Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51520 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-02-23
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 140 minutes

Special Features

• Season Highlights: A review of all 14 rallies in 2003
  
• Citroen new in the championship/Colin McRae new team featurette
  
• 'Gravel Techniques' featurette
  
• 'Ford Focus Launch' featurette
  
• 'Testing The New Skoda Fabia' featurette
  
• Richard Burns Heli-Biking' featurette
  
• 'Launch Of The New Skoda Fabia' featurette
  
• 'Tommi Makinen Retirement' featurette
  
• 'Fighting For The Constructors' Crown' featurette
  
• Tarmac Tyres featurette
  
• 'Virtual Spectator' featurette
  
• 'Tommi: Goodbye To A Legend' featurette
  
• Unseen edit of Rally GB (first ever full live televised rally stage)
  
• 3 complete rally stages filmed from onboard cameras
  
• 2 music edits

DVD Technical Information:

• Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen 4:3
  
• Soundtrack: English - Dolby Digital 5.1
  
• Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
  
• Running Time: 2 hours and 20 minutes approx.

Synopsis
The 2003 World Rally Championship was the closest ever and came down to the final stage in Wales. This release covers the whole Championship through footage both on-board and from helicopters and includes over 70 minutes over additional features.

Customer Reviews

WRC SHOWDOWN - OR LETDOWN!
Following last seasons DVD of highlights that was Reloaded, I must say that I was a little disappointed with the content of Showdown as I thought it would be a longer viewing experience. The highlights start in Monte Carlo and less than an hour later you are watching Petter Solberg driving into Margam Park! Given the endless footage available I really think the producers would give more time to each event.As one reviewer states, this was one of the closet fought seasons and really did go down to the wire with Loeb,Solberg,Sainz and the unfortunate Richard Burns battling for the championship. That said the pictures are great and the dvd does a good job of covering all the teams including Skoda and Hyundai. The biggest improvement for me was the extras. These are much better than the previous dvd and really give a bit more meat to the bones of the rest of the disc.I thought the Tommi Makinen tribute was a nice touch (although a little short). Maybe they could have done something on Colin Mcrae as it may be the last season we see him contesting the WRC! Overall I agree with the other reviewers in that any fan of the WRC will enjoy and want this dvd. Hopefully next year lets see more action - even if it costs more!

It's good...
...but nothing really special (as I hoped)
I'm little disappointed because they have cut out all the driver interviews on each rally.
What I like about it, is the feature of the last stage of Rally GB.
For a WRC fan I still recomend to buy it! (but if you have recorded all the TV coverage of the 2003 season, then you shouldn't buy it)

Good Rally, Poor Coverage
Well, I bought this DVD today, looked foward to watching good highlights of all the rallies when i got in. So far I've watched highlights of the first four rallies, and the DVD hasn't been in the player for 20 minutes as yet - very lacking coverage of the rallies. I havent checked the extra features out yet, but they would have to be very special to make up for the very very minimal coverage.
Oh and the commentary is poor too.