American reacts to Walter Rörhl (German Rally Car Driving)
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Walter is the only one who won Rally Monte Carlo four times - on four different cars!!!
AND: he was the first to climb Pikes Peak under 11 minutes - when it was all gravel
Some quotes:
"you can not treat a car like a human - a car needs love!"
"Acceleration is when the tears of emotion drain horizontally off yor eyes!"
"A car is only fast enough if you stand in front of it in the morning frightend of unlocking it!"
"For anything over 8 minutes (Nordschleife) I don't put on a helmet."
"Remove the roll bar. I want to test the Porsche and not drive it on the roof."
"Formula 1 is a children's birthday party."
"Good drivers have insects on the side windows."
My personal favourite: “Oversteering is when the passenger is scared. Understeering is when I'm scared.”
@@vincentschult1725 einem Reporter hat er es mal so erklärt: "Beim Untersteuern siehst du den Baum, in den du einschlägst. Beim Übersteuern hörst du ihn nur."
"If you see the tree you are driving into you have understeer, if you only hear it you have oversteer"
"That's how _I_ drive on the snow, but not on purpose!" 😂
Made me laugh too loud too😅
What got me was "like me on the way home when I have to poop" :D
Me, too! 😂@@mikkohapponen5728
I met Walter Röhrl about 30 years ago. We had neighboring holiday cabins in the Austrian Alps (Saalbach-Hinterglemm, skiing season), it was at night, heavy snowfall ... and one of my friends drove his car off the tiny road that lead up to our house ... into deep snow. We were about 10 people and all of us together were not able to heave/push/pull the car out of the snow, no matter what. A woman came along from a near house and said: "Walter will fix it!" Walter Röhrl came along, I didn´t recognize him but a friend said "Are you who I think you are?". Then Röhrl told all of us to get away from the car. He told the guy behind the wheel to steer the wheel completely to the other side, straight against the mountain ... and to open throttle to the fullest. He did. The car hopped out of the deep snow trench and was back on the road.
lucky you, i am jealous that you met him
my dad has had a few talks with him too :)
Walter Röhrl is a hero to me since my childhood days i used to watch all the rally' s and follow the rankings along the season 😊 and we had no internet 😁
There are maybe three people on the planet that would make me star struck, and Walter Röhrl is one of them.
I'm actually jealous! 😃 I've been watching rally ever since I was a kid, which was in the days of Group B and Walter Röhrl was such a hero to me back then! I never met him, but my older brother did... My brother was always a crap driver, my dad who's been a proffesional driver for his entire life always laughed at him... Well until the day my brother met Walter. They had a nice chat and my brother actually asked for a few driving tips. Well let's just say that after that, my brother was no longer a shitty driver. He even made my father jealous at times. And that just proves how good Walter is - just a few tips from him turned someone who couldn't drive very well into a much better than average driver...
Walter also drove Trans Am and IMSA races in the USA, and very successfully.
The Americans even had to change the rules to win again! His ride up Pikes Peak was also legendary. A legend 👏
To be precise: Röhrl only took place in the endurance races of IMSA. The main driver was HJ Stuck, nevertheless legendary racer.
@@groundloss Röhl taught him to drive a Quattro
@@GreenFart174 and developed the Quattro further. ;) To all who are able to unterstand German, "Alte Schule - die goldenen Äro des Automobils" is there an very interessting podcast/YT Channel.
Walter Röhrl is still a brand ambassador for Porsche and test drives their cars and he every once in a while appears on german car shows and still competes in friendly races.
Yeah Ryan, that guy still drives like this...often testen cars on the green hell - nürburgring
And he is so brutally honest against Porsche - when he thinks the car is not as good as it should be.
"Autofahren beginnt für mich dort, wo ich den Wagen mit dem Gaspedal statt dem Lenkrad steuere. Alles andere heißt nur die Arbeit machen." ~ W. Röhrl 🙌
„Wenn Du Angst hast das Auto aufzuschließen dann weißt Du das es schnell ist.“ 😅 ich glaube es ist nicht ganz der genaue Wortlaut aber so in etwa hat er es gesagt.
„Fahrspaß ist, wenn die Fliegen an den Seitenscheiben kleben“
Something threw me off when you said "sponsored by Adidas"
It took me a while, until you mentioned it - you actually pronounced it 100% right!
We are definitly proud of you ;)
yeah i thought the same :D
But failed at pronouncing Porsche later in the video 😁😁
Very good pronounciation! But you typed Röhrl wrong :-)
"Acceleration is when the tears of emotion flow horizontally towards the ear."
Walter Röhrl.
I'm no rally driver but I can say that the "little dance" he does with the pedals, is perhaps the most important thing in steering the car around, even more so than the steering wheel itself.
The taps on the throttle are to keep the turbo spooled up, Senna I believe used to do the same, instead of a smooth throttle input he was giving it light stabs.
The brake pedal is crucial in not only slowing the car down but in making it rotate around corners by moving it's weight towards the front or rear. Throttle lifts the car's nose and loads the back, brake loads the nose down and lifts the back, giving respectively more traction to the wheels that are under load. When you brake into a corner, you shift the balance of the car forward, loading the front wheels and giving it more grip to point in the right direction. The rear wheels lifts and are prone to slide more easily, making the car rotate around the corners.
Clutch, brake and throttle - when used in harmony, make the car go faster through straights, corners and uneven terrain.
I'd recommend to take a look at rally driving techniques videos so you can get a better idea of how this works
If you accelerate a turbo on a straight track , dont lift your foot! Just shift quick! Ok , with modern stickgear it is imposible. 😊
In Rally, your copilot's tasks is to tell you the characteristics of the next turn, and your task is to react. It didn't show in the video, but he constantly gets information like "Turn left, grade 3, 30 degrees, banked, gravel".
Almost correct. It would be "left 3, outside, 30" which means left turn grade 3, banked to the outside, then 30m straight up to next turn.
@@zorrothebug I put it more verbosely to make clear what he‘s talking about. But in general yes, everything gets shortened to the bare minimum.
@@SiqueScarface my correction was basically the 30 is not degree of the turn but the distance to next turn.
Small correction: the co-pilot announces two or three turns ahead, not the next turn.
@@aimurtaim I didn't specify which turn the co-pilot is announcing, and it depends on the driver and his personal taste. I know that Walter Röhrl, despite being German, had his co-pilots announcing the track in English. Sébastien Loeb, the most successful Rallye driver, prefers his native French.
What he does: He keeps the load of the turbo high and makes the rear step out, by applying throttle+brake into a turn, while shifting down into the turn, by matching the revs of the higher gear, with the higher revs of the lower gear following, with the outside of his right foot on the throttle, while braking with the same foot - easy! try it ;)
walter röhrl was active in the earlier 80s, the rally class was named group b, topping out in 1985 and 1986 when cars weighed 800-950kg and had up to 600hp. that was the time when the spectators stood on the track to try and stand on it as long as possible without being hit. like a game. rally teams would regularly find fingers and stuff in the air intakes after the runs. in later 1986 group b then stopped existing after multiple incidents like a driver and his copilot dropped down off a cliff and burned in their car because manufacturers neglected safety and made the cars so light that the rollcage was basically made from paper. then a ford rs200 had to dodge a spectator who ran out on track and lost control, injuring over 30 spectators and killing 3. the heads of group b were hardly criticized for neglecting everything and trying to keep the series alive as long as possible. manufacturers even went and said they would be pulling out (and just for clarification: in the 80s manufacturers had two main ways to show their capabilities. formula 1 and group b. these were the two masterclasses of motorsport in the world and group b was just as massive and even had more spectators than formula 1. with many many millions spent for development. the rules said the cars were legal to race when the manufacturers sold 200 road legal versions of that model, so they all didnt bother and built 200 complete racecars for the road and then even modified these to a crazy extent for the racecars, just to get into the racing and have a chance. many exploits would be made, cheating and stuff and the sport was on its absolute peak.)
so back to 1986: manufacturers sat together and said they would all be pulling out, accepting a big loss over it because they neither wanted their drivers to do this nor accept these risks. and group b leadership wanted to punish them with incredible millions of dollar fees to force them to stay in, so after the last crash the drivers stood up to them. they were forced to do this for years, and yes they were payed well but at what cost…
walter himself said the cars are so crazy fast, he is just in survival instinct mode for hours and for him it just feels like luck after every corner he survived. he only won so much because of his photographical mind, they always do a trackwalk before the race day and the copilot and the driver look at every corner and bump and write down notes for how sharp, long, bumpy and sweeping a corner is and how much distance is between them. in the race, the copilot then has to read these notes while doing this superhuman activity and read that stuff with all the jumping and drifting while 100% trusting the driver. and in these group b cars, copilots couldnt even read the notes fast enough, even though they had complex codings to shorten it. they might say “3 left short”
or “5 right flat cut” or “2 right long opens over bump” with the number indicating the radius and the rest is self explainatory. but after 30 other cars had gone already, the track would change a lot. there can be twigs, holes, mud, ice or even other broken down cars on the track. thats where walters mind helped him because he was the only one who wouldnt have to rely on his copilot, rather just use it for reassurance.
theres a documentary named group b: when rallying got too fast. its awesome and can bring you a true impression of how superhuman this sport is. i am a professional racedriver and i can tell you, rallying, especially at that time, is a different thing. you really drive by intuition, not muscle memory and doing laps. they just drive random forest roads. no matter about the weather, the day or nighttime and whatever
There was a crazy period in the eighties called group B. They nearly didnt have any rules for the cars and definitely not for spectators. At the end the cars were doing around 600hp. In the eigthies ... on gravel
So after every race the hospitals in the area had to patch up a lot of people with gravel shot wounds?
@steemlenn8797 Idk but there were cases where people wanted to touch the car drifting by. And some broke an arm or so. In the end the whole group was killed because people died... so yeah
also called Killer Bees
@@steemlenn8797there is also the urban legend that between stages the mechanics pulled fingers out of the cars
Walter is absolutely legendary and revolutionized drifting. He used his experience as a downhill skier, and created a new, very smooth style of drifting. It looked not longer like a fight against the car. He is a absolute gentleman at car and he had only a few crashes in his career.
His dance on the pedals is legendary; anyone who can ride manual cars knows that the left foot doesn't belong on the brake. But so he can brake and give trottle at the same time.
He is still active as Porsche taxi driver on German racing tracks and mostly his speed is limited by his passengers, not by him in the age of over 70 😂
I just saw a little documentation about Audi Quattro. And there was told, that the Quattros are very difficult to steer. So Walter developed his special foot dance to support steering with trottle and break.
Walter is a legend
Btw he also won the pikes peak race to the cloud. As an american you might wanna check that out next.
Climb Dance
Walter still races and is regularly at the track. When he tells people something about driving, even the young pro drivers are very quiet and listen to the master's tips and are very proud when they can beat his current lap times by a few hundredths of a second!! A true legend!!
Ever tried to use your left foot on the break pedal? No? Then you better be prepared for a surprise. 😉
I tried 😂😂
just do it if no car behind you 🤣
@@blackchecker2009
Wer auf fährt ist schuld 😁😊
Hahaha ihr seid so lustig, aber wahr :)
btw. he destroied 3 cars befor he get it with the left brake.
Had the pleasure to work with Walter for a while, an absolute legend!
My favorite quote of Walter Röhrl is that „you recognize a real rallye driver by the dead flies on the side window. 😂
Walter set a record at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (Colorado) when the route was not yet paved all the way to the summit.
track-side ralley fans back then were a special kind of people - I think that if they didn't get pelted by gravel at some point, they didn't consider themselves as having "been there"
You ate correct . Drivers trusted the spectatotirs qpuld get outa the way. The spevtatoyrs trustwd the deivers qouldnt kill them. Oftwn there body parts . Finger tips ears . Hair stick in tbe panel gaps on tbe cars put crew needed counciling
@@STEVEH-sp9fo I had a stroke reading this
@@mrsnoopy7557 wich hospital you in?? Ill send you some flowers
@@mrsnoopy7557 - You managed to read it? You did better than me.
@@module79l28 Das ist die Kunst des Korrektur- lesens. Das kriegen die Kinder heute in der Schule anscheinend nicht mehr vermittelt. Und dann enden wir bei so einem "Günter Öttinger" Gedächtnis Text...😣
That was the legendary time of
The Group B Class with nierly no rules
Yeah after Audi dominated they changed the rules 😂 otherwise no one could touch him
Walter, schon zu Lebzeiten eine Legende.
He is a true legend. Almost supernatural.
The dance he’s doing with his feet is:
1. rev matching, that’s when he hits the clutch with his left foot, stands on the brakes with his right foot and hits the gas with his right heel to match the rpm to the lower gear while downshifting
2.preventing turbo lack, that’s when he stands on the brakes with his left and hits the gas with his right foot
3. rotating the car with the brakes by shifting weight to front, that’s when he stands on the gas and hits the brakes occasionally
Rev matching and „steering with the brakes“ are still quite common between passionate drivers on the race track but preventing turbo lack isn’t really necessary anymore because the technology of turbos got much better.
It’s also extremely difficult to perform without losing the car so it was only used by some professional drivers back in the 70s, 80s and 90s when it brought an advantage.
I am not fond of Audi, but Walter Röhrl (please correct his family name in the title) is a true legend!!!👍👍👍
Audi was probably something different back then than they're now. I would even dare to say that the Audi Quattro and Walter Röhrl were the two main contributers to making Audi credible with their slogan "Vorsprung durch Technik" (advantage by technology).
Audi was trying to compete with BMW and Mercedes but their appearance was quite conventional, conservative and boring. Technically they were quite good and they received good reviews in the press. With the second generation Audi 100 they introduced a 5 cylinder engine which was quite innovative. Still it wasn't looking exciting exactly. However, it became an early example of product placement when it appeared in Steven Spielberg's science fiction movie "et" .
The Audi quattro was the first sports car with permanent 4WD built in series. Röhrl's Audi was derived from that one.
At the end of the 1970ies the 3rd generation of the Audi 100 was released. It was the only car, particularly the only limousine so far with an aerodynamic drag coefficient of Cw = 0.30 built in series at that time.
From then on Audi gained in reputation of being technically innovative with good quality.
@@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl Don't forget the legendary Audi 5-cylinder turbo engine with its unique sound
Well... Audi, it's not bad! Their technique is very convincing. However, what has always pissed me off about Audi is the fact that their spare parts are outrageously expensive...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 Arent many parts interchangeble from regular Volkswagen/Skodas tho?
@@vetrixfx9264 Sadly not as much as you would wish...
Today Walter is living in the quiet little village of St. Englmar in the bavarian forest with his wife, his cat and a collection of air-cooled Porsches in his garage. For the last decades he took part in a lot of automobile events and was oftenly asked to do little races with motor journalists and content creators. Well, no matter what car, what track, what wheather condition, what age... he always won xD
I once met him when he signed my Porsche and I just like what a down to earth, straight and honest person he is. When Porsche wanted him to become their brand ambassador he'd ask them: "Are you sure, you can afford me? I'm not talking about money. If something is shit I'll tell it to everyone!" And Porsche said: "That's why we want you! Anybody knows you're not diplomatic at all. We want to increase the credibility of our brand and there's no better choice than you." You just gotta love Walter. A genies in driving, a legend in history and yet such a cool and relaxed guy😎
For the people who have no idea how a stickshift works or what he's doing:
The times he's pressing the clutch for longer periods he's disconnecting the engine from the wheels, while he's keeping the same gear, because he doesn't need to accelerate or "drag" the engine while he's braking. He's pumping the clutch to get a tad of engine power, as the engine wines down, to either let the back wheels slip or when he needs a tad more speed and he braked too much.
If he hits the brake and the gas at the same time, he just needs to slow down a little, while keeping the engine spooled up very high.
If he would release the gas the engine would start dragging, which is different than using brakes, as engine power tends to drag in the back while brakes work primarily in the front. In addition it takes longer to get the engine to produce power again if you had it do engine braking for you.
1:49 That was the (in-)famous Group B ralley when it was virtually completely unregulated. People crowded the streets and roads in huge throngs. Many photographers stood ON the road behind curves to get the most exciting pictures, only to jump out of the way literally the last second.
Röhrl once answered a question about the spectators jumping out of the way, if he was afraid of hitting one of them, or if he slowed down fir them.
He said: "Nah, I don't slow down, you don't have time for that. They jumped out of the way yesterday, they will jump out of the way today and tomorrow as well."
Not because he was being an a$$hole but because the rules didn't stipulate any distance, and the tracks were literally normal streets and roads transformed into a racing stage for a few days during Ralley Season.
I love his "Legendary night of Arganil". His teammate called a service car and it crashed with Röhrls car. He was so angry, that he said to his Co Driver: "Fasten your seatbelt, I'm going to drive this next stage so they're going to revoke my license. And he did. He was 4:40min faster than the 2nd.
And that stage was at night with fog and 0 sight. Röhrl has a photographic memory. He drove with the instruction of his Co Driver (What kind of turn, how fast it is possible) and the picture of the road in his mind. He said he knew every rock, tree and bump.
Normally it's: clutch with your left foot, break and Gas with the right one. He is using for the brake both feet - depending on the track. So: if you want to drive a manual car, you don't have to dance like him. 😊
The golden days of rallying: Group B (unfortunately it was stopped many years ago already). I heard that Röhrl had to learn a new driving style because of the bad turbo lag of the Audi, which is probably true if you look at the footwork he does.
And yes, he is a legend, not only in Germany.
He uses the clutch to keep the revs of the turbocharger up so that he can command full power when flooring the pedal again. All while he's actually about to break into a corner...
Yes Walter was/is a Ballerina and in more than one sense. Nevertheless he is the GOAT.
This is a Team Sport!
Not only is a good driver important, but also the Co-Driver who tells the driver the exact route, how long a straight is, what a curve is like, so that the driver can only concentrate on driving.
Walter Röhrl is a legend!
The foot work he uses is the normal down shifting using the left foot for the clutch and right foot on the brake and turn the right heel over to the accelerator to blip the revs up for matching the lower gear change. Then left foot on the brake serves 2 purposes, keeps the car more stable when cornering and also to keep the right on the accelerator to power through the corner with all 4 wheels driving helps grip up better and keep the turbo spooling so it doesn't drop out of boost.
He was envolved in developing these cars a lot. So he always wanted to be able to use the break and acceleration pedal simultaneously while hitting the clutch. @ryan the "dancing" is called "Zwischengas geben". A technique to help the gears shifting.
@TheKatoffen yeah, and he also figured out that if he left foot brake while right foot accelerator, he could eliminate the problem of turbo lag where it falls out of boost if you let off the go pedal and he always had the power on tap at all times. The modern rally cars have anti lag built in the tune now so they can take their foot off the accelerator and not fall out of boost.
about the Co-driver: in Rally racing you have a co driver who reads the road book to you during the race. He is an essential part of the team. Besides that Walter Röhrl had a kind of photographic memory. In a training drive he memorized not only the distances from turn to turn, but also certain points at the road, like a certain tree or a rock and other clearly to see points. That gave him a better sense for distances left until the next turn and such. This helped him especially in bad weather conditions like fog. Famous his race in Portugal near Arganil. It was night, foggy and he drove the part as in clear sunny weather, being about 4:40 minutes faster then the second one. About 7 seconds faster on each of the 42 km.
In RUclips look for this: Walter Röhrl und die Nacht von Arganil!
He is probably the best driver in the whole world. His Audi S1 had over 500 bhp.
Walter Rörhl, The Man, The Legend
Einen wunderschönen Mittag, wenn du in Deutschland bist, üben wir zusammen das Fahren mit Gangschaltung🫢😃
U have to watch his legendary night at Arganil! The most insane race of him
The problem might be that there is no english version or subtitles for any video about that race.
Racing in the night when fog prevents any possibility to see where you are going is literally insane.
"the night of sharp nifes"
Walter was one of the best drivers at Pikes Peak...
A legend still alive. Check some other of Walter’s videos. Best driver in the world.
In good old Days of "Group B", the Cars was so fast, that Walter said "if you start to think, youre dead".
Another thing that he said " A car is only fast enough if you stand in front of it in the morning and are afraid to unlock it".
When you can drive a Rally Car that fast, you can drive ANYTHING...and he proof it 😁...many Times!
the 80s and 90s. I saw it live!! Was crazy! Walter its a Legend!
What he is doing with his feet:
- It's a manual car, so obviously he has to operate the clutch every time he changes gears (left pedal...).
- The engine is turbocharged, so when breaking / shifting he keeps pressing on the accelerator to keep the RPM up and the Turbo at where it deliveres the most power.
Sometimes you can see how he breaks with his left foot and keeps his right on the throtle, sometimes he preses the clutch with his left, the break pedal with his right foot and still uses the heel of the right foot to also press the throtle at the same time. This car had 450hp, later up to 600hp from a 3L, turbocharged 5 cyl. inline engine and Walter piloted it with incredible precision and feeling.
This rally class was called Group B where there were almost no limits for the cars. It brought forth the most insane cars, like the Audi Quatro S1 Sport featured here, Lancia 037, Renault R5 Turbo,...
Walter Röhrl is arguably the best driver on dirt ever, with Michelle Mouton right there next to him showing him the finger...😄
There was a button on the top of the shifter to use the clutch with his finger.
They don't allow people so close the road in German rallyes anymore, for obvious reasons.
When you go watch the WRC you are very far away, but for local events you still can get within 5 meters of the road. (depends on the track marshal who's monitoring the track)
i got too close once and a car drove over my new GoPro that I placed near the track (not far enough I guess)
THE Legend. The best driver ever
the Audi S1 had 1000PS. In a rallye car are the driver and his copilot. The copilot has a document with infos about the track. He tells the driver about the next corners. Once Walter Rörhl crashed in a corner and ask his copilot, why he didn't say the corner. The copilot said, that he drove to fast that he couldn't follow 😂
I watched him driving the Hunsrück Rally every time , he was fantastic
Walter....one of the best Drivers ever...❤😊
Never saw you stand up, never thought you were a giant
watch all his videos, he even leaves the room and the giant even becomes INVISIBLE 😆
lol. when i was a kid sitting in the back of my parents' car, we met Roehrl in his Audi on the road in Austria. suddenly there was a huge roar from an engine, and his car filled the rear mirror. he looked at us for a second or two, i started screaming "it's walter roehrl!!", then another roar, and he disappeared in front of us. i was well aware of what a serial production Audi Quattro looks like - his Audi was huuuge, more like what nowadays would be called a SUV, only low and wide. very impressive, esp. for a ~10yo. :-)
"With a good driver, the flies stick to the side window" (and not to the windshield).
There can and will never be another driver like Walter Röhrl. He was an exceptional talent who found optimal conditions from childhood onwards.
He won with bad cars, he was in a different league with good cars. And he has always remained honest and down-to-earth to this day...
The best thing about Walter Röhrl is how chill and nice he is.
I recommend you to watch Walter setting up a record at the Pikes Peak which has not been broke ever since then (partially because they changed the road to asphalt which means different conditions for a new record). You can see him "dance" on the pedals as well (he was one of the first drivers to employ "left foot breaking" since he found it cost too much time to switch pedals with his right foot to break and accelerate again). He also said "once you feel it underneath your bum, it is allready too late". He is a local legend here in Regensburg.
The Audi was quite heavy, but also had a LOT of power, therefore not easy to handle.
He is basically breaking, pumping the gas and using the clutch all together, to give the car the right amount of Torque so he can drift relatively smoothly.
The Clutch is for shifting gears, it disconnects the Transmission and changes to a different kind of "cog" on the inside, to increase Torque in lower or Reduce Torque and enable higher speeds in higher gears, when it disconnects it does so gradually and you can use that to control the Torque without changing the gears, within the range of the Gear you´re in.
Later cars were designed to counteract this, and were much easier to drive. So there was most likely much less dancing :P
This is coming from a non-driver, i know the basics, but i´m not a mechanic, in my understanding this is the gist of it.
The Audi was truly a Beast, and Röhrl something akin to a modern day Dragon Rider.
This man and this machine Form a Modern Legend, they still don´t quite have an equal.
He held the Record for Pikes peak for over 30 years, in one of the first cars of this level of Technology.
Left foot breaking is a technik developt for transmitting the weight of the car forward to make it turn more easy. The "toe heele" method is to keep the turbo pressure at the right level.
Walter Röhl is an artist behind the steering wheel.
You can use heel & toe even if you don't have a turbo, to rev match on down shifts
Fun fact. It was Swedish Rally World Champion Stig Blomqvist who taught Walter Röhrl the left-hand brake technique before he himself became world champion in 1984, both driving for the AUDI team. I taught myself this technique in the late 70s in my SAAB 96 2-stroke and later in SAAB 96 V4. Almost all rally drivers use that technology today.
It's called technique 😉
Can't really remember the last time i saw a 96 in the wild. Late 80's maybe.
Walter Röhrl was also a philosopher:
"You can't treat a car like a human being - a car needs love" and
"A car is fast enough if one morning you stand next to it and fear to open the door"
. . . and many more 🙂
Walter Röhrl, the famous rally driver, has been working with Porsche for years, giving advice and feedback. I guess that's also why Porsche cars are so good and often the benchmark for other car makers on the track. ^^
Young Walter Rohrl was one step above all other beings that ever moved a vehicle. Nice you discovered him.
3:27 you can see, how he pressed two pedals at the same time with his right foot. Thats really next level stuff 😅
I can give you some hints for his footwork. He does many things at once. You know the arrangement of the pedals? Clutch - Brake - Gas. This was an old turbo engine with a lot of turbo lag and power on top of the revs. If he doesn´t need to shift, he´s Left foot braking. On loose surfaces you need to balance this out. Also this car doesnt have a handbrake so to turn in the car you need to play between gas and brake as well. With the taps on the gas he manages to keep that giant turbo spooled up without giving more gas then required so he can use all of it right on the exit. Also, pay attenton to his heel and toe technique. If you watch closely you can see that while he´s on the clutch with the left foot, his right foot controlls the gas WHILE he´s on the brake. So he manages three pedals with two feet simultaniously. This is no ordinary driving, this is true art. I´m a Simracer myself and i struggle at these techniques. And he manages it all with the G- forces applied to him, orders from his co-pilot shouted in his ears, all while dodging the people on track. This. Is. Art. Also he smashed the record on Pikes Peak back then^^ This Race is in the U.S.
4:04 that's actually exactly one of Walter's most famous quotes: 'You have to be the car, when you start to think it is already too late'
Well, you know one quote of Walter Röhrl went somewhat like this : "You spot the car of a good driver by the big amount of smashed flies...on the side windows." ... legend.
he is clutch and he uses one too!!!!!!
basically what you called dancing was a quick alternating engaging of the brakes and the gas pedal, literally fine tuning the speed and torque during soft curves.
a few seconds later you see him "dancing" with the clutch and the brakes instead as well!
In Germany we say:
"Immer am Schleifpunkt fahren und die Kupplung schnalzen lassen" 😂
U R AWESOME!!! Im a German, and i love Ur Reaction. Greetings from Hamburg
At least that's how I drive to work every day 😂😂😂
Of course he drives sideways. Like Walter used to say. "Good drivers have the fly residue on the side windows."
He had some of the best quotes in rally history. Here are some of them translated into English.
"You can't treat a car like a human being. A car needs love!"
"When accelerating, the tears of emotion must flow horizontally towards the ear."
"A car is only fast enough when you stand in front of it in the morning and are afraid to unlock it."
"You can put a trained monkey in an Audi quattro and it will win!"
"Oversteer is when the passenger is scared. Understeer is when I'm scared."
and to confirm what you said about driving by instinct.
"In principle, you're already too slow to think in this car (Audi S1)."
I am also not a car guy but Walter is a hero! Check out his Rallye in Arganil. It was a race in a foggy night and he win by far just because he had every curve in his mind. So no need to see anything. Crazy!
Greetings from Germany. Walter Röhrl is his amount of Success a grounded Man. I have meeted him on a Gas Station. He is very gentle and well educated. On A pump before his car was a desperated and stressed Lady with two crying babies. He goes to her car, filled if up and goes to the register, so the Lady was able to calm down the Babies.
3:20 Almost spat my food out! 🤣
“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”
― Karl Lagerfeld 😉
what u prolly dont know: even at 76 hes still driving like he did in the past, hes still a test driver on the edge that can make track record. crazy to even think about cuz theres not a single guy even at 60y that still drives like him at 76
The Audi S1 was a pure BEAST. Only Röhrl was able to drive it like that.
The most iconic thing besides his Rallye , IMSA, PIKES PEAK- achievements is a story of him racing on the 24 hours of Nürburgring in Germany. He drove at night in conditions that today would suspend the race.(foggy and no sight at all)An average lap time back in the days where about 10 to 13 minutes depending on the car you drive. He managed to get more than 2 minutes faster than the next competitor in the same car. He said quote: "I don't understand what's the problem!?, there are white lines that limit the track. That's the only thing u need to see."
He maybe is the most skillful driver ever lived....
Edit: He also is the type of person who wins on purpose by telling it to you before the race starts.
OMG! Walter Röhrl is LEGEND! He's the first name I ever knew about car racing - that's about 40 years ago :-)
One thing he does there is still putting down the accelerator while already stepping on the brake. This keeps the pressure in the Turbocharger and avoiding the Turbo lag.
I can drive manual, but you usually use the left foot only for the clutch, not to break, while you still press the accelarator pedal with the right foot.
My uncle by this car in 1995. Sometimes he drive this on a classic rally in Germany. Best regards from Germany 😅
one of the best drivers ever.
He is doing that “dance” on the pedals because he is on three pedals at the same time (with only two feet of course). He is on the clutch to switch gears, on the brake to slow down (obviously) and on the gas pedal to keep the RPM a bit higher so that the car accelerates faster after the bend of the road. His skills are just insane…
Also look up Michelle Mouton, Walter's team mate/enemy. Imagine a young very fast woman in that sport!
Famous quote:"if you see the tree you crash into that's understeering. If you only hear it then it's oversteering"
Or: "A fast driver has the flys on the windshield, a good driver has them on the side windows."
Fährste quer, siehste mehr
That was the old Group B. Insane Monsters of cars, drivers and tracks. So much fun! And so devastating crashes. This Group of RallyeSport died due to its risks in the 90s, i believe.
Walter Röhrl. Eine lebende Legende.
On the subject of co-pilot: Walter said: 'If Christian says, in 100m corner left 3 full throttle - then I drive in 100m left 3 full throttle, no matter if there is a corner or not.'
The night of Arganil is legendary, when he was 7 seconds faster than the competitors on every km. On one single special stage 4:40min faster! He hardly could see anything in thick fog and just followed the so-called prayer book that Christian Geisdörfer read to him.
Walter is still racing, on tv shows, events, and still dominates :) he wins agains a lot of younger drivers, him beeing 70+ yo :D
In the '80 the public / enthousiast fan where very close to the circuit. The changing of gears is very special: his clutching technic, sometime he gives some speed between two gears
Walter: you can't treat a car like your child! A car needs love!❤
The little toe dance is necessary, because he has to clutch and brake with his left foot, since the clutch is a seperate pedal
Röhrl got his name from the sound coming out of his exhaust!
Live was more Fun in the 80s and 90s, you can not even imagine!
He is the best driver of all time, not just some legend from Germany. He is THE legend
Concerning the drifts: Walter Röhrl is the only driver who has more dead flies on the side window of the car than on the windshield 😉
The "dance" of his feet is easy to explain: with his right foot he's often only pedalling the gas pedal while he used his left food for brake and clutch.
Walter Röhrl is the best car driver of eternity.
He is a living legend!
The flies and the mosquitoes have to be on the side windows, not at the front...
Thats our Walter ❤, a living Legend!!❤
Walter Röhrl is a living legend in Germany. He also raced in USA in the TransAm series and he was the triumphator at the Pikes Peak race. Of course with Audi.
The Audi TransAm car was a monster ! Maybe because of that, the American racing association had banned it.
Just watch Walter Röhrl with Barbara Schöneberger😂😂😂