Climb Dance - 1988 Pikes Peak Hill Climb, Ari Vatanen 

it's french made

@@philippepetit3105 😂 Pas mal non ? C'est Français.

@@philippepetit3105 that's what makes it even more curious! 🤭

@@klorand you must have a look at how much wrc championship french cars have won

​@@philippepetit3105 bro S. Loeb in his Xsara WRC Wtf

And such a nice man as well. Very briefly met him recently and so humble and self deprecating. A far cry from today's self absorbed, narcissistic F1 drivers.

Alistair Taylor f1 has had that for decades, even back to the seventies, f1 gets too much attention for its own good.

Alistair Taylor Every driver is self absorbed when their racing. Senna and prost? Its plain simple. When meeting fans drivers today their all very nice people.

Michèle mouton 85 !!

@@AliTaylor777 narcissistic F1 drivers..? get real you fucking bozo, tell me the name of a narcissitic Finnish F1 driver (besides Rosberg)? and btw, most of them are world champions just like most Finnish rally drivers.

Its a shame that they are putting tarmac everywhere, here in my state there are some rally competitions with some cool courses. Most of them "updated" to tarmac. Even the road that leads to my home in the countryside is asphalt now. Im not a rally driver but i learned to run fast and polished the technics i absorbed in those gravel and dirt roads. Now the main road is 100% asphalt, you can run a bit faster but its not the same feel.

+mots37 The way it's meant to be driven.

mots37 Finnish are insane ;)

Big balls and some allien skills 🙌

Insane for sure

Respect paid

Thank you :D

your the man ;) It took me 30 secs to get true the comments, you spared me 10 years ! thanks

10 other years spared here ! Thanks ! 😊

Go for it ... ☺

Dude! Thank you.

I'm sorry u had to grow up like that but what am amazing story u have. Greetings from the USA

À 30 cm du bord de la piste....😲

Think of the whole generation of US service men that went to fight in pacific and Europe.

Same thing happened to me and my brother, except my cousin typed in "Boobies". Cheers and high fives were heard around the world.

⁠@@fugginrambosame here, it was at that moment, I knew, boobies was going to be my thing. Changed my life forever…!

Yes, very big nuts!!

IIRC, Rod Millen almost broke the 10 minute barrier in the Toyota on dirt in the early 90s. That's one of the craziest onboards I have ever seen. Thing had a like 1000 hp Eagle GTP engine in it.

​@@keithyounce8288which Toyota?

Celica, I believe.

@@keithyounce8288 thanks

I saw this film in 1990 at Palais Omnisport of Bercy on big screen before a Johnny Hallyday concert... My émotions stay the same 30 years after: hearthbeats, sideratio ,my hands taking my chair and goosebumps at the end of the film...

I watched it 30 years ago as a kid. Its unbelievable how great this video is, they don't make films like this anymore. Back then french did make them a lot AVAFA usually with help of elf.

👍😎 Y'a, the same for me, crazy car, nice landscape and Mr Vatanen. An other video about Jean Ragnotti and the renault clio is also verry passionate and addictive. 👍

Quant on lui a demandé comment il était possible de mettre sa main devant pour parer le soleil, à une telle vitesse, il a répondu: "On peut lever la main, mais pas le pied..." Énorme!!!!

Go dirt, or go home.

Puegot still makes and always did make racing beasts. Puegots civilian cars are sad in comparison.

@@stgeorge5862 Peugeot cars are actually some of the most reliable out there, on par with Japanese brands like Toyota and Honda, and definitely superior to any German brand in terms of reliability.

T16 and MI16 are amazing

@@fantasitretas Opel is more Reliable than peugeot sure of that, i have had both.

Delight?! It was a cankerous beast with on/off early turbos.

It's been done in Europe for decades, and still being done. It's called rally. Check it out, they do some realy cool stuff if you liked this one.

@@marrs1013 They still have unlimited Pikes Peak level races in Europe? Things like the Eskudo Pikes Peak and Cultus Pikes Peak still do dirt rally along roads with sheer cliffs on the edge of the road around turns with no guard rails? That's news to me.

@@Where_is_Waldo The 'unlimited' nature of the regulations is just a buzzword for fanboys, don't fall for it. If you do, it just proves how little you understand it. The Group B era of 'unlimited' rallying was bonkers, even the drivers understood it and feared it, most of them not wanting to die for your entertainment. It later turned out, that 'limited' cars go even faster then 'unlimited' ones. Regulations are just forcing the manufacturers to spend money on safe development. Racing drivers are not idiots with deathwish. You would be surprised how safety conscientious they are, because they truly understand how dangerous motorsports are.

The only thing crazier than side car racing, is side car motocross racing. Locals in the pikes peak area run shelf and phantom canyon road like it is the rally driving to and from work at the cripple creek/victor mines. Definitely quite a few sheer drops on those roads for sure. I prefer running em on my dirt bike however, less sketchy than in a car to me lol.

Wow you have a 405? Maybe make a video about it

What model?

Here is the new colombo ;)

Hold my milk, not beer.

Hold my hand...

Pure rally driving!

its Suziki Escudo!

How about Michele Mouton then who won Pikes Peak in a group B rally car?

@@rumblefish9 - That was a time when women were women. After all, Michelle Mouton was still very feminine whilst being a kickass driver able to compete speed for speed with the boys. These days women in sports try to look and act like men (WNBA, women's soccer), but they play nowhere near the level of the men's division. And let's not forget about the men transitioning to be a woman to compete with women. And feminists support that type of crap. Michelle Mouton earned every penny of her salary based on skill, not just because it was a token to have a woman race at the WRC. But modern feminism hate the likes of Michelle Mouton because Mouton never acted like a victim. Her skills as a driver did the talking.

@@leadlefthand wtf is this dumb rambling lol, dont be a snowflake trans people has always existed

205 womens team were abolute legends too tho tbh, ari was special tho, that car is the abolute pinicle of the 205s evolotion tho x i i eremeber the womens team woul;d have to sharer parts n cars to the 'main' team but reseopct to anyone who drove them at that time espically anyone ever seen madness on 4 wheels the group b story the 205 wherere its got at LEAST 1 wheel off the back end over the edge of the mountain in the helicopter shoton the mountain climb allways has my heart in my mouth

“When men were men” 🤓

The car has a big wing, he could always fly down to safety...

Ashley Pomeroy 3:25 No sunglasses

Oui, oui ;)

Bien d’accord avec toi !! aussi gentil que talentueux !! MR ARI !! Grand respect

yep i agree with you david on that statement

Yea same here, one of true kings of dirt rally! :)

theres plenty of club day drivers that are better than ken block let alone wrc champions

Ken block😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Pffff, not even comparable. Ken Block is a freaking princess. This guy is a real man!!

The only thing Ken block is good at is crashing.

Who is Ken Block?

I believe he's indicating that he doesn't actually need anyone to hold his beer while he does this.

its this one and maybe the film of the t16s in the grouop b stages maybe corsica? where at least one of the wheels is off the edge of the moutain, the 305 was such a wildly out of control car, like say a modern fighter but without the cobtrol surfaces, it was so so fast and so so semi out of control, ari is such a legend for his group b 205 days, i love th ewomens 205 team too, but absolutely NAILED it :oD

And just three years before this he almost died in Argentina rally. He came back and was just as fast as he had been before. A true Finnish rally legend, and a real gentleman in life.

Nahh it was the reflection off his giant steel balls. Get away balls... not while I'm driving

Perfect. What is hoons? I am not american.

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hoon

thank you.

GladiatorKnightGhost ari vatanen was similar to mcrae, his style was an advantage as much as a disadvantage, thats what nearly killed him and enabled his teammate to win the championship instead. thats why kankunen was so successful despite not being as fast.

@Mr. Handsome Actually the Gov was forced to after a court case brought by the Serria Club. Basically environmental bullshit ruined this event.

Environmentalists ruined it? I'm a motorhead myself. Have you watched elctric dirt bikes? Daamn!!

@@petert3355 the gravel and dust from the road was destroying the surrounding environment. and believe it or not the colorado rockies are used and occupied mostly by people who arent interested in motor racing

+Jacob Hungerford Too bad the driver wasn't French, but Finnish

He said choosing drivers. He didn't say that this driver was French. But he is right about the French making the best cars.

28102650 Ah true. I totally misread his comment, my bad.

American Robby Unser won that race in a Peugeot 405.

France designs great cars, but the building bit, I'm not so convinced, my clio sport did have a time of the month, every month. but if lancia can be the greatest in rallying history, than France has to be close (similar reputation/s).

VicariousReality7 haha 😆

My Chemistry teacher took me for a blast in his Quattro once - not a full group B spec, but one of the homologation road cars required to for the regulations. It was something else!

Nope. This is a demonstration with cameras, not a race. They basically gave Ari the car, set up the cameras and said GO.

Nah, he did not have a god. He had his mate, *looking* ... none? apparently he just drove like he fucking pleased!

etsiiii😎

Sebastian Loeb's (far more recent) record run on tar is also amazing. These guys are a very special breed of men. However, on gravel is really the most awesome.