Scary, dangerous or crazy places in stages of WRC or other rallies.

[OldF]

Oh, great
Could be more or less the same place of this? (starting from 15:57, Rovanpera with the 206)
WRC Daily Highlights: Safari 2001 Day 2: 26 Minutes - YouTube

Looks like the same place.

I found the place I mentioned earlier in my 1998 season review VCR cassette and luckily also on youtube.

Wrc 1998 Full Season.flv - YouTube at 29:02

[julkki]

WRC - Ouninpohja - YouTube

Tribute to the Legend

[T.Maanteiden kuningas]

Ouni.....best of the best...

[Juha_Koo]

WRC - Ouninpohja - YouTube

Tribute to the Legend

Excellent.

Ouninpohja really has some special "soul". Every time when I'm there I get a certain special feeling. It's something more than a road and a place. You can almost hear the hundreds of rally stories echoing through the forest.

[Camelopard]

The Mineshaft in Canberra

Flying MX5 - YouTube

Has been some big crashes over the years. This footage is of ACT Silver Cup Champion Andrew Buerckner in the recent Shannons Safari.

Ray

A friend has just posted a video that he and a couple of friends made of The Don Capasco Rally in Canberra 1974.

At 12.08 or there abouts you can see the winning Alpine A110 going down the mineshaft.

It is much steeper than it looks in the film.



1974 Don Capasco Rally.avi - YouTube

[tfp]

WRC - Ouninpohja - YouTube

Tribute to the Legend

amazing video, amazing stage, full of flying finns, brilliant

[wildboar]

The "WRC Greatest Stages" program has reappeared on YouTube:

WRC Greatest Stages - Part 1/3 - YouTube
WRC Greatest Stages - Part 2/3 - YouTube
WRC Greatest Stages - Part 3/3 - YouTube

[Barreis]

Looks like the same place.

I found the place I mentioned earlier in my 1998 season review VCR cassette and luckily also on youtube.

Wrc 1998 Full Season.flv - YouTube at 29:02

This's so great to watch. Also show that there's no real stars today beside Loeb and Solberg.

[Hartusvuori]

You can almost hear the hundreds of rally stories echoing through the forest.

I've had this idea of making a book about the most famous and most respected rally stages. I think that would be nice to read and also nice to learn about. So - why not trying to make a community effort? We have now these photobook companies that print out books for reasonable prices. I've used Blurbto make my books and I've been happy with their quality. Some 200-paged hardcover (25x20 cm) w/ dust jacket cost about €50 - and if you order it with some promotion code - they often have -25% codes - it's even better. And it would make an online shop once published.

Is this a silly idea? We have the knowledge. We'd take 30-35 stages, each presented over 4-8 pages or so with pictures, a stage map and the story, it would fill up the 200 pages. Stages could be from each round of WRC and IRC 2012 (stages not necessarily run in 2012) and then few from WRC rounds not included in 2012 (Safari, Australia, for example) and some national or ERC rounds.

This would be absolutely non profit, the book would cost the cheapest option where ever we would choose to print it (I would recommend a service like Blurb's, each book printed at time, no printruns, no financial risks). We would need free pictures from the stages (on and/or off rallies), stories written about the stages, their history and meaning and perhaps someone with good handling of some graphic program to provide simple stage maps. Plus someone natively English speaking to proofread it all. I'm willing to coordinate as long as there wouldn't be any tight schedules expected.

What do you think?

[Barreis]

Nice idea.