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UK Historic rallying uses 3 categories. These used to be called (and still are by some) Historic, Post Historic and Classic but are now offficially Historic 1, 2 and 3. It is more than coincidence that the cut off date of 31.12.67. keeps all Escorts out of the first category and the date of 31.12.74. keeps Mk2 Escorts out of the second category too. The final cut off date of 31.12.81. is the end of the previous FIA Appendix J (that preceded Groups N, A and B). The new categories of 1, 2, 3, make it simpler to add further ones as time moves on.
Historic racing is somewhat more complicated and needs to go back a lot earlier but might benefit from a more widely recognised standardised period split?
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