[WRC] News & Rumours 2019

[janvanvurpa]

I knew who Marku Allen is, I just didn’t know he was nicknamed mr Maximum attack.

Honestly, do you really think it’s such a big deal?

What can you say?
I know who Alen is, I met him in December '86 grabbing dinner minutes before start ---for him----of Olympus WRC...I started 42 minutes after so I had plenty of time..he was next table over...
We joked in driving Amazon would be quicker than Gr A car..
Good humor...I liked his passion..
I knew that he made the phrase "Maximum Attack"...which you must say absolutely flat, no accent, no rising pitch---world famous in every language.
And I knew he attacked..

But I never have heard that "he was known as Mister Maximum Attack"

What I have found is you learn an awful lot on forums from real experts...
One of my favorites is this..back then---85 and 86 a huge number of ALL the people on the teams --except Peugeot --and Lancia--were English or Swedish, as well as some of the better connected journalists...which just happens to be my (sorta) native languages--both... So I got to talk to people a little different.
Back then everybody "in the business" were saying the Group B engines in rally spec were making "about 380 hp"...and nobody knows what torque...but a LOT!!!

Imagine how fascinating it was to read on forums 20-22-25 years later from people on forums everywhere from people who had never seen a Group B car, never spoken to 1 driver of GrB car or one crewmember----but they knew that "they had 550 hp"...see? I learned something, and that is always good to learn... These guys had read one short review written by some 22 year old "web journalist" and now they knew something that us idiots who were actually around at the time had been were ignorant of..And they would argue and call names and ridicule and be so smug. and contemptuous...

So its good to learn all these facts from people on forums...
Why its so good and so informative I sometimes wonder why I bothered to build things and go racing from 1967 thru 1997 when I didn't need to in order to know anything...