Tanja Zingelmann-Hartjen was a keen rally co-driver in the 1980s and 1990s, and has now passed this passion on to one of her sons, Corbian, with whom she competed in last year’s Eifel Rally Festival in a VW Golf.

In preparation for this season, Tanja and her team are putting the finishing touches to their new car, a beautiful Group 4 Ford Escort Mk1 RS1600, which is an exact replica of one of the very first cars driven by a driver who left his mark on the history of German rallying, Jochi Kleint.

In a similar Mk1 from Ford Boreham, with minimalist decoration, the future European Champion (in 1979) Jochi Kleint and Jochen Berger distinguished themselves during the Int. Rallye Vorderpfalz in 1971. That same year, this factory Escort was also driven by Roger Clark himself.