dreams

A WRC round-winning Subaru Impreza S5 WRC, a mint condition Sierra Cosworth GPA and more Lancia Delta Integrales than you can shake a wheel-gun at.

This could well sound like the perfectly curated off-road section of a virtual Gran Turismo garage, but is actually the new showroom and “working museum” Rally Replay.

As featured in this month’s magazine, Motor Sport’s Damien Smith visited the new Chichester-based attraction to take in a wealth off-road machinery and memorabilia.

Nothing of this scale has been done quite like this before – general manager and curator Adam Migdhall explained the motivation behind the venture, which is free to visit.

“We want to keep the cars alive because as their values go up parts are increasingly hard to come by, people aren’t seeing the cars and younger people are not getting interested,” he said. “We want to put the cars in the spotlight and create a place where people can come and see them, as a one-stop shop for rallying. It’s a new home for the sport.”

Though the plan is ultimately to expand further, the current collection is impressive enough: the aforementioned Impreza which took four-time world champion Juha Kankunnen to his last ever WRC victory at Finland ’99; Carlos Sainz’s Repsol-liveried Delta Integrale in which he won the last ever rally for a works Lancia in ’93; the HF Integrale in which Didier Auriol won two WRC events and then crashed at Rally Cataluyna, leading to his title challenge unravelling, a replica Lancia service van and more.