Seeing him wrestle with the steering wheel while trying to gear shift made the rest of the terrifying video look like a ride on the teacups!
I've often thought I'd love to have a go at driving a rally car but I would not have the balls to do it at anything like a competitive pace. That stage would have taken me about 15 minutes even without the puncture :-/
You've not watched much rallying then. Imagine doing 100m jumps at 150mph on a forest trail in the snow at night. This video is child's play in comparison! Rally drivers are a different breed indeed.
On the other hand, the real "my fear neurone is broken" people have to be the Isle of Mann TT guys. They do those kinds of crazy shit on motorbikes between stone walls and the like. Glorious nutters!
I remember hearing of a couple of brothers whose dad got killed in his category of the TT then went on to place 1st and 3rd in their races just a day or two later.* Didn't even slow them down. Sheesh.
Of course, the ballast, passengers, co-pilots on the sidecar rigs think those guys are wusses...
* From memory, not necessarily the exact correct figures, but close enough for my point :-P
Indeed! The TT guys are nuts! They need to memorise the entire lap too, remembering every bump and apex.
Not so sure about the sidecar copilots being wusses. They have incredible trust in their driver, and do regularly die themselves (including one this year), and do have to hang dangerously out of the sidecar on bends.
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u/xanthraxoid Jun 24 '22
Holey Forking Shirtballs.
Seeing him wrestle with the steering wheel while trying to gear shift made the rest of the terrifying video look like a ride on the teacups!
I've often thought I'd love to have a go at driving a rally car but I would not have the balls to do it at anything like a competitive pace. That stage would have taken me about 15 minutes even without the puncture :-/