August 8, 2007

hhhhallelujah wot a yump!

I'm going to go on a little WRC bender here....anyone mind? As I've said before, that Rally is not shown at all in the US is a scandal...

OK, this one is all about the commentary ... OK the jump was pretty impressive as well.



Rally Finland will scare even rally drivers...I think that's saying something.
Commentary is Dutch ( I think...correct me if I'm wrong) but the driver interviews are in English. Here is Mikko Hirvonen on the Ouninpohja stage:



Ever notice the there is a certain look to some rally drivers....kind of a bug eyed quasi psychotic thing going with the eyes... Gilles Panizzi, Hirvonen, and take a look at Petter Solberg...



Could it be that look comes from driving stages the Finns quaintly line with organic, recyclable guard rails? Here is Jan Kopecky in a Skoda.



Mikko Hirvonen...




Sebastian Loeb is philosophical...




Manfred Stohl is on a roll...



and finally some hi-lites...

5 comments:

  1. Even though I watched the daily roundup on Eurosport every day (sorry to rub it in) I really enjoyed your collection of clips.

    Nice work!!

    Miko Hirvonen, the outstanding performance of the weekend for me.
    And the way he clearly seemed to just LOVE IT!

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  2. If you think Pannizi and Hirvonnen look psychotic, take a look at Gronholm when he's driving. You could let a bomb off beside him and he wouldn't notice...

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  3. As correctly pointed out on JGF.com the correct name is "1000 lakes rally".

    Speaking of psycho...I still have to find that clip of Gigi Galli beating up his navigator.

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  4. ac - that was a great moment when Galli did that!

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