This has got to be one of the best rally videos. Great camera work, interspersed with nighttime and rain shots. Oh, and the ( lots of English ) cars are awesome too.
If the top teams of the WRC where allowed to build cars that went & sounded like that Peugeot @ 5:40....then it would all get a whole lot better. F1's talking about going back to the days of big horsepower, safety is all paramount, the cars are stronger & safer than ever etc. Why not upgrade the WRC to the sounds and sights that used to grace forests, bring back the days where they really have to drive and wrestle with the cars to post a good time!!!
I think a lot of the sound may be induction noise as they had carburettors instead of fuel injection. At college people would take off their air filters in Escorts and get that sound.
You've got different rallies around the world, from amateur club rallies, through 'national' cups and international series (IRC/ERC) to the most professional WRC. In most rallies participants compete with various machinery, each assigned to specific class (like group N, group A, s2000, s1600). Some are 1,6L some 3.6L; FWD, RWD and 4WD; some are just a normal road cars other heavily modified; it may be Peugeot 106, Renault Clio R3, Porshe 911 GT3, Subaru Impreza, Mitsubishi Evo etc.
Nice images but I can't quite understand what happens. So, how rally works, they race for position or they race for the best time? And those roads, when there's an event the road gets closed? Would be nice to find a video with commentary
It's all time trials. To have cars racing eachother would be far to dangerous on these thin back roads. Think of it like Europes version of Japanese Touge racing
A rally is held over a collection of 'special stages'. These are sections of tarmac roads and/or dirt tracks that are closed off from the public. Cars take turns driving through the special stages one by one. Usually, cars start two minutes apart to allow time for dust to settle. The time from each of the special stages is added together. The driver/co-driver with the lowest cumulative time at the end of the rally is declared the winner.
awsume vid mate,now i know where all the old wrc cars have gone,good to see they are still getting driven like they should.we only see wrc in new zealand every second year now.boo!!
I agree.. But maybe he tried to select R but it didn't engage. Sequential gearboxes are notoriously hard to select the appropriate gear while at a standstill.. But yeah he pulled right into that water -_-
