British Rally Driver, Mark Fischer, recently found himself in the midlle of controversy after he admitted that he had no idea what his co-driver, Gethyn Davis, was talking about during Rallies.
Co-drivers usually read out pacenotes – a series of detailed instructions describing the route ahead – to their drivers, but Fischer claims the notes are “total nonsense” and that he’s been entertaining his co-driver the whole time. “It’s just gibberish” he said.
“I mean, 50 5-left and stop 2-right half minus braking into K-right 90 maybe and absolute crest 500′. What the hell am I supposed to make of that when I’m flat out over a jump sideways at 90mph?’” Fischer added.
Fischer was also the man behind a co-driver controversy in 2009, when he kidnapped a homeless man during the Jyvaskyla Rally in Finland, and strapped him onto the passenger seat because he couldn’t find a co-driver and to ensure that the two-people-in-each-car rule was complied with.