The FIA World Rally Championship is the pinnacle of rally racing on the planet. Yes, many countries including ours have their own smaller series where the competition is tough and the cars are cool but the WRC is the biggest dog in the rally game and that’s not something that can be disputed. There is more factory support in the WRC than anywhere else and because of that there’s more money, horsepower, technology, and craziness than anywhere else either.
In this clip we find ourselves at the Neste Rally Finland watching Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen hurtling through the woods in their Ford Fiesta approaching one of the most famous hills in the rallying world. This thing is so well known that there are actual distance markers on the ground measuring how far the car fly after cresting the thing at full bore.
The boys launch the Fiesta off the top and the thing literally seems to hang there in their air as it covers the distance on the ground. The end result is a flight that lasts 160ft and a car that lands as though it was designed to do exactly what it just did…only because it was.
People jump cars 160ft in stunt shows and other events like that but the two things cannot even be compared. Why? The biggest deal is that the rally car completes the jump and continues on its merry way with the the two guys in the car trying to win a race! It takes a special breed to compete in the WRC and that breed has some big, huge, balls.
Bring back Group B .. .
Do you think the crowds are any smarter?