I've always fancied myself as a bit of a rally driver but getting up close to world class driving shows I've still got some way to go...Are you calling me insane?You may be right!
How the Finns become the Worlds best rally drivers?
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PhilG
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Both Colin McRae and Richard Burns, two of the names that are synonymous with the growth of the sport through the 90's are no longer with us. Burns succumbed to a brain tumour after falling ill on a road section in Rally GB , and never making a full recovery. The sport has been sanitised a lot , but nothing prepares you for the noise and speed. Been lucky enough to do a fair few hours in a WRC car in the past, as ballast LOL, never passed up a chance, one day it will be the last time you do it.
I remember it well, as far as I can remember that was some speculation that Colin was being his usual reckless self. can't believe it was 12 years ago though, where did that go!
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Bonkers the Dog
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Jeeso, some of you need to get on the beta Blockers!
Its a bunch of young lads with a passion for construction and riding of bikes, lets just enjoy that. Which one of us wouldn't like to be out there with them?
Sometimes it appears to be a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. They're not posting clips of them selves all pissed up and leathering people, or vandalising bus stops or mugging old ladies Oh Please!! But instead thye show their skills and spread their enthusiasm.
As for the noisy dickheads comment? lighten up there Komrad. I thought the vid may get some flag waving environmental nay-sayer to pop out of the wood work and complain about it but you're barking up the wrong conifer on this occasion.
And here is why; you would change your tune if you have ever lived in Finland as I have. It is a place bigger than the UK and has a population of 5 million people. Outside the few major cities there is absolutely nothing but trees and logging roads, there are no ramblers, joggers, cyclists, pick-nickers, walkers, hikers or anybody else to give riders grief or for them to annoy in turn; the country is f**king empty!
If you can't have fun there on a bike then where can you?
Its a bunch of young lads with a passion for construction and riding of bikes, lets just enjoy that. Which one of us wouldn't like to be out there with them?
Sometimes it appears to be a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. They're not posting clips of them selves all pissed up and leathering people, or vandalising bus stops or mugging old ladies Oh Please!! But instead thye show their skills and spread their enthusiasm.
As for the noisy dickheads comment? lighten up there Komrad. I thought the vid may get some flag waving environmental nay-sayer to pop out of the wood work and complain about it but you're barking up the wrong conifer on this occasion.
And here is why; you would change your tune if you have ever lived in Finland as I have. It is a place bigger than the UK and has a population of 5 million people. Outside the few major cities there is absolutely nothing but trees and logging roads, there are no ramblers, joggers, cyclists, pick-nickers, walkers, hikers or anybody else to give riders grief or for them to annoy in turn; the country is f**king empty!
If you can't have fun there on a bike then where can you?
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Bonkers the Dog
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This on is better, a quite phenomenal jump!
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Fun !!
I think the reason he had to keep hitting the rev limiter is simply he had to keep the revs high to stop it bogging down
Thats the trouble running an in line four with a top end biased lump on the dirt !
Put a softer cam in, maybe slightly lower compression pistons so you get more torque
I think the reason he had to keep hitting the rev limiter is simply he had to keep the revs high to stop it bogging down
Thats the trouble running an in line four with a top end biased lump on the dirt !
Put a softer cam in, maybe slightly lower compression pistons so you get more torque
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Being a petrol head myself one of the most satisfying things I did driving a car is drifting/sliding it around on the loose stuff.
Great satisfaction in handbrake turns as well.
Unfortunately my enthusiasm far out weighed my skill level ??
Great satisfaction in handbrake turns as well.
Unfortunately my enthusiasm far out weighed my skill level ??
I'd be banned if I gave a true reply.
He had no valid pilot licence or insurance and should not have been flying.
He killed several innocent people.
Tosser.
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The mindset to be the sort of rally driver he was is not a good one for operating a helicopter , as it proved. You can push the envelope a bit with most fixed wing but if you manage it once with rotary , don't think you will manage it twice and succeed !
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The loss of Colin McCrae was felt very deeply in the Clyde valley where we lived at the time
Some of the moaners formed a slow moving display through the valley as they were fellow Subaru drivers.
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I think you meant mourners.
I bet they don't feel like that now, after the truth came out.
Where you been living ? under a rock Oh Please! ......tumble weed ... 12 years ....tumble weed
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Strangely or not McCrae is still revered amongst the rally fraternity etc.
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I’m one of those mugs that occasionally sit in the hot Seat calling pace notes ?. The way they are called has changed a lot over the years and back then, you could recce some of the stages in a road car so that you could prepare your own notes for the event ...... take account of local conditions etc. So “maybe” would come in if you think the rally car would take bend differently to the road car at that point ie ..... call it and leave it to the driver to make his mind up ?Whats that navigator all about? Flat Left 50 "maybe", flat right 200 "maybe" well does he know the road or doesn't he?
Never heard "maybe" used before, it would not give me any confidence, imagine if the misses says to you in the van, next left "maybe" then first right "maybe" would you trust her?
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Or (Derived from a pistonheads discussion of the same video): -
'Maybe' - Depends how much speed you're carrying from the previous corner and how good your line is... if your exit was good it's flat, if your exit was poor it might be flat if you're line is perfect, but best have a little lift otherwise.
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Oops absolutely
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absolutely correct. Strange how one slight spelling mistake can change the whole tone of a message.
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some of you seem to be forgetting Rule 1 of this forum. Jim takes a few hours with his family at Christmas and some take advantage by being downright rude to other members
grow up a bit please, name calling is for children
grow up a bit please, name calling is for children
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I didn't see any name calling ???
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Oh dear Mr BIG 1 have you succumbed to too much sherry ?
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