Co-driver calamity: Time For Tea?

Co-driving is stressful enough with everything functioning, let alone when the intercom fails...

By / Wednesday, 22 July 2015 / Loading comments

Onboard rally footage is often fairly nerve wracking, the combination of huge speed with narrow stages and blind bends seemingly perilous for online spectators. This particular drive is especially nervy for both the driver co-driver as they attempt a tight stage at blistering speeds without being able to hear each other...

The fun begins at 1:40, where a corner instruction is misheard and their Impreza nearly ends up in a field. Even before this the driver has been tetchy and continues to get more and more wound up following further near misses, some huge tank slappers and stalling on the tarmac section. So not all the co-driver's problem then... She doesn't fair much better, struggling to shout instructions over all the noise, eventually losing her place in the notes and meaning the corners are approached blind.

Knowing nobody was hurt means it's OK to chuckle, right? That it's clearly so awkward and stressful makes it more enjoyable. But there's some incredibly skillful driving too which you have to admire. Wonder how they'd get on in a new Subaru rally car?

Watch the vid

here.