FULL UNSEEN ONBOARD - SS23 Grönholm/Rautiainen | WRC Rally Finland 2000

[@Simon-pq4wd]

Beautiful footage! Are you going to upload more Retro WRC onboards?

[@test-tl8dt]

fun fact: this run is actually only 7th fastest time on this stage, as marcus is just securing the win at this point. the battle for win evaporated on SS11 after richard burns famously binned his subaru 200 meters *after* the flying finish. still a nice blast from the past. third of his thirty career wins and of course first of his unbelievable 7 finland wins.

[@JurekBogdanowicz]

tell corrado 7th time is enough

[@JurekBogdanowicz]

@Benjamin-cd8vk gronholm was faster than allah here. point.

[@marcozorzetto1402]

This is a voyage in the time.....🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@wyskun]

better sound quality than todays wrc clips

[@potatogirlcultist19]

lmao exactly what I was thinking. Incredible how technology has progressed in the 20 years since the video has launched and the cameras are not that much better and in some cases worse.

[@F1Kamel_1992]

Kiitos 🇫🇮

[@soup1029]

I am a proud Peugeot 206 owner

[@Canuck59NHL]

"Merci Merci Peugeot Sport"😄

[@GorGob]

Awesome! Marcus in that Peugeot is legendary!

[@heytoast7129]

Would love to see some onboards from Rally Japan back when it was gravel on Hokkaido. Those were some crazy stages.

[@swrt18]

Proper onboard camera... It`s so dificult reply this angle today with actual cars...❤

[@Vejinx]

Mahtava

[@bobrossaru6075]

Awesome

[@roughdude6575]

So many flies! :s

[@gosc00]

Hi FIA WRC! Do you have onboards from 70s or 80s?

[@rjung_ch]

Is that about what a WRC2 does these days? Looks similar, the sound is totally different.

[@Chr.Monika6469]

Early 2000's WRC >>>> today's WRC

[@Joselo3280]

Geez Peugeot, end your bad joke at WEC already and come back to WRC (with Corrado Provera of course)

[@test-tl8dt]

modern peugeot rally1 would look amazing.

[@benjiwebbe9148]

corrado too old

[@didimatjila7463]

he passed away

[@nakurutoday]

Kenya remains the best and scenic WRC circuit

[@dimitrisqwerty]

"Circuit"

[@mikaelbihl-matias9462]

The best remains the monte carlo and finland

[@heytoast7129]

It used to be. The Kenya rally of today is a shadow of its former self.

[@dimitrisqwerty]

@Benjamin-cd8vk I'll pass thanks

[@classic7376]

Better WRC days, without doubt. More teams, different cars, better drivers

[@hurri7720]

"Better drivers" would be hard to prove.

[@classic7376]

@@hurri7720 do you compare Gronholm, McRae, Makinen, Sainz, Burns etc. with nowadays drivers?

[@test-tl8dt]

@@classic7376 the fastest rally drivers of each generation end up in the top of the sport. what makes you think ones learning the skill now are worse than ones before? you can make hypothetical and speculative comparisons between eras all you want but the fact is theyre all best at what they do at the given era and we will never know who would win in equal age and machinery.

[@zwjna]

@@test-tl8dt We can naively approximate it. Loeb arrived back in the days and none of those drivers could deal with him apart from Grönholm and Solberg. Loeb became the new benchmark; and his skills, pace, and technique what every WRC driver aimed at. So did Ogier. And while both French are still unmatched, it's clear that today's drivers (namely, Tänak, Rovanperä, Neuville, and Evans) can keep up with them in ways the 2000's drivers couldn't. Plus the WRC has never been as competitive as it's today. Look at championship standing tables for every season prior the 2000's, and including. The tables are full of retirements and empty cells, which means many drivers and even whole teams weren't competing at specific rallies. Today that's unacceptable. Drivers and teams will firmly commit and go for every measly championship point they could gather. This level of commitment demands unprecedented expertise and domination of the discipline. Everything is extremely polished nowadays. Pacenotes, car setups, memorization of stages, understanding of the drivers' vehicle's dynamics? Forget it. Today they spend hours re-watching the recce runs and polishing the notes, and many hours watching onboard videos to try and memorize places and analyze the required driving techniques and approaches; the setup-tweaking is a never-ending history. Could Burns succeed today with his "easy left"-style pacenotes when today's psychopaths would be describing the same corner with an entire paragraph worth of cryptic words? I don't think so. That's yet another reason why Loeb obliterated them back then, and the modern drivers just followed that path. So at the bare minimum, the modern drivers are at the same level as those mentioned in this thread.