I try not to remember Subaru's final 3 seasons. It was the same story pretty much 90% of the time. Podium contention after day 1. Mechanical problems & drop out of contention on day 2. Recover to minor points on day 3. The 2006 & 2007 Imprezas were pretty cars IMO, but good god they were absolute dogs mechanically!
I think Nissan's 1984 season could quite easily be on this list. The team only had 1 podium finish and that was a 3rd place on the Ivory Coast rally which never had a particularly large entry. Aside from the one podium, they also managed only 3 top 5 finishes. The best thing you could say about it was the fact the factory cars for the top 2 drivers (Timo Salonen and Shekhar Mehta) were quite reliable but a lot of the other drivers Nissan employed that year had plenty of DNFs. 1987 was also a fairly poor season for Nissan too!
The Lancia factory team pulled out after the 1992 season, after scoring 6 straight manufacturer titles : 87, 88, 89, 90, 91 and 92 😮 The 1993 Sainz effort was by a private team. Also the Corolla WRC made it's debut in Rally Finland 1997 👍
The 1992 cars were still ran by Jolly Club. As for the Corolla, yes it made its debut in 1997, in the video we say that Toyota took the year off to develop the car for 1998, meaning for a full-time campaign. The Corolla competed in the second half of 1997 as preparation for 1998.
The cars were still ran by Jolly Club, you can check it on Juwra. Also if you check Jolly Club's results, 1992 is missing because they were running the Lancia cars.
Thanks to the RUclips algorithm, this channel will grow up for sure Grape video ! Even though some seasons are missing Such as Mitsubishi very last years and Subie very last years
M-Sport's 2022 season could have been on the list. Making the slowest Rally1 car after suffering 3 years with the Fiesta only to score 119 points more than Katsuta's NG team. And not to mention the driver line-up of Breen, Fourmaux, Greensmith/Loeb.
Especially after how glorious the win in Monte Carlo was, Greensmith 3rd or 4th (??) in the driver's standings after Sweden if I'm not mistaken, the rest of the season was just sad tbh. You had Breen and Formaux crash constantly, Greensmith had a decent first half of the season and then went downhill (NZL crash was particularly depressing), and Loeb never available. Went from "we're so back" to "it's so over" in months.
Being an M-Sport fan from 2019 to the current day is tough . They had a couple wins last year but was plagued by reliability issues. Luckily this season , Adrien has been a lot more consistent. I do fear however how long Msport will last at the top level
@@OpeningBatsman Breen was 2nd on the road order in Sweden and Greensmith was 4th in the standings after it. Loeb's win gave them false confidence that the Puma was a winning car but it wasn't even possible to get podiums with those drivers.
Sainz didn't seem to care about losing repsol sponsorship when going back to toyota in 1998, people seem to forget that him winning the 92 title was a small miracle and in its first year the st185 was a dog of a car, the deltona was the fastest car by quite a margin, great vid btw hope there will be more!
That Audi 80 or 200 was a weird car, that utterly decimated everything in its path while circuit racing though, and Walter Rohrl treated the 1988 Niagra Falls Trans-Am race like a rally, given the conditions. To me that showed that with the right conditions, he could have dragged that Audi up to contention on stages, not just circuits Makes me also wonder how good of a circuit racer an S1 was. I don't remember too many of them in rallycross off the top of my head or dedicated circuit racers
I wonder what were Audi thinking when they chose the 200 to go rallying in 1987, instead of the Audi Quattro. It doesn't make any sense! The 200 was far from being a rally car
Yes, the 06 and 07 had some major issues, not enough power, big handling problems, reliability problems, engines that liked to stall out, and were very reluctant to start back up again, which the earlier Imprezas were not. The 06 and 07 Impreza WRC had all the issues, the earlier ones did not have.
@@Chr.Monika6469 That one at least had an obvious explanation (lack of funds and a failure to build a proper World Rally Car) whilst the Subaru downfall is still somewhat of a mystery. In general it has to be said that WRC had a major collapse from 2003 (epic season) to 2006 (only two manufacturers), which might be an interesting point to study as well.
@@Bleifuss88 Sadly the manufacturer issues are still an ongoing issue and despite a few coming and going, this issue lasted for nearly 2 decades at this point. As of 2027, Toyota will be the sole full works team. M-Sport will just be partially supported by Ford as they are now, and Hyandai is going to pull out for the World Endurance Championship. As a Subaru fan, I'm kinda glad I missed 2006-2008, however, the reason I stopped watching the WRC is sadly because of Richard Burns unfortunate passing, he was a childhood favourite of mine.
@@Bleifuss88 Not a mystery, there is a nice Discovery documentary series "Engineering the World Rally" about it. IIRC it was a chassis design flaw by an Aussie engineer
As many said this video could be 30 minutes long with fails of many manufacturers! The million dollar question is how from WRC championship car 🚘 in one year they end up to a 💩 box the next one 1️⃣????
@@powerslidepodcast You are right, I meant 2000. But still, my point remains: every SEAT season was catastrophic, and sometimes even unprofessionalism by the team surfaced.
I try not to remember Subaru's final 3 seasons. It was the same story pretty much 90% of the time. Podium contention after day 1. Mechanical problems & drop out of contention on day 2. Recover to minor points on day 3. The 2006 & 2007 Imprezas were pretty cars IMO, but good god they were absolute dogs mechanically!
Poor Peter
At least they really came back with Rallycross!
Seasons with Peugeot 307 would have made to my list.
love seeing wrc related content. more attention on it the better keep up the great content!!
I think Nissan's 1984 season could quite easily be on this list. The team only had 1 podium finish and that was a 3rd place on the Ivory Coast rally which never had a particularly large entry. Aside from the one podium, they also managed only 3 top 5 finishes. The best thing you could say about it was the fact the factory cars for the top 2 drivers (Timo Salonen and Shekhar Mehta) were quite reliable but a lot of the other drivers Nissan employed that year had plenty of DNFs. 1987 was also a fairly poor season for Nissan too!
The Lancia factory team pulled out after the 1992 season, after scoring 6 straight manufacturer titles : 87, 88, 89, 90, 91 and 92 😮
The 1993 Sainz effort was by a private team.
Also the Corolla WRC made it's debut in Rally Finland 1997 👍
The 1992 cars were still ran by Jolly Club. As for the Corolla, yes it made its debut in 1997, in the video we say that Toyota took the year off to develop the car for 1998, meaning for a full-time campaign. The Corolla competed in the second half of 1997 as preparation for 1998.
No, the 1992 Lancia campaign was factory, hence the Martini sponsorship in 92 aswell...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_World_Rally_Championship
The cars were still ran by Jolly Club, you can check it on Juwra. Also if you check Jolly Club's results, 1992 is missing because they were running the Lancia cars.
@@fontheking5 in 1992 Jolly Club ran Deltas. Also look at decals on cars. It said Martini racing. Before that it was written Martini Lancia.
There's also Mitsubishi in 2002 and 2004
Thanks to the RUclips algorithm, this channel will grow up for sure
Grape video ! Even though some seasons are missing
Such as Mitsubishi very last years and Subie very last years
damn only 250 subs? bro so underrated
M-Sport's 2022 season could have been on the list. Making the slowest Rally1 car after suffering 3 years with the Fiesta only to score 119 points more than Katsuta's NG team. And not to mention the driver line-up of Breen, Fourmaux, Greensmith/Loeb.
Especially after how glorious the win in Monte Carlo was, Greensmith 3rd or 4th (??) in the driver's standings after Sweden if I'm not mistaken, the rest of the season was just sad tbh.
You had Breen and Formaux crash constantly, Greensmith had a decent first half of the season and then went downhill (NZL crash was particularly depressing), and Loeb never available.
Went from "we're so back" to "it's so over" in months.
Being an M-Sport fan from 2019 to the current day is tough . They had a couple wins last year but was plagued by reliability issues. Luckily this season , Adrien has been a lot more consistent. I do fear however how long Msport will last at the top level
@@OpeningBatsman Breen was 2nd on the road order in Sweden and Greensmith was 4th in the standings after it. Loeb's win gave them false confidence that the Puma was a winning car but it wasn't even possible to get podiums with those drivers.
@@MattyC_96Cause of Tanak's driving
Sainz didn't seem to care about losing repsol sponsorship when going back to toyota in 1998, people seem to forget that him winning the 92 title was a small miracle and in its first year the st185 was a dog of a car, the deltona was the fastest car by quite a margin, great vid btw hope there will be more!
The last seasons of Mitsubishi should have been there, also 2004 for peugeot
I also would include Ford's '94 (all gone downhill after Delecour's F40 crash) and '95 seasons, Nissan in '92 and Opel in '93.
Nissan 1992 should be here! Interesting video, anyway!
There's definitely enough for a part 2!
@@powerslidepodcast great news!
@@powerslidepodcast and Opel in '93 too!
That Audi 80 or 200 was a weird car, that utterly decimated everything in its path while circuit racing though, and Walter Rohrl treated the 1988 Niagra Falls Trans-Am race like a rally, given the conditions. To me that showed that with the right conditions, he could have dragged that Audi up to contention on stages, not just circuits
Makes me also wonder how good of a circuit racer an S1 was. I don't remember too many of them in rallycross off the top of my head or dedicated circuit racers
I wonder what were Audi thinking when they chose the 200 to go rallying in 1987, instead of the Audi Quattro. It doesn't make any sense! The 200 was far from being a rally car
i want more videos like this , please dont dissapoint us
That subaru downfall needs to be studied, from title contender to mid pack in only 2 years is crazyy🧍♂️
Yes, the 06 and 07 had some major issues, not enough power, big handling problems, reliability problems, engines that liked to stall out, and were very reluctant to start back up again, which the earlier Imprezas were not.
The 06 and 07 Impreza WRC had all the issues, the earlier ones did not have.
And Mitsubishi's downfall was even worse. From being a title contender in 2001, to dead last in 2002, even behind ŠKODA 😂
@@Chr.Monika6469 That one at least had an obvious explanation (lack of funds and a failure to build a proper World Rally Car) whilst the Subaru downfall is still somewhat of a mystery.
In general it has to be said that WRC had a major collapse from 2003 (epic season) to 2006 (only two manufacturers), which might be an interesting point to study as well.
@@Bleifuss88 Sadly the manufacturer issues are still an ongoing issue and despite a few coming and going, this issue lasted for nearly 2 decades at this point. As of 2027, Toyota will be the sole full works team. M-Sport will just be partially supported by Ford as they are now, and Hyandai is going to pull out for the World Endurance Championship.
As a Subaru fan, I'm kinda glad I missed 2006-2008, however, the reason I stopped watching the WRC is sadly because of Richard Burns unfortunate passing, he was a childhood favourite of mine.
@@Bleifuss88 Not a mystery, there is a nice Discovery documentary series "Engineering the World Rally" about it. IIRC it was a chassis design flaw by an Aussie engineer
As many said this video could be 30 minutes long with fails of many manufacturers! The million dollar question is how from WRC championship car 🚘 in one year they end up to a 💩 box the next one 1️⃣????
Subaru's 2006 season is so disappointing, especially as an Australian rally fan! Just as Atko comes good, the team falls apart
IIRC Aussie main engineer was to blame for car design flaw. Solberg reffered to it as "snake" handling.
The Lancer 2005 also ever had its worst season in WRC.
Richard Burns. That is all.
What in the HITC sevens
Any season done by SEAT. Come on, it was just hopeless, especially in 2000.
Must have been very hopeless because they didn't compete in 2001 😅
@@powerslidepodcast You are right, I meant 2000. But still, my point remains: every SEAT season was catastrophic, and sometimes even unprofessionalism by the team surfaced.
Peugeot 307