Tony Fall

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Richard Anthony Fall (1940 – December 1, 2007) was a British rally driver. He was born in Bradford. He began his rallying career as a club rally driver in a Mini. He was considerably better than his peers, however, and was soon spotted by the BMC team, this lead to a drive in their works team alongside Paddy Hopkirk, Timo Mäkinen and Rauno Aaltonen. His first major international victory in the Mini was the 1966 Circuit of Ireland, where his co-driver was Henry Liddon.

In the World Cup Rally from London to Mexico in 1970 he participated with a celebrity co-driver, the footballer Jimmy Greaves, they finished 6th overall.

After he stopped driving, he became founder of the British Dealer Opel Team (DOT) as well as the self-willed but successful director of the Opel Motorsport Team in Germany, for which Walter Röhrl won the World Rally Championship for Drivers in 1982 with an Opel Ascona 400. Returning to England in 1990 Fall became first the manager and later the owner/director of the Safety Devices company. Tony's last major outing was the 2003 Historic Rally Championship with co-driver Jonathan Hall-Smith where he competed with his Datsun 240Z.

Fall died after a heart attack on December 1, 2007 while a member of the organisation team of the East African Safari Classic Rally in his hotel room in Tanzania, leaving his wife Pat and two sons from a previous marriage.