IMO Rally cars are the worlds true "Super-cars". I love seeing him running such a "stock" looking car with a dam near full interior and a REAL stick, not a sequential box. Looks nothing like a modern WRC car inside and to me, it's way more badass. All Rally is good rally, but I'm glad I was fortunate enough to get to experience both Group B and the Tomi Makkinen/Colin Macrae years first hand.
You're both completely correct, I couldn't agree more! For me, rallying started to die when Colin and Richard lost their lives. The cars these days are just so boring and easy compared to the cars of yesteryear
yet they're quite much quicker and more agile than never before - they're also more demanding from the driver physicality also. It was fun with the H shifter, but come on - the quicker shifting and faster driving today - it's bloody ridiculous today compared to yesteryear
Yes and no. Subaru actually pioneered flappy paddles but Colin often didn't like using them because of reliability issues. Later they were used on Subaru Wrc cars full time.
Nor Wester Nor Wester That's why I love rally and Colin is one of the reasons why I've always loved Subarus. But to me rally drivers are the most skilled racing drivers. Perfect example is Mark Higgins and the incident at the bottom of Bray Hill during the Isle of Man in the 2011 wrx STI. I feel only a rally driver would've been able to make that save after bottoming out in a stock suspension car at 150 mph on a narrow village road. If you make a mistake in rally, that's usually game over. Flying through forests and tiny roads with sheer cliffs on the sides while pushing as hard as possible is why they have all my respect.
big time, i love f1 but rally is not only putting yourself in danger but your partner too. also obviously both need to know the tracks but if you fuck up on a rally track you're potentially rolling the vehicle over a cliff or running into the crowd
Most drivers I imagine would take it at low 4th gear maybe top of 3rd. In fact, watch 2005 Rally Australia (skip the the end of day 2) and you can actually visually see McRae's longer jumps than Francois Duval or Harri Rovanpera
It's still so weird to me he had been in so many crashes, always went to the edge of what was possible, never any fatal injuries. Then he died in a helicopter crash=/
what isnt there to understand? He had an accident in a helicopter and crashed and died. I think id rather be in an accident in a wrc rally car at least its got a rollcage and special seats and harnesses..
+Counter Russianstrike although Colin is god and noone can say anything bad about him, your comment is epic win! aaahahaha, not a good vid to show to someone who doesnt know much about him.
He's shifting like that because it's a clutchless shift box!!! No need to clutch up or down the gears, you only need the clutch in first to launch the fucker!!! Amazing gearbox and was way more reliable than the paddle shift they eventually put in that car!!! Even In 1998 the car had the new cutting edge triple active diffs with this same gearbox! And on monte 99! RIP Colin McRae
I never really understood how much of an impact the pace notes from the codriver made until I started playing dirt. Never having been down the stages, the pace notes make the difference and I now understand what they're actually saying lolol
WOW Cool Beans! I guess in some countries they can't afford road (cliff) barriers... so they convince the locals that watching right next to the road will give then the best view. Also the drivers have big balls... but the Co-Driver has the biggest Brass Balls. Just think have the most aggressive drivers in the world driving WFO and just looking at paper notes the entire time. That's Blind Faith.
4:51 Man the car was even more excited for that jump! You can even hear it say, "WEEEEEH!" Kidding aside, I missed the man, and the old school rallying. F1 drivers are awesome as well. You can never really compare the because F1 and rally may be both motorsports, but they are totally different.
I loved it back then. Drivers casually driving one hand on the wheel, other hand changing gears and pulling handbrake. Drivers wearing T-shirts instead of fireproof suits, they could drive with 3 wheels and so on so on. Now everything is illegal.
Yes, like every racing car, have one. What I say is that for changing gears on a sequential gearbox you don´t need to use the clutch, you just take out the foot on gas e move the lever.
one of the reasons mccrae is a god is because he actually had to shift! no they only have to push forward or backward to change gear. all the greats die before their time!
But these gearboxes are called dog-boxes which allow clutchless shifting as long as you take your foot off the throttle...you dont use the clutch anymore after the moment that you start the stage...just on a few hairpins...and the gear lever is very fast and soft due to the lack of synchros. But you got a point, compared to clutchless, automatic vehicles this is definitely the real deal ;) but rally cars still have clutch pedals nowadays
Ok I just heard it from Mr. Grist himself, "Line" is a late apex entry into a corner, "plus" or "minus" is a correction requested by the driver on the fly from an earlier pass on the stage, either faster or slower on that pacenote.
Actually it's an H pattern gearbox but it's a dog box which allows you to not to use the clutch while shifting. Only on road sections and 1st gear do they need it. Subaru could've had a sequential gear box but waited until 1999. Then they launched a semi automatic fly by wire one. It's a high pressure system that uses the standard H pattern layout but it uses a paddle shifter. They call it the dogs bollocks.
@binokoda I'll say, I give F1 drivers credit, but there on a closed circuit and everything is more predictable. That's where rally talent comes in with it's unpredictable nature and the constantly changing stages. They have to do so much more work. Rally is the best motorsport! Thumbs up to Binokoda too!
Same here. I live in an area mostly populated by redecks and all I hear about with motorsports is Nascar. I think it's safe to say that rally car racing is about 5x more difficult, entertaining, and awe-inspiring that Nascar.
Hmm, nope your right, kinda. He does lift off the throttle a bit, but the sound of the engine tells me that he doesn't use the clutch, cuze the shift of gears would take way longer then that
It's just a shame the WRC car had some reliability problems. Mitsubishi stuck with Group A basically until they were forced to adopt WRC specs and they won it four years on the trot. Sure Tommi Makkinen was awesome but the Lancer Evos were tanks that never really went wrong.
No! Because of the sudden change of economy situation in 2008-09 and business circumstances surrounding the company radically became worse, and so, they reached the conclusion that Ralliart Inc would scale down their business activities as of March 2010. They still played a role in international Group N.
@@rewinapier8474 Well that's interesting but also not actually a rebuttal to my point, which was that Mitsubishi continued to campaign the theoretically slower but very robust Group A Lancer Evolutions, winning four driver's titles from 96-99, before switching to WRC regs during 2001.
@decjko It means "Royal Automobile Club",who was the presenter of the GB rally....sometimes the RAC was also ironically translated as "Rally Around Cardiff(the rally base)" after the rally was shortened in the 90s
Tire and fuel issues are a common thing in endurance racing; and it used to be the same in F1 before 1994. Ayrton Senna ran out of fuel, ditto Jim Clark and Jack Brabham, and so on. You don't have inboard sensors in the COT, and strategy is also very dependent on cautions. If the Excel spreadsheet show an average of X amount of cautions at racetrack A, but a fluke occurs and there's X-2 cautions, you than have a problem. Some NASCAR engineers worked in F1 and/or other sports before.
when i was 16(2 years ago,here we get our driving licence at 18) my dad taught me how to drive, with a manual gearbox and a clutch pedal, im 18 now, ive tried automatic, manual gearbox without clutch pedal, but i still prefer the old manual gearbox with clutch pedal
![Colin McRae | Subaru Impreza 555 | Rallye Catalunya 1996 [Passats de canto] (Telesport)](/img/n.gif)
The co -driver is also a legend for me :D team McCrae
Sir Nicky Grist
Kace is a massive nonce
He was not the most succesfull driver but he was tthe most spectacular. R.I.P.
FLAT OUT BABY
@@TurboRetard ppl 0
if in doubt... Flat out..
I can never figure out why the heck people give thumbs down to great videos like these... or maiby they just pressed it by accident.
perhaps they genuinely don't like it
Tet Pr maybe they prefer the asphalt lol
Sunday drivers...
Stupid ecologist urban😅
@@moussochocolat779 does that make sense on your head ?
IMO Rally cars are the worlds true "Super-cars". I love seeing him running such a "stock" looking car with a dam near full interior and a REAL stick, not a sequential box. Looks nothing like a modern WRC car inside and to me, it's way more badass. All Rally is good rally, but I'm glad I was fortunate enough to get to experience both Group B and the Tomi Makkinen/Colin Macrae years first hand.
You're both completely correct, I couldn't agree more! For me, rallying started to die when Colin and Richard lost their lives. The cars these days are just so boring and easy compared to the cars of yesteryear
yet they're quite much quicker and more agile than never before - they're also more demanding from the driver physicality also.
It was fun with the H shifter, but come on - the quicker shifting and faster driving today - it's bloody ridiculous today compared to yesteryear
Yes and no. Subaru actually pioneered flappy paddles but Colin often didn't like using them because of reliability issues. Later they were used on Subaru Wrc cars full time.
Nor Wester Nor Wester That's why I love rally and Colin is one of the reasons why I've always loved Subarus. But to me rally drivers are the most skilled racing drivers. Perfect example is Mark Higgins and the incident at the bottom of Bray Hill during the Isle of Man in the 2011 wrx STI. I feel only a rally driver would've been able to make that save after bottoming out in a stock suspension car at 150 mph on a narrow village road. If you make a mistake in rally, that's usually game over. Flying through forests and tiny roads with sheer cliffs on the sides while pushing as hard as possible is why they have all my respect.
big time, i love f1 but rally is not only putting yourself in danger but your partner too. also obviously both need to know the tracks but if you fuck up on a rally track you're potentially rolling the vehicle over a cliff or running into the crowd
I love how you could always hear that "fear " in Nicky's voice, almost as you can hear him thinking"what the hell is Colin going to do next"
I like it when he just goes whoa
Good lord. Those series of jumps at 4:50. Get the landing wrong and you're plowing into those spectators.
I don't know who has more balls. The driver for taking it at that speed or the spectators for staring death in the fucking face.
nightmonkey07 legendary Bunnings Jumps
+ahudson2012 or the co pilot
nightmonkey07 those spectators at the third jump most likely need a new change of undewear.
Most drivers I imagine would take it at low 4th gear maybe top of 3rd. In fact, watch 2005 Rally Australia (skip the the end of day 2) and you can actually visually see McRae's longer jumps than Francois Duval or Harri Rovanpera
7minutes of rally is more better than 1hour of formula 1 or nascar
this is a fact
Can't we just enjoy motorsport
Yall gotta stop making fun of other motorsports cause all 3 of them are good
definitely not. you probably don’t watch enough f1. but i agree with the nascar part
Competing in rallying is even better than watching
It's still so weird to me he had been in so many crashes, always went to the edge of what was possible, never any fatal injuries. Then he died in a helicopter crash=/
what isnt there to understand? He had an accident in a helicopter and crashed and died. I think id rather be in an accident in a wrc rally car at least its got a rollcage and special seats and harnesses..
+Sean Moore greatest respect though and just an unlucky shame.
It's so sad... his son and some other kids died with him, so very sad.
Fuck helicopters man...
Its not helicopter fault. Its his. Look up the accident
My god this man could drive
R.i.p mc Rae
+xyla aqsa what he crashed on like the first corner in this vid
+Counter Russianstrike They all crash at one point or another.
+Counter Russianstrike although Colin is god and noone can say anything bad about him, your comment is epic win! aaahahaha, not a good vid to show to someone who doesnt know much about him.
xyla aqsa z
the way he shifts the way he drives wow ! RIP McRae
Nicky: "Caution"... *car is airbone* Colin: "huh?"
Real rallying. Stick shift, no paddles! One of the most exciting drivers to watch and when he was on it he was amazing
Shifting method doesn't define driving skill
0:47 FK THIS MAN lol exactly what I'd say
Probably my favorite Colin onboard footages. Great car, great stages, great driving style and of course, great driver.
those jumps at 4:50 O_O the way he snaps the car straight
+Sam Burrows the front left tire, goes down first...i speak spanish, so my english is a bullshit xD
He's shifting like that because it's a clutchless shift box!!! No need to clutch up or down the gears, you only need the clutch in first to launch the fucker!!! Amazing gearbox and was way more reliable than the paddle shift they eventually put in that car!!! Even In 1998 the car had the new cutting edge triple active diffs with this same gearbox! And on monte 99! RIP Colin McRae
It is the same construction, dog clutches instead of synchros, no way it is more reliable than the sequental.
I never really understood how much of an impact the pace notes from the codriver made until I started playing dirt. Never having been down the stages, the pace notes make the difference and I now understand what they're actually saying lolol
My all time favourite rally driver a true legend a true champion R.I.P Colin
I always loved how Nicky's voice always had a touch of concern in it when reading notes for Colin.🤣
WOW Cool Beans! I guess in some countries they can't afford road (cliff) barriers... so they convince the locals that watching right next to the road will give then the best view. Also the drivers have big balls... but the Co-Driver has the biggest Brass Balls. Just think have the most aggressive drivers in the world driving WFO and just looking at paper notes the entire time. That's Blind Faith.
Seen this tenths of times over the years, but I can watch it again and again. It never gets boring!
4:51 Man the car was even more excited for that jump! You can even hear it say, "WEEEEEH!"
Kidding aside, I missed the man, and the old school rallying. F1 drivers are awesome as well. You can never really compare the because F1 and rally may be both motorsports, but they are totally different.
I think rally driver is more skilled than F1 drivers. 😎
They are too different to really compare.
@@WaRLoKWYATT rally drivers are way better
@@hokimoki3677 What do you drive? Have you ever raced? Don't talk out of your ass.
@@WaRLoKWYATT actually ive raced my whloe life idiot 🤣🤣.....
@@hokimoki3677 Nope
That's my GOAT right there, the guy who made me love rally
He blow my mind every time a see he's videos... Legend!!
Mate, McRae was freaking fast!! There will never be another colin.
Rip a true legend.
Colin the best subaru's driver for ever!!! No fear.
Love how his Scoob seems to go 'weee' over that jump lol
R.l.P. Master of rally ✌️
R.I.P.
I loved it back then. Drivers casually driving one hand on the wheel, other hand changing gears and pulling handbrake. Drivers wearing T-shirts instead of fireproof suits, they could drive with 3 wheels and so on so on. Now everything is illegal.
R.I P + Colin McRae
"Fuck this man!"
Me every time I crash on the Colin McRae story in Dr2.0
Good ol' H pattern gearbox... It's a lot easier today with their fancy clutchless sequential flappy paddle things...
Yes, like every racing car, have one. What I say is that for changing gears on a sequential gearbox you don´t need to use the clutch, you just take out the foot on gas e move the lever.
it's looking badass driving with t-shirt only
You can hear Nicky Grist's brain whispering "I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die"
😂😂😂😂😆
"Hair pin, don't cut, death over crest"
the best rally man!!!!
Colin McRae balls of steel .... legend I will never forget
Absolutely awesome. My fave rally car of all time with my fave driver behind the wheel.
RIP Colin. Forever sideways.
The Impreza is only your favourite rally car of all time because of the legend that drove it
@@Conordylan97 Legends that drove it: lot of greats from that era drove the S5
Them jumps in Australia though.
this man is a goddamn legend.. may he rest in peace
0:47 “Aw fuck this, man”
right?? it was an era for heroes... real artists to do what they did with clutch and manual gear box. legend
Dat downshift tho 5:31.... O_O
Goddamn inspirational. You are an immortal and have hence immortalised WRC. Rest in peace Colin.
one of the reasons mccrae is a god is because he actually had to shift! no they only have to push forward or backward to change gear. all the greats die before their time!
prefer the 94-95 subaru impreza simply for the sound
Can't stop watching this :)
Le meilleur pilote de tout les temps
That gearbox shifting...Awesome.
No sequential gearbox bullshit either.
Engine sound + Co-pilot voice = so much excitement !
Holy fuck the jumps at 4:48
my penis
Rally driver's have a screw loose. You would have to be a complete madman to do this for a living!
man that co driver is a god
But these gearboxes are called dog-boxes which allow clutchless shifting as long as you take your foot off the throttle...you dont use the clutch anymore after the moment that you start the stage...just on a few hairpins...and the gear lever is very fast and soft due to the lack of synchros. But you got a point, compared to clutchless, automatic vehicles this is definitely the real deal ;) but rally cars still have clutch pedals nowadays
Still I don't understand why people watch f1
Ok I just heard it from Mr. Grist himself, "Line" is a late apex entry into a corner, "plus" or "minus" is a correction requested by the driver on the fly from an earlier pass on the stage, either faster or slower on that pacenote.
he was the pioneer man... remember the roots baby... all about the roots
Actually it's an H pattern gearbox but it's a dog box which allows you to not to use the clutch while shifting. Only on road sections and 1st gear do they need it. Subaru could've had a sequential gear box but waited until 1999. Then they launched a semi automatic fly by wire one. It's a high pressure system that uses the standard H pattern layout but it uses a paddle shifter. They call it the dogs bollocks.
Great video. Nice seeing colin in action again.
My favourite car of all time . Rip McRae.
Clutch in a sequential gearbox is only used in launch and stop, it´s like in bikes. Maybe a kick in a hairpin or so :D
R.I.P. Collin... he made it look easy.
the car dances between the corners ... amazing
@binokoda I'll say, I give F1 drivers credit, but there on a closed circuit and everything is more predictable. That's where rally talent comes in with it's unpredictable nature and the constantly changing stages. They have to do so much more work. Rally is the best motorsport! Thumbs up to Binokoda too!
Same here. I live in an area mostly populated by redecks and all I hear about with motorsports is Nascar. I think it's safe to say that rally car racing is about 5x more difficult, entertaining, and awe-inspiring that Nascar.
A real shame Australia was not in Dirt Rally
dirt 4 will have it tho'
In my opinion the purest of motorsports.
Hmm, nope your right, kinda. He does lift off the throttle a bit, but the sound of the engine tells me that he doesn't use the clutch, cuze the shift of gears would take way longer then that
Me in 2010: I could do that. Looks easy.
Also me, now in 2019: Is he even human?
@nigelbunganar
naw man serious... McRae used his left foot to brake... look it up
fuckin' awesome!!! F1... pffffff… gimme WRC any time!!! McRae, the co and that fuckin' machine, damn, thats dangerous!!!
"... opens... maybe..."
4:50 HOLY F***CK
The immortal real Master.
Absolute Legend.
Was the best car driver ever and arguably the best co pilot in the world.
Excellent compilation. :-) Thank you.
That Australia footage was EPIC!
@ what time does Mcrae say quicker?
Great stuff, great vid. Fighting the steering wheel for 10 minutes per stage.... or 10 hours per day. That is just intense!
today is 6 years RIP [*] Colin you live forever
It's just a shame the WRC car had some reliability problems. Mitsubishi stuck with Group A basically until they were forced to adopt WRC specs and they won it four years on the trot. Sure Tommi Makkinen was awesome but the Lancer Evos were tanks that never really went wrong.
No! Because of the sudden change of economy situation in 2008-09 and business circumstances surrounding the company radically became worse, and so, they reached the conclusion that Ralliart Inc would scale down their business activities as of March 2010. They still played a role in international Group N.
@@rewinapier8474 Well that's interesting but also not actually a rebuttal to my point, which was that Mitsubishi continued to campaign the theoretically slower but very robust Group A Lancer Evolutions, winning four driver's titles from 96-99, before switching to WRC regs during 2001.
it's pretty unique how he uses his left foot to brake
very creative...
@decjko It means "Royal Automobile Club",who was the presenter of the GB rally....sometimes the RAC was also ironically translated as "Rally Around Cardiff(the rally base)" after the rally was shortened in the 90s
4:50 OMG those jumps.. that control ... jesus...
Tire and fuel issues are a common thing in endurance racing; and it used to be the same in F1 before 1994.
Ayrton Senna ran out of fuel, ditto Jim Clark and Jack Brabham, and so on.
You don't have inboard sensors in the COT, and strategy is also very dependent on cautions. If the Excel spreadsheet show an average of X amount of cautions at racetrack A, but a fluke occurs and there's X-2 cautions, you than have a problem.
Some NASCAR engineers worked in F1 and/or other sports before.
such amazing control
hey i am not much into wrc racing. how long does one full course takes them to finish ? aproxamtly...
THANK YOU KEIBOU
4:52 Is like the Subaru going "WEEE :D"
when i was 16(2 years ago,here we get our driving licence at 18) my dad taught me how to drive, with a manual gearbox and a clutch pedal, im 18 now, ive tried automatic, manual gearbox without clutch pedal, but i still prefer the old manual gearbox with clutch pedal
I cry.. Bravo!
I to...!!!
3:55 to 4:25 - it's awesome
@EratiCManiaC those are the BUnnings jumps, look for McRae Bunnings, it's awesome..
This is skill.
Rally are the craziest best drivers!!¡
Il y a pas a chier cette voiture est vraiment exceptionnelle.
wowww fantasticoooo
He crashed alot, but god, when he had a clean run he was fast.
Into... 3 left minus slippy maybe and crest 5 right slippy and 4 left tightens to slippy maybe right 2