Iconic rally backdrops

[Tomi]

Was that the year when he was in the third 307?

yes same year, he could have saved it, but there was a stone in the ditch.

[sal]

The mountain top monastery at Kalambaka in Greece (Acropolis Rally) Iconic image with Ari in the Rothamns Escort on opposite lock with the monsatery in the back ground.

[SubaruNorway]

Not sure what part, but I think this stage really "is" Rally Norway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOd4OGQaMFQ

I've driven The Mountain stage in both winter and summer, pretty awesome indeed. I had a old woman sunbathing at 55sec yelling at me for some reason

And here it is from the start with Henning


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5pAAc7Zfmc

[Rally Power]

One that springs to mind is in Portugal - a tarmac run up to a hairpin right onto gravel which always had thousands of spectators on the hillside.

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That hairpin it's called "confurco", and was part of the "Fafe-Lameirinha" stage, from witch also were the jumps you've mention.

Fafe, Arganil und previously Sintra were pilgrimage sites that Portuguese rally fans visited each year with enormous passion (sometimes a little to much…!). Almost everybody took a vacation week to follow the course, crossing up and down the north countryside.

Sadly, in order to cope with FIA directives, the new “Rali de Portugal” was relegated to a distant area (Algarve) from those iconic places, but we must admit that the south region also has great rally locations and year after year more and more fans joins it, restoring the “old” rally popular character!

[Simmi]

That hairpin it's called "confurco", and was part of the "Fafe-Lameirinha" stage, from witch also were the jumps you've mention.

Fafe, Arganil und previously Sintra were pilgrimage sites that Portuguese rally fans visited each year with enormous passion (sometimes a little to much…!). Almost everybody took a vacation week to follow the course, crossing up and down the north countryside.

Sadly, in order to cope with FIA directives, the new “Rali de Portugal” was relegated to a distant area (Algarve) from those iconic places, but we must admit that the south region also has great rally locations and year after year more and more fans joins it, restoring the “old” rally popular character!

Thank you Rally Power. I wonder in its hey day how many millions followed the rally. Great passion.

[grugsticles]

McRae in 1997? over the Bunnings jumps.
Thats what WRC is about!

[Josti]

In Germany there's that big jump on Panzerplatte.

"Dikke Bertha"!

Or "Big Bertha" in English, I guess. Mostly remember this from the ERC days with Kremer and Kahle, but indeed it was featured on the WRC stage too.

[Josti]

Thank you Rally Power. I wonder in its hey day how many millions followed the rally. Great passion.

Röhrl on the '85 event is still a mindblowing onboard. Bit odd they mixed it up with incorrect outside footage, but oh well...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyVHj3sHVHQ

[Simmi]

McRae in 1997? over the Bunnings jumps.
Thats what WRC is about!

That would be first pick for my rally montage. Loved the in-car comments after the stage too.

[Rally Power]

Confurco at it best time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjYq_Dj31Ms

Still used in national series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InAs6eQzbFM