2 Burst results for "Colin Mccrea"
The Autosport Podcast
"colin mccrea" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Yeah, I think if we'd done this, if it was a sort of halfway through the year old sport awards, this would be a much more difficult debate because in qualifying trim at least, the Ferrari has been sensationally fast. Charles Leclerc will end the season with more polls than anyone else. And I'd say at the moment they've got four wins and I would say they probably should have had 7 or 8. Now they have fallen behind the development rate, the RB 18 has been absolutely sensational in the second half of the year, by which time the championship was already slipping away from Ferrari because of the mistakes and problems that we've already talked about many times. But I thought as a basic car, if you think we're Ferrari was two years ago, marred in the midfield. To come out with a car for the new ground effects era that was that competitive right out of the box. You know, fair play to Ferrari, you know, they're design teams have done a great job with that car. It's probably a little bit tricky to drive. You do get impression that the clerk and science have been hanging on to it at times and not always successfully. Whereas the RB 18 obviously was a little bit towards the heavy and understeer east side earlier in the year, which max didn't enjoy particularly, but they've kind of trimmed the weight off it, got it handing and how he likes and Verstappen is obviously he's absolutely on top for me. He's kind of the next guys and he is the current guy now the current benchmark. And he's raffled off the win. Some of them easily, some of them are a bit more difficulty. But obviously I guess the thing in RB 18s favor is it's the most successful age annuity F one car, which given that he's probably got a Hall of Fame of cars that's where he's up there with people like Colin Chapman, isn't he? That's quite something. And the way it has used that power unit and we can't call it Honda, although maybe next year we'll call it Honda. I don't know, but Red Bull powertrains, which they're a really aggressively built out Red Bull powered trains. In a way that McLaren couldn't make that relationship work. And Red Bull have found a way for the British and the Japanese engineers to work together and it's two different cultures. It seems to be a relationship that is going to get closer again. It's a real testament to how Red Bull have a very strong company culture, but aren't so inflexible that they can't work with Honda and make that power train amazing. And then, of course, you've got Mercedes who are leaving formulary, that team becomes McLaren, the people stay wearing papaya. But with Nissan, so really, as you say in your summary, leaving while on top, that Mercedes formula E car, it goes through, it's not a spec series, it goes through fewer changes than other series, though, we're about to start testing in December the third generation cars and racing with them in January, but it's good to have that formula E to choose from that formula E car. Now, let's move on to international rally driver of the year. And I think this is a really, really interesting one because you've got Sebastian Loeb versus Thierry neuville, Callie Robin pair of oita, and I'll be keen to get your thoughts on this, Kev, because although if you are doing this on the outright season, again, it's the Cali Roth in Paris, award, but he's someone who doesn't particularly go out of his way to court social media interest. He's obviously got a lot of followers, and if people follow him, that's great and he loves it. Drivers, he's up against have really big fan bases. And so when we put this to the vote, don't know which way it's going to go. He's definitely had an amazing season though. Tell us about your thoughts on these four drivers. Yeah, I mean, you're right, but I mean, I think he's driving, he's done these talking for him, hasn't he as well. I think he's been absolutely sensational. He's the youngest world champion. He's taken that mantle from Colin mccrea back in 1995, he's been absolutely fantastic. And I guess the one thing that you say against him is that he's not had to be low in OJ. As well. Across the season because they're both doing part time seasons. Reminders have their class in the Monte Carlo rally where they left everyone for dust. And then usually I did that again a few weeks ago. Just to remind everyone that he's still got it, is there anyone who would have been worried about that? As across the WRC season, I think Roman pair was comfortably the strongest performer, no idea it was very good at not quite winning the championship, isn't he? But then to be fair, him and tanak have had to deal with problems in that they were a bit late to the rally one regulations. I think the interesting one in this list in a way is low because he's not done a full WRC campaign, but if you look at other things he's done he's done the international rally raid series where he was second obviously at his Dakar rally campaign as part of that. He's been involved in extremely and won their race of champions. If you're doing the versatile can drive on any surface broad definition of rallying, then he's a legend and he's in the all time greatest debate. But whether you think he's done enough with his kind of bit part campaign versus roven Perry's record breaking one in WRC, I think that could be an interesting part of the vote. And that does segue nicely into our rally car of the year. New regulations, rally one cars arriving with hybrid power. Some got it more right than others. But let's face it, some did it with different levels of resources than others. So the four in this category, the Ford puma rally one car, the Hyundai I 20 N, Toyota's GR, DK R, Hilux, and the Toyota GI rally one car. Now, of course, again, Toyota has been the class there. But when a big manufacturer likes that like that puts its full weight behind something, then it doesn't always happen. We've seen a few disasters and other series, but it tends to pay off. Whereas actually there's some good arguments for why other cars should be in this category. Yeah, well I think let's look at the other ones first. So I think M sport did a great job with the puma right out of the box. It was quick. And a little bit like when they won the championship with auger, how good did that car be with a top line? Because I don't think there are that many championship contending drivers. And that's disrespect to Gus green Smith and Craig breen, whatever. I mean, established championship contenders.
The Autosport Podcast
"colin mccrea" 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.