The Vatanen Touch; 1980

Ari Vatanen's first British Rally Championship Season with David Sutton in the Rothmans Mk2 Escort

[@NightwishArena]

Amazing driver. One of my childhood heroes, like all these Finnish rally legends. RIP Henri and Hannu

[@ukqwerty999]

Always Loved Ari, Film star looks, and great comedy timing❤ Hi from England

[@TheLRider]

I was there. Love the Manx, Love Ari, Love Escorts, Loved the TR7 V8 especially driven by Tony Pond. It was a brilliant event that year and we went nearly every year throughout the 1980s. Pro ably the best was Vatanen vs Toivonen in the Manta 400s. Toivonen won "comfortably, but did they ring the absolute best out of each other. Superb. That was possibly 1983?

[@SonnyFastSpeed]

Thanks for the great video! For us Finns, Markku Alén, Hannu MIkkola, Ari Vatanen and Henri Toivonen, Simo Lampinen, Timo Mäkinen, Timo Salonen, Juha Kankkunen, Tommi Mäkinen, Marcus Grönholm and many other wonderful Finnish drivers are Flying Finns and legends that we will remember forever. We greatly appreciate and respect the great ones who competed with them like Colin McRae, Carlos Sainz, Walter Rörhl, Richard Burns, Petter Sohlberg, Sebastien Loeb and Stig Blomqvist etc ... Thanks for the great video yet!

[@jorgefernandes6915]

Nobody could drive the Escort like Ari Vatanen. I miss those late 70s and early 80s

[@TheKamil2310]

I came here to see some classic rally. But this good feller from another era is really a salt of the earth guy. Yes in 2021 i'm really distracted by day to day basis thinking and he reminded me of our individual big picture still waiting for us to complete it. Salute

[@46danz]

Brilliant driver,lovely man and philosopher.

[@mairesavage6815]

Fantastic Film at the time...But Barry & BBC were very much against showing Billy Coleman's Exellent Circuit of Ireland Drive before an oil pipe fell off..he was leading Ari & jimmy until half way👎@paddy Sullivan VHS 📼 1990s

[@martinbyrne6643]

Coleman was every bit as fast he could have went all the way to the top , but he loved farming more .

[@westtnskirmishlog6820]

Absolutely love this took me right back, the old grainger footage, the music and hearing these old hard drivers speak. Much thanks from a Southern America rally fan.

[@TheLRider]

Ari, Henri, and Hanu. Three of the all time greats. Rallying was so exciting and raw I would say and full of real personalities. UK rallying was the standard for others to follow..

[@marialindell9874]

Hannu* And all of them Finnish

[@TheLRider]

@@marialindell9874 Yup the flying variety. Great times.

[@tonypasma1707]

Crazy when he went for the fence with People

[@louiekiwi]

On my way to the shop to get a packet of Rothmans.

[@pepscalibra4x4]

Mcraye in the chevette (kadett with manta front) is someting too see❤

[@jonnyfong4203]

Legendary rally driver. Thanks for the upload.

[@FearF1985]

Thanks for sharing this vid. Awesome stuff. Absolutely mental driving in a good way :) If I had one wish in my life it would be to be in a passengers seat of one great drivers rally car, I bet it would be million times better than any carnival ride

[@stephensaxby2820]

One of my all time favourite rally drivers is Ari Vatanen and this film is fantastic.

[@tonypasma1707]

He entres fame

[@analogdriving4824]

Amazing video!!! thx

[@OMENAKAKKU-ex5rw]

ONE OF MY IDOLS AND HEROES

[@monikakalmar1818]

Ari Vatanen, Beatyful Blonde man..❤❤❤

[@taxi-man]

Pure quality

[@imaginingistrue4323]

Lovely lovely video of life and rallying loving man.

[@marksimpson2689]

Brilliant video about a great championship

[@bulterriersanromangomez2152]

Ari Vatanen . El mejor piloto de Rallyes

[@marksanderson8733]

Best rally vid ever made.

[@cakeofthepan2233]

Great upload👍

[@fleshesposito]

Ari seems quite light hearted in these older video clips.

[@paulcaswell2813]

Argentina changed him for ever. Understandably when one thinks of it.

[@fleshesposito]

@@paulcaswell2813 I was thinking the same.

[@comali2212]

The formation of the Group B drivers.

[@ukqwerty999]

Jimmy taking time out of Ari :) and Ari being gracious enough to aknowledge it, those family genes were Strong

[@pierrelallart7542]

❤

[@hurri7720]

Some more Vatanen here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKe7hIucgZmLiMU Climb Dance (Remastered + Original Audio Intro) - Ari Vatanen Peugeot 405 T16

[@ivantuzlak9985]

Ari is very fast driver and very god persons!SISOU!

[@paulcaswell2813]

6:30 - Hannu proving that opening a bottle of fizz is way more difficult than winning a rally!

[@BlandNutz]

First minute is pure goosebumps 😎👌

[@MegaReddevil71]

Ford had some great drivers the likes of Roger clark hannu mikola tino makinen and Ari vatanen

[@david-sutton-cars-ltd]

We build and rebuild

[@tonypasma1707]

Yyyah

[@fkthelefties]

Des Lynam narrating.?

[@GorGob]

10:30 I'm sure somebody died on that fence.

[@followtheciaence]

32:57

[@petesmitt]

10:33 get orf the gate..

[@vincemarshall8550]

fuk me wheres his cap and pipe ,top driver though!

[@blex5579]

i still prefer the Medusa touch, but Ari was a good`un.

[@martinbyrne6643]

The brits are great for asking stupid question.

[@iannewall1451]

19.05 look at the to the left.. Magic :)

[@roymcgavigan5018]

Very entertaining but what makes you think we need the stupid music to drown out the sound of the cars which is real music to an enthusiast's ears?

[@paulcaswell2813]

Blame that on the original producers, not the uploader!