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I posted this in the You Tube thread but thought it was worth a mention here too
I've been doing an attic clear out and found a long lost VHS with in car footage that captured a pretty big crash I had on the Clare Stages way back in the year 2000. So I converted to digital and uploaded to YouTube for all to see.
Background explanation below.
This is in car footage from Tony Guerin from stage 1 of the Clare Stages rally year 2000 in County Clare , Ireland. Hard to see in the footage but the stage end was at the gates of the house used for the Fr. Ted TV series. We were competing in the Class 9 in the National Championship that year and were doing quite well having scored points in a number of rounds.
Unfortunately we were given a very poor seeding in this rally, seeded behind a number of slower and even beginner drivers (e.g. the RWD Corolla Twin Cam at 10:00 mins - it was that drivers first event).
We requested a re-seeding before the event but didn't get a satisfactory one. The driver that caused the accident was in the FWD Corolla Twin Cam shown at the start line. He passed the flying finish which ran into a blind 3 left corner. For some unknown reason he then stopped and reversed back the live stage where we met him at full speed right at the flying finish. There was nowhere to go on the narrow road so the result for us was a written off rally car.
Luckily there were no serious injuries but we were lucky.
Video timelines Tony in Peugeot 205 gti catches RWD Twin Cam at 10:00 mins
We then caught the Twin Cam and also started catching the 205gti at 10:58 mins
We eventually passed the 205 gti at 12:50 mins in the video which was right before the crash at the stage end 13:15
The car was a 1983 Mk3 Escort FWD fitted with a 1340 cc Suzuki Swift Gti engine Dangerous situation with new drivers seeded ahead of much faster drivers and also blind corners after the finish line.
I've been doing an attic clear out and found a long lost VHS with in car footage that captured a pretty big crash I had on the Clare Stages way back in the year 2000. So I converted to digital and uploaded to YouTube for all to see.
Background explanation below.
This is in car footage from Tony Guerin from stage 1 of the Clare Stages rally year 2000 in County Clare , Ireland. Hard to see in the footage but the stage end was at the gates of the house used for the Fr. Ted TV series. We were competing in the Class 9 in the National Championship that year and were doing quite well having scored points in a number of rounds.
Unfortunately we were given a very poor seeding in this rally, seeded behind a number of slower and even beginner drivers (e.g. the RWD Corolla Twin Cam at 10:00 mins - it was that drivers first event).
We requested a re-seeding before the event but didn't get a satisfactory one. The driver that caused the accident was in the FWD Corolla Twin Cam shown at the start line. He passed the flying finish which ran into a blind 3 left corner. For some unknown reason he then stopped and reversed back the live stage where we met him at full speed right at the flying finish. There was nowhere to go on the narrow road so the result for us was a written off rally car.
Luckily there were no serious injuries but we were lucky.
Video timelines Tony in Peugeot 205 gti catches RWD Twin Cam at 10:00 mins
We then caught the Twin Cam and also started catching the 205gti at 10:58 mins
We eventually passed the 205 gti at 12:50 mins in the video which was right before the crash at the stage end 13:15
The car was a 1983 Mk3 Escort FWD fitted with a 1340 cc Suzuki Swift Gti engine Dangerous situation with new drivers seeded ahead of much faster drivers and also blind corners after the finish line.
. From a safety point of view though - I was involved in CAC meetings etc at the time so would have heard any discussion ay Motorsport Ireland level) but the next time I heard anything about that issue was at the Clare stages drivers briefing in 2002 (2001 had practically no rallying due to foot and mouth disease). It proved to me that the sport didn't have the capability to learn from each event to prevent issues in other events.
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