I’m sure a lot of you have seen this video already but its worth the watch if you haven’t.
WRC drivers are absolutely nuts.
http://alliancemotorsport.org/video/Makinen.wmv
It really says something when these Japanese touge drivers are as impressed as they were.
You do realize you are talking about Tommi Makkinen, right? 
Of course the Japanese drivers are impressed. It’s Tommi Makkinen!
WRC Drivers never fail to amaze me. Just another example of how they are the perfect driver, to have to be able to win in any weather condition and on any surface.
Yes yes, THE Tommi Makkinen
That’s fucking sweet! Gives you such a nice perspective with those fools in their own cars trying to chase him down.
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Omg, that is fucking amazing…
We often forget the level of talent that those guys have, not just the world champions like Makkinen, Loeb, Burns, McRae, etc. I bet even the slowest guy in the WRC could make most of those guys look like fools.
How about locals like Bottoms and Zimmer? Those guys are nuts! 
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To be fair, the touge guys were driving road going wrx’s which may or may not have been running on all season tires (did I hear someone say studded? I’m not sure), vs. a race car being piloted by a driver who knows the machine like the back of his hand. Plus, the touge drivers never to rarely race in messy conditions.
What I’d like to see is a WRC driver go head to head with keiichi tsuchiya (or his man lover Orido) on a touge course of their choice, on dry pavement. I think there is a video out there of Petter racing one of those guys?
Not really when you consider the amount of times that they have been at that course before.
I’d like to see them on a level playing feild, so they can be blown away fare and square.
Which they?
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He means Makkinen had the “home field” advantage
Werd, I’m slow.
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Kittengurl and the Japanese speaking Canadian woman. 
wow…that was amazing
Yeah it was on a video SI01 has, petter beat the dude i believe.
Especially considering Zimmer is one of the best on ICE around… he smoked pat richard and some other WRC guys and won the FIA ICE racing championship in Montreal, in his old POS RS.
umm…the japanese did honor tommi maakinenen(sp?) with his own frigging evo edition. several times i believe…He is ridiculous in WRC cars and anyhting else you give him, however, i think zong is right. Give both a dry course, a 500whp poopra, fd or anything else and it would be a lot closer…
WRC cars are insane, and perform 150X better than anyhting else on the road due to good everything being the best of the best. you are truly driving that machine as opposed to being in a 500whp supra that is hard to keep in a straight line.
very cool. agree with a few others i wanna see them run in the dry with some high hp rwd cars too :tup: