With Munich being relatively close to London, the rally was routed southwards into Africa, reaching as far south as Nigeria.
The rally was won by a factory supported Ford Escort driven by Finnish driver Hannu Mikkola and Swedish co-driver (navigator) Gunnar Palm.
[1] The 1974 event, held in the immediate wake of the 1973 oil crisis, was less successful, with only two factory supported teams and the majority of the front running cars being privateer entrants.
The second event was additionally blighted by an error in the navigational notes which saw the majority of the field become lost in the Algerian Sahara desert.
The rally was won by the privateer Citroën DS[2] of Australian drivers Jim Reddiex, Ken Tubman and Andre Welinski, who was a veteran of the 1968 London-Sydney Marathon.