Being brought up by a retired rally driver dad (and a very tolerant mother!), this brought a big smile to my face. It took me right back 40+ years. Rally mechanics are as good as you'll get anywhere on the planet! Funnily enough, I had only about an hour ago spoken to my eldest (home on holiday!) about my dad teaching me to drive. He said that when he took his newly-bought car down to show him, despite him being in his eighties, Dad insisted they go out for a drive and he kept telling him where to turn. From the description, they ended up on the nearest part of the Round Britain Rally to his place 😂 Dad and his two co-drivers (they'd swap between them) actually designed our region's stages, some of which, at least in part, were still in use in the 1980s when I learned to drive (they designed it in the '60s). At least my son's car is closer in size to a rally car, I learned in a 2 lt (almost 2 tonne, no power steering) Datsun Laurel in which I couldn't see over the steering wheel! I had to learn early on to trust _my_ co-driver!
I am working in the local championship on rally2 cars aka wrc2 or r5 cars, they are amazing and it just reminds me of what I have to do tomorrow at the next rally and last of my season
Honestly this is my dream job (second to actually driving the cars of course) so the fact they were willing to let even a newcomer in gives me at least some hope!
Wait, how do you get work for a car mag and haven't ever changed a tire before? You'd think people who work in motorsport magazines would work on their own cars let alone just rotating their own wheels, no?
Not sure i would openly admit never changing my own tire before much less to be a motorsports reporter 😂🤣 thought we had people with some sense and experience behind the mic
feels like not much detail was being shown tho? you say changing a gearbox took 10mins and a damper took 4mins... but there was barely any matching footage, much less a walkthrough of any particular job... guess i was expecting more.
God film and story but where are the real story ? I’m have been working in professional Motorsport in nearly 35 years now and started as a Mekaniker and worked my way up to engineering. The life as a Mekaniker is a hard job and hard on the body , long hours , now weekends or vacation more then the travel days. When I was most active as a mek in WRC , ERC and LMP i had 200-230 traveling days round the glob plus the event on top of this. After 10-12 years of this I crashed my body was screaming and I had to rest and find a different way forward , so I started with formula cars and tarmac racing and forth that was better 🤣 , I stared with Indy car moved to USA after some years there I moved home and started to work in Europe and moved up the ladder and got to be race engineer , people doesn’t believe how brutal this business is and how mentally burned out you are after a race weekend as a mek or engineer and when you get up in age it’s not better 🤣 I am 51 years old now and I got drafted a week ago to be senior engineer in a TCR team , I told myself for 5 year’s ago that I stop by 50 but it’s a not easy to let go even when you’re body protesting .
great video. But this guy needs to be fired! Are you telling me that he's never change a tire and he works for a racing car magazine?! that's blasphemy! knowing how to change a tire should be on the resume for the job. At the very least.
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Being brought up by a retired rally driver dad (and a very tolerant mother!), this brought a big smile to my face. It took me right back 40+ years. Rally mechanics are as good as you'll get anywhere on the planet!
Funnily enough, I had only about an hour ago spoken to my eldest (home on holiday!) about my dad teaching me to drive. He said that when he took his newly-bought car down to show him, despite him being in his eighties, Dad insisted they go out for a drive and he kept telling him where to turn. From the description, they ended up on the nearest part of the Round Britain Rally to his place 😂
Dad and his two co-drivers (they'd swap between them) actually designed our region's stages, some of which, at least in part, were still in use in the 1980s when I learned to drive (they designed it in the '60s). At least my son's car is closer in size to a rally car, I learned in a 2 lt (almost 2 tonne, no power steering) Datsun Laurel in which I couldn't see over the steering wheel! I had to learn early on to trust _my_ co-driver!
I am working in the local championship on rally2 cars aka wrc2 or r5 cars, they are amazing and it just reminds me of what I have to do tomorrow at the next rally and last of my season
this was fascinating. i dont even follow rally that much
As a rally mechanic, thx for showing it for pple.
Honestly this is my dream job (second to actually driving the cars of course) so the fact they were willing to let even a newcomer in gives me at least some hope!
Much easier these days with less servicing, shorter rally’s, restrictions in which parts you can change
I grew up hanging around motorhomes in local rallies. Yeah its frantic work.
Keep up the wrc content im a relatively new fan and im trying to learn more about it.
This channel definitely isn’t the one you should be watching then. This guy and this channel is a joke.
In short, itbis like a stage play, where the driver and co-driver are the protagonists, but behind courtins is where the magic is done.
Wait, how do you get work for a car mag and haven't ever changed a tire before? You'd think people who work in motorsport magazines would work on their own cars let alone just rotating their own wheels, no?
Not sure i would openly admit never changing my own tire before much less to be a motorsports reporter 😂🤣 thought we had people with some sense and experience behind the mic
feels like not much detail was being shown tho? you say changing a gearbox took 10mins and a damper took 4mins... but there was barely any matching footage, much less a walkthrough of any particular job... guess i was expecting more.
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God film and story but where are the real story ?
I’m have been working in professional Motorsport in nearly 35 years now and started as a Mekaniker and worked my way up to engineering.
The life as a Mekaniker is a hard job and hard on the body , long hours , now weekends or vacation more then the travel days. When I was most active as a mek in WRC , ERC and LMP i had 200-230 traveling days round the glob plus the event on top of this.
After 10-12 years of this I crashed my body was screaming and I had to rest and find a different way forward , so I started with formula cars and tarmac racing and forth that was better 🤣 , I stared with Indy car moved to USA after some years there I moved home and started to work in Europe and moved up the ladder and got to be race engineer , people doesn’t believe how brutal this business is and how mentally burned out you are after a race weekend as a mek or engineer and when you get up in age it’s not better 🤣 I am 51 years old now and I got drafted a week ago to be senior engineer in a TCR team , I told myself for 5 year’s ago that I stop by 50 but it’s a not easy to let go even when you’re body protesting .
Thanks for your perspective. Agree that the video was a bit thin on substance
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Being an adult that works for an autosport outlet and he's never changed the wheel on a car?
Wonder what it's like for the truck drivers who deliver the cars ? Do they stuck in as well ?
Not as hard as it used to be during the 4-5 day WRC era, with no centralised servicing.
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great video. But this guy needs to be fired! Are you telling me that he's never change a tire and he works for a racing car magazine?! that's blasphemy! knowing how to change a tire should be on the resume for the job. At the very least.
'or a simple tyre change'
Me... easily spending half a day changing my tyres of my 'simple' road-car.
nah thats just sad at that point.
All fluff, very little real content.
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Harder if your Fourmaux'a mechanic