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Sandro Munari and Mario Mannucci’s victory with the Lancia Fulvia Coupé HF 1.6 in the 1972 Monte Carlo Rallye made rallying very popular in our country too. Many young people approached the speciality, which in the meantime has become increasingly professional, with official teams competing in the world championship. These included Lancia and Fiat, which recruited the best specialists. However, it was not easy to make a name for oneself in order to reach professionalism. High costs limited quality participation to a few drivers. To increase the number of possible future champions Cesare Fiorio had an intuition: create a one-make championship with an affordable car. In 1977, the first Autobianchi A112 Abarth 70 HP championship was born. It was an immediate success and in the following years many other one-make championships were born from it. This book recounts the three main one-make trophies that featured small cars from the then Fiat group: the Autobianchi A112 Abarth 70HP, the Fiat Uno 70 and Fiat Uno Turbo, and the Fiat Cinquecento. In this volume, the author Gian dell’Erba – who personally followed many of these championships as press officer – wanted to tell the story of the individual seasons, contextualising them in the context of the other international championships. He then recounted the careers of the champions who came out of these championships. All illustrated by hundreds of very spectacular photographs, because at the heart of it all was so much competition and so much spectacle in the special stages. The spectators and the many drivers who took the wheel of these cars remember this.