Marcus Grönholm - FIA World Rally Champion 2000
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2020
- 20 years ago Marcus Grönholm / Timo Rautiainen (Peugeot Sport) won the FIA World Rally Championship at Wales Rally GB 2000 🏆
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The WRC is the FIA World Rally Championship, a tough motorsport using rally cars on real roads around the world. Watch the best rally drivers battle on gravel and asphalt roads with mud, rain, dust, ice and heat! Watch high speed action as the rally drivers power slide and drift round narrow corners, go flat out over a big jump or through a watersplash, handbrake turn round a hairpin, survive a big moment, or have a massive crash! Rally requires maximum attack and careful tactics to become world rally champion.
Each rally has timed sections called special stages, on closed roads. Drivers complete these stages as quickly as possible. A co-driver reads pace notes that explain the hazards ahead. Rally drivers use the same rally car to travel to each stage on public roads, following normal traffic regulations. The crew which completes all the stages in the shortest time is the rally winner. Championship points are won using the same scoring system as Formula 1. The championship is administered by Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body.
Over 30 countries have hosted WRC rallies. Rally Monte Carlo, Rally Argentina, Rally Finland, Rally Portugal, Tour de Corse on Corsica, France, Rally Sardegna on Sardinia, Italy, Safari Rally in Kenya, Acropolis Rally in Greece, Rally New Zealand, Rally Australia, Rally Japan, Rally GB, Rally Catalunya, Rallye Deutschland, Rally Mexico and many more.
Some of the world's greatest drivers have won the FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers, like Colin McRae, Carlos Sainz, Walter Röhrl, Stig Blomqvist, Petter Solberg, Ott Tänak. The list of world rally champions includes many Finnish rally drivers like Juha Kankkunen, Tommi Mäkinen, Ari Vatanen, Marcus Grönholm, Hannu Mikkola. French drivers have had success with Sébastien Ogier, and 9 times world champion Sébastien Loeb. Famous drivers from other motorsports have come to try rally driving like Ken Block from Rallycross, and Robert Kubica and Kimi Räikkönen from F1.
Car companies compete for the prestigious FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers awarded to the most successful WRC constructor. Winners include Citroen, Hyundai, Volkswagen and Peugeot. Ford have had success with the Ford Escort, Ford Focus and Ford Fiesta when the M-Sport team won in 2017.
The 1980's featured the iconic Group B rally cars like the Lancia 037 and Delta S4, Peugeot 205 T16, MG Metro 6R4, Ford RS200 and Audi Quattro.
Japan dominated the 1990s with the Mitsubishi Lancer, Subaru Impreza, and Toyota Celica and Toyota Corolla. Toyota returned to the WRC in 2017 with the Toyota Yaris WRC, winning in 2018. The 2019 championship was won by Hyundai with the Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC. Find out about the latest winners and champions at www.wrc.com 
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The Golden years of the WRC. Great pilots, great personalities. Real emotion.
Great cars!
Great rallies!
Rallying never did get better than the 90's & early 2000's. I could name 20 rally winning drivers from that era. There were tarmac specialists, Safari specialists. You were never sure who was going to win. It was great.
The 206 is so beautiful and one of my favourite rally car let alone my favourite peogeot rally car
How good was life back in those days.
at minute 1:40 Marcus says to Richard something like "next time maybe"..................And then....... :)
Jesus, Makinen and Burns there too. The rally generation I grew up watching. What a time to be alive.
And Juha Kankkunen 😃
Bring those years back. Those drivers, those cars. What an amazing rally era
I can smell the clutch and brakes
Roll on rally gb return
Marcus was so apprehensive to Richard, I have always admired his fairness and honesty.
Absolute character !!!
Big time after Marcus.. Next champion its Kalle from Finland
It's nice to see all these guys and cars again:)
We Didn't Expect For Peugeot To Become Manufacturers Champions Just A Year They Joined As A WRC Team
Pure joy
Marcus was so humble, that when he won the world championship instead of jumping like crazy and everything, he kept calm
Marcus !!
No facebook,instagram.Just focus and will to win
Life is much better with social media
@@prisonermonkeys8613 easyer yes.
richard takes the news like a champ
Richard Burns and even Colin McRae were better drivers than Gronholm, but the Peugeot was too dominant.
one of the best sounding rally cars at idle
Juha and Tommi: This young lad had a potential...and he did it...he was World Champion
He was 32 and had been competing in the WRC since 1989. Young lad.
He wasnt that young back then. He had been running privateer celicas at selected events and gave the corolla WRC it's '97 debut in finland
one of best rally times
Good old times...
I'm not saying it was Loeb's fault, but when he started dominating WRC lost it's attraction and it has never recovered. Suddenly the winning style was tight-lipped dry proffessionalism without any form of self-distance, without a sense of humour.
Grönholm was the last driver I cheered for.
WRC just needs some personality right now. It hasn't been the same since Kris left. It might be improving as Kalle, Craig Breen, and maybe soon Oliver Solberg could liven things up a bit. Teemu is pretty funny at times, like when he send "I just sent it" after that crazy early performance in Sardinia. I would actually say the top guys (Ogier, Tanak, and Neuville) come off as whiners rather than stoic professionals a lot, all they seemed to do this year is complain about road position and stage conditions. Evans and Greensmith have come off as the most professional and sporting to me. WRC needs someone like Mikko Hirvonen right now to be a good ambassador for the wider motorsport/car scene. If he and Jarmo made their travelogue videos now instead of in 2012, they would've blown up, they were a riot.
Sad but true. WRC fell apart for me after Peugeot exited, and then after Marcus retired it was done for me 😩
Great vid
Sportsmanship 100
Gronholm then won the 2002 WRC title.
But failed in Ford Focus Team in 2006 and last full time season 2007 challenging with Sebastian Loeb for drivers championship
@@abdzire_94 I remember Ford won the manufacturers title that year.
Маркус с теплотой и грустью вспоминает свое первое чемпионство🏆 а 206-й красив и хорош и через 20 лет))
"This team is based on friendship"...I think Delecour and Panizzi didn't get that
Delecour and Panizzi are pals now and were even during the 306 maxi era, it was just a slight falling out between the two
@@strahinjastevic7480 that 2 guys have a high personality, normal to have tension fighting for the victory
I love 206
I don't really get why people complain so much about current rallying. I mean, isn't it still the same?
We have some great cars, except they're faster (and sadly, look more similar), just too bad there aren't more brands taking part.
We have a bunch of great drivers fighting at the top, and they have great personalities too. We have Theirry Neuville, who's basically Mr. Always Second, waiting for his first title. Remember Richard Burns, who was as of the end of the 2000 season twice in a row second, waiting for his first title too? We have Ott Tanak, who won one title and became a national hero, just to meet bad luck after switching teams, similarly to Colin McRae. We have Sebastien Ogier, who won his fair share of titles, but still wants to prove he can win more, just like Tommi Makinen at the time. We also have Elfyn Evans, who was collecting experience in slower WRC cars for a few years, and now he's on his way to his first title in the first season with a top team, just like Marcus Gronholm at the time. We also have sporadic appearances from Sebastien Loeb, just like Juha Kankkunen. We also have a Spanish veteran, who took a single surprising win, this time Dani Sordo, back then Carlos Sainz.
Perhaps we're not visiting Safari Rally (but it's coming back), but we have events all over the world and on all surfaces.
There is still drama, drivers losing the rally in the last stage, retiring from a good position due to mechanical failures or crashing out while trying to catch up. And it is still very emotional.
I guess it's just nostalgia, but perhaps in ten years, people will be remembering Loeb's 9 titles just like Schumachers 5 in a row in F1, or remembering how great the 2020 cars were.
Boomers will always look at things with a pair of thick ass nostalgia glasses. I too love the old times but today we have several drivers fighting for the championship and things are more exciting than ever but boomers will say "I MiSs wAtChInG Loeb DoMiNaTiNg" "ToDaY's CaRs SuCk". Cars nowadays are literally several times faster then the beloved Group B cars without the ridiculous amount of danger involved. I guess people love watching drivers and spectators dying.
@@Phantom5611 Honestly, I love older cars. And by older, I mean even 15 years old ones. They feel more exciting to me than a 2010s DS3 or a Fiesta RS. But the cars driving on World Rally stages these days, oh my, they are super exciting. They are super quick and they look fucking cool, at least in my opinion.
I honestly hated the direction many brands took in car design over the last 15 years, and that reflected into rally cars too. I'm sure I'm not the only one. But it just started turning. Just look at the new Yaris GR. Or the new Peugeots, especially the 508 PSE. These cars look great and I love it.
I think it's understandable that people miss Subaru, Mitsubishi or Peugeot in rallying. They miss their brands and they miss driving road cars that looked very similar to the rally ones. Rally cars simply became too different from the standard ones, but the brands are trying to deliver sport versions to make that gap smaller.
Many people also don't agree with downsizing, but these little engines have more than enough power to go faster than these old cars. And honestly, this sport doesn't need to get faster, it is fast enough already.
Lastly, I think it would be cool if WRC had sort of an open class on top of what we have now. There could be very strict limitations on what upgrades the car can have in comparison with the road car. The cars would need to have all the safety features, but other than that, only a massive weight reduction, limited power output and small chassis upgrades. 4WD cars would have less power to work with to make it balanced with the 2WDs. Rallying would partially get back to its roots, with almost stock road cars, which could motivate more manufacturers and privateers to go rallying in many different cars, just like it was before Group B came along. That could also help many brands sell more cars.
Well said, the most sensible thing i heard in a WRC comment section. I wish people like this werent outspoken by nostalgizers and fake rally fans who only watch dumbass compilations on youtube instead of actual rallies
There's nothing wrong with the current wrc in terms of the cars they're fantastic and the drivers I would say now have to be exceptional on any surface now which why I think the days of tarmac specialists like Pannizi who could just rock up at any tarmac event and wipe the floor are long gone now, although do think that's a shame as they could really interfere with the championship etc. However there's not enough manufacturers and cars in the top class anymore. I mean during those times there was Mitsubishi, Subaru, Peugeot, Ford, Seat I think, Skoda, Hyundai and they had sometimes upto 4 cars per rally and of course all the privateers. Now unfortunately it's just Toyota and Hyundai in terms of manufactures with M sport trying to take on the night of them. If in the future they're able to attract more manufacturers oh man it would be epic.
In terms of a spectacle the modern wrc cars are just wow however WRC also lets themselves down in the way they promote the sport like when was growing up would see it on the TV etc now even with social media you barely hear about it and especially this year with the the pandemic they hardly advertised to say they were back.
@@AmanAli-dc1sy yeah, the number of manufacturers is a bit of a problem. Just compare 2020 with 3 manufacturers and 2007 with 7 or if you want you want to count citroen's sporadic appearances, 8
Nice car
This is when rallying was worth watching. In the days before Seb Loëb
Loeb dominated the sport but still was more exciting than today
its not Loeb's fault. He could win and he did win, what do you expect him to do? Pull over and let everyone else pass?
Both a manufacturers and drivers title on only their first full season...
That's down to new WRC car, which ended the era of subaru and lancer
@@mikeuk8486 what exactly did you mean by this? WRC (World Rally Car era) regulations took over from group A in 1997. Every car since then was subject of the new wrc homologation except mitsubishi who only did so in mid 2001.
@@mikeuk8486 I agree. The Peugeot car was too dominant. Richard and Colin were better drivers.
@@prisonermonkeys8613 Marcus was one hell of a driver, definetly underrated. He truly deserved both of his titles especially the 2002 one becouse he basically wiped the floor with everyone else that year. Was it more becouse of the car than the driver? I doubt. Why so? Becouse he was quick in both the Celica and Corolla before the whole Peugeot thing started, heck he even kept up with Tommi when he was drafted in to replace Loix in the Evo VI (which was notoriously hard to drive for some) in Portugal.
Attributing ones hard earned success to just car is such a pretentious thing to do especially when all drivers were in cars subject to the same regulations.
Ça y'est je suis nostalgique 😏
I can try it with my 206
And it will end up in a ditch
AHH yes the little Peugeot with mouth like this.
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