The night before I was driving over this stage in a motorhome looking for a place to spectate. The only reason I didn't went off in the corner, where Sainz went off during the rally, was because a spactater car already went off the road and people where standing on the road. We stopped there and got out to see if we could help. The road was in "black" ice. It was the first corner of the stage witch was that icy. We went on and found a good place. 26:36 What a great time of rallying that was! Lots of work teams, lots of strong drivers... and spectating wasn't as restricted as today.
1:22 - dramatic place for Toyotas 😁 Now I understand, why Denis Giraudet was so pissed: they were in competitive part of the rally just for one and a half minute
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, for uploading this. I shall now watch this beautiful Monte onboard all day :)
Onboard of the Great Master himself! This is just superior material from the Best rally times in history - my opinion ❤ Passats - Thanks a lot again! 🤴
Yo compraba cintas de Telesport en esos tiempos, todavía debo tener por ahi los vhs, estropeados claro, pero recuerdo que a parte de las imágenes impresionantes lo que casi mas me impresionaba era la calidad de la imagen que ahora en el 2024 aun sigue fantásticamente bien. Vaya equipos buenos debieron tener en aquella época, la mejor de los rallys a todos los niveles....mil millones de gracias y feliz 2025.
They were like 46 or 93 times to be close to make company to Auriol, Sainz, etc. out of the road... Amazing. The way he looks for grip using high gears in low speed sections...
I wonder if they could make such a monster 50 km stage nowadays! Just imagine, the day could be just 4 stages, with this ran twice and the other stage being around 10 km. Would be insane to see that! Edit: I just looked and he won the stage by over a minute! I'm not even surprised! Also, the amount of cars retired on this stage is just crazy! Imagine they threw in a stage like this nowadays for a power stage! It would still be all to play for even with big gaps and the bonus points would be very much deserved!
I guess the last monster stage in the WRC was in México 2016, SS20 Guanajuato, with a length of 80 km!!! The quickest time was 48 minutes and 6 seconds, from Ogier; the onboard is available in the official WRC channel. Having one or two long stages like that per rally could be very nice, specially if they give them a fresh set of tyres for it. That might satisfy those that complain about the lack of endurance in today's shorter rallies, and those like me who find little relevance in endurance rallies and want shorter ones, that allow the drivers to push very hard and showcase all their skills instead. With fresh tyres and brakes, and a good amount of bonus points for the best times, they could render amazing and admirable driving spectacle.
There's something so cozy about the Evo VI's cockpit. It just looks like such a joy to drive. Thank you for your continued updates to this amazing channel and for giving us mere mortals a look into the cars of our heroes. :) Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year!
I think this is the only event that the car was fitted with a digital display for the driver. After monte carlo they went back to the analog stack tachometer with a red digital gear indicator.
Tommi's driving really demonstrates that to win the rally, you have to FINISH the rally And to finish, you better make those studs on the tires last instead of grinding them away
Never seen clear footage of his dash to see what gear hes in 🤟🏻, for anyone that doesnt know, im pretty sure tommi almost always powershifted back then before switching to subaru
@Hola-eb7nd maybe you should study his history more. He started later than his opponents and when he was in a good car he beated them all. See Finland in 94 with his only time driving the M Sport Escort and see Montecarlo 2002 even if the car was not competitive. If you said this why Freddy Loix never won a world rally with it? Why Burns only won 2 rallies? You don't win 4 championships in a row only by luck beating the best rally drivers ever in that era like Sainz, McRae, Auriol, Kankkunen and Burns... So 🤷🏻♂️
The best rally driver was most likely Sébastien Ogier. And I say "was" just because he made plenty of mistakes this year. I measure this feat by seeing how well he does against drivers that easily match or even surpass the skills of Sainz, McRae, Auriol, Kankkunen and Burns (like Kalle Rovanperä, Ott Tänak, Thierry Neuville, Jari-Matti Latvala, and Elfyn Evans); how he won championships with three different manufacturers, and the number of such championships. Also important, I believe the Ogier usually beat Loeb in rallies they both were competing, and Loeb truly gave Sainz, McRae, et all. a run for their money back in the early 2000's. If Ogier is not the best, then surely it has to be Loeb. One or the other.
@@zwjna everyone has his own opinion... I have my own. Yes Ogier and Loeb are legend, extremely good drivers, on the podium for the best of all time for sure, no doubt. But for me, I repeat, FOR MYSELF, Tommi was the best. And I explain you why: 1. Like Ogier, Loeb and Grönholm, Tommi won his first world title only in his second full year of competition which is great 2. He started to race in the WRC later than all his opponents so he had less experience than Sainz, KKK, Auriol, McRae and so on 3) in 9 years of competition e won 4 championships in a row with the best car okay, but with the smallest and less-founded team in WRC, Mitsubishi had even less money than M Sport or Prodrive, in fact they had only started to start a 2nd car for Burns in 98 and Loix in 99-01 only because they had big sponsors 4) he won almost every rally and most importantly in all types or surface: 5 times montecarlo, 4 times finland, 3 times sweden, 2 times SAFARI, and I mean, THE REAL SAFARI, 2 times Sanremo, Portugal, Argentina like 3 times. He was the first non latin driver to win in 3 different types of tarmac rally: Catalunya fast and flowing, Sanremo rough and tight, Montecarlo very Icy and snowy. 5) most important thing, he won ALL his rally, startin ALWAYS first. Back in the day, the champions or rally leader, always had to start first on gravel, tarmac, snow, no difference. Because he was always 1st in the championship in those years or 2nd, he was always cleaning the road for the others EVERY RALLY, and no matter why, he won stages and won rallyes. This rule changed in the middle 2000s and became like it is now. 6) he was the master of clean driving and even Seb Loeb said that he took inspiration from him for his driving because he was so smooth and he liked how he drove. That's why for me he was the best
To all crazy rally fans - is monte 99 only rally where Tommi had digital rev counter? As I remember all evos 6 and also 7 wrc had analog (looks like this rally is exception) best regards
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The night before I was driving over this stage in a motorhome looking for a place to spectate.
The only reason I didn't went off in the corner, where Sainz went off during the rally, was because
a spactater car already went off the road and people where standing on the road.
We stopped there and got out to see if we could help. The road was in "black" ice.
It was the first corner of the stage witch was that icy. We went on and found a good place. 26:36
What a great time of rallying that was! Lots of work teams, lots of strong drivers... and spectating wasn't as restricted as today.
Do you mean the corner at 1:25?
@@DiegoRuiz1991 Yes!
This is pure gold. I remember that stage a lot of drivers went off…Loix, Auriol, Sainz, Burns…thanks a lot 🙏🏻👍🏻
1:22 - dramatic place for Toyotas 😁 Now I understand, why Denis Giraudet was so pissed: they were in competitive part of the rally just for one and a half minute
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, for uploading this. I shall now watch this beautiful Monte onboard all day :)
As usual: great video quality, interesting content from golden era of modern WRC. Thank you guys!!!
Sempre grandissima qualità
Feels unreal that we're so fortunate to be watching this on ytb just like it's not a big deal. ❤️
Onboard of the Great Master himself! This is just superior material from the Best rally times in history - my opinion ❤
Passats - Thanks a lot again! 🤴
THANK YOU PASSATS DE CANTO!
Thanks a lot for that gift !!!! Please more videos like this !!!❤
Thanks for this! Keep coming more 90's onboards, please
50km of stage! What a christmas gift! Thanks you
Amazing video! Greetings from Finland
Yo compraba cintas de Telesport en esos tiempos, todavía debo tener por ahi los vhs, estropeados claro, pero recuerdo que a parte de las imágenes impresionantes lo que casi mas me impresionaba era la calidad de la imagen que ahora en el 2024 aun sigue fantásticamente bien. Vaya equipos buenos debieron tener en aquella época, la mejor de los rallys a todos los niveles....mil millones de gracias y feliz 2025.
They were like 46 or 93 times to be close to make company to Auriol, Sainz, etc. out of the road... Amazing. The way he looks for grip using high gears in low speed sections...
What a treat ❤️. Thank you very much.
I wonder if they could make such a monster 50 km stage nowadays! Just imagine, the day could be just 4 stages, with this ran twice and the other stage being around 10 km. Would be insane to see that!
Edit: I just looked and he won the stage by over a minute! I'm not even surprised! Also, the amount of cars retired on this stage is just crazy!
Imagine they threw in a stage like this nowadays for a power stage! It would still be all to play for even with big gaps and the bonus points would be very much deserved!
I guess the last monster stage in the WRC was in México 2016, SS20 Guanajuato, with a length of 80 km!!! The quickest time was 48 minutes and 6 seconds, from Ogier; the onboard is available in the official WRC channel. Having one or two long stages like that per rally could be very nice, specially if they give them a fresh set of tyres for it. That might satisfy those that complain about the lack of endurance in today's shorter rallies, and those like me who find little relevance in endurance rallies and want shorter ones, that allow the drivers to push very hard and showcase all their skills instead. With fresh tyres and brakes, and a good amount of bonus points for the best times, they could render amazing and admirable driving spectacle.
There's something so cozy about the Evo VI's cockpit. It just looks like such a joy to drive.
Thank you for your continued updates to this amazing channel and for giving us mere mortals a look into the cars of our heroes. :)
Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year!
Cuando pensaba que Passats ya no podía sorprenderme, van y nos deleitan con esto. Felicitats!
Just in the right time to help my recent Evo VI obsession
Many thanks for this video. Makinen and Mitsubishi's my favourites! ❤
The best video of the year........thank you very much !!!!!
en dos palabras im presionante.gracias por el regalo
Me encantan estos videos onboard!!!
Quando le prove speciali erano più lunghe dei trasferimenti... bei tempi!!!
I think this is the only event that the car was fitted with a digital display for the driver. After monte carlo they went back to the analog stack tachometer with a red digital gear indicator.
Because the Stack tachometer is the most beautiful rally equipment :-)
Solberg and Evans while driving: 😲
Gronholm: 😠
Makinen: 🗿
stoneface xd
*They don't make em like they used to. Fantastic onboard footage, shame they don't use this view nowadays*
ALWAYS BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS🙏🙏🙏
Hyvä Tommi! 👌👍
Best christmas present
Tommi's driving really demonstrates that to win the rally, you have to FINISH the rally
And to finish, you better make those studs on the tires last instead of grinding them away
Beautiful!!! Thank you! ❤
Sempre video fantastici 🔝🔝🔝
Increíble documento, ojalá sigáis subiendo onboard de la época, el Condor en Argentina estaría bien. Gracias por el trabajo.
Amazing footage !
muchas gracias, eres un grande
Thank you so much for this.
Brutal, esta onboard!
Brutal. Muchísimas gracias
One of the best rallye channel with Amjayes2 (Amjayes2 is the best haha)
Very clean onboard !
OIKE KOX SATA !
Never seen clear footage of his dash to see what gear hes in 🤟🏻, for anyone that doesnt know, im pretty sure tommi almost always powershifted back then before switching to subaru
Merci
Piękna sprawa 😍 Tylko na Monte samochody kibiców leżą po rowach 😀
Acojonante !!!
Espectacular lo de este hombre ,como ia con el evo ,
GRACIAS ❤
Una gran epoca en los mundiales de Rally, mucha competitividad con buenos pilotos y muchas marcas de coches, felicitaciones por compartir este vídeo
Oh God, such terrifying conditions to drive in. And that's in a lightweight AWD car with 3 LSDs and studded tires. Indeed, only the best can win here.
Superbe
Il mio primo amore ❤
Very nice
Io c'ero 👍💪✌
Surely the best rally driver of his era, the best of all time for me! 👑
I would say that he was a good driver with the best car of the era, outside Mitsubishi he did nothing
@Hola-eb7nd maybe you should study his history more. He started later than his opponents and when he was in a good car he beated them all. See Finland in 94 with his only time driving the M Sport Escort and see Montecarlo 2002 even if the car was not competitive. If you said this why Freddy Loix never won a world rally with it? Why Burns only won 2 rallies? You don't win 4 championships in a row only by luck beating the best rally drivers ever in that era like Sainz, McRae, Auriol, Kankkunen and Burns... So 🤷🏻♂️
The best rally driver was most likely Sébastien Ogier. And I say "was" just because he made plenty of mistakes this year. I measure this feat by seeing how well he does against drivers that easily match or even surpass the skills of Sainz, McRae, Auriol, Kankkunen and Burns (like Kalle Rovanperä, Ott Tänak, Thierry Neuville, Jari-Matti Latvala, and Elfyn Evans); how he won championships with three different manufacturers, and the number of such championships. Also important, I believe the Ogier usually beat Loeb in rallies they both were competing, and Loeb truly gave Sainz, McRae, et all. a run for their money back in the early 2000's. If Ogier is not the best, then surely it has to be Loeb. One or the other.
@@zwjna everyone has his own opinion... I have my own. Yes Ogier and Loeb are legend, extremely good drivers, on the podium for the best of all time for sure, no doubt. But for me, I repeat, FOR MYSELF, Tommi was the best. And I explain you why:
1. Like Ogier, Loeb and Grönholm, Tommi won his first world title only in his second full year of competition which is great
2. He started to race in the WRC later than all his opponents so he had less experience than Sainz, KKK, Auriol, McRae and so on
3) in 9 years of competition e won 4 championships in a row with the best car okay, but with the smallest and less-founded team in WRC, Mitsubishi had even less money than M Sport or Prodrive, in fact they had only started to start a 2nd car for Burns in 98 and Loix in 99-01 only because they had big sponsors
4) he won almost every rally and most importantly in all types or surface: 5 times montecarlo, 4 times finland, 3 times sweden, 2 times SAFARI, and I mean, THE REAL SAFARI, 2 times Sanremo, Portugal, Argentina like 3 times. He was the first non latin driver to win in 3 different types of tarmac rally: Catalunya fast and flowing, Sanremo rough and tight, Montecarlo very Icy and snowy.
5) most important thing, he won ALL his rally, startin ALWAYS first. Back in the day, the champions or rally leader, always had to start first on gravel, tarmac, snow, no difference. Because he was always 1st in the championship in those years or 2nd, he was always cleaning the road for the others EVERY RALLY, and no matter why, he won stages and won rallyes. This rule changed in the middle 2000s and became like it is now.
6) he was the master of clean driving and even Seb Loeb said that he took inspiration from him for his driving because he was so smooth and he liked how he drove.
That's why for me he was the best
Master class ,GASSSSS
Obviously you have to respect the evo but damn transmission have evolved in 25 years. The way it constantly bounce and shake.
❤❤❤
maravilha...
Tomi Tomi Tomi
Wchich type of tyres? Winter? Wet oraz super soft tires they chosen? PS super material. BEST REGARDS FROM POLAND
Shortshifting artistry.
Christmas for rally fans!
1:20 Sainz place
Tommi won this stage by a minute over Panizzi
👏👏👏👏
To all crazy rally fans - is monte 99 only rally where Tommi had digital rev counter? As I remember all evos 6 and also 7 wrc had analog (looks like this rally is exception) best regards
😂❤😂❤😂❤
Moltes Gracies 😊 Abraçada desde Sintra Lisboa 🙏🏻
Great powerband for the cars of this era, however I didn’t catch hitting the limiter on 6th gear, or I missed it?
omg , thx, wp
High Speed EVO 6
🤌🤌🤌
Gracias