The words "NO FEAR" come to mind!!!!
15 January 2008, 12:42 PM
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The words "NO FEAR" come to mind!!!!
I am in complete awe of this guy's talents
YouTube - 1994 Manx Rally SS7 Brandywell In Car With Mark Higgins
It's his comment at about 2 mins 7 secs that makes me chuckle, "bit damp so i'm taking it easy"
YouTube - 1994 Manx Rally SS7 Brandywell In Car With Mark Higgins
It's his comment at about 2 mins 7 secs that makes me chuckle, "bit damp so i'm taking it easy"
15 January 2008, 01:34 PM
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Pretty academic I know but he should know those roads as he was born there and lived there until recently
Mark Higgins UK rally champion
another vid from the same rally, different year
YouTube - 2000 Manx International Rally, SS17 Castletown
Mark Higgins UK rally champion
another vid from the same rally, different year
YouTube - 2000 Manx International Rally, SS17 Castletown
15 January 2008, 01:45 PM
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Our claims to fame:
- when I did the Forest Experience, Mark was the instructor
- my son co-drove a Manx Rally in a well-sorted (250bhp Red Top) and pretty rapid Mk1 Escort a couple of years ago. On the last stage, down to the TT grandstand, their time was 13min xxseconds. Mark Higiggins' time was in the region of 8mins 30sec
- when I did the Forest Experience, Mark was the instructor
- my son co-drove a Manx Rally in a well-sorted (250bhp Red Top) and pretty rapid Mk1 Escort a couple of years ago. On the last stage, down to the TT grandstand, their time was 13min xxseconds. Mark Higiggins' time was in the region of 8mins 30sec
15 January 2008, 01:54 PM
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David Higgins (marks brother) use to drive for a Team / Company I use to work for.
We had just got a brand new WRC Subaru and he totalled it on its first outing
In the years mark worked for us he had never (seriously) bent a car .. It just had to be that one.
Mark also drove for us near the end ..
We had just got a brand new WRC Subaru and he totalled it on its first outing
In the years mark worked for us he had never (seriously) bent a car .. It just had to be that one.
Mark also drove for us near the end ..
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I've seen that one too! After the little nudge he had he drove the rest of the stage with a puncture Some seriously dedicated driving
Some seriously dedicated driving
15 January 2008, 05:15 PM
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Well, keeping the one upmanship going...
- my son also sat with David Higgins doing some Evo testing/shakedowns on his work experience stint (his, not David's!) at the Mitsubishi World Rally Team a few years ago
- he also sat with Matt Wilson doing the shakedown of the WRC Focus's that M-Sport supplied for the Race of Champions last month. 100mph four wheel drifts "laughing our heads off" etc etc...
...and missed the chance, since he was skiing in the USA, of flying down to the Autosport show with Malcolm Wilson in his helicopter last week...
- my son also sat with David Higgins doing some Evo testing/shakedowns on his work experience stint (his, not David's!) at the Mitsubishi World Rally Team a few years ago
- he also sat with Matt Wilson doing the shakedown of the WRC Focus's that M-Sport supplied for the Race of Champions last month. 100mph four wheel drifts "laughing our heads off" etc etc...
...and missed the chance, since he was skiing in the USA, of flying down to the Autosport show with Malcolm Wilson in his helicopter last week...
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15 January 2008, 05:22 PM
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15 January 2008, 05:38 PM
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That clip...the words "good driver" spring to mind. No fear is Ari vat up pike's peak, or that french hillclimb maniac blasting through mountains at warp 10. 
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Notice the offed suziki escudo on the pikes peak clip, and the hillclimb course I think is the scene of the bigg off the road going 206 has when showing off in front of his mates. don't yhave that one, but it's a classic
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how the **** did that happen!
15 January 2008, 06:06 PM
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I'm speechless at the hillclimb one. The speed that car has is incredible, makes you realise how fast they actually are when not on a track
Goosebumps are just going now
Goosebumps are just going now
15 January 2008, 07:43 PM
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got the Colin McRae metro 6r4 DVD for Christmas*, ****!!! that man has ***** too!!
Well worth the £30 someone else paid for it.
YouTube - Colin Mcrae moment.. Fitting tribute to our rallying Legend
*the donegal 2006 one.
Well worth the £30 someone else paid for it.
YouTube - Colin Mcrae moment.. Fitting tribute to our rallying Legend
*the donegal 2006 one.
15 January 2008, 10:57 PM
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16 January 2008, 12:40 AM
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If I'm not mistaken, that was quite early in Higgins' career, in the GpN Civic?
And just for fun, here's a little bit of what the current WRC is missing (badly
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YouTube - WRC Rally Drifts
And just for fun, here's a little bit of what the current WRC is missing (badly
)YouTube - WRC Rally Drifts
16 January 2008, 12:28 PM
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Ari Vatanen was my hero in my younger days.
Somewhere I have a photo of the MkII Escort he totalled on his first RAC rally drive for Ford. He hit a jump too fast, in Clipstone Forest north of Nottingham, front end went down before the rear onto a rising track, dug in, and the car did approx SEVEN end-over-end somersaults.
Took out three mature pine trees too
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Somewhere I have a photo of the MkII Escort he totalled on his first RAC rally drive for Ford. He hit a jump too fast, in Clipstone Forest north of Nottingham, front end went down before the rear onto a rising track, dug in, and the car did approx SEVEN end-over-end somersaults.
Took out three mature pine trees too
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