2000.The London to Sydney rally. Alastair completes the race for the second time having already done it in 1993, this time he takes the Mercedes 280SL. Happy not to win, he took part for the experience.

I got to like the long distance rallies and London to Sydney was an epic. We drove for 30 days across Europe and then we’d airfreight the cars to India, across India, airfreight the cars to Australia, and then drive across Australia. I wasn’t as competitive in these rallies because these were stage rallies where you wear helmets and overalls and go like mad. If you want to win it you have to have a very quick car, a light, powerful car. Get a Porsche 911 or Mark1 Escort or a Mustang or any car with more horsepower than brains. I don’t have any cars like that; I don’t need to own one. I don’t need to win the rally; I just want to take part and do better than I should (and I normally do). The only car I’ve got that’s really suitable for rallying is my AC Aceca so when I rally in that I have to do well.

• 1943 Alastair's early years
• 1955 Licence to drive
• 1957 Alastair's High School years
• 1959 Evading the police
• 1960 Becoming a mechanic
• 1966 The Tasman series
• 1966 Leaving New Zealand
• 1967 Joining McLaren
• 1967 CanAm Door Catches
• 1967 Monza
• 1968 South Africa
• 1968 CanAm
• 1969 Driving the Formula 1 Cars
• 1973 Fittipaldi joins McLaren
• 1973 McLaren Team manager
• 1974 Montezemolo
• 1975 Hunt replaces Fittipaldi
• 1975 Hunt gets paid little
• 1976 Inventing the Air-Starter
• 1976 Six-speed Gear Boxes
• 1976 Misbehaving in Canada
• 1976 Japan
• 1977 Adidas Uniforms
• 1977 Changing Tyres
• 1977 Leaving McLaren
• 1979 Nelson Piquet
• 1980 Skirts on Formula 1 Cars
• 1981 Leaving Formula 1
• 1982 Making Lists
• 1982 Signing on
• 1982 Creating Space Station
• 1991 Highland Fling
• 1991 Classic Marathon
• 1992 Getting the Austin A35
• 1992 El Salvador
• 1993 Carerra Panamerica
• 1993 Centre of attention
• 1993 Nicest car in rally
• 1993 LeJog
• 2000 London to Sydney
• 2000 Porsche Racing
• 2000 Porsche Crashing
• 2001 Ferrari
• 2001 Inca Trail
• 2004 Berlin - Moscow - Berlin
• 2005 World Cup Rally
• 2007 Norway
• 2008 Liège-Brescia-Liège
• 2008 An Icelandic Odyssey
• 2008 North & West Africa
• 2009 West Coast America
• 2009 London to Casablanca
• 2010 New Zealand Festival of motor racing
• 2010 New Zealand Big Sky Adventure