Courage, talent and power. Three ingredients we find abundantly in this video, the award-winning 1989 Climb Dance, born out of the genius of Jean Louis Mourney. It's because of videos like this that we say: one of humanity's great passions is speed.
If the Volkswagen I.D. R looked and sounded monotonous, the incomparably slower ones 10min 47,220s of the 405 T16 by Ari Vatanen, made 30 years ago, are an injection of adrenaline into the heart.
In 1988, a substantial part of the test was still on clay, therefore, reared à la carte — sometimes too close to the abyss —; that moment when a hand shields the eyes from the sun; the constant counter-bridgings; and the ferocious noise of the mechanical monster, sometimes cacophonous, but always brutal.
Everything, but everything in this video perfectly expresses the complexity, dexterity, courage and mechanical ferocity needed to reach the top of the mountain.
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