no, you're just a snowflake. this is why 80s were the golden years, nobody whined about crowd being so close, event staff had more faith in common sense (which no longer exists). This is why nowdays we need barriers and lot more event staff to constantly remind AUT15T1C people that getting hit by a car going 100+ is LETHAL, otherwise they'd just stand in middle of the road and not move.
no, that crowd actually has common sense. I don't think there's been any crazy incidents in rally history where a car has hit crowd. I mean sure there have been some, but not because of how close crowd was, but because car totally lost control and flew off the track and hit people further away. People in 80s knew how to stay out of the way and not get hit, but nowday people have only 1 braincell and even that is half functioning, so you need barriers and walls to prevent them from getting hit. If nowday people would stand like this, they wouldn't move .. they would think that car can magically change direction and avoid them .. or well, they don't think at all, they would just stand in middle of the road and not move at all.
@@SethiozProject Yeah like those in Portugal back n 1986 3 dead and over 30 injured by using common sense.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xOOeaI3cMNQ.html
I still like how he kept missing the Rally of Finland due to his hatred of jumps. "I hate jumps. If I want to fly, I would have been a pilot" - Walther Rohl
@@dsdy1205 Since when was Rohrl a pilot? I don't think he has a piloting license. The only famous race car driver that I could think of that actually became a pilot was Niki Lauda and Lauda doesn't race in rallies but in F1.
One week ago Mr Rohrl crashed a 918 Spyder and I saw many comments saying ''oh stop driving you old ****'' etc. Those people are all ignorant of how much of a driver Walter Rohrl really is. I would pay a lot of money just to be inside a car driven by him. What a driver
+needraintodrift I think people underestimate how good these drivers are still past their prime, Nigel Mansell was saying he felt he would still be fast in a modern F1 car (he's 62), and that the biggest issue was that his body would give up after a few laps.. Jackie Stewart proved even up until the late 90 and early 00s that he could still run fairly competitively for a few laps in a modern F1 car. The young guns in Rally/F1 are crashing out in pretty much every event, it's just the nature of driving a car on the limit like that.
I second that.. Rohl was at the time one of if not THE best drivers and to add to that not only are you contending with the GpB monsters but all the fans scattered about the track
There was one pretty bad crash in Group B in a training session. Röhrl and Geistdörfer were going full throttle on a stage which was a bit icy. The sun melted the ice which flood down on the track. Walter was going full throttle in 6th gear and just couldn´t do anything as he drove about the puddle of water. He spun out and crashed pretty hard. He got a concussion. But it wasn´t really a driver error just an unexpected change of the track
Jo...dachte auch gerade in diese Richtung^^ Sitzt du am Steuer, dann kannst du wohl nur im Hinterkopf behalten, dass du diesen einen Idioten halt tot fährst der im Weg steht und auf keinen Fall ausweichst.. Weil das kostet dann mehr Leben^^
It was the Arganil stage of Rallye de Portugal 1980 I believe. I don't know if there is much of it on youtube, but Deimelfilm made a tribute/recreation of the event. MOTORSPORT : WALTER'S COURAGE l A NIGHT TO REMEMBER IN ARGANIL ... (GER/ENG SUB) is a video here on youtube with english subtitles, though not quite what I was thinking of.
no, that's just basic racing skill. I occasionally also use left foot to brake when racing and when driving auto-transmission, I always use left foot to brake, beacuse you have so much faster reaction time when braking with left foot.
You don't left brake the car because faster reaction times, you left brake or heel toe the brake in order to keep the turbo spooled. Which is an issue is these older bigass turbo cars. ...if you need left foot braking for reaction times....you doing it wrong...:)
Remember the "old days", before paddle shifted automatics, when the driver actually had to manually shift through an H-pattern? Yeah, and it worked quite well! Mr. Rohrl was one of the very few qualified to drive a Group B car, and he was really good at it!
When I saw this for the first time, I wondered: "Either Röhrl, or the spectators has to be crazy! But which one of them is crazy?" When I gave it a second thought later, I realized: both of them. Röhrl, for going 200+ kph on a road which is as bumpy as my grandma's washboard, and twisty as hell, and the spectators, for daring to stand on the middle of the road, and watch it in awe, as a 1.2 ton amalgamation of man, metal alloys and fibreglass is dashing towards them at breakneck speeds and stepping away from the path of the beast at the last possible moment. Those were different times, indeed. Respect to you folks, who were there, to live the moment. Sincerely: from a '90s kid.
walter once said he had to be the best that is possible because if he wasn't a lot of these people could die. and he couldn't live with that so he wanted to be the best at it
@@BaldMancTwat Fortunately it seems nowadays that spectators of these events take safety much more seriously, but there is still the problem that these stages are on public roads and many miles long. It's not like being at a track where security can just drive around on golf carts lol
The way he handles his car is amazing! On another topic; those people on the sidelines are really taking a chance with their lives! You would think the local law enforcement, or the race officials would not allow that sort of thing. I love racing, but not enough to get killed for it. :D
The turbo era, also called the time of the "killer bees" because of their sound. Power in places at up to 1,000 horsepower... and that on narrow, slippery roads and sometimes even on snow and ice.... the absolute golden age of rallying with people who could still really drive vehicles at the limit without regulating electronics. Put a racing driver in such a vehicle today and tell him to drive fast, then he flies out in the first corner and only stops rolling over when he is out of sight.
@@_Briegel Gr.B never raced with 1000 hp. That was the power of a F1 in qualify sessions (more or less...). Gr.B cars had 400-500 hp (still a crazy power with the technology of the early 80s)
@@gufo_tave Walter Röhrl and his best time up Pikes Peak, unbroken to this day and driven with the "slimmed down" version of the Audi Quadro with "only" 600 hp. This was primarily necessary because the enormous difference in altitude between start and finish meant that the mixture could no longer be kept in the ideal range over the entire distance (altitude) with more power. In the other rallies themselves, usually only the "normal" power was given, not the maximum power possible through boost pressure increase. Because in contrast to the Nascar races there was at that time no forced lottery overpressure valve. Each team was left to decide for itself how much overpressure it wanted to run, when and for how long (its own risk if the engine blew up). The "power wheel", i.e. the manual adjustment of the LP pressure by the driver himself, was completely normal at that time. And so the good 1,000 hp of the "killer bees" came about as peak performance. Fun Fakt: In the F1 at times of the early turbo era (from the middle of the 1970s) there was the 1,000 HP also only in an extremely small speed band and here the achievement began also abruptly, which led to some spectacular drifts at the curve exit. I only remember the RS10 from Renault, with Jean-Pierre Jabouille at the wheel. He said later that he could only ever drive 1-2 laps really fast because the car had misfires, but who has the chance to see the really rare film footage of that time, which sees quite beautiful as he often drifted... I suspect that he drove a bit more cautiously afterwards and needed a few laps to get back into "flow" ;-)
A lot of the left foot braking and throttle modulation there appeared to be for the sake of keeping the car in boost when heel-toeing into another gear would have been overly time consuming and changing gear was unnecessary. I suppose that wouldn't be as crucial with a broader powerband, anti-lag, etc.
Left foot braking is usually done to shift the weight of the car to the front wheels, giving them more grip to turn in much quicker. Very necessary in a front heavy car like the Quattro, and probably also hitting the throttle to keep the turbo spooled up while cornering, as to gain a fast exit.
Naouz Da Beast he was told he have to brake with left foot. And it should took about 3 cars till u master it! So! He crashed 2 cars to know how to corner a Quattro efficiently 😅have a nice day everyone ✌️stay save.
You don't know who is crazier: Röhrl, who continues to accelerate even though there are people on the track, or the people who are on the track even though Röhrl accelerates. But Röhrl's foot acrobatics are truly virtuoso!
The turbo era, also called the time of the "killer bees" because of their sound. Power in places at up to 1,000 horsepower... and that on narrow, slippery roads and sometimes even on snow and ice.... the absolute golden age of rallying with people who could still really drive vehicles at the limit without regulating electronics. Put a racing driver in such a vehicle today and tell him to drive fast, then he flies out in the first corner and only stops rolling over when he is out of sight.
Don't think so ... Most of the drivers started in kart sport. I'm sure that all of the actial drivers can also drive the old race cars. Of course not on the same level as a former pro who did nothing else. Conversely, the difference will probably be much greater. All the buttons and the radio ...
@@GuenterMies "All the buttons and the radio..." so they used to have plenty to do besides shifting gears. Boost pressure adjustment, adjust the amount of fuel injected, change the brake distribution and not to forget to operate 3 pedals at the same time with 2 feet. For the latter, by the way, there is a nice vid of Walter Röhrl, enter Röhrl and pedal dance (or similar) in the search engine. And don't forget, all this without all the little helpers that take away half the work, so that you can concentrate completely on the track. Today, not a single driver manages to do that without training for months beforehand, I'll bet you!
The level of skill that he has is on a completely different level, he absolutely understood the capabilities of himself and the car he drove, and it would all come together at Pike's Peak.
Walter Rohl, makes Michael Jackson look like he has two left feet!!! Absolutely AWESOME car, noise, driver and co driver & great footage with crazy fans!!! Concentration unbelievable!!!!👍👍 thanks for sharing!!👍💗✌
Да, великие и есть великие! А из-за диких зрителей мир потерял классные гонки и шикарное зрелище! Yes, the greats are great! And because of the wild spectators, the world has lost cool races and a gorgeous show!
Two things: 1. Those spectators are absolutely insane. 2. I love how you can see him doing left foot-braking, everything to keep that turbo spooled up.
The "fun" part is that Walter Röhrl never raced in Finland. He thought it was too dangerous because the roads were so fast and trees were so close. The car number 6 launching after the countdown is actually Hannu Mikkola from year 1985, and the car number 1 driving in Finland few seconds later is also Hannu Mikkola from 1984. The on-board driving is mostly from Portugal I believe.
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@@Pintkonan Group B stage times were very quickly overtaken, just look it up instead of guessing! Group A cars, let alone WRC, were already quicker than Group B cars by the end of the 1980s.
Pintkonan the stages changed throughout the years, today they use more of the slower corners instead of highspeed corners, because they know modern cars would be way too fast. Back then they may had up to 600hp in let’s say 85 and 86, but they barely used it. Usually they rallied with 400-450 due to reliability and stuff. Today’s cars do 380hp but have maybe even double the grip. Without air limiter they’d do over 500hp too. That’s basically how the Rallycross engines were made. Wrc tech without an air limiter
@@DepakoteMeister To compare the stage times the stzges should be similar. I don't think the WRC era has had those super long stages (over 80 km) you'd find during the Group B age.
Outstanding!! What a driver and talent he is and the guys from that era were in general. No posers like Lewis play station steering wheel Hamilton back then! That’s when rally was fantastic to watch and sadly not covered enough on tv.
Well, I'd argue that Rally is still very attractive to watch. But Formula1 has become the most boring motorsports today... I haven't watched a single race this year.
