Drivers View From A Rally Car

Lord Nikon

http://videos.streakr.com/insiderallycar.htm

Damn, that's fast

ottostreet

1.50-3 minutes is terrifying

WHITE_P

Nice one.

peasant

At that speed I'd be off the road after max. 3 bends

Henry Ford III

Quick ok. Is it a Honda Civic?

Lord Nikon

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Quick ok. Is it a Honda Civic?

He mentions VTI, so i'd assume Civic.

alo1587

neuromancer wrote: »

He mentions VTI, so i'd assume Civic.

Yeah its an eg model civic 1600 vti, the driver is Mark Higgins from the Isle of Man, that stage is the brandywell stage on the manx international.He didnt need the co-drivers notes as its just a local road for him! Some driver.

Lord Nikon

Full throttle most of the way, scarey stuff

ART6

peasant wrote: »

At that speed I'd be off the road after max. 3 bends

And I'd be suffering post traumatic stress after two:o

SV

alo1587 wrote: »

the driver is Mark Higgins from the Isle of Man, that stage is the brandywell stage on the manx international.

:D:D

only the best
nice video.

Lord Nikon

I would love to be in the car with him, i'd be crapping myself

homer90

Damn .......... forgot the milk............... :D

360ts

I never thought I'd hear someone say it in real life.

"Vtec just kicked in yo" 3:15

Rowley Birkin QC

Friend of mine does forestry rallying, local paper asked him how he manages not to be scared and maintain concentration doing 90-110 MPH on a surface where brakes are next to useless, he responded by saying that he puts a large square of black insulation tape over the speedo!!

Alanstrainor

All i can say is. Holy Crap!:eek::eek::eek:
People think driving at ~70Mph on the motorway is scary, he was doing well over a hundred on a few of those stretches. I would love a go, although i somehow think it'd be traveling just a little bit slower:p

Yakult

some driver! That road would be pretty ****ing scary at over 100mph!!

Steve

That's excellent, bloody scary too.

When I started watching it, I thought it was the sally gap!

Tech3

at 1.00 when he turns onto the really tight road it gets really scary! Some great driving

galwaytt

...great stuff.

Can we consign the 'you can't go fast without rwd/2 litres+/turbo/etc etc in the rubbish bin now.

A 1600 Civic ? - I don't care what you say, and M3 would be slower down that road.

Mr Benevolent

Cheeses of Nazareth, those Civics can take one hell of a pounding!

unkel

The driver clearly knows the roads extremely well! BTW this clip is 15 years old :eek:

galwaytt wrote: »

A 1600 Civic ? - I don't care what you say, and M3 would be slower down that road.

Nah it wouldn't

But I think it is fair to say that the speed around a rallye circuit like that depends a lot more on the driver than on the car. As in me doing that in an M3 would be beaten by above driver in a 1l Corsa

Robbo

Mark Higgins is some pilot and it's a shame he never really got a serious crack at the WRC. Not sure if it was that year's Manx rally but there's a sequence where the stage goes through a village and he's talking about the relative merits of the local chippers.

pyramuid man

This

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwvIRuCLbyg

and this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wirvif4Q-Yw

Air Vatanen

Unbelivable driver.

HashSlinging

Thats when rally was really good and had more than two manufacturers..

peasant

The madness that was Group B with Walter Röhrl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGIiarIrUCI

Röhrl on over-and understeer:

If you saw the tree that you hit, that's understeer. If you only heard it, that's oversteer.

galwaytt

oh jeebus, that's brilliant !

01:42 - 'Dear God' !!
01:58 - 'bit of a puncture ?'

Ha !

Did you notice how little gear changing there is, relatively speaking ? That older generation of long-stroke engines, I guess......

pyramuid man

peasant wrote: »

The madness that was Group B with Walter Röhrl
Röhrl on over-and understeer:

If you saw the tree that you hit, that's understeer. If you only heard it, that's oversteer.

This from the same man who once said that he see's the spectators as trees as if he saw them as humans he wouldn't drive so fast.

Kinda brings a new definition to tree when he says it.

pyramuid man

galwaytt wrote: »

oh jeebus, that's brilliant !

01:42 - 'Dear God' !!
01:58 - 'bit of a puncture ?'

Ha !

Did you notice how little gear changing there is, relatively speaking ? That older generation of long-stroke engines, I guess......

Tail whipping going through the gate way after he taps the wall.

Really fearless driving from a great driver.

unkel

peasant wrote: »

The madness that was Group B with Walter Röhrl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGIiarIrUCI

Röhrl on over-and understeer:

If you saw the tree that you hit, that's understeer. If you only heard it, that's oversteer.

His driving is amazing. But I can't get my head around the spectators lining up just a few feet away from the passing car. They're almost like human crash barriers.