VIDEO: Irish rally co-driver gives more confidence than a bottle of Bushmill's [*NSFW]
Football fans know that offense sells tickets, but defense wins games. Rallying is not so different. Drivers get all the glory, but they'd all be stranded upside-down in a tree somewhere without their co-pilots. The navigators ride shotgun and give the driver a turn-by-turn play-by-play of what's coming up around the next bend.
We've seen all kinds of pairings of driver and co-driver, but this one has to take the cake. Behind the wheel of a vintage Ford Escort MkII (pictured above), Irish rally driver Jimmy Deane gets the lay of the land from Barry Meade, whose comically enthusiastic directions make us wish our sat-nav had his voice as an option. If you don't mind a bit of swearing, follow the jump and clip the apex to watch the video to see what we mean.
[*WARNING: Explicit language – NSFW]
[Source: TotallySideways.com via ColdTrackDays.com]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
LBuzzer 11:38AM (10/28/2009)
Holy Crap that was funny!
"She's screaming for it!!!"
Just classic. How the driver keeps a straight face I have no idea....
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PumaGTO 1:39PM (10/28/2009)
they´re british.
hoyaCS08 2:06PM (10/28/2009)
Puma - as Irishmen, Deane and Meade would probably not appreciate being called "british"
PumaGTO 4:25PM (10/28/2009)
@ hoyaCS08
Sorry about that. I knew they wasn´t british (from England), but Ireland is part of the UK and saying "they´re Irish" wouln´t have the same impact. I was referring more to the attitude of keeping the straight face that LBuzzer mentioned (although they did cracked up in the end).
hoyaCS08 5:24PM (10/28/2009)
Common mistake - but Ireland is not even part of the UK. That would be England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The Republic of Ireland is a separate country, established in 1949 and not part of the UK or British Commonwealth. We're as separate from the UK as the USA is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland
mikesta21 6:18PM (10/28/2009)
Yup they are from Cork, which is IRISH. my familys from there, woudlnt dare call them english!
Carlos 8:41PM (10/28/2009)
Were they speaking english? Because I couldn't understand what the hell any of that meant lol!
mk15 11:40AM (10/28/2009)
That was interesting, but that's a lot of excessive chatter that would probably drive me insane. But I agree, would make a hilarious nav voice.
I wonder if he was a personal trainer before? Floor it! Floor it! And that was funny that he says "guano" in place of another word.
Also, I was thinking of "Thinking with your dispstick Jimmy".
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mk15 11:43AM (10/28/2009)
Someone just pointed out to me that it sounded as if he was coaching a man on intercourse. lol.
SteveB 12:04PM (10/28/2009)
'gaunao' is "go on now" I'n not sure what county these guys are from but they sound like my cousins. It takes years to get used to that accent.
Kelv00n 3:14PM (10/28/2009)
It does sound like an intercourse coach. It'd be funny to take a p0rn flick and add the soundtrack of this clip to it.
Hazdaz 11:51AM (10/28/2009)
And this is why Rallying is without a doubt, my favorite motorsport.
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LaserRed38 11:50AM (10/28/2009)
Haha that was great. Would have been better if this was posted on Monday!
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Doug Lightfoote 11:55AM (10/28/2009)
IO think that guano is actually Go On Now
Still a riot. I love rally
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08Z06 11:59AM (10/28/2009)
Can someone please tell me what they’re saying to the driver when using the verbiage:
2 Left +5 and so on.
I know there letting the driver know there is a left turn ahead, but past that I’m lost.
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Rambo 12:07PM (10/28/2009)
The numbers indicate what gear the driver should be in when going through the turn. Lower gears for sharper turns, higher gears for wider turns, etc. I'm not sure what the "plus, plus, plus" is all about though.
pjbuchan 12:13PM (10/28/2009)
2 left is the tightness of the left turn
1 for very tight 5-6 for very open
i believe the +number is the distance? I could be wrong
Steve 12:18PM (10/28/2009)
plus means there is a grade or uphill
Solstice 12:51PM (10/28/2009)
Depends on the system they're using, but plus and minus are usually shades of turn angle inbetween the whole numbers. So a tight hairpin would be a 1, and a turn that was a little bit flatter would be a 1+. These guys never used any minuses but they did use double plus, so a turn even flatter than that would be a 1++ (what other teams would call a 2-).
So their turns in order of sharpest to flattest would be 1, 1+, 1++, 2, 2+, 2++ etc.
YMMV though as every team will do things their own way.
mfews6 12:01PM (10/28/2009)
LOVED IT!!!!
I know you can buy custom voices for your Garmin and TomTom GPS units, but I don't think they have one like this.
THEY SHOULD!!!
I'll tell you that if Onstar "Turn by Turn Navigation" sounded like this, I would use it a helluva lot more.
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