[Closed] McRae vs McRae

That was just simply ace!

Thanks for sharing this find

Must get the Dirt on xbox going

Awesome!

Good stuff. Now off to find my fave rally videos...

Ohhhh that noise...... brraaaaaapppppp piw piw piw braaaaaapppppp piw durrrrrrree praaaaappppp trrrrrssssss pipipip BRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPP

Great, they don't make em' like that anymore do they...

They will be driving electric cars soon. No more those nice engine sounds.

That takes me back! I helped Colin win his one and only world championship in 1995. I'd ridden into the middle of Kielder and was watching the longest stage of the rally. It was a really remote spot and there was only me and a couple of marshals there. Colin came into view with a puncture that was rapidly destroying the wheel so he stopped to change it right by us. We got a trolley jack out of the marshals' car and I grabbed the spare wheel out of the Subaru's boot. Derek Ringer told me to put the knackered one back in the boot, something to do with minimum weight and they shot off. They'd lost about 2 minutes to Carlos Sainz and proceeded to claw back the deficit, winning the rally and thereby the world championship by 30 seconds. Everyone thought it was the first of many worlds but Tommi Makkinen had other ideas.

I think last year's Christmas one was better.

Damn it, wife asleep next to me so I cant crank up the volume, will have to save for the morning routine!

that was fab 👍

That was good. I must show it to my son.
I wonder what attracted Alister Mcrae into rallying? I imagine it was pleasure.... "His pleasure, other people's leisure".

pistonbroke

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That takes me back! I helped Colin win his one and only world championship in 1995. I’d ridden into the middle of Kielder and was watching the longest stage of the rally. It was a really remote spot and there was only me and a couple of marshals there. Colin came into view with a puncture that was rapidly destroying the wheel so he stopped to change it right by us.

Heh, we were somewhere a little bit earlier in the stage, still remember him coming slurring down the straight before our corner, car obviously unsettled, spotted the flat, then he just nailed it through the corner faster than most of the field, and then wobbled off down the next section, though wobbling isn't the right word at these speeds... just one of those things that your brain can't quite understand, I crap myself if I lose 5psi! I remember someone saying that he was only a few seconds adrift til the wheel started to break up.

Last time I raced around Walters was in a V8 Land Rover. That thing sounded almost as good as the Subaru (if that is possible).

Here's a video of her in full flight in Croatia... (not the oil burner doing the winching)

That takes me back! I helped Colin win his one and only world championship in 1995

That actually IS a cool story bro 😊👌

That takes me back! I helped Colin win his one and only world championship in 1995. I’d ridden into the middle of Kielder and was watching the longest stage of the rally. It was a really remote spot and there was only me and a couple of marshals there. Colin came into view with a puncture that was rapidly destroying the wheel so he stopped to change it right by us. We got a trolley jack out of the marshals’ car and I grabbed the spare wheel out of the Subaru’s boot. Derek Ringer told me to put the knackered one back in the boot, something to do with minimum weight and they shot off. They’d lost about 2 minutes“

PistonBroke, we may know each other? We were clearly at the same marshal’s post.

For some reason makes me think of the Ari Vatanen Manx rally near miss -
c. 0:43 in.

Brilliant vid! I love taking my two lads to the odd rally, I shall definitely try and take them to more 😀

That vid kcal 😱

@swavis. Just insane. There's a longer version, about 2s later he says "punctured it" - and carries on round the Isle of Man in the fog at more or less full tilt.

One of my mates (was at Aviemore) rallied in a big way for many years (won the Snowman Rally one year), still does a bit of the more classic rally stuff (RSR 3.0, RS1800).

Terry Harryman on the notes for Ari Vatanen. Manx International 1983 in the Rothmans Manta 400.
Stunning car and a stunning crew - cool as. Can’t imagine the consequences of hitting the concrete surrounds of that cattle grid!

PistonBroke, we may know each other?

Bloody hell, if we were that'd be such a coincidence. I remember wearing one of those yellow and blue buffalo jackets, you could clearly see me on the in car camera as that was the only coverage of the events, it was too remote for tv cameras. Derek was running around like a headless chicken while Colin calmly got on with changing the wheel. My father recounted the story when he met David Richards at some do years later and he gave him a rally jacket as thanks. I got nowt and he wasn't even there!
I now live very near some of the gravel stages of the Rally Cataluna, if you are interested in seeing the rally, we run a b&b. Pm me with your name and I see if I know you, I was a very keen Trailquester bitd.

I hate to be that guy as I was a big fan but whenever I see the name I can only think of those who died in his helicopter.

If I end up going to hell it will involve me being a rally co driver. Nearly lost my lunch watching that video and that's before their moment.