Tommi Mäkinen vs Colin McRae
Rallying: from point-to-point precision to off-road endurance.
Rallying is a wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive motoring elements such as speed tests, navigation tests, or the ability to reach waypoints or a destination at a prescribed time or average speed.
Quick Facts
- Mäkinen wrc drivers' championships
- 4 (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999)
- Mcrae wrc drivers' championships
- 1 (1995)
- Rival teams
- Mitsubishi (Mäkinen); Subaru (McRae)
- Nationalities
- Finnish; Scottish
- Driving philosophy
- Smooth
- precise
- consistent; Spectacular
- aggressive
- all-or-nothing
- Rivalry era
- Mid-to-late 1990s
Lore & Background
It describes rally types including road rallies, stage rallying, speed competitions, and cross-country rallies, but provides no information about specific drivers or their driving styles.
Reader's Guide
It notes that historic rallying is usually regularity rallies with no speed tests.
Did You Know?
- Rallies may be short trials at a single venue or several thousand miles long in an extreme endurance rally.
- Special stages are sections of road closed to traffic and authorised for speed tests.
- The World Rally-Raid Championship was inaugurated in 2022, including the annual Dakar Rally.
- A touring assembly has an organised route and simple passage controls but no competition or prizes.
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