Actually it varies every event. The co-driver has a map of the route through the channels and waives his hand in front of the driver, pointing the way as they go....it’s a bit like rally racing but too loud to speak the directions so they point.

So five co-drivers/navigators all mis-read this turn on during the walk-through? Or did road conditions change (wetter/gravel dumped on road before curve/someone moved a braking check point marker?)

I've played a lot of Rally racing games. I feel like this is an accurate depiction of what my co-driver would be saying during my driving.

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The co driver calls are not really correct. I have never heard the terms he is using in a professional rally. He should be shouting the direction left/right followed by a numbering system from 1-6 where 1 is the sharpest. The other 3 calls are square, hairpin and acute.

*co-driver quietly crosses out "crest" and "flat-out"*

God rally is nuts. Fucking love it.

Great driver and a damn fine co-driver as well, that is not an easy job.

This should be a standard part of drivers education. You get the boring guy in the cheap suit who makes sure you check your mirrors when changing lanes and stop at railroad tracks, and then next a really pumped up Irishman co-driver yelling instructions at you and berating you for not pushing hard enough on a rally course.

Since they only have brief 'tulip' directions rather than the usual stage notes, the co driver has a lot less to do... it's quite strange!

Just a note, you can safely skip the first 2:50 of the video, and miss only one or two minor spin-outs, but save yourself that amount of time in the co-driver screaming.

LOL his co-driver didn't even react! "Oh, hmm.. just about crashed into a house at 150 mph just then didn't we?, yawwwn...".

5:55 really says it all about these drivers. (And the co-drivers, for that matter.)

Agreed on 7:50. I thought it was just going to be another oversteer accident, and then OH MY GOD he did that on purpose.

Clearly you haven't watched much rally racing. Female co-drivers are quite common.

>> ^Trancecoach:

the fairer sex does not have the same chemical constitution that predisposes some men towards aggressive driving.

>> ^Nebosuke:

I think this is exactly the right reason to put the course near poles. Aren't the co-drivers supposed to scout the course before-hand for this stuff?


I might be wrong, but I believe they're only given a map and it probably doesn't show little things like telephone poles.

I think this is exactly the right reason to put the course near poles. Aren't the co-drivers supposed to scout the course before-hand for this stuff?