I do that sometimes, but my car isn't NEARLY as fast as that one! If you're good, and the car requires these techniques, that's how you should drive it if you want to get the best out of it.
There will be a handbrake, he just doesn't use it in this video. Though definitely H pattern boxes should come back into wrc if not f1 too. F1 is supposed to be the pinnacle of both car and drivers after all, not just cars. Should be made mor difficult. That's why i really enjoyed the group a era and think the wrc spec past 20 years has been awful. The cars are too good, i want to see the driver have to fight the car a little. There's an interview with Walter Röhrl where he talks about the throttle and back then only about 20 percent of a stage would be full throttle, the rest was a balancing act, and now its probably 80 percent full throttle because the cars are so controllable.
@@theant9821 I agree. F1 should take out the electronics and shit. The pilots do more changing things in the wheel than driving. F1 sholud be cars with no helps
For the experts among us; Walter Rohrl uses both techniques at the same time: 'left foot braking' & ' heel-and-toe'... That makes him (in my eyes) one of the best rally drivers ever.
Really the left foot braking was something mark donahue came up with to combat the crazy turbo lag in the first can am 917-10 Porsche’s, basically it allows you to keep the boost pressure up under braking to reduce the lag time when powering out of said corner....
@C Schnauz: Being a former rally-driver myself, I've never driven a turbo car in competition. So I never got the hang of 'left foot braking' in perfection. I did (and still do) however use the 'heel and toe' technique.
E Knaap I learned my left foot braking as a young lad in shifter carts. I still enjoy using it, it can turn mundane auto trans cars(RWD) into some fun. And Golf carts, mustn’t forget golf carts, are great place to get practice for the ol left foot
Every once in a while, I am reminded of things I knew, and it still blows me away. This video just reminded me that Group B cars had a normal clutch pedal and an H-pattern shifter. No sequential box, no straight-cut gears. They were street legal despite the absolute madness, and had to be tame enough to drive within the rules of the road when going between rally stages.
@@NikolaRakicDjesPoslaMala That is ridiculous beyond comprehension. F1 cars were at the peak of turbo era in 1985-86, developing roughly 1100bhp for 550kg of weight. In the same time Lancia Delta S4 weighted almost 900kg and had under 500bhp. And you believe a car that has almost 4 times worse power to weight ratio without any special downforce aerodynamic elements of F1 car to be actually as fast as F1 car on F1 track???? Jesus. Who told you such a dummy thing?
If some idiot didn't jump out of the way, there were no chance to do anything about it. Trying to avoid one person would kill or injure many more. In fact, these irresponsible spectators (and organizers that allowed it) killed this sport. There was a big accident in Portugal on 1986-03-05 which resulted in death, injury and the end of group b. www.carthrottle.com/post/wodk7lo/
@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="116">1:56</a> you'll see exactly the results of his foot work. He got into the curve without even slowing down much, that's the left foot braking, it makes the rev up on the engine high while braking at the same time what keeps the car under total control at high speed when reaching a curve. Amazing driver that rarely crashes.
To go through the mountain of crowd at such a mental speed like that, you have to be sure you're in total control of the car. What an astonishing drive to watch.
@@MrManBuzz walter himself said that he had some kind of photographic memory. the night before a stage he would go to bed with stop watch and drive the track again in his mind. he said that almost every time he was like +/- 5 secs of the actual time they drove when they learned the stage before. so for walter the crowd was no problem, since he knew where he was going to go and what to do. best example is "the legendary night of a arganil" where in deep fog and low clowds at night he was almost 5(!) minutes(!!!) faster then the 2nd to best ( it was like a 40 km stage and he took like 35 minutes and the 2nd best took 40 minutes ). they had such deep writings of the track that there is a rumor that walter went closed eyed at some points, since he couldnt see anything anyway ( fog, clouds, night ) or could see like 30m ahead, which doesnt help at all when you go 170km/h. this is walter röhrl. the best racing driver of all time. bar none.
@@Pintkonan If that's true holy shit that is some next level shit. Being able to memorize a 40km stage after just a single practice run on it is insane. It's like Mozart transcribing an entire piece of music from just one hearing.
I feel like absolutely everyone involved with this series was insane. From the drivers to the codrivers to the fans scurrying out of the way of cars flying down the road sideways.
The Audi Sport Quattro S1 E2 was never that successful despite it's reputation and even with Rörhl driving it was overshadowed by the Peugeot 205 T16 in 85 and 86.
He drove the Nordschleife at night time in the fog. He has beaten his qualitime while driving without lights because he didn't want that Christian Danner is following him with lights on in the fog.
@@aydankhaliq2967 idk when tbh somewhere in the 80s. I just know the story because Christian Danner told it in a German documentary about Walter Röhrl.
It was simply the 80s, without filter, of unconsciousness but also with passion and creativity. Frankly I'm not nostalgic but when I see our world today sometimes I think that something is missing
I think it's risk. Everybody wants to be so safe. And it's really difficult to even call that a negative thing, because it isn't. But humans have always been somewhat attracted to risk. We play with fire, we get inebriated, we ride roller coasters, qe ride in vehicles that go 10 times faster than humans are normally capable of going just for the sake of convenience, we have children when we shouldn't. Humans are gamblers at heart, and "risk-proofing" the world is part of why I believe many newer generations experience a lot of mental health issues
I literally left foot brake in my manual road car every time I get in the car, but this is manic. I love the movement of the left foot, the both feet jumping over a pedal both at the same time so effortlessly, even off all pedals, looking like its ready to stomp on either one, how twitchy the left is. I recently did a road rally in a wrx and while I was left foot braking out of habit a lot of it did a lot of carting when I was young and am mostly left handed, I was never dancing with the boost or doing anything close to this masterpiece.
Don't let Michelle Mouton hear you say that.... SHE was really fast. She was also on the same race team. She drove one of these Audis in Africa just like this, with her fire suit tied around her waist, and her helmet rolling around in the backseat because it was like 150° inside the cars.... Didn't slow her down one bit. In fact I'm pretty sure she beat this dude there and in sienna, and she set the world record at pikes peak the same year. When a man broke her record in a modified Audi with 800 horsepower and talked smack... She said she would come back with her original car and beat him but they were going to race down the mountain, he promptly shut up and did not accept....
Hallo Motorsportfans Walter Röhrl ist das Genie auf 4 Rädern! Ich bin 1 Jahr jünger als Walter und habe alles (leider) nur auf Video mitverfolgt.Aber Dank RU-vid kann ich ALLES wieder neu erleben. Tut gut das zu sagen . Euer Gerd D.
Vll kommt er mal wieder zur Eifel Rally und bekommt einen Audi zum fahren , Ihle läd ihn oft ein . Wer das also live sehen möchte sollte die Eifel Rally im July auf dem Schirm haben ....
He could heel toe two kicker pedals with his right foot and work a third with his left haha maybe even heel toe with the left on a kicker and the hi hat.
Between the sheer levels of awesomeness on display, the <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="243">4:3</a> ratio and the music, you just feel like this video should smell of Drakkar Noir. Badass doesn't even begin to describe it.
Maravillosa sincronización de los tres pedales, lo más notable de lo visto es la reducción de velocidades con doble pedaleo del embrague y simultáneamente frenó y golpes al acelerador, para que no se caigan las rpm.
Вот это работа с органами управления! Как всë синхронизировано! Какая координация движений! Вальтер и Мишель это уникальные люди! Мы таких видем раз в 100 лет!
Absolutely amazing skills! Walter Röhrl‘s surely a legend. I just wonder if the people standing so close were mad (they didn‘t just stand there when Walter Röhrl came on who they could trust not hitting them…).
uploaded 12 years ago and nobody realized that they spell Walters last name wrong in the title and description? It´s Walter Röhrl not Walter Rörhl. It´s like getting Audi France wrong, Adui France... His skills are out of this world, one of a kind.
I was a sophomore in high school when this video came out and I have only worn Adidas skate shoes since. I've always wanted some Adidas driving shoes but I'll snag some one of these days.
I saw this video yrs ago and applied this in my scirocco. Small doses at first but, over time, i gained so much more control of fwd in all conditions i could not help but pass it on. Don't feel frustrated if you are stuck owning fwd vehicle, command it! Practice makes perfect as i never lost control of my vw Again!
This guy was one of the best. The "dance" with the public is insane... Different times he he. The Portuguese were especially crazy... But man it was fun, and a hell of a rush watching all those knuckleheads playing chicken with those monsters and their amazing pilots... Rorhl is definitely one the those I remember.. spectacular driving Lets say public and pilot, each counted on the other to go home unscathed... Until they didn't... And Group B ended, just like that.
ça je dirais que c'est l'œuvre d'art du pilotage avec tout ce qu'il va avec et en + c'est quelqu'un d'hyper sympa pour l'avoir rencontré au départ du Rallye Montée Carlos Historique y a rien a dire à part du positif.
