Nesbitt onboard

A onboard video with Andrew Nesbitt in his Impreza WRC

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Sports

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• Nesbitt
• onboard
• rally
• impreza
• wrc
• british
• championship

[stevenstiffler78]

Co-driver killed today on this stage at the Donegal International Rally @2:43 at the end of that flat out section. Not a good day.

[Davekuh25]

@stevenstiffler78 Really? that`s sad news....i didn`t hear about it here in Holland...

[pearlriverrally]

Yes he has a hearing problem watch his hand gestures when James calls a note twice to him.

[rally859]

I think the reason he yells is because Andrew has a bit of a hearing problem and thats y u see him giving the thumbs up to say that he hears him

[Mattlv555]

Good old Irish tarmac rallying,with the best stages!!!

[opmike343]

@p710

Also, Nesbitt has a hearing issue. The intensity is an important part of their delivery, especially for sections where the driver needs to pay special attention. However, the sheer volume is a simple matter of a hearing problem mixed in with the sound of a loud, straight cut gearbox, and a fierce little four-banger turbo.

[opmike343]

@p710

No need to oversimplify matters. Getting a car to the end of the stage is a JOINT effort between the driver and the co-driver. Each give significant, yet different contributions to the vehicle. Saying that party A or party B is driving the car is like saying it's the engine that gets a car going, not the transmission.

[p710]

rallying... because football, tennis and golf only require one ball...

[p710]

The driver does not give up just because he can’t breathe, and neither does the co-driver. In fact, it’s the other way around, the co-driver is spurring the driver on, go faster, go faster, go, go! That’s the feeling both the driver and the co-driver have. You should try it sometime, it’s great.

[p710]

For example, at 9:44 it may appear that the co-driver is panicking. But he is not, he just got the wind knocked out of him from the jump (both of them did). You really get the sh*t kicked out of you in a real competition car, it’s not like PlayStation. He MUST continue giving the driver the info about the corner that is already there, even though he has no breath, and he literally spits it out.

[p710]

The driver will listen very intently to his co-driver, because the co-driver has the notes in front of him and knows what kind of corner it really is. Sure they may have already done the stage before and know some parts, but even then you really do listen to the co-driver. If you want to finish the stage in one piece, anyway.

[p710]

Most people think the driver is driving the car, but it is actually the co-driver. If the co-driver says blind SLOW LEFT, the driver will go slow around the left even if it’s really a blind fast left. What else can the driver do?

[p710]

He is not shouting so the driver can hear him, both have a volume knob on the intercom they can turn up or down independently. It is the severity in his voice that means something to the driver, when the co-driver increases his voice or increases the urgency in his voice, the driver picks up on that and will react.

[p710]

We all have our special way of writing pace notes and both driver and co-pilot work very closely together, you have to if you want to finish the stage. He may sound scared to you, but he is very certainly is not.