RE: Gigi Galli onboard: Time For Tea?
Wednesday 30th October 2013
Yes, it's another onboard rallying clip, but this one is slightly different to that rather hairy Ari Vatanen vid. This is from the San Marino Rally Legends event, where the emphasis appears more on creating show for the hoards of fans than outright speed.
Gigi Galli onboard: Time For Tea?
Dramatic, spectacular, exciting Gigi at his very best!
So who better to provide some gratuitous oversteer than Gigi Galli, rally drift extraordinaire? Here he's driving a Focus WRC and slithering around at night, during the day, on tarmac and in the forest. The car only appears to be going straight when he's braking. Watch too for some expert dabs of oppo when the camera faces the flamboyant Italian.
The San Marino event seems perfectly suited to Galli's style too, strategic haybales and tricky hairpins forcing the gigantic handbrake into play. Predictably, the crowds are only too keen to see more.
Our favourite section is the ten seconds from 3:50, with car sideways for a good few seconds before a yank on the handbrake forces it in the other direction. Excellent stuff.
Discussion
group b was banned because the cars were just becoming too wild, although the fans in those days would literally stand on the track and part as the car came towards them. Someone will be along with a suitable on-board clip shortly hopefully!
I think it was the death of Toivenen in a Lancia Delta S4 that really led to the end of Group B.
I think it was the death of Toivenen in a Lancia Delta S4 that really led to the end of Group B.
zebedee said:
group b was banned because the cars were just becoming too wild, although the fans in those days would literally stand on the track and part as the car came towards them. Someone will be along with a suitable on-board clip shortly hopefully!
I think it was the death of Toivenen in a Lancia Delta S4 that really led to the end of Group B.
As requestedI think it was the death of Toivenen in a Lancia Delta S4 that really led to the end of Group B.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYIH7ApCxoM
Awesome control and good to see no one in that guys way or standing on the outside of a corner. . . .i remember the crowds literally used to part as Vatinen and co would fly down the roads. .again another clip will be provided i expect. I like to see cars up close like anyone, especially in competition, but i dont expect the driver/co driver appreciate the challenge.
Can somebody please explain this to me. Why do rally drivers make the car slide even when on a tarmac surface. I can understand it is quicker on hairpins and on loose surfaces, but on tarmac I've always been taught that whilst sliding looks good, it is not the fastest way around a corner.
Are the cars just set up in such a way that they slide easily, or do these public roads just have less grip than purpose built race tracks?
Are the cars just set up in such a way that they slide easily, or do these public roads just have less grip than purpose built race tracks?
Someone find the clip where he whacks his co driver, always makes me laugh!
FOUND IT!!!!! :-)
He starts getting wound up at 10 / 11 seconds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmp_ELOZdwM
FOUND IT!!!!! :-)
He starts getting wound up at 10 / 11 seconds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmp_ELOZdwM
topless_mx5 said:
Can somebody please explain this to me. Why do rally drivers make the car slide even when on a tarmac surface. I can understand it is quicker on hairpins and on loose surfaces, but on tarmac I've always been taught that whilst sliding looks good, it is not the fastest way around a corner.
Are the cars just set up in such a way that they slide easily, or do these public roads just have less grip than purpose built race tracks?
Galli is showboating in that video... he's driving the car more like he would on gravel, using Scandinavian flicks to unsettle the car on turn in and a lot of handbrake.Are the cars just set up in such a way that they slide easily, or do these public roads just have less grip than purpose built race tracks?
If you watch the last few years of the WRC you'll see very little sliding on tarmac events by the quickest drivers - Loeb in particular hardly slid the car at all on dry tarmac and was very precise with his lines.
Not sure if the roads have any less grip as I've been on some circuits that are very slippery in the wet, but the cars can be set up pretty much however the driver wants them to handle... looks like Galli has a Focus that thinks it's a Mk2 Escort.
topless_mx5 said:
Can somebody please explain this to me. Why do rally drivers make the car slide even when on a tarmac surface. I can understand it is quicker on hairpins and on loose surfaces, but on tarmac I've always been taught that whilst sliding looks good, it is not the fastest way around a corner.
Are the cars just set up in such a way that they slide easily, or do these public roads just have less grip than purpose built race tracks?
The corner entry speed is such that the car is sliding through momentum and the driver is keeping the balance on the throttle, Gigi is driving in the classic rally driving style more suited to maps than pacenotes. He always has the car pointing straight or on oversteer as he exits the corners.Are the cars just set up in such a way that they slide easily, or do these public roads just have less grip than purpose built race tracks?
Rally drivers do not like understeer !
Edited by tottacrolla on Wednesday 30th October 18:17
zebedee said:
I think it was the death of Toivenen in a Lancia Delta S4 that really led to the end of Group B.
Partly Toivonen & Cresto's death and the RS200 crash in Portugal that killed a few spectators.Galli was and is a showboat. while still being a relatively successful WRC driver. Great character, something that is sorely missed from WRC/Motorsport these days!
apparently these current WRC drivers & Cars are crap and boring Guillaume said:
Right on!A complete nutter, and all the better for it ! !
Does occasionally get it wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dPmFHSE_9g
Does occasionally get it wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dPmFHSE_9g
don logan said:
Someone find the clip where he whacks his co driver, always makes me laugh!
FOUND IT!!!!! :-)
He starts getting wound up at 10 / 11 seconds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmp_ELOZdwM
You reminded me of Francois Delecour losing it with his co-driver as well. FOUND IT!!!!! :-)
He starts getting wound up at 10 / 11 seconds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmp_ELOZdwM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gluw35vKqA
Youtube has just thrown up this little gem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZsXqOj7HGM
Full of all the Group B heroes: Lancia 037 and Delta S4, Audi quattro A2 and S2 (watch the real 'point and squirt' of the S2), Ford RS200, Metro 6R4, Peugeot T16, all in original works liveries.
Plus a few other notables: Celica GT4, Fiat 131, Lancia Stratos and Integrale...
Highlight for me is 0:43 with the A2 quattro power oversteering around the tarmac. They didn't often do that on the Manx International in my day..!
Full of all the Group B heroes: Lancia 037 and Delta S4, Audi quattro A2 and S2 (watch the real 'point and squirt' of the S2), Ford RS200, Metro 6R4, Peugeot T16, all in original works liveries.
Plus a few other notables: Celica GT4, Fiat 131, Lancia Stratos and Integrale...
Highlight for me is 0:43 with the A2 quattro power oversteering around the tarmac. They didn't often do that on the Manx International in my day..!
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