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When a car is on the stage the fans watching can’t tell if it has an auto-launch and semi-auto gear change or whatever. You can also chuck away traction control, launch control, centre diffs and semi-automatic gearboxes. You throw away the intercoolers, the turbochargers, all the extra pipework you can throw away half the data you need for the present engines. A big, normally aspirated engine is always better. “World Rally Car engines are very, very expensive. One of his favourite topics was always the cars’ engines. Now, if you turn around, the car is past you, just like that.” When I went to watch as a kid you could hear the cars for five miles. But watching them, yes, they can be very boring and LOOK slow. “They work so well, they’re so responsive and react to your input so well.
COLIN MCRAE RALLY 3 WRC FULL
But he was full of praise for the actual rally cars.
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Phew! That was something for our FIA rulers to chew over. At your service van it was like a Formula 1 pit stop. On some road sections it was so tight you couldn’t even take your helmet off. One of the best rallies I ever did was Ypres. All it does is make half a day’s rallying into a day and a half, while we’re dodging speed cameras. “With central servicing you spend more time driving up and down bloody road sections than you do in the stages. That would be OK if some of that cash went to the teams. But the WRC rights holders say more rallies means greater coverage and more money. “It’s very difficult to see what to do with the sport because who knows what the people in charge really think? Most people would agree there are too many WRC rallies and you save real money by reducing team personnel and events. He said the championship had far too much politics! And my God he had some trenchant views and pithy opinions on practically everything about the WRC. And as the wine flowed I gained some dramatic insights.
COLIN MCRAE RALLY 3 WRC DRIVER
He’d been the world champion he’d been the world’s highest-paid rally driver at around £6m+ a year he’d driven for Ford, Subaru and Citroën. Over 10 years later and I was in Edinburgh to interview him at his favourite eaterie. “We’ve never had a British World Rally Champion before!” Aye, Carlos, hard, soft, it’s all the same tae me! They fired questions at him relentlessly.Īfter about 20 minutes he turned back to me: “Christ, Jerry is it always like this?” Post-event he was piped into the Media room by a bagpiper and cornered by a pack of National paper hacks. But he still wasn’t yet that good at meeting the press. He’d just won the 1995 FIA World Rally Championship, humiliating his teammate, the great Carlos Sainz, on the process on the RAC Rally. Thirty minutes later he had rolled the car into retirement!īut only eight years after that he was the biggest of the big WRC beasts. How’re ye doing’? Good tae meet you,” and he turned away to talk to his mechanic. But he still looked wary as we were introduced, just like a teenager meeting an alien species.
COLIN MCRAE RALLY 3 WRC DRIVERS
In fact Junior had just aced some more experienced drivers with a couple of third fastest times in his little Nova against vastly more powerful machinery. His dad Jim told me: “Here, I want you to meet my son Colin. It was on the Skip Brown Rally, in North Wales. Of course, a lot of it was down to the Colin McRae video games but I still remember the day I first met him.
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That tells you a lot about how McRae gripped the popular imagination. The two Sebs, Loeb and Ogier got just under 2,000,000 each. No-one else in rallying has ever got anywhere near. Last week, just as an exercise, I Googled his name. And it was a shock to find that last week he would be approaching his 52 nd birthday but for that catastrophic misjudgment in his helicopter on September 15, 2007… But that moment also ensured that his star would remain bright as ever, untouched by the inevitable slowdown of advancing years. One thing almost everybody knows though is that he could stir millions in a way that no other rally driver has before or since. For those of us in the media who had a reasonable acquaintance with him, all you knew was that he would almost certainly test the limits of your comprehension. He was always unpredictable, a bit like Churchill’s description of Russia: “A riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Unless you knew him pretty well, it was often impossible to predict what Colin McRae might do next. With no live rallying to entertain us at the moment, Motorsport Week’s rallying doyen Jerry Williams casts his mind back to some of the best drivers he has got to know over past 35 years of his reporting on the World Rally Championship…