For anyone who enjoyed that first video I found the "proper" coverage of the race online:
http://www.vimeo.com/26125254
Skip to 44:30 (let the video stream before you try to skip forward) to see the crash again and skip to 45:35 to watch the re-run of the A final. I didn't realise from my original video that Isashsen (in the white Focus) was actually running the car on the nearside rim for most of the race: and still holding off the competition!
Bloody good meet, so worth watching the whole video if you have time.
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We knew Gollop, John Welsh, Martin Schanche, Mike Shields, Gary Baker, Dimi Mavaropois and the rest of them and we had some awesome weekends.
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Schanche and Gollop? I've never heard of them...
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He done 90K of his own money by selling his electrical company and his house. His wife left him and now he has nothing.
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Jesus. I've seen Palmers name in a lot of the older coverage but I didn't realise his rallycross days cleaned him out - or lost him his wife. Dedication to his sport taken too far?
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These are the real stories behind the "hero's" seen on TV, and there are many other stories like that I could tell you.
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Feel free to post more up; I'd happily read more about that era of rallycross!
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In saying that it was brilliant fun being surrounded in Group B 's |
I bet! I think the modern rallycross is brilliant and I do seriously love some of the cars they use today, but I never get bored of watching the DVD's of the late 80's and early 90's racing. Watching (and hearing) a grid full of Group B cars must have been an incredible spectacle; gutted I wasn't old enough to appreciate it at the time!