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TankRS
1,458 posts
24 months
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BlackPrince said: It would be absolutely ridiculous to say that and its equally silly to criticize Block for not being some amazing Finnish driver that drove before I was born! Juha Kankkunen was active in the WRC until 2002 and made a guest appearance on WRC Finland in 2010. So unless your 8 or 2, if its the latter bloody good work on learning to use a PC and doing it so well so quickly, i’d imagine he’s been active for a good part of your life. Being recognised and well documented he probably wasnt as it was towards the tail end of his career and in the middle of a great battle between McRae/Burns/Gronholm/Martin/Panizzi etc 
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vxah
75 posts
69 months
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just me said: Good point. To each his own. I never understood people who did nothing but store and polish their cars and brag about the low mileage. I am not in that camp, and I wouldn't be one of those protesting. I guess people protest anything. All I can do is state what I like or love. I like this video ok, I don't love it. Certainly I don't dislike it or hate it. It's a fun thing even though it doesn't hold my interest for more than a couple of minutes. The San Fran setting is interesting too, especially since I live nearby and have many shots of exotic car drives on the same bridge, streets and exit ramps (some are in even better SF locations). I guess the Golden Gate bridge and Marina Green were fogged in on the day he filmed there...  Would be hard to see him through this...! So am i correct in thinking that was the twisty Lombard street he smoked up the wrong way? I was there driving it last week! Awesome!!
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just me
5,905 posts
90 months
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Yes, looked like it. I think they blocked traffic up top, let him go up and down for a couple of takes. Early Saturday morning almost at first light. Did you drift your rental car at all? I tried it today in a friend's old Caddillac today. Ended up in a hedge but couple more takes and I should have it down  .
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BlackPrince
785 posts
39 months
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TankRS said: Juha Kankkunen was active in the WRC until 2002 and made a guest appearance on WRC Finland in 2010. So unless your 8 or 2, if its the latter bloody good work on learning to use a PC and doing it so well so quickly, i’d imagine he’s been active for a good part of your life. Being recognised and well documented he probably wasnt as it was towards the tail end of his career and in the middle of a great battle between McRae/Burns/Gronholm/Martin/Panizzi etc  I meant that derisively towards the iconoclastic-for-the-sake-of-it numpties on this thread :P and for the record, I used to watch every WRC race from the late 90s until the early 2000s when Speedvision in Canada stopped televising the races and started showing bloody NASCAR 24/7, so am intimately familiar with Kankunnen's accomplishments, though I really only started watching WRC when he drove with Sainz for Ford and w/ Burns for Subaru, and then he retired after that IIRC
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Rallyz
5 posts
40 months
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chris116
517 posts
38 months
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Brilliant, always enjoy these. 
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