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The Autosport Podcast
"callie robin perez" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Following this one, prepare to be amazed. Colin McRae's previous record of being the youngest, world rally champion at 27, hasn't just been beaten. It just got smashed. Let's find out who just became the youngest ever champion how he ended Finland's 20 year wait for a title. And what he can do for the future of the sport. Let's get up to speed with autosports, Tom Howard Tom. Welcome back to the podcast. Thanks for having us. Back on the show. So you just witnessed history being made in New Zealand with the youngest ever champion. The world rally championship. Let's remind ourselves, though, who the previous youngest champion was, tell us more. The legend that is all that was sadly Colin mccrea, certainly for me, he was a hero of mine growing up one of the reasons why I even got hooked into watching rallying and I'm sure there's several people of similar age to myself and an older and younger that would have also enjoyed watching Colin McRae. He was a real special talent on the his only world title in 1995 and did that at the age of 27, which was the youngest at the time. 27 back there would have been seen very, very young because champions were sort of, you know, the late 20s, early 30s, and sometimes mid 30s were sort of seen as the prime age to win a world title. So yes, Conor McRae was known as the mister maxim of attack. He was a very exciting driver to watch race for Subaru, the factory team and his early 90s then went to Ford and then he had his final season with citron in 2003. He still regarded as one of the legends of the sport even today, 26 years on since his world title. And in the top level of rallying in the modern era, tell me about the recent champions. And how long they'd been driving? Were they also all older? Inverted commas. Champions. If you're not too familiar with rallying and WRC, then in the last few couple of decades, we say it's been dominated by two Sebastian's two French French rally drivers, Sebastian Loeb, and Sebastian ogier, Loeb has the 9 time world champion, the most successful and greatest rally driver of the ball. He has 80 world rally championship wins and has been competing even this year on a part time basis at the age of 48 and still winning events so Monte Carlo in January, so Sebastian ogier took over from him. One 8 titles and is the reigning world champion this year until Kelly Robin Perez success. That sort of period of dominance was split by tanak who won the world title in 2019 for Toyota. So that's how the world rally scene has played out over the last few years. While following rally New Zealand over the weekend, Callie Robin perra is now world champion. They call him king Kelly. You could also call him birthday boy. Tell us about the weekend and Callie Robin Pereira being the new world champion. What's a weekend if you or Kelly off of Paris celebrating your 22nd birthday? I don't know. He does get any better, I guess. If you're a rally driver or if you're if you're dream is to win the world rally champion, it doesn't get any better than the weekend that Callie Robin Perez just experienced not only has he become that the youngest ever world champion at the age of 22 and one day. He also became the first Finnish world champion for 20 years, so it ended that drought for a rally mad nation. So it's a massive deal for Finland. They've already announced that there's going to have a special celebration day in the country in his hometown of your vascular. So it's a big deal for Finland. And a big deal for Kelly Rothenberg. I mean, he's just a phenomenal talent. It's a record, I reckon we won't see beaten. A new benchmark, which I think is just above and beyond what anyone could have imagined. Now, he hasn't come from nowhere, like all overnight success stories. It's been 20 years in the making. Maybe 22 years in the making. Because in the beginning, there was Harry, Robin pere. Yep, Callie's father, WRC driver, 1993 to 2006. What happened with his dad's career and how did that lead into Cali getting behind the wheel? Harry Robin pere a former factory driver for Peugeot and sayat as well and it's a bushy. So he's been around a while as Harry. But I only ever won one rally back in 2001 at Sweden. So he was a regular podium finisher, but never really a title contender. He was what you'd call, I guess, a very safe pair of hands. You would have implored him to just pick up the points and be that sort of driver there, but perhaps not the one you put your money behind to lead your team to a title. He's really has some helped build obviously his son Kelly wrote from pair in terms of the rally driver. From an early age, he's got him in the car in cars driving from I think 8 or 9. He's been Cali has been driving some sort of vehicle. What do you think about it? Yes, he's the youngest of a world champion at the age of 22, but he's been driving things for a very long time. And our over that time, you just build the skills. Boy, as he built some skills because most of the paddock most of the service park sorry would envy the skills that Kali Roth and bear have his age. Certainly, you just watching him, he is he has skills beyond his years. The composure that he has behind the wheel, I don't think we have seen in many drivers in all motor sport. It's something that I generally can't really describe, but he just has this sort of, I just jump in the car and I just go and do it. There's no worries, there is no sort of panic. He's machine like, I guess. Is the only way to sort of it's just a machine. I'm generally speechless at how good he is because we're obviously fold him all season 6 rally wins. But he just has this ability to just destroy his rivals, but he's real skill. And I guess this is sort of comes back to all those years that you've been training in all sorts of cars, trying to learn car control. And it's his car control, which sets him about apart from the rest, because when the weather gets tricky, Cali rov repair is untouchable. There is no one that can come near him when it starts raining or gets slippery.
The Autosport Podcast
"callie robin perez" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"App for gravel notes and you'll find that for all our rally podcasts. We don't post edit everything here on the auto sport channel, but we will today. 21 year old Finnish driver Kelly Robin pere had his third rally win and the first one of the year with a dominant victory on the ice and the snow, the dramatic scenes of Sweden. And I'm here with our rally man, Tom Howard to talk all about it. You've just got back while we're recording this on Tuesday morning because you're back late last night. How was travel and stuff like that for you flying back from Sweden? Yeah, absolutely. No problems. I know there were some problems with British Airways affected RF one team, but luckily by then they'd all cleared up. So it was a relatively smooth couple of flights back given that I was in the middle of nowhere really in Sweden, so I had to get an internal flight back to Stockholm, but yeah, lovely lovely chip bag. And from our preview podcast, all the listeners want to know, did the thermal underwear do its job? I'll tell you what. I'm so glad I spent the money. I'm so glad. It was -9 most days. As the coldest I've ever been, and yeah, to be walking around without that, I think I would have really struggled. So absolute stroke of genius there to go and purchase that. So yeah, no. I'm still I'm still very much alive and functioning. All right, now our listeners have got plenty to hear from you about today, a flying Finn and a flying finish as well. I almost don't know where to start. Now you said on the preview podcast again, you know, any rally is going to have to go some to beat Monty, round one. And we'd agree with you for that. But this was a hell of a follow-up act, wasn't it? What a great weekend of rally. A brilliant follow-up act, as you say, and, you know, there were some sort of a bit, I guess some fears that were quite live up to what was at Monty and Monty was something special and I think we should just put that to one side forever really is as a one off. This was very good what we had at the weekend, but not quite Monte Carlo levels, but what we did see was an absolutely fascinating battle for three days. Unfortunately, kind of, it kind of petered out on Sunday, but Friday, it was an absolute joy to watch. 6 cars all in contention with ten seconds separating them. Incredible, really. And to see Hyundai back on the pace, what a turnaround they produced because after Monte Carlo, it was an absolute horror show. They were on the pace so they even won the first stage of Sweden and we were like, okay, but they are here to party. They are back. And they would definitely back. So it was a great rally. Midway through Saturday, we had 3.2 seconds covering the top four. That was how close it was. So it was a really brilliant event, I'd say a good call to move it north from its old venue in karlstad, lots and lots of snow in this new Umayyad region. Brilliant event and I have to say hats off to calorie revenue pair of the winner. That was in many ways and I also said this in a feature that will go live today. This could be perhaps his most telling victory because he did it by opening the road. So now he's now his chalked off that of his list of winning a rally by starting it first on the road, which is the hardest thing to do and something that Sebastian knows you has made an art form of. So to now tick that off. This is all you really probably needed to prove to be an actual title contender now. So it was a marvelous drive. Obviously, he's familiar with the conditions, being a fin, but take nothing away from him. It was an excellent performance to be to end Friday after opening a road in second, 4.3 seconds after behind Neville, marvelous achievement really was what did it for him really was Saturday's night stages. He was simply superb. The footage is incredible, which we posted on social media of him just full on the limit at night in the snow, narrow roads, it's just mind-blowing, even Carlos Sainz, the two time world champion comedy on social media saying that this is this is special, like what we're seeing here. And yeah, it was so ultimately rob pair of one on Sunday by 22 seconds quite a margin over naville who obviously super happy to get a podium for he and day after the railway at Monte Carlo, but you had to feel for Evans because he pushed Cali all the way on satellite as I'm sure we'll talk about a bit more detail here quite say bizarre moment and then a subsequent penalty and on Sunday it all sort of fell apart from. So an awesome rally, but there's plenty of talking points. Yeah, we will get onto Evans because it was almost a case of world do we start with Robin pair or do we which was the stunning victory? Or do we start with Evans, which was going into it, some would have made him their favorite. It was one that he needs to compartmentalize and just never think about this weekend. Again, once he's fully processed, but we will get on to him in a second. Look, let's talk about Callie Robin. First of all, 21 years old, grown up in a rally family. I don't see 21 as being particularly young in a greater motor sport kind of context. We see plenty of amazing drives from teenagers in a rally perspective, and I guess coming after granddad winning in Monte Carlo. The kid has won in Sweden, which for a 21 year old took to win rally Sweden. If people don't understand listening to this might be on the auto sport podcast channel, they were more of a lighter rally fan. It's a really, really big deal for him to do it in a dominant way to an didn't need to announce that he's here once he rallies last two rounds last year, but to do that in a way which was so dominant so controlled and is it fair to say so much of a mature composed drive as well should probably worry the rest of the field. I think that the rest of the field will be wired after this. We were all known about the talent that Callie Robin Perez had for the last few years. And last year he really burst on the scene by winning those two rallies and becoming the youngest ever winner of the WRC event..