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And gigi galli was the last driver to win a special stage with mitsubishi in spain 2005

It was a great video! Very interesting, with the correct narration rhythms and nice clips. You deserve more than 500 subs

This guy sounds like whis from dbs

Best teammate i had across all CRS touring car championship ❤

Mitsubishi literally went from heaven to hell in the span of 1 season. That hurts...

Makkinen would probably win the 2001 title if it wasn't for that awful WRC Lancer

For 1995, you forgot about Andrea Aghini, very underrated driver, he was #12 in the Evo 2 and 3 for the 95 season, and would do decently and participated in The Monte Carlo, The Tour De Corse, and rally Catalunya and in the ERC.His best performance was in the Tour De Corse and ERC with a 3rd place finish and 5th in Catalunya after Makinen crashed out and 6th finish in Monte. Not mad, just feel like the Italian driver deserves some credit as he did some development work on the Evo 3

It was somewhat of a miracle that Mitsubishi managed to turn around their 2000 struggles into 2001. For a while it looked like it was business as usual again. But it was probably helped by Peugeot and Subaru having a bit of a slump in that first half of 2001. But anyway Tommi might have taken the title if the stuck to the old car...but even at the time that didnt seem possible somehow. If felt like a Burns or Mcrae year.

Great video! I really think that a Lancer WRC06 with a 6 speed semi automatic transmission and other suspension improvements could made this car a winner. Sadly it didn't happened. I remember at the end of 2005 season, before Mitsubishi withdrawal announcement in 12/14/2005 I was following a webpage that was telling that Marcus Gronholm was to be their number one driver with Gigi Galli in the second car. That could be a different interesting outcome.

Evo 6 was a good car but just look at the WRC 02 and later models. Drivers having to overdrive to try to force the car to do what they want it to do. The footage of the WRC 04 needing several inputs going into a corner. Was that chassis simply too long in the wheel base?

I wonder if the Evo 7 is when the Lancer Evo became a bit too big and heavy for rallying. If that's the case, Mitsubishi basically reintroduced an old problem that they've already tried to eradicate before by switching from the Galant VR-4 to the Lancer Evo I

find drivers and teams like this a fascinating part of F1 that is missing today

They’d have won the championship in 2001; if they had stuck with the same car.

His second title defense in 2003 wasn't anything to brag about either. In this case, it was the inverse of 2001 - a strong start with 3 wins and 1 second place, but a string of retirements in the mid-to-late part of the season (he failed to finish in 6 of the 14 races of the calendar) dropped him down to 6th, 26 points behind champion Petter Solberg. Moreover, the string of retirements from Grönholm also impacted Peugeot's position in the manufacturers standings, losing to its sister brand Citroën by 15 points

i see rather yohan rossel as ford puma rally1 driver than munster, dammit! im still personally skeptical for munster. look his the results.

This rally exposed how ridicilous the new pointscoring system is. Lappi won the race, but at the same time he didn't as he hadn't scored the most points in this event

Finally a story about him on here! I read about him on the old F1Rejects website

Mitsubishi's success and eventual downfall in the WRC also coincided with the brand's dominance in the Dakar Rally. Between 2001 and 2007 (the last year where the rally actually finished in Dakar) Mitsubishi were undefeated the car class with their Pajero Evolution and Jutta Kleinschmidt, Hiroshi Masuoka, Stephane Peterhansel and Luc Alphand as their winning drivers. And IMO for the Mitsubishi executives in Japan it didn't make sense to make two bespoke cars for WRC and Dakar therefore splitting costs. And since the Group A regulations were working for them really well they decided to continue with the Lancer Evolution Group A cars in WRC and the saved money was redirected to the Pajero Dakar project. That is...until the FIA forced their hand and told them 'Either build a World Rally Car, or bugger off'. And considering the internal upheeval within the WRC program, it was clear that WRC was no longer a priority for Mitsubishi since they kept on winning in Dakar. Also worth mentioning is the loss of the Philip Morris International sponsorship after the torrid 2002 season, taking the Marlboro brand to Peugeot for the next 3 seasons. I'm mentioning this since the Mitsubishi Marlboro liveries are as iconic as the Lancia Martini and Subaru 555 ones and are instantly recognizable. Sure, the cars were still red upon their return as this is Mitsubishi's corporate color, but it wasn't the same without the Marlboro logos. And considering that Peugeot (thanks to the Marlboro sponsorship) and Citroën were also predominantly red, 3 of the 6 manufacturers were using red as their color in 2004-05

Loverly video and good info

Great video. Thanks!

Nice work but one thing is there to add, the Evo 6 was by far not a classic Group A car anymore. It was a hybrid with a Group A base and World Rally Car parts like sequential gearbox, huge wings and state of the art electronics ever since the Evo 4.

Thanks Johannes, I’ve never heard of this guy before 👍🏼

when speak Peugeot 307 wrc well dammit! 307 wrc landed in privateers hands. some good performances by manfred stohl and gigi galli in 2006 wrc season proved that 307 once got polished enough, really started to show some potential. Peugeot 307 wrc was a missed opportunity.

Awesome!

Fantastic video, please keep making these WRC retrospectives!

i have question? you can make next video like this, rise and fall of citroen wrc. when?

Serious video👏

Awesome video! Would you consider doing other manufacturers, or do you leave them to TyDye?

Loix time at mitsubishi will remain a big mystery, why the team didn't sack him after 2000.

amazing video! a great way to end the year :)

Good video man stay cool until new year👍

There was an attempt to come back in 07 thanks to Abu Dhabi.. but Mitsubishi corporation said no. You can still find the pics online of the lancer in abu dhabi livery.

Very nice video. Worth of a subsctiption

Although premise is interesting I don't get the idea of keeping real team names while using fake driver names. Nontheless, cool that other youtubers are also doing CART seasons

Yet, he drove a race car and you did not

It's incredible how quickly it was all over for the lancer program post tommi leaving

Huge race for Chad Samuels!

Arnd Meier ist ein stabiler Kerl

If you want a real challenge, try it on the original ps1. Its a completly different beast when dealing with the AI 🤣 You will get pushed off the track no end

That is his one big moment, much like Luis Garcia Jr's battling Montoya. for position at Chicago in 2000. Or Tarso Marques being the driver that Montoya got a tow off of to win the 2000 Michigan 500. I mean there's been a lot of rolling chicanes. King Hiro, there's Vitolo, Danner, and the AAR cars too

I ever played wrc 2001 ps2 bam entertainment version

OMG I didn't expect that I would get so far ahead after qualifying :D. By the way, I thought the advertising was real advertising xD

Not bad start for the season, I’ll take P6 and some leading laps 🤩

Loving the ad breaks Johannes 👏🏼😂

I started so well😢😢😢😢

FONTANA HAS THE BEST FANS!

The way cars flip and fly in this game is a sight to behold. I've never seen such bizarre physics in any racing game.

Now he works for Porsche in Developement

John Newhouse making the switch from F1? Wow! 😳

I'm excited for the season :D