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10 Awesome Years Of WRC [video]

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Thursday, July 5th, 2012 10:45 am GMT +2

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It’s a debate that could easily divide friendships and strain relationships, but there is a school of thought that the drivers competing in the World Rally Championship are easily some of the best in the world. While they are certainly advantaged by having navigators, who constantly relay pace notes, seated beside them, the fact remains that no other motorsport championship is contested on as many varying road surfaces, environments, and challenges that leave absolutely no margin for error.

In this video we are taken through some of the highlights of the past ten years of WRC. Some good times, some not so good times. Some fallen heroes and some future stars.


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  • Tobias

    Looking back on last decade of the WRC era, I can see that it was indeed as epic as the Group B era of the World Rally Championship. Of course, this video makes me miss Burnsie and McRae… Two iconic faces of the WRC that left our world too soon.

  • OJ

    There can be no argument; rally drivers ARE the best. They’re in the business of pure car control at high speeds over variable surfaces and under all weather conditions. While F1 and NASCAR is probably faster none of their drivers barrel along on loose dirt at 200+kph three feet from trees which might be 40 feet around the girth. And if I’ve got it right NASCAR closes down in the rain.

    It would be easier for a WRC driver to succeed in circuit racing than for a F1 or NASCAR driver to suceed in rallying. Two good exampless; Kimi Raikkonen – world champion at F1 – never made the podium in WRC. Eight times World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb took home the gold medal at the Los Angeles X-Games recently against a number of top drivers drawn from different codes. It was the first time he’d ever done rallycross.

    The ultimate decider …

    If I lived out in the scrub 100 miles from the nearest doctor and my boy had just been bitten by a King Brown (a large, aggressive, poisonous Australian snake – very dangerous) I’d want a rally driver – under any road or weather conditions – to rush him to hospital.

    F1, Off-Road, Super V8s, Drag or Drifters, NASCAR, et cetera, et cetera? No, I’d want the best … and that means a rally driver.

    No contest!

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