Colin McRae onboard - Safari Rally Kenya 2001 - Ford Focus RS WRC. EPIC Fast and Bumpy Safari Stage!

Colin McRae onboard Safari Rally Kenya 2001. EPIC fast Colin McRae rally action in his Ford Focus RS WRC rally car.
TOP TIP: Use headphones - Nicky Grist pacenotes on the left, Ford Focus RS WRC rally car on the right.
McRae was in third place but the steering and clutch broke soon after. See the dramatic moments in our 2001 WRC Safari Rally Kenya highlights here: • Safari Rally Kenya 200...
Co driver is Nicky Grist reading pacenotes in English.
Stage name and distance: SS3 Orien 1 - 112.52 km
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The WRC is the FIA World Rally Championship, a tough motorsport using rally cars on real roads around the world. Watch the best rally drivers battle on gravel and asphalt roads with mud, rain, dust, ice and heat! Watch high speed action as the rally drivers power slide and drift round narrow corners, go flat out over a big jump or through a watersplash, handbrake turn round a hairpin, survive a big moment, or have a massive crash! Rally requires maximum attack and careful tactics to become world rally champion.
Each rally has timed sections called special stages, on closed roads. Drivers complete these stages as quickly as possible. A co-driver reads pace notes that explain the hazards ahead. Rally drivers use the same rally car to travel to each stage on public roads, following normal traffic regulations. The crew which completes all the stages in the shortest time is the rally winner. Championship points are won using the same scoring system as Formula 1. The championship is administered by Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body.
Over 30 countries have hosted WRC rallies. Rally Monte Carlo, Rally Argentina, Rally Finland, Rally Portugal, Tour de Corse on Corsica, France, Rally Sardegna on Sardinia, Italy, Safari Rally in Kenya, Acropolis Rally in Greece, Rally New Zealand, Rally Australia, Rally Japan, Rally GB, Rally Catalunya, Rallye Deutschland, Rally Mexico and many more.
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Timestamps
0:00 Start of Stage
2:00 slow & bumpy
2:34 dry river crossing
3:24 bad bumps
4:02 road splits
4:24 flat out top speed
4:50 spotter helicopter warms McRae
5:32 flat out maximum attack
6:07 adjusting air vents
6:35 car nose dives
7:08 bumpy dry river crossing
8:53 deep ruts
9:09 fast over deep ruts
9:41 Now Watch Tommi Makinen onboard!

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TOP TIP: Use headphones and you will hear Nicky Grist reading the pacenotes in the left ear, and Ford Focus RS WRC rally car raw sound in the right ear. 2:00 slow bumpy rough section, 2:34 rocky dry river crossing, 3:24 bad bumps, 4:02 road splits and McRae goes right, 4:24 Flat out top speed, 4:50 spotter helicopter warms McRae of a public traffic on the road, 5:32 flat out maximum attack on the corner after this long straight, 6:07 getting hot and trying to adjust air vents, 6:35 steep jump down, and car nose dives, 6:55 McRae talks to Grist about the pacenotes, 7:08 very bumpy dry river crossing with rocks, 8:44 McRae talks again, 8:53 bad deep ruts, 9:09 fast over the ruts now. Colin McRae stops in this stage after the steering is damaged, and then the clutch.

[@BeaudenDai]

RIP Colin. 20 years later after this great run, your spirit lives on and the rally returns to Kenya.

[@TiboSnabbRacing]

i have driven this stage, be it some years later...the commitment through the stage, and especially at 5:50 is ridiculous. I graded that right hander as a 4...and he is absolutely foot down there!

[@periklaskyriakidis6064]

What stage is this???

[@ZepG]

Colin was amazing, he either won a rally by driving flat out or wrecked by driving flat out! He had more balls than a bowling alley, R.I.P.

[@hristoitchov]

This is the most impressive rally onboard I've seen and I've seen many. Such speed and precision between the trees and dirt banks, despite the rough terrain and rocks sending the car in all possible directions. What an awesome combination of rally, car, driver and co-driver.

[@lenonleyian2354]

In my village kajiado kenya

[@barsorrro]

All this is done in a perfect symbiosis with a sturdy yet wonderfully responsive and terrifically poised car, and to the rhythmic and calm, but nowhere near lulling, melody of calls from the perfect co-driver. So memorable. So wonderful. So unreal.

[@lcf34]

Cannot imagine their back and neck state after such one. Incredible in the true meaning of the word.

[@susanmathai2266]

Very terrifying and amazing! Kudos to Grist for surviving Colin's high speed dirt road drives in the 🇰🇪Safari Rally 👏👏💐.

[@barsorrro]

I think that Colin plus Nicky plus the Focus WRC of that time and the Safari Rally are together the embodiment of everything that's best in rallying. You have a brilliant, very brave, and impressively perceptive driver guiding the car on a stunningly fast road in rough terrain, pacing himself in an absolutely awesome way through the particularly difficult bits, using a great judgement and improvisation in his coice of the line.

[@Ft5fTL]

2000's WRC was something else. McRae was only 3rd with this performance. Just imagine the level of the competition.

[@PTKilowatt]

Epic rally, one of the greatest of all time, this can't get any better. RIP Colin, thank you for leaving us examples of rallying excellence like this, and giving the next generation of drivers the tools to thrill the fans.

[@Sim-903]

R.I.P. Colin...unbelievable driving skill

[@Strateas44]

the best that ever was, the best that ever will be.

[@roughcutflex]

rally in peace colin.what an awesome event the safari was,great stage thanks for posting

[@joaoaraujo8081]

Pilot and Co-pilot both talents amazing!

[@susanmathai2266]

Thank you for this upload 👏👏! 🇰🇪🇰🇪

[@CamiloRomerocarajo87]

i Love the classic onboards!!!

[@Hix066]

grandes cahunas. Can we have some split footage of Colin and Carlos' battles through the years. Both legends!!!

[@Roldandi]

Maestro de maestros! Grande Colin!

[@Hpatrik]

What a tough rally. Thx for upload.

[@AWDfreak]

RIP Colin McRae I haven't seen footage of the modern Safari Rallies, thanks for uploading infinity/5

[@Bryonato]

still and always will be the best. not exactly sure how WRC spelled his name wrong... RIP Colin, we miss you.

[@ALBORNOZ24AMG]

Cold blood Colin .

[@joaomarques3861]

5:47 😯

[@jpmazdaspeed]

he was crazy. God!

[@wlfpck11]

nice work

[@wordsshackles441]

BRUTAL

[@-BEASTOR-]

jezus, that the car isn't breaking in peaces haha

[@aberuchan666]

Una conducción alucinante. Normal que se hiciera toda una leyenda.

[@kevinmbuthia6019]

RIP Colins best driver ever.

[@geekdiggy]

as soon as they got rid of the safari rally, i feel the average size of a driver's testicles shrank as a result of a watered-down championship schedule. back then their balls were so large they actually became a weight problem in the car, and they'd get bruised with every rut or jump and they'd start bleeding baby monsters as soon as set free. they called this rally the "car killer", which means to enter this rally you had to either be colin mcrae, or just bat-shit insane.

[@RABEANTs]

It would be really great to have the same angle with S Loeb ...

[@rallypassionbrasil2758]

Gênio!

[@bigtoepapa]

Two people that viewed this are NASCAR fans

[@pcv3200]

Really hard terrain!!!!

[@leonardo3689]

BRING BACK ON BOARD CAMS

[@eminsomnia14]

Colin McRae The best!!!!!!!!!! RIP

[@jkand]

We need to get Safari rally back to the calender

[@22bjonah]

I miss the safari rally.

[@kasuleronnie2762]

its backkkkk

[@strasharo]

R.I.P Colin, we miss you!

[@shun2837]

I have a request, I wanna watch Petter Solberg's onboard Rally Japan 2004 SS26

[@CAL986]

two years ago to day :( RIP

[@binio20]

colin the best!

[@wlfpck11]

but better yet great video

[@blackness010]

R.I.P Colin greatest driver

[@falasana]

OK..let's C..I have counted exactly 43 wrecks that I would have had under these circumstances...practically...I wrecked within 23 seconds! Go Collins!!!!

[@kevinmbuthia6019]

Would love to see the yaris on the same road, see if it would have managed..

[@TheStigSP-BR]

R.I.P Colin Even the pilot from spot helicopter needed to be fast to catch him!

[@zohery-ismaelrakotoarisolo908]

5:48 Madness

[@valentinavazhenina1826]

Колин лучший навсегда!

[@MaxSafeheaD]

Left channel on the Audio is SERIOUSLY quiet!!! I don't suppose there are any stages filmed by helicopter in the cupboard are there?

[@Wrchd]

RIP Colin :(

[@Carles86]

Colin, [r.i.p.]

[@MrRocket2008]

thats a horrible stage for the cars with all those rutts and holes and so on, that must have killed the wheels and suspension.

[@malagradecido]

kenya the best rally ever...

[@pgk138]

I'd call that a perfect run!! 🧭