I grew up riding dirt bikes on these very tracks in St Gwynno's forestry as a local. The only thing that can make you appreciate this video more is going there for yourself and seeing how tight and technical but unbelievably fast these tracks are. Most of it remains unchanged to this day. Watching this video now, it's hard to believe that such driving is possible on these tracks, but only McCrae knew how to do it with no compromise.
It's almost like his Co driver doesn't even bother writing "don't cut" into the pace notes anymore... Cuz he knows damn well colins gonna cut the shit outta every single one anyway 😂🤘
I took Nicky’s car back to his house in Wales once and he drove me to the hotel. He is a bloody good driver himself. We had a drink at the bar and he signed posters for my son for me. He writes Flat out on them. I drove a number of his cars. Great guy.
N P it was. I worked at an airport chauffeur parking company. He used to drive there is all sorts of cars as he was travelling somewhere to go on a rally. Sometimes the changed his return destination so I drive his cars back to wherever he wanted, even to his home in Wales. I remember this gym he had in his house. I met his wife too. He told me I could run up the mileage on his cars so they weren’t parked up for weeks. He had a Carrera 4 which I used a lot. I got on really well with him. I really liked him.
@@ruleofthespirit Wow, what a lad! Always admired him and he is the underrated man who seems to have helped develop Colin Mcrae to a much better driver than he was when he got the title. Never met him, sadly, but there is an amazing three hour podcast with him and Chris Harris.
Formula 1 fan here, but this is the most spectacular driving I've ever seen. The bravery and skill is off the charts. How he didn't crash is beyond me O_o
Shady Shades If you watch any of his old races, Colin crashed plenty of times lol. He was a force to be recokoned with on every single stage, no matter what. He was going to either set a ridiculous time and come out on top or go down in flames, but that was Colin. Pedal to metal, all the time. And of course there's the calm and steady pace notes of Nicky Grist.
As a virtual rally driver I'm always impressed by F1. Sure I can get through a stage with a decent time, but being able to do that consistently with a crowded track? That's another beast altogether. :)
@@nightowlrally Sure I can get through an F1 lap with a decent time, too. But F1 is about consistency lap after lap - okay, sure. But so is the WRC - it's a speed competition! It's completely useless to be fast in one stage alone if we are going to underperform and post mere "decent" times for the rest of the rally. At which case, we are lacking skills. Consistency is a byproduct of proper skills. If we lack skills, then our good laps are mostly a byproduct of luck. Exactly the same goes for rally stages - specially real rallying, with just one try available and no restart button nor flashbacks; with more difficult physics than those of Dirt Rally and WRC games; around massively hostile roads, etc.
I come back to this every couple of months. It must be one of the greatest pieces of onboard footage I have ever seen.. What I wouldn't have given to be strapped into the car with Colin and let him throw the car at the stage..
@Here's Johnny Do you know what Formula 1 are? It seems not, you seem to know absolutely nothing about F1 :D Requires insane attention and driving skill, im loving both F1 and Rally so don't come with im a F1 fanboy. And tell me, what tracks are circles in F1. - Pisses me off when people write bullshite :>
Here's Johnny you can’t compare the two because they both come with their own difficulties. F1 comes with more endurance, more g force and more car management. Rally on the other hand comes with driving in brutal terrain, super narrow corses, and almost driving blind but thanks to the co driver they have a bit more understanding. They both are difficult.
@@gollese how would Hamilton get on at rallying. Probably the same as raikonnen. If loeb went in to f1 in his prime he was a sure world champion. Also f1 cars aren't all same whereas rally cars are built same so a much fairer playing field . F1 is all about how much money each team has
@@gollese mate rallying and F1 are worlds apart. Both have lost alittle bit of magic in the last few years. F1 relies on consistency if you are consistently quicker and there are enough laps left you basically win. Rallying is about reactions and minute control. Both are insanely difficult to master but rallying is more heart in mouth. Rally drivers are made of different stuff to f1 drivers
This, the Ari Vatanen/Terry Hariman "Dear God!" Manx run and the Peter Solberg /Phil Mills stage record in Finland are the most intense, greatest pieces of driving you'll ever see. 👌
If anybody expands this thread and want to check out more of the similar exciting footage, go Rally Poland Ott Tanak Onboard. That's mind bogglingly quick, and painfully narrow.
i fell in love with the colin mcrae rally video game and theni thought ''i play this game, why wouldn't i search who is colin mcrae is??'' and then i watched couple of videos about him and damnn he was super good!
I doubt that there will be a driver of Colin's caliber in WRC ever again.Such speed,skill,car control and more bravery than the Group B drivers(and they had to wrestle with true animals) won't be seen ever again.Sure,there are many great drivers and champions,but there is only one Colin Mcrae.
@@teoma1918 Sure, but no one was as suicidal as Mcrae. It's like Senna in F1, others beat him but there was only one Senna, he also drove like a lunatic.
Theres been and will be plenty of awesome pilots. That being said, his loss is a massive one, for his friends, family, fans and sport. May he rest well.
for me... in my humble opinion, to this day, I have not seen a driver with so much NATURAL talent... to drive a RALLY car... many drivers who competed with him say he was SPECIAL...
Bloody hell! Mr McRae was a true genius behind the wheel. Remember it well, but forgot just how manic it was in the cockpit, although you wouldn't know from Nicky as it sounds like he's out for a Sunday drive. :)
Some of the best driving I've ever witnessed anyone do it's as simple as that. Colin made driving look so effortless whereas to us it looks like a one big insane crash will happen at any minute. The greatest ever FACT. " If in doubt go flat out " RIP legend. You'll never be forgotton
@@ksm1985 I've had the privilege to have grown up in an era watching him compete alongside the likes of Richard Burns Carlos Sainz Tommi Makkihen etc etc & for me Colin McRae was the best. His car control was astonishing the way he flung his car in the corners barely breaking. He was an absolute gem
Used to watch this shit live when I was a huge Gran Turismo fan!!! I'd stay up until 3 am on the speed channel to watch this and just wish I could own a rally Subaru Impreza before they became popular!! We were ahead of our times!¡!!!
The only scottsman to tame the welsh forestry what a pilot he was look at the way he throws that focus round that forest! 😈 R.I.P legend! ❤🏴 love from wales!
He's doing 130mph down a B road with a totally chill co-driver. RIP big guy, the king of rally, who died far too early. This video shows the coordination between car, driver and clipboard where they are all acting as one. Colin can shoot down a road that'd have the seat sucked into my rectum due to the pucker factor, and yet so humble that he'd sign a ring-binder of cars and drivers that I kept as well as answering questions he must have heard before. A decade later he was dead. As a newly-qualified pilot that year I can understand fully what killed him and the others. If only a mountain lee had thrown the Twin Squirrel clear, he would have made it. Same with David Leslie of Touring Car fame, another humble guy with a lot of enthusiasm and time for his fans. An everyday plane or helicopter that's suddenly hitting the ground. It's a terrible irony that someone so quick and fast with a car would die in an aircraft crash. David Leslie and Colin McRae would keep a car under control but died when an aircraft slammed into the ground within a year of each other. We won't see drivers like this again. RIP Colin and David. We miss you. I'll treasure you always.
I ve learnt driving like that in DR 2.0 . This kind of driving constantly playing with the weight of the car to set it for corners is actually doable in this rally game
what at first appears to be random chaos and loud noises, close calls and luck is actually insane precision and very carefully considered subtle decisions. He was not out of control for even a single moment. What you just witnessed is one of the great masters painting a landscape, or a great composer performing their magnum opus. Every single time he raced he was going through the same experience that a soldier goes through when defending themselves and their loved ones. Every single cell on his body was on overload, and if need be he was bending reality. Welcome to Rally racing bitches.
When I think I drove hell of a time in Dirt Rally - I just need to watch a Colin Vid to realise that some racers were driving MUCH faster in real life than I do in Video games..
Every time he snapped the car around I thought he was going to lose it, but this is McRae, so he didn't of course! Senna would be happy with such performance. Fun fact, he also wanted to do rally, but I guess f1 was fine enough for him. Still I would have liked to see him and McRae duke it out.
it was colins flicks that was unique to any one else. they had some much angle on them you think he was going in a ditch ! so glad we can watch his skills over and over again..
Really? wow! IS it possible to request access to the old on board footage? I'm surrounded by the old Welsh Rally stages where I live and I'm campaigning to get the WRC more historical recognition in the area.
Incredible how the co-drivers keeps calm and focused while Mcrae trows the car around those corners.
Knowing Sir Colin he probably wasn’t even listening
i agree. especially knowing what we know of colin, he probably wasnt even listening lol 😂😂
Rest in peace sir! you are a legend
Rest in PIECES.
❤
@@johnny5805 hope your nanna is proud of you
Grist's sound files in the games sound really close to this footage
mattdobz that's because they record Grist and then put it into the game.
@@ThisIsMyRodrick I miss those gaming rally days having Nicky be your codriver =(
Yea was going to say it's surreal to hear him In the game after watching Colin's stages.
@@1BrknHrtdRomeo you can have him in dirt 4
I grew up riding dirt bikes on these very tracks in St Gwynno's forestry as a local. The only thing that can make you appreciate this video more is going there for yourself and seeing how tight and technical but unbelievably fast these tracks are. Most of it remains unchanged to this day. Watching this video now, it's hard to believe that such driving is possible on these tracks, but only McCrae knew how to do it with no compromise.
It's almost like his Co driver doesn't even bother writing "don't cut" into the pace notes anymore... Cuz he knows damn well colins gonna cut the shit outta every single one anyway 😂🤘
He said it around the 5:50 mark because that would have been a clenching moment if he didn't.
I took Nicky’s car back to his house in Wales once and he drove me to the hotel. He is a bloody good driver himself. We had a drink at the bar and he signed posters for my son for me. He writes Flat out on them. I drove a number of his cars. Great guy.
+steven davies what a opportunity !
N P it was. I worked at an airport chauffeur parking company. He used to drive there is all sorts of cars as he was travelling somewhere to go on a rally. Sometimes the changed his return destination so I drive his cars back to wherever he wanted, even to his home in Wales. I remember this gym he had in his house. I met his wife too. He told me I could run up the mileage on his cars so they weren’t parked up for weeks. He had a Carrera 4 which I used a lot. I got on really well with him. I really liked him.
@@ruleofthespirit Wow, what a lad! Always admired him and he is the underrated man who seems to have helped develop Colin Mcrae to a much better driver than he was when he got the title. Never met him, sadly, but there is an amazing three hour podcast with him and Chris Harris.
Formula 1 fan here, but this is the most spectacular driving I've ever seen. The bravery and skill is off the charts. How he didn't crash is beyond me O_o
Shady Shades If you watch any of his old races, Colin crashed plenty of times lol. He was a force to be recokoned with on every single stage, no matter what. He was going to either set a ridiculous time and come out on top or go down in flames, but that was Colin. Pedal to metal, all the time. And of course there's the calm and steady pace notes of Nicky Grist.
David Gonzalez U couldn't have said it better, he such a absolute legend hands down and u gotta love Nicky Grist, he is such a good co-driver.
Definitely look up some more Colin McRae! Also check out Sebastian Loeb. And my personal favorite, Frank Kelly.
As a virtual rally driver I'm always impressed by F1. Sure I can get through a stage with a decent time, but being able to do that consistently with a crowded track? That's another beast altogether. :)
@@nightowlrally Sure I can get through an F1 lap with a decent time, too. But F1 is about consistency lap after lap - okay, sure. But so is the WRC - it's a speed competition! It's completely useless to be fast in one stage alone if we are going to underperform and post mere "decent" times for the rest of the rally. At which case, we are lacking skills. Consistency is a byproduct of proper skills. If we lack skills, then our good laps are mostly a byproduct of luck. Exactly the same goes for rally stages - specially real rallying, with just one try available and no restart button nor flashbacks; with more difficult physics than those of Dirt Rally and WRC games; around massively hostile roads, etc.
Here is Colin McRae making the road a couple meters wider than it actually is on each side
I come back to this every couple of months. It must be one of the greatest pieces of onboard footage I have ever seen.. What I wouldn't have given to be strapped into the car with Colin and let him throw the car at the stage..
I always liked how rarely Colin uses the handbrake to destabilize the car for the corner, much nicer with the downshift :)
Yeah he is excellent at transferring the weight of the car with steering only.
Exactly.. utterly amazing
I've seen this sooo many times..
And still I'm sat here smiling, and shaking my head !!!
Haha me too, just come back for a watch
Awesome driving skills right here. McRae was a boss.
+siXis The helicopter crash came several years after he'd lost his regular drive.
Still is 👍
Unbelievable skill. Knocks the spots off F1.
@BlackJackMulligan never has so many words been used to say so little..
@Here's Johnny Do you know what Formula 1 are? It seems not, you seem to know absolutely nothing about F1 :D Requires insane attention and driving skill, im loving both F1 and Rally so don't come with im a F1 fanboy. And tell me, what tracks are circles in F1. - Pisses me off when people write bullshite :>
Here's Johnny you can’t compare the two because they both come with their own difficulties. F1 comes with more endurance, more g force and more car management. Rally on the other hand comes with driving in brutal terrain, super narrow corses, and almost driving blind but thanks to the co driver they have a bit more understanding. They both are difficult.
@@gollese how would Hamilton get on at rallying. Probably the same as raikonnen. If loeb went in to f1 in his prime he was a sure world champion. Also f1 cars aren't all same whereas rally cars are built same so a much fairer playing field . F1 is all about how much money each team has
@@gollese mate rallying and F1 are worlds apart. Both have lost alittle bit of magic in the last few years. F1 relies on consistency if you are consistently quicker and there are enough laps left you basically win. Rallying is about reactions and minute control. Both are insanely difficult to master but rallying is more heart in mouth. Rally drivers are made of different stuff to f1 drivers
This, the Ari Vatanen/Terry Hariman "Dear God!" Manx run and the Peter Solberg /Phil Mills stage record in Finland are the most intense, greatest pieces of driving you'll ever see. 👌
Technically it's slightly different but would it be fair to also throw climb dance in for Vatanen as well?
@@joeogle7729 I don’t see why not and also Loeb’s 2013. Pikes Peak run too given how precise,smooth and yet so stupid fast that run was.
If anybody expands this thread and want to check out more of the similar exciting footage, go Rally Poland Ott Tanak Onboard. That's mind bogglingly quick, and painfully narrow.
After years I still came back to this video and had my jaw dropped 😅😂 he’s just too good
master of masters.
we miss you
This is sick. Rest in peace Colin, you have been one of the greatest.
i fell in love with the colin mcrae rally video game and theni thought ''i play this game, why wouldn't i search who is colin mcrae is??'' and then i watched couple of videos about him and damnn he was super good!
WRC still miss you collin ....your little focus still miss you...
His little beast Focus
So does the Subaru, the Impreza kids are all vape boys with air lift, nothing against them but a lot less rally builds lately is kinda sad
This never gets old!!!
Oner of the most talented drivers of any motorsport...... EVER!!
We are witnessing 7 minutes of driving perfection
Incredible, Awesome, Fantastic!
4:16 - 4:27 supreme control!!! RIP legend
Ahhhh, straight cut transmission, the sound of pure joy.
six right open...six left over crest!!
Six Left cut Into Care Right Taightens Over Crest to 4- sleepy Exit 150
I doubt that there will be a driver of Colin's caliber in WRC ever again.Such speed,skill,car control and more bravery than the Group B drivers(and they had to wrestle with true animals) won't be seen ever again.Sure,there are many great drivers and champions,but there is only one Colin Mcrae.
But Sainz, Loeb defeat him...
@@teoma1918 Sure, but no one was as suicidal as Mcrae. It's like Senna in F1, others beat him but there was only one Senna, he also drove like a lunatic.
@@fargeeks died a legend though. Just because you were too young to see him, don't talk shit.
@@fargeeks No need to speak ill of the dead.
Totally agree. He was far better than Sainz and Loeb
The legend at maximum attack , scary fast.
This is top class rally skills. Colin McRae. You are a legend!
Master at the wheel. Very good to see Colin in action one of the best
Colin had some epic skills.
5:15-5:19 how the hell legend rip
A mini inertia drift lol
McRae was known for turning hacks on! Looks like the 'turn in the air' hack, what a cheat!
Incredible 😂. You would be buzzing if you nailed that once on dirt 😂
The sad part is that the world will never be see another talent that is fit to tie his boots. I was privileged to be able to see him in his prime.
Theres been and will be plenty of awesome pilots.
That being said, his loss is a massive one, for his friends, family, fans and sport. May he rest well.
for me... in my humble opinion, to this day, I have not seen a driver with so much NATURAL talent... to drive a RALLY car... many drivers who competed with him say he was SPECIAL...
Thats f*cking driving!!!
Colin McRae must have been in another reality where he coulnd´t die. Otherwise it´s not explainable how crazy he was driving.
He did it for the fans dont forget that look at his driving style when he passes the crouds ...LEGEND
He is legend
Nicky Grist: "Don't cut."
Colin McRae: *Proceeds to cut, every time*
And he paid for that on stage 4 unfortunately.
I wonder if my Focus can do that... brb
Lmaooo
Rest in peace Stephen, you are a legend!
Colin was once for its own..A Legend !!!! Miss him !!
Bloody hell! Mr McRae was a true genius behind the wheel. Remember it well, but forgot just how manic it was in the cockpit, although you wouldn't know from Nicky as it sounds like he's out for a Sunday drive. :)
Here from the Collecting Cars Podcast interview with Nicky Grist
Me too !! 😊
Same here. What great stories.
You watch this video and say " I can't do that". What a smooth driving and totally skilled Mcrae. Rest in peace!
Really do miss this guy 😢
5:15 till the end is genius, freaking fast, genius!
Some of the best driving I've ever witnessed anyone do it's as simple as that. Colin made driving look so effortless whereas to us it looks like a one big insane crash will happen at any minute. The greatest ever FACT.
" If in doubt go flat out "
RIP legend. You'll never be forgotton
Wish I'd been Into rally when I was younger to see him drive. That would be an incredible memory to have
@@ksm1985 I've had the privilege to have grown up in an era watching him compete alongside the likes of Richard Burns Carlos Sainz Tommi Makkihen etc etc & for me Colin McRae was the best. His car control was astonishing the way he flung his car in the corners barely breaking. He was an absolute gem
OMG that view, speechless ...
5:45@6:15 Maximun Attack!!
If in doubt, flat-out :)
Great Colin!!! You know just how to... Focus WRC or Fabia WRC and why, Thanks, Petr from Mladá Boleslav, the škoda city, Czech, Europe...
A pearl of beauty in an ozean of mainstream-vids...
WE ARE NOT HERE FOR A LONG TIME BUT FOR A NICE TIME...........................rest in peace colin you where the BEST. RIP COLIN AND KEN ☹
Insane is not the right word unless the desired outcome is "winning." This was just plain nuts!
An absolute LEGEND at work.. makes it look such a breeze!!
Lovely to see the 'Scandanavien flick' used with such venom!
Colin Mcrae was One of my fav driver and it was a damn shame how he passed away so R.I.P Colin the Legend Mcrae 🕆 We will never forget you,Sir!
Beautiful car control from a beautiful awesome guy. Miss you Colin
what a camera, doesn't tremble at all!
It's the driver. Trust. The camera obeyed Colin 😂😂
This is a masterpiece. Colin rly was the grand master of art of rally driving who perfected hes skills fully. I`ve never seen so smooth driver before.
Used to watch this shit live when I was a huge Gran Turismo fan!!! I'd stay up until 3 am on the speed channel to watch this and just wish I could own a rally Subaru Impreza before they became popular!! We were ahead of our times!¡!!!
The silence at the end of the stage is just their combined skill thickening the air
😱😱😱 Mcrae was a Monster of Rally!
Waow
R.I.P 🙏🏾
This man is a master! Incredible skills and car control !!!! So quick and spectacular !!!
The most intense video I've ever seen
He clearly knows what’s going happen well before it happens, what a legend
The only scottsman to tame the welsh forestry what a pilot he was look at the way he throws that focus round that forest! 😈 R.I.P legend! ❤🏴 love from wales!
this was my proudest fap
best rally driver ever rip colin
He's doing 130mph down a B road with a totally chill co-driver. RIP big guy, the king of rally, who died far too early. This video shows the coordination between car, driver and clipboard where they are all acting as one. Colin can shoot down a road that'd have the seat sucked into my rectum due to the pucker factor, and yet so humble that he'd sign a ring-binder of cars and drivers that I kept as well as answering questions he must have heard before. A decade later he was dead. As a newly-qualified pilot that year I can understand fully what killed him and the others. If only a mountain lee had thrown the Twin Squirrel clear, he would have made it. Same with David Leslie of Touring Car fame, another humble guy with a lot of enthusiasm and time for his fans. An everyday plane or helicopter that's suddenly hitting the ground. It's a terrible irony that someone so quick and fast with a car would die in an aircraft crash. David Leslie and Colin McRae would keep a car under control but died when an aircraft slammed into the ground within a year of each other. We won't see drivers like this again. RIP Colin and David. We miss you. I'll treasure you always.
RIP to the legend
I ve learnt driving like that in DR 2.0 . This kind of driving constantly playing with the weight of the car to set it for corners is actually doable in this rally game
When onboard-videos made sense.
Today they show either the road or the driver, very rarely both.
He doesn't brake for the first 38 seconds of the video...
Cuz all the corners are 6 😂
what at first appears to be random chaos and loud noises, close calls and luck is actually insane precision and very carefully considered subtle decisions. He was not out of control for even a single moment. What you just witnessed is one of the great masters painting a landscape, or a great composer performing their magnum opus. Every single time he raced he was going through the same experience that a soldier goes through when defending themselves and their loved ones. Every single cell on his body was on overload, and if need be he was bending reality. Welcome to Rally racing bitches.
FAAAAAAAAAAARRRK!!! How in hell does Nicky Grist keep his shit so together?? You'd think he's reading the Sunday paper in bed!
I Would've had a heart attack 3 minutes in
Colin is a legend who went way to early, just loved his balls to the wall way of driving, i would have given anything to be his passenger just once.
Big Colin!! I miss your quality and madness!! Thanks for all!!
Colin Is A Driver From Another World!!!!!
When I think I drove hell of a time in Dirt Rally - I just need to watch a Colin Vid to realise that some racers were driving MUCH faster in real life than I do in Video games..
its rly rly hard to drive like this even in dirt rally
5:13 what a way to take a chicane :O
absalout legend We Miss you Colin
Insane raw speed and perfection!!
Increible, sin palabras!
at 6:00 it sounds like the little Focus is going to explode.
watching this with a very wide smile in the face.....
Every time he snapped the car around I thought he was going to lose it, but this is McRae, so he didn't of course! Senna would be happy with such performance. Fun fact, he also wanted to do rally, but I guess f1 was fine enough for him. Still I would have liked to see him and McRae duke it out.
fenomeno por siempre!!!! increible q capacidad!!
Conduccion al limite de nivel experto. R.I.P. colin macrai
Id love to do that! Totally Awesome!.....RIP in peace my hero!
Unbelievable skill. He really was that good. There is no F1 onboard that impressive that is for sure!
Impresionante colín
Turn left to turn right. Absolute beautiful. My favourite sportsman ever
This focus sounds so nice :D
it was colins flicks that was unique to any one else. they had some much angle on them you think he was going in a ditch ! so glad we can watch his skills over and over again..
REST IN PEACE COLIN
un pazzo!!!! il migliore!! rispetto dall'Italia
WOW...those flicks
those reflexes
that style!
Now that shows how much skill he had. He was flat out and making the car dance. He was a specially talented kind of nutter. RIP Colin.
5:18 wow !!!!!!!!
Phenomenom Instinct!!!
I designed and built and operated all these on-boards from 93 until 2003, probably the best years.. HAs it got any better?
Really? wow! IS it possible to request access to the old on board footage? I'm surrounded by the old Welsh Rally stages where I live and I'm campaigning to get the WRC more historical recognition in the area.
Master at work , Awesome !!
Absolutely Genius!!!