WRC Rally Legend: Walter Röhrl
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- FIA World Rally Championship - Double world champion Walter Röhrl is the only German to have won the WRC drivers’ title (1980 & 1982) and was one of the sport’s biggest names during Audi’s Group B domination in the 1980s
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The WRC is the FIA World Rally Championship, a tough motorsport using rally cars on real roads around the world. Watch the best rally drivers battle on gravel and asphalt roads with mud, rain, dust, ice and heat! Watch high speed action as the rally drivers power slide and drift round narrow corners, go flat out over a big jump or through a watersplash, handbrake turn round a hairpin, survive a big moment, or have a massive crash! Rally requires maximum attack and careful tactics to become world rally champion.
Each rally has timed sections called special stages, on closed roads. Drivers complete these stages as quickly as possible. A co-driver reads pace notes that explain the hazards ahead. Rally drivers use the same rally car to travel to each stage on public roads, following normal traffic regulations. The crew which completes all the stages in the shortest time is the rally winner. Championship points are won using the same scoring system as Formula 1. The championship is administered by Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body.
Over 30 countries have hosted WRC rallies. Rally Monte Carlo, Rally Argentina, Rally Finland, Rally Portugal, Tour de Corse on Corsica, France, Rally Sardegna on Sardinia, Italy, Safari Rally in Kenya, Acropolis Rally in Greece, Rally New Zealand, Rally Australia, Rally Japan, Rally GB, Rally Catalunya, Rallye Deutschland, Rally Mexico and many more.
Some of the world's greatest drivers have won the FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers, like Colin McRae, Carlos Sainz, Walter Röhrl, Stig Blomqvist, Petter Solberg, Ott Tänak. The list of world rally champions includes many Finnish rally drivers like Juha Kankkunen, Tommi Mäkinen, Ari Vatanen, Marcus Grönholm, Hannu Mikkola. French drivers have had success with Sébastien Ogier, and 9 times world champion Sébastien Loeb. Famous drivers from other motorsports have come to try rally driving like Ken Block from Rallycross, and Robert Kubica and Kimi Räikkönen from F1.
Car companies compete for the prestigious FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers awarded to the most successful WRC constructor. Winners include Citroen, Hyundai, Volkswagen and Peugeot. Ford have had success with the Ford Escort, Ford Focus and Ford Fiesta when the M-Sport team won in 2017.
The 1980's featured the iconic Group B rally cars like the Lancia 037 and Delta S4, Peugeot 205 T16, MG Metro 6R4, Ford RS200 and Audi Quattro.
Japan dominated the 1990s with the Mitsubishi Lancer, Subaru Impreza, and Toyota Celica and Toyota Corolla. Toyota returned to the WRC in 2017 with the Toyota Yaris WRC, winning in 2018. The 2019 championship was won by Hyundai with the Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC. Find out about the latest winners and champions at www.wrc.com - กีฬา
Walter is still, in my opinion the absolute pinnacle of what it is possible to do behind the wheel of a car. It’s not driving, it’s god damn art.
I didn't like to go to Finland because i don't like jumps. Because you know if i want to fly i will become pilot.
- Walter Röhrl
German precision in it's best ! Walter Röhrl and the Quattro, the most awesome combination in rally history (in my humble opinion !)
The Lancia 037 in my opinion was cooler combined with Walter
Him in Audi is like Micheal Wittman in Tiger
@@gusramos3620 or even Manfred von Richthofen and Fokker Dr.1
037 era pls
@Nyaaatalie Yup and with proper roll cages too
The 80's crowds at the sides of the roads are one of most dangerous things i ever seen in motorsport.. but it was so cool!
Mattia Lanaro pretty much a suicidal crowd
It's not cool it's stupid, it's one of many reason why Group B has been banned.
What i want to say is that it was an iconic thing of the tremendous 80's automotive scene ;) Off course it was VERY dangerous.
Nope, just a different time. Really sad how people feel the need to judge others by their own media scripted morals and values.
Reminds me of Tour de France back one Lance was going
0:55 Thats one of the best car scenes on the internet...the pure power and the brutal accelleration
I love Walter
AMIN 6969 and then that guy putting his hands on his head, like he couldn't believe what he just witnessed. Probably one of my favorite groub b clips
It was Michel Mouton
That was actually michelle mouton driving
@@rajikk1750
Great driver!
Mamma Mia!
Those driving skills were unreal.
Rohrl's philosophical aproach on rallying was always what made me think he was the greatest of his time!
RJCanalRallye ... And maybe, of all times ! A true monster when it come to driving skills !!!
Nope, no balls to drive in finland.
@@banaaniponzo10 He's a driver not a pilot
@@sc0ttyd0eskn0w rally is boring without any jumps and trees right by the road
Joona Harjunen having a human wall is crazier
The Audi Quattro S1 was a beast, and Walter Röhrl is a living legend. Wish the Group B cars came back.
I’m glad they left the original audio instead of playing obnoxious music over the driving.
Someone really fucked up with the audio editing on this one ;D
for real
Walter Röhrl, unermesslich wundervoll.. Da bekommt man eine Herzattacke, wie er fährt... So heftig, unwiderstehlich, und Präsenzion geprägt.. Walter Röhrl, ein Name, ein Begriff... Und nie, nie vergessen❤️❤️❤️
I'm Portuguese, so both Walter Röhrl and Audi are a bright moment of my childhood and many other's that kept loving rally's since. I loved Ari Vatanen back then, is in fact the most loved racing driver in my country without a question, but I can't say he was better then Röhrl, because he was not. The Audi Quattro + Walter Röhrl are in my opinion the greatest thing that ever came to this sport.
I picked up the game called Dirt Rally 2.0 recently and my dad come into my room recognizing It's Quattro's engine sound. He told me everything about the golden era of rally and the downfall of group B "because the tech in these beast start getting out of hand".
Tell your dad to knock next time he speeds into your room like gr.b car..wtf
More Group B onboard footages please
This dude even whooped quattro by RWD lancia 037
The real legend
The dude fucking won by 10 minutes once, what cant he do?:D
Admirable, no F1 or Rally driver brings the excitement that Walter Rohrl, and Group B. had in a motor sport Championship...
Some say they the attached the car to Walter..
Man and machine...becoming one...
The ONE and the ONLY! A living Legend!
To all the people saying it was stupid of the spectators and all that, yes you are correct it was very dangerous and one of the reasons group B was banned. But may I ask you, were you there ? Because in 1982 I left Australia to follow the Group B championship around for that season as a holiday, I was 28 and had just landed my dream job to come back to so I wanted to blow of some steam. And if you weren't there you dont understand, the atmosphere of the races and the whole week really was indescribable, because I was following the season race after race I started to make friends with some of the Opel and Audi mechanics and even the legend herself Michèle Mouton and when they were ripping around the course, to be close enough to taste the fuel and smell the exhaust and listen to the sound of the cars as the came flying past. There really is not anything like that, for a motorsport fan to be able to party with the fans and teams in the town and then get so close to the cars on track was spectacular and to be totally honest if one had crashed and killed me I would have died a happy man because I was enjoying myself so much. I will say though after I spoke to Michèle one night and asked her about the crowd she said that she did not mind the crowd being close in fact it excited her but she hated when people would basically play chicken with the car and stand in the middle of the road and move at the last second. I was never one of those people I just liked to get right up on the side-lines but after that night I would tell people to get off the road and stand on the side because you dont want to distract the drivers and because honestly what guy in the 80s did not drool and do whatever Michèle would say hahaha. And lets be totally honest Group B was going to be banned regardless of the spectators the cars were to fast for most courses really and it was super dangerous in the later years as the cars got even faster. Was I stupid and dangerous back then probably but It was the experience of a lifetime and that was some of the greatest times of my life happened following the season around in 1982 !
Legend! They all had balls like rocks back in the day, but he was the best of them all.
World’s best combo, Röhrl and Quattro🔥
More episode like this!!!!
Legend 🙌
THAT was Rally!!! Legende 💪🏻
All the spectators on the course is crazy. I can understand wanting to be close to the action, but not enough to risk my safety or the drivers.
Que hermoso que era esta categoría 😍... Y Audi Quattro 😍
Great video but Walter won his 2 WRC titles with Fiat and Opel, i see just the wonderful Quattro here... maybe they should change the title in "Walter Röhrl & Audi Quattro".
TheRUB And also the Lancia Rally 037, the last winning RWD rally car
yes, of course :)
TheRUB unforgettable Lancia
Francesco Camarda I am Italian, I cannot forget ;)
@@TheRUBrally
Love the S1, but the 037 is a really awesome machine.
Greets from Germany! ;)
Good people are always clear and humble. People, who talk complicated about simple things are idiots.
Walter did never use much words, he was and always will be a great man.
yep, even if he explains complex stuff, people who have no clue about racing, will understand. His answer when he was asked about the difference between over and understeering:
"If the car is understeering, you see the tree, you are about to crash into. When the car is oversteering, you'll only hear it."
Today on the 7th of March is his 71st birthday!
Happy Birthday Mr. Röhrl!!!
Please please please, upload more of the Group B era. I would love more onboard videos with pedal cams. Please.
Un MOSTRO al volante ....SPETTACOLARE
Make driving scenes in Fast and Furious look like kindergarten - and then this is the real deal 😳🙌🏼
People often complained about Audi having an ‘unfair advantage’ with their 4wd and their 5cylinder engines. As it happens, Audi’s truly unfair advantage was sat behind the wheel...
The mudflaps?
Mostly it Trans-Am boys I think where Audi kicked their ass badly
He's bout ~60 and speaks better English than me lmao
he is 70 to be precise
So the left foot braking is necessary to deal with the understeering Quattro.
This legend is so good that he could still make the car go crazy fast.
Wow this dude is the superman of rally even today!!!!
No ABS no TCS a real superman!!!!!
I am so glad tha dirt rally gives us the oportunity to have a taste of how mad these quattros were.
Dirt Rally GrBs feel really toned down, way too easy to drive compared to the real ones...
Simply amazing! Awesome 💪🏻 who in there right mind would thumbs down this video??
Notes not saying: "200, human wall both sides"
oh man, that car is just beautiful, and aah the noise it makes! Dont make em like they used to.
Just found out that my uncle, currently residing in Amsterdam, has a garage here in the UK with an '82 quattro sat in it rusting! Doing my best to find out where so i can make it mine :3
have you found the car?
@@TheWolvesCurse Kind of, yeah actually. just this weekend. But it turns out it was a red VW Sirocco, not an Audi. And he wants it back. Spoilsport. Unfortunately, I also discovered that the garage it was sat in has been built over, with no word of what might of happened to the car! Looks like years ago as well, and hes been paying rent for the garage space this whole time, so who knows whats been going on.
@@Bovrinox Sounds like fraud.
Super
I don't understand why the name Walter Röhrl is so associated with Audi. It's something that strikes me a lot, but the reality is that Röhrl only won 2 World Championship rallies with Audi (he won 14 in total). He was 2 times World Champion once in Fiat and other in Opel.
The driver who led Audi to win was Mikkola (late Hannu), then they signed Michelle Mouton and finally Stig Blomqvist before he arrived in 1984. We all know how consistent he was, especially when he helped Lancia win the WRC of Marks from 1983 in a 4X2 (Lancia 037), and how he won the Monte-Carlo that he was very good at (he won four consecutive times with four different cars), but when it came to running the Nordic rallies (RAC, Sweden or 1000 lakes) Uff ... he said they were very dangerous ...
Lancia, not Fiat.
And the only reason Mouton was signed that year was because Röhrl turned it down, saying "any monkey can drive fast with 4wd, you don't need me for that". That was the year he won the world championship with LANCIA, still on RWD. By hte time Röhrl switched to Audi pretty much everyone was using 4wd and the shorter, lighter Peugeots etc had the advantage.
@@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692
Walter Rörhl was World Drivers' Champion twice, in 1980 with a Fiat 131 Abarth and in 1982 with an Opel Ascona 400.
Another thing is that Lancia was Constructors World Rally Championship in 1983 with Walter Röhrl, Markku Alén and Attilio Bettega, which is different. The World Rally Champion pilot was Hannu Mikkola.
Next time you must have to document yourself better...
@@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692
The advantage was based on fact that Peugeot 205, like Lancias, were "authentic Group B cars", which according to the regulations were prototypes with the condition to approve them was to put 200 units in the "stradale" version for sale on the street.
Due to Supreme Chief Ferdinand Piëch obstinacy, Audi Quattro had to be a car like the street cars, or what amounts to the same thing, a "Group A", a category that already existed, and they weren't only inferior for a weight cause (with an engine of almost 400 cm3 more, as well).
The main Peugeot and Lancia superiority was due to its MID ENGINE, with an optimal weight distribution. Audi with engine hanging from the front axle in a longitudinal position, made it very clumsy and understeered in slow corners, due to a weight distribution very inequal.
@@carlosmagnus717 Ah you're right. He was champ in 82 on the Ascona and in 83 he was on Lancia but was 2nd.
Weird, for some reason I had it in my head that Mikkola was Champ the year BEFORE Mouton got 2nd place, not the year after.
My bad.
Fucking proper driving, an art that is lost today.
4x Monte Wins in 4 different cars.🏆
What a legend. Nowadays even the top drivers are using sequential paddle shifters with right foot always on the gas pedal....
Buen recadito el que le deja a la fia para que los wrc vuelvan a ser bestias y no juguetitos caros
Walter Rohrl.
The greatest rally driver ever apart from Colin McRae.
The greatest German of all time as well.
Those "spectators" were insane.
superb video
Une machine à gagner...
GOD OLD DAYS
1.37, the co driver sounds surgical. German perfection!
Christian Geistdörfer is the name of the co-pilot. he played a major role in Walters success. they're close friends to this day.
In Dirt Rally I have the problem of stalling the engine when I brake with my left foot and the wheels leave the ground (especially Finland). I wonder how realistic that problem is...
It is very realistic, if there is no ground and load under wheels, brakes will stop the engine if you won't push throttle down to the metal. I think rally drivers avoid it and don't brake with left foot when the car is in air.
Yeah. Had that problem too. Especially while braking hard there always was the risk of locking the wheels and stalling the engine. You have to find the sweetspot. Just don't brake mid air
Legend!!
When the video is made with separated audio for headphones... you can only hear the car and the co-driver
Ironically, the only thing that he missed on his rally carrer is Rally Finland, because he don't like jumps in Finland.
'If I wanted to fly, I would have become a pilot.' best reasoning to miss a race ever lol
apsolute legend
For guys like me with only the left headphone this video is awfully quite
Or me, where I can't hear well with my right ear :|
yup, my right ear is broken. It started promising but then it faded away in silence
It's worse with normal headphones. Feels like I've got a commentator beside me in the couch wispering in my ear. Creepy
Wonder what is more scary experience for him; group B or driving Carrera GT in wet around Nurburgring?
those were real men
Bring back group b pls
legendary :)
Group B was for men, WRC is for boyz.
takou rýchlosť kedy pracuje mozog
How do you guys keep messing up the audio on your videos, hardly what you'd expect from an official FIA channel!!
Is the intern procuding these videos? I mean thanks for the content, but it seems like almost every WRC video has audio or formatting issues.
Ehreeeeeeee
1:22 Don't give us such a scary cliffhanger, please!
Audi Quattro Sport S1
I love this upload itself but the audio is horrible.
Audi quattro one love
health and safety nightmare. Nice!
quattro = Walter Röhrl = World Champion
What catch fence
Funny how he won two championships but neither of them were with Audi
The 80s were lit asf, dammnn i was born in the wrong generation, i dont want electric selfdriving vihicles i want cars with souls, analog cars
fricc 69 *begone*
Someone could tell me what is the worst rally accident? And how much people have died? Just want to know... 😓
Andrés Toledo from Wikipedia
The worst spectator accidents WRC were
At the 1978 Safari Rally, five by-passers and four spectators were killed in unrelated accidents, both involving non-competitive drivers crashing into competitors.
On the first stage of the 1986 Rally Portugal, Joaquim Santos lost control of his Ford RS200 while trying to avoid spectators on the road, crashing into a "human wall" of spectators, killing three and injuring over thirty.
At the 1996 Rally of the Thousand Lakes, at the famous special stage Harju that took place in the centrum of "Rally Capital" Jyväskylä, one spectator died and 36 injured when Danish national Kristen Rikhard lost control of his Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. Rikhard, car number 65, reached the curve at 120 km/h
The sound is so bad. One side the only rally sound and the other side only Walter.
How's Finland Walter?
just a different time. most others would have slowed down to not endanger anybody. but Röhrl didn't give a s***. he still drove like the devil. we Regensburger got it in the blood.
And here's me thinking that WR was left foot braking all because Audi bolted on a turbo the size of a bicycle wheel. Pish.
Rohrl performance was better when he drives lancia
one small slip = 50 dead
The actual WRC are for childrens, the Group B are for men's
I would trade my gt3 for real group B car
Walter didnt even race in finland, not once!
Lancia
He doesn't like jumps
Thank god he wasn’t driving a mustang or those crowds would be fruit punch
Priisma GD the problem is in front of the steering wheel...not the car ;)
I don't like jumps.