It is five minutes of driving perfection, pure and simple. Finnish rally racing master Ari Vatanen manhandled a Peugeot 405 Turbo 16 GR rally car up Pikes Peak in in 1988 to set a new record, and the entire run was filmed, inside, outside, and via helicopter. Your music: one pissed off Peugeot. Words? None needed, just the car and the driver’s actions behind the wheel, set in the rugged and beautiful landscape of the Rocky Mountains. The short film was an award winner, capturing the Grand Prix Du Film in Festival De Chamonix, theSilver Screen at US Industrial Film & Video Festival Chicago, the Prix Special Du Jury at the Festival International Du Film D’Aventure Val D´Isere and the Golden Award at the International Film Festival Houston in 1990. This is one of the most revered pieces of rally footage in existence, and for damn good reason. Click play below and see for yourself.
Shouldn’t we be able to see the 1988 sized video cameras that are capturing the bumper shots and the shots from the passenger side door? I can’t see them anywhere. They had to have been huge.
Pavement makes it not the same, but still interesting. Great times these years, Moulton, Unser, etc
Agreed Patrick, I was fortunate enough to be there when Michelle Moulton showed up with the Audi Quatro and blew away the field, too bad the dirt is gone. She wasn’t very popular with the homies though…