Weekend Watches October 4 2024
Another week in the bag, another bunch of videos to watch. This week we have a drifter-in-training, motorsport cheating, a V10 people mover and the story of Group B rallying.
YouTuber Benny Surge seems keen on binning his car in the Nasho (in-joke for Facebook group purveyors of amusingly crashed cars) so spent a year trying to avoid it.
I have done some drifting on a skid pan (do not drift on the road, it is insanely silly and probably just as dangerous) and can recommend learning it as a skill. This is a fun watch. Thanks to Dan for the spot.
I do like a bit of rallying and I do like stories about naughty cheating in rallying. Or any racing, really. I cut my teeth watching Benetton cheating (allegedly, obviously, never proven...properly...) its way through the 1994 Formula 1 season.
The Revved Up channel has a five of the greatest racing cheats. And I don't car that he can't pronounce Peugeot.
Speaking of rallying, a video I'd always wanted to do has been done by DailyFuelUp. Group B rallying was absolutely wild and it didn't help that fans had the same devil-may-care attitude to their own safety as the teams did to their drivers.
The cars were incredible but monumentally dangerous.
The spectacular Renault Espace F1 lives rent-free in my mind. DriveTribe has a brilliant video taking you right through the plastic fantastic people mover's unhinged cousin.
Sadly we don't get much of the screaming V10, but a detailed walkthrough of a thing from 30 years ago that, as I say, lives in my dreams, is a great way to spend twenty minutes.
And that's Weekend Watches for another week. A little abbreviated after a busy week but I reckon there are some rippers in here.
