Even then it was a lot about driving. I will give You one example. In 2012 I was standing at the uphill section towards Col de Gaudissart. The road was covered by ten centimeters thick solid ice. It was raining and a the ruts were full of water. Loeb looked nearly slowest of all the competitive field driving slowly precisely in thew ruts but he won the stage. For example Solberg was all over the place but ended in a snow barrier one hundred meters from us. This was probably the most weird rally experience for me when the slowest looking were fastest and the fast looking were slow.
You witnessed the "secret" of Loeb.
Then think about how slow it feels inside the car, and the mental belief You have to have to be able to trust that going slow is the fastest.
This is very much the centre of Nose End First.
Rally always had an endurance element.
And I remember the (mainly Scandinavian) drivers moaning about long days, night stages, lack of sleep and it being dangerous way back in the 80's on the RAC...
I don´t know your age, but RMC back in the 50´s and 60´, started from lots of cities in Europe and did liason all the way to MC. It took maybe almost a week for transportation... on winther roads, as...
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