Friday 14th November 2008

PH Heroes: The Human Edition

Rally driver goes beyond the call of duty to get his car home...

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No caption can do this pic justice...

Rally drivers are a plucky bunch but there are times when you have to gracefully admit defeat. One such occasion may be when the car breaks and it stop moving. But whereas us mere mortals might call it a day when a throttle cable snaps, French rally drivers call it an opportunity for a spot of heroics.

Without a moment’s hesitation the pilot hops into the engine bay to manually control the throttle cable bracket while the co-driver climbs behind the wheel. After narrowly avoiding another competitor the duo then set off to complete the stage of the Ralley de Serrains in France. It’s mesmorizing stuff and proof that motorsport really isn’t boring…

Watch the whole story below.

 

Thanks to Autoblog and Axis of Oversteer for the tip...

[Paul GTS]

HAHAH toasty! This is insane and brilliant all at the same time.

I wonder if they had a health and safety guy on this rally? He probably had a heart attack when he saw this on the cameras.

Could this be the most insane thing someone has done and got away with while competing?

[neil_bolton]

Excellent

[Gatso Hater]

Genius way over getting it over the line

[Stu R]

amazing

[Northern-Loop]

HAHAHAH MADNESSSS!!!

[Jgtv]

love the fact the Co Driver spent time putting his seat belt on!, his mates in the bloody engine bay and he needs a seat belt.

[Fetchez la vache]

Love the fact the driver puts on his seatbelt, while his o/h is hanging on precariously under the bonnet

[TOENHEEL]

Bloody brilliant!!

[ewenm]

Fantastic!

There's probably some rule about the driver needing a seatbelt, but nothing about being under the bonnet.

[zeb]

brilliant

ditto re the seatbelt saga

[C5L]

LEGENDS ! LOL

[Steamer]

Very brave...


...however, my first thought: They had 4 shoes laces in that car probably? a slightly safer option than a human throttle cable?

[patmahe]

Plucky couragous and daft well done for not giving up

[AngryS3Owner]

fantastic!

[SleeperCell]

Surely if they had any brains they would just have used a shoelace or something similar to fix the cable or at least rig up a hand throttle that can be operated from inside the car.

[TOENHEEL]

AngryS3Owner said:

fantastic!

Spotted you mate at the nurburgring few weeks ago! wandered around the car park to say hello but couldnt find you! i was in the yellow exige s if you spotted it.

[CypherP]

Bloody superb!

[the car nut]

Brilliant

I love rallying its much better compare to circuit racing

[don logan]

I hope he blipped the throttle on the down changes!

[AngryS3Owner]

TOENHEEL said:

Spotted you mate at the nurburgring few weeks ago! wandered around the car park to say hello but couldnt find you! i was in the yellow exige s if you spotted it.

think I saw your car either driving past the Am Tiergarden or somewhere around the town. Great trip but didn't even manage to make it on the ring as we were only there for Sunday, will be going back again though!