The name is Galli, Gigi Galli

Gigi Galli is one of those guys who despite a phenomenal natural talent behind the wheel, for a number of reasons never quite made it to the very top of his sport.  Not that this matters one bit to his fans who worshiped him and his brash, all out style.

It was a treat to find this clip of Galli back behind the wheel and tearing up the special stages of last week's San Marino Rally Legends event.  
At the start of the clip he tells his co-driver, he's pumped but rusty..... OK...   My favorite part is the section which starts (about 3:25) with the infamous jump and continues through a long right hand sweeper which Galli of course attacks with  the proper  axis of oversteer!

It's a bit like a Ken Block Gymkana minus the fancy Hollywood edits.



RallyLegends is a wild event with amazing cars from different eras gratuitously hooning between wings of semi suicidal "Group B" style fans.

Nasty crash for Gigi Galli at Rally Germany

Galli broke a femur and will be out for the rest of the season. Just in case you forgot how dangerous driving at 100mph inches from trees actually is take a look at the on-board from Gigi's car.

Consider that a WRC car will require something in the order of 2500 man hours to build the cage and reinforce the chassis then take a look at the angle of the steering column after the impact. Galli likely owes his life to those cage builders.

Frightening stuff, take a look



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Even MORE Rally Madness!

OK, so perhaps this "awesome rally vidclip" thing has started something. Today's clip was sent in by a good friend of the Axis, we'll call him "Steve The Hurricane" (not related to The Stee). This Steve, like our own Adil, is a trained expert in the art of rally driving, having attended rally school in Ireland, among other venues. Ride with him in an autocross and you'll be impressed, but turn him loose (pun intended) on snow or dirt and he'll simply amaze you. Rumor has it that Steve is close to inking a deal for an xDrive sponsorship.

So let's get to the clip. Steve enjoyed our banter about Redefining Early Turn-in last week, so here is his contribution, but you must watch to the end to see the earliest of turn-ins. The clip is originally from www.gigigalli.com. So enjoy. And, if the embedded teaser clip isn't enough, you can get a whole 2:40min "best of" clip of Gigi's work here.