OT: WRC Drivers Are So Awesome To Watch on "Speed"

I didn't totally understand or appreciate rally racing until I started watching WRC coverage on the Speedchannel a couple years back. This year's Speed (the new Speedchannel) coverage is fantastic (same-day coverage, in the evening on all three days of the weekend...WOW)......and watching these drivers behind the wheel is like watching ballerinas or symphonic conductors.....absolutely no wasted movement at the wheel. Truly, these have to be the best race car drivers in the world. Thank you Speed! TP

When I saw the subject I thought this was an exhortation to watch rallying having taken drugs! I find them amazing enough when I'm sober... Tony Whitley

ROFLMAO........"Speed TV"....not "speed - white powdered poison." - TP "Tony Whitley" <tony_w h i t l e [email hidden]> wrote in message news:a84g2d$4qh$[email hidden]... > When I saw the subject I thought this was an exhortation to watch rallying > having taken drugs! I find them amazing enough when I'm sober... > > Tony Whitley > >

"Tom Pabst" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:lWkp8.142400$af7.70982@rwcrnsc53... > ROFLMAO........"Speed TV"....not "speed - white powdered poison." - TP > Whats the difference, both take away your free time, your ability to interact with others. However there is ONE difference of note....Speed users often lose weight, Speedviewers often gain weight watching 24hour events with a table full of munchies ;) dave henrie

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> From: "Tom Pabst" <[email hidden]> > Organization: AT&T Broadband > Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators > Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 04:59:41 GMT > Subject: OT: WRC Drivers Are So Awesome To Watch on "Speed" > > I didn't totally understand or appreciate rally racing until I started > watching WRC coverage on the Speedchannel a couple years back. This year's > Speed (the new Speedchannel) coverage is fantastic (same-day coverage, in > the evening on all three days of the weekend...WOW)......and watching these > drivers behind the wheel is like watching ballerinas or symphonic > conductors.....absolutely no wasted movement at the wheel. Truly, these > have to be the best race car drivers in the world. Thank you Speed! > > TP > >

Well, if they're not the best, then I'm trying to figure out who is (OK F1 guys I suppose). Anyway, I agree with you. Most road races I'll say "GEEZ! That was close!" once or twice per race, but with WRC drivers I say that once or twice per driver per stage. WRC has got a lot going for it: For example the all tarmac rallies (Corsica, Spain & San Remo) are very reminiscent of the Targa Florio, The Carrera Panamericana and The Milla Miglia (which I miss). You also get to see "real" cars (OK, race versions of real cars) that we could buy and drive around. And more on that point, if you had the money and really wanted to, you could get a Subaru WRX with the full Prodrive kit and drive it around town. Try doing that with Schumacher's F1 2002. They have a passenger seat. Although that does dilute it from the pure esthetics and purposefulness of an F1 car, you could do the WRC version of "taking someone along for a ride" as some people wish they could do with F1 cars. Imagine what it would be like to have a run at the Sisteron stage of the Monte in Makinen's WRX with him driving at maximum attack (to use the rally terminology). TB

Dont forget to see "Michelin - Rally Masters" either :) Thats once per year, where they gather all the best drivers in the world from various motorsports (MotoGP, WRC, Rally, GT-series etc) to compete in various cars (everything from buggys to pure 4wd turbomonsters) around tracks, where 2 cars compete side to side. Digital Illusions (DICE) have made a good rally game based on this even btw, and its called "Rally Masters". The track they use are in there too (grand canaria) Some F1-drivers last year was Fernando Alonso.. too bad i cannot remember who won the even :( Btw, Rossi was great with cars too :D maybe he could do some car-racing also?. "Tom Pabst" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:1Dbp8.132273$Yv2.39702@rwcrnsc54... > I didn't totally understand or appreciate rally racing until I started > watching WRC coverage on the Speedchannel a couple years back. Thisyear's > Speed (the new Speedchannel) coverage is fantastic (same-day coverage, in > the evening on all three days of the weekend...WOW)......and watchingthese

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> drivers behind the wheel is like watching ballerinas or symphonic > conductors.....absolutely no wasted movement at the wheel. Truly, these > have to be the best race car drivers in the world. Thank you Speed! > > TP > >