RE: Metro 6R4 Rallycross: Time For Tea

[Ranger 6]

Mr2Mike said:

Proper racing, in proper cars. Makes the 'drifters' mincing around a circuit look even sillier.

[grumpy52]

rallycross said:

grumpy52 said:

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The Metro 6R4 had one of the most distinctive sounds in motorsports , a sort of flat gutterall bark that improved with pops and bangs when turbos were added .

Its the most amazing sound up close it genuinely makes the hairs on the back of the neck stand up, I have been out in practice sessions at Lydden with 6R4's on track with us and the noise as they blast past is incredible.

I have a history with Lydden and have probably marshalled you many times as I did almost every Rallycross meeting from 91 until 2013 in some capacity or other .
The regular Clerk of the course at many of the recent rounds (Andy Stevens) was one of my trainees when he first started .
I was talking to Whitstable Will a couple of months ago , the guy with probably the best 6R4 ever .

[rampageturke]

Mr2Mike said:

Proper racing, in proper cars. Makes the 'drifters' mincing around a circuit look even sillier.

elitism

[Mr2Mike]

rampageturke said:

elitism

Very probably, but you get that at all levels of motorsport so let's not be too hard on them.

[coppice]

grumpy52 said:

The Metro 6R4 had one of the most distinctive sounds in motorsports , a sort of flat gutterall bark that improved with pops and bangs when turbos were added ..

I wouldn't really describe the noise as flat or guttural , but more the perfect example of that tuneful howl of other racing V6s. The closest I've heard to it is the divine Ferrari Dino 246 , the Grand Prix car which was the last front engined job to win a GP (not the similarly V6'ed road car which was lovely but not as sonorous.)

[aeropilot]

coppice said:

I wouldn't really describe the noise as flat or guttural , but more the perfect example of that tuneful howl of other racing V6s. The closest I've heard to it is the divine Ferrari Dino 246 , the Grand Prix car which was the last front engined job to win a GP (not the similarly V6'ed road car which was lovely but not as sonorous.)

Did you ever stand in a forest at night or on the Col and listen to the same engine as fitted in a Lancia Stratos howl through a rally stage....?

[coppice]

Not en France but seen and heard the mighty Stratos many times back in the day. A simply fab noise but the Ferrari 246 F1 car was even noisier . Which is hardly surprising .

[Alucidnation]

Gotta love these, alongside the R5's and the 205 rivals.