My point was more like "there was no competitive privateers in the 80's". There has always been privateers in rally, from the 50's onwards. But it's...
There might have been some Italian privateers in Sanremo, but not much other competitive ones. And some of them were like semi-factory drivers, just...
Safari is a corner case. The WRC2 entry list was low and everyone except the top three had multi-minute-issues. I bet it's very rare to have someone...