I’ve begun wading through all the emails and notes we received on the tip line over the last week since Chad and I have been AWOL in Bonneville and there’s some real gold in this mine! BangShift reader Sal Barduch sent us the tip on this wild rally video that highlights some of the crazy wrecks that have happened at the World Rally Championship stop in Finland over the years. There are mind bending crashes from the 1980s right up until today and each one of them ended with the driver and co-driver walking (ok scampering) away from a 100% mangled race car. We dare you to try and count the number of rolls that these cars do in a couple of the featured disasters. We couldn’t keep up with the speed and violence of them…plus we ran out of fingers and it all went haywire.
One of the things that caught our eye in these videos is that the co-driver never seems to be wearing gloves of any type. While gloves would make manipulating the pages of the course map more difficult they’d help the co-driver by making sure his hands didn’t get burned off in a fire or something of that nature. These wrecks are all filmed in multiple angles, including in-car so there’s some truly gnarly footage of guys tucking in when they see imminent impact ahead.
This video is wild and certainly confirms the giant…testicular fortitude of WRC Rally drivers!
Thanks for the tip Sal!
Spectacular CRASH Special Rally Finland! (HD) from PRMotor TV on Vimeo.
You guys found my YouTube porn of choice.. I can watch rally car crashes for hours at a time. Great find.