I'm sorry for this slight off topic post, but I had to share this amazing interview of Panizzi for all rally fans and I couldn't find another thread for it. Unfortunately it's in French, but the auto translated captions are pretty good.
He goes through his entire career, from very humble beginnings, when his father told him he had 2 years to make it or he had to give it up, starting in an Opel Manta he had to build himself, all the way through becoming a Peugeot factory driver and the 106, 309, 206, and his difficult time with the underfunded and underdeveloped Mitsubishi and Skoda. It's full of incredible anecdotes of almost being arrested on recce in New Zealand, finding out Delecour lied about going on early recce because he hit a truck that was delivering trout to his aunt's restaurant, how he lost the Monte because he lacked 5000 euros of funding to be able to communicate with his gravel crew... But also so many interesting tidbits of how he "learned" to drive in rally school, how he adapted to different cars, how he developed new cars for Peugeot, how he sets up cars for rallies, how asphalt rally driving changed after him, Delecour, Loeb & co brought their experience from French championships.
It's honestly an incredible capsule of how rallying was and has evolved and his experience of it all. He also talks about what he thinks is wrong with rally today at the end. I highly recommend it.
