India has a pretty large motorpsorts scene in general. It has produced two notable F1 driver in K. Chandhok and N.Karthekeiyan, who managed a 4th place finish at the 2005 US GP (albeit with only 6 finishers), and later went on to win a DTM race at Fuji, it has two major tracks, Madras and the F1 venue Buddh. As with most countries, they are more than happy to allow car racing as long as it's on a closed course. In F1 especially, it gave the country and various sponsors lot's of exposure.
@@potatogirlcultist19 Racing on a professional setting is one thing . But what do the people without these sponsorships do?. Banning any and all mods is a very stupid move my india knowing how the company TASMAC destroyed entire state with it but is still not banned.
@@onepunchman6165 I can't really speak for India, since, well, I'm not Indian, so I'm not sure how good their infastructure is, but in places where racing is popular, they set up clubs to organise and host legal events in places like car parks or disused airfields where they're aren't restrictions on what car can enter, thus meaning anyone with a license and a car can enter. However, I'm not sure how the government would deal with this, since I heard that they refused to class F1 as a sport and put it as entertainment instead which meant the track owners could no longer pay F1 up, meaning the track was forced to leave (correct me if I'm wrong here). India seems to have a lot of passion for motorsport, and with exposure and a massive potential audience of over 1 billion, it seems odd that governments don't really want to get behind it. But then again, I'm not really a politician, so what am I to say?
@@potatogirlcultist19 After some research the government just seems corrupt . Many Indians seem to have a love for racing but the government is run by older guys who look into for profit . But I think it would probably change after 20 to 30 years when india is properly developed. We must remember india is still a third world developing country
You keep saying Thapar had "decades" of experience, but he only raced for 5 years, retired, then returned 16 years later. That's less than a decade of experience.
I'm really appreciate him to gave this golden yet hillarious moments, such a badass rally driver with carrying his own sponsorship, despite the chaotic results
I was becoming a meme in 2007. But I didn't like it so I deleted every copy of the video in existence. 3,000 views in 3-4 days, exponentially growing, dozens of hateful comments. I wish I would have kept it, it would have been funny.
@@surfside75 I am actually. College might be difficult and stressful, but working on my shitbox to run it on touges here would always make my day. Idk, just my take on living my life.
@Jhonn Albisa listen.. don't be overwhelmed. I quit but I should have just stayed in it!! A passing grade even if it's a C-/D you still passed. I love you, don't ever give in and don't give up!😎
Watching the rally video first time around and many times later, I never thought Vivek was "incapable" of co-piloting a rally driver like Samir. Infact, Vivek did excellent job and he read the pace notes even before they got to the corner. I always thought none skilled one between the two of them was always Samir and he kinda was that stage. I kinda feel bad for Vivek but im happy he got back on his feet.
Yeah it doesn't make sense to me that Vivek got the heat aswell to me it seems more like he was desperately giving out the calls and Samir wasn't listening. The people who stopped supporting Vivek after watching a meme on the internet are the dumb ones.
@@qaiserkhan4465agreed 150% its ridiculous that Vivek caught the heat for this considering he was doing his job. His hilarious frustration with Samir's sketchy driving discipline during that particular stage was warranted and completely relatable
Someone should make a racing game with all the final bosses being car meme videos. Like Samir and the Mexican guy in the Maxima who gapped the Porsche.
Need for Speed ProStreet: Pepega Edition is a mod that adds a lot of meme content. Samir actually is a character in one of the events that you race against!
I'm a Navigator in offroad desert racing. Our stages are into the hundreds of kilometers, if I'm yelling at the driver that much, in such a short stage, there is something dreadfully wrong. Just because a driver has decades of experience, doesnt make them any good. The edit wasn't the problem, the driver was. I guarantee, a powerful man like Samir wasnt happy losing face because of Viveks comments and that, I'm betting, was the cause of Viveks troubles. Might post some in car footage of ours, it can get pretty heated in there!
As a native of Colorado, it is my duty to state that the car driving off a cliff at 5:28 occurred at the 2012 Pike's Peak International Hill Climb. That 125mph left-hand turn is called "The Devil's Playground", and it's nerve-wracking to drive at 30mph. Driver Jeremy Foley survived after his Evo rolled something like 14 times down the side of the mountain. "Jeremy, you're breaking the car!" The Race to the Clouds is just weeks away now, Sunday June 25th 2023.
From a step back point of view. It is absolutely ridiculous that we as humanity have reached the point of letting social media have actual effect on real life thoughts, feelings, and subsequently ones actions are driven by it. We all owe eachother a favor, and need to stop treating social media like it is our lifeline. Start living in reality again.
Social media is our communication, merged into one huge stream. It's not some other world separate from our world, or a dream that we can simply wake up from and forget by the time we have our first meal of the day. Yes, we are all responsible with the things that we post, and the actions we take upon whatever we consume from social media. Yes, we shouldn't let the mob mentality carried by social media blindly affect our lives, but don't forget that it can similarly be carried by newspaper, TV, radio, mouth-to-mouth, public addresses, and whatever else humans communicate with one another.
Mr. Vivek Ponussamy is also in charge of Team MRF Tyres in European Rally Championship these days. That's a succesful operation. They won the drivers', co-drivers' and the teams' championships in 2022.
wow i never knew the video was edited like that. and it costed them both alot of issues after... I hope this video blows up and gets more views so everyone understands the truth.
It was all real though… implying it’s fake because it’s edited down to just show the highlights (or depending who you ask, the lowlights.) hardly seems accurate and even a bit misleading tbh.
To me this seems weird. Like the ones at wrong here should be the people who took some random edited video on the internet seriously, treating it as if it was evidence of someone's capabilities.. in a sport where everyone makes mistakes, and the co-driver wasn't even one who had a big history of mistakes either. Those people who treated this random meme video as gospel are the ones who did wrong here. In general making decisions based on just some random video on the internet, which isn't even claiming to be educational, is a massive mistake on the viewer's part. Pretty sure this is common sense, or at least it is over here, taught to kids pretty early on too. Is no one else taught to not treat something they seen on tv or the internet as somehow factual and accurate information?
"Pretty sure this is common sense, or at least it is over here, taught to kids pretty early on too. Is no one else taught to not treat something they seen on tv or the internet as somehow factual and accurate information?" No, not at all. People on the internet are dumber than you think.
@@bloodyhell8201 The basics that are important in every day life, like understanding that what sort of language is allowed depends entirely on the social group you're in (can swear with friends and make dumb jokes, but act proper when parents are around or when you're in school or at work). Not taking stuff you read on the internet seriously is pretty much reinforced by everyone constantly, including the internet itself, hence I am baffled that there are adults with jobs who leap into conclusions based on a random post on the internet instead of doing any proper research first. They're adults, and their decisions are made for the sake of a professional job, so this sort of reactions from them makes them look very questionable as people. It's not professionalism at all. Children make such dumb mistakes. Adults who are acting in context of a job have no excuse.
Don't just assume that other people are stupid. Imagine a store owner looking for a cashier. There are 2 person show up for it. Both are moderately okay, but one of them had a candid video where he slept on the job. 9/10 that owner would never picked the one with that video no matter what context that video has. I mean why would he picked him when he clearly had a recorded stain while the other one is (as far as he knew) clean as a whistle?
He didn't though. He raced 5 years over 2 decades, the presenter has repeated the "decades of experience" line a few times but he also said the man stepped away from racing twice for extended periods. I built a patio at my parents house in 1997 and then built one at my house in 2021, apparently I have decades of experience in construction.
I can never find the proper words to describe how much I enjoy video essays (or whatever the term might be), especially those that tell the story behind something I once wondered about a long time ago.
It's an absolutely bizarre takeaway from the video is that Vivek did anything wrong at all. Then again that country has a really bad reputation for its absolutely toxic power dynamics, where the boss is always right, even when he's literally breaking the car.
You've got to lean into these things to weather the storm (easy to say when it's never happened to me, of course). If the duo continued racing, were it me I would have updated the livery by putting "Samir, you're breaking the car!" on the passenger side and "Shut up!" on the driver's side.
My God man, I laughed so hard the first time I saw that video I couldn’t breath! It took me a few more attempts before I could get through it without laughing so hard I missed things. Thanks for adding the rest of the context to this.
Calling the clips video "doctored" and "not exactly real" I don't think is fair - the audio and the video are seemingly accurate, it's just missing the segments between the funny bits. I thought you were gonna say that maybe it wasn't Samir driving, or that the codriver we hear might have been someone else, those I would agree would make the video "not exactly real" but that wasn't the case.
@@aramisperez9923Are we in a court of law? Yes, the footage was doctored, but it did not unfairly depict any of the events that went on. Those happened.
I haven't got a clue about the laws in India but in the USA, lawyers usually tell us that a critical component of defamation claims is a false statement. So if you took a raw video and removed everything that wasn't fun to watch, and you're not not splicng phrases/sentences to fundamentally change their meanings... it doesn't seem to me as though any "defamation" happened! Copyright is a whole other thing though; taking the rally video and reposting without the owner's permission might be a copyright violation
Thank you for giving the real story more attention. It's always bothered me that people don't know the full story of how both of these guys really are legends.
@@rocketman3285you apparently cared enough to scroll through the comments and specifically troll reply to this comment. Next time check if your troll reply actually makes sense. You're a disgrace to trollers.
Anyone else miss the old thumbnails that aren’t AI generated images? It makes the videos look like they are from completely different channel, it took me seeing this video pop up in my recommended 3 times for me to realize it was an even an Albon video
Wait, how was the footage doctored and not real? As far as I understand, it was not doctored and was entirely real, it was just clips cut together. So in reality all of what we see happened and was said, just with less comedic stuff inbetween?
Excellent video and presentation! I will definitely be sharing this for so many reasons to my friends, absolutely superb, please keep up the hard work as I love this content!
Yay Satria Neo! Proton, the Malaysian Manufacturer had great success in Rallying in the past. It's an interesting subject to study too, like how they brought EVO IV as a Proton. Built by Mellors Elliot Motorsports in the UK and won their WRC category. Which Mitsubishi was competing in as well! Also that Cusco Satria Neo, an original car made by Proton was bought by a Japanese tuner, to race in Asia Pacific Rally.
soooo, he isn't actually a rally driver with 20+ years of experience since he started in 1992, retired in 1997 or whenever - couldn't really understand from the video since you mention he retires in 1997 but then you also say "it wouldnt be until 10 years after that, in 2013, that Samir would finally lace up his racing boots properly" (he returned in the Evo in 2013). If my math checks out - what happened in 2003? Somethings off with the timeline, or there is just missing information in the video about his carreer. Either way he started in 1992, finished in 2016, but if you are retired for half of that time period, it doesn't mean you have 20+ years of rally experience :D Anyway - loved the video, thanks :) !
Now this makes sense. That nevigator was a professional and he's only been doing gigs with a professional rally drivers up until that Samir gig. No wonder he was furious cause that dude definitely didn't know how to drive to even begin with. I've seen the full clip and saying it was rusty is a bit generous of you cause from the start of the race till the end of that clip he seemed like he just got a learner's licence.
This video is 100% false. The 3-minute Samir video is not edited. It's just a collection of clips from the full 20-something minute video that's available to watch. Samir really did drive that bad, and the dialogue between Samir and co-driver is authentic.
Jesus christ I never knew the extent of what happened after. Now I felt bad for the navigator. At least he got a redemption arc & is doing well in racing circle
1:13 actually, every motorsport, ain't cheap. You have to travel to various tracks and when you crashed, that's when you hear to big vacuum sound in your pocket. Mick Schumacher's crashes in Monaco GP 2022 cost the team more than $1 million to fix his car.
You keep saying "edited and doctored". How is the 3 minute video doctored? You know what that word means right. It means faked. I also can't believe how this could ever be considered defamation. If it is faked yes if it is just edited never.
I'm from Coimbatore, India - the place where some of the rallys featured in this video took place. Worked at a dyno facility located near the airport of that city and got a front row seat to the rally scene in Southern India
Me: [Accidentally accelerating a little too fast off a fresh green light] My wife: SAMIR YOU ARE BREAKING THE CAR! She's pretty great overall, but a _horrendous_ backseat driver.
I first heard of this voice-over from montages of RU-vid gamer DollarPlays whenever he included some fast armored vehicle. I'm quite glad it is actually funnier than I previously thought.
I disagree about the defermation. Nothing about the video was "faked." everyting the driver and co driver did was real and they just got upset about the consequences of their own actions.
In Motorsports like rally and rally raid arguments and fights between crew and mechanics is common, especially after hours of hardcore racing But honestly everyone’s pretty nice to each other again after a few hours💀
It's really on the teams that shunned Vivek because of one meme video and not looking at his actual résumé or references. Not the fault of the guy who edited the video, even if it was malicious
Thank you for setting the record straight. The people involved really deserved this, so thanks again for this... edutainment! (: ... I still like the original meme video, can not deny that. ;)
**If ya don’t “wreck” the car, it ain’t “rally”… if you’re racing a 30 yr old geo metro or new Audi… you ain’t doing it right, if you don’t break chit… You want show cars, go to a car show… Rally is about going fast…
Oh, that's where that joke came from. There's an old Life of Boris video in which Boris and his cousin Anatoliy are hooning around with a car, and at one points Boris yells at Anatoliy, "You are breaking the car, Samir!" They both crack up giggling, so it's obviously a joke they both know already, but apart from recognizing that fact, it went straight over my head. I just sort of assumed it was an injoke between the two of them. Now I know!
