To your question at 10:10 into this video: Yes, they do turn in intentionally before the curved jumps to be set up for the exit of the curve. That is the main job of the codriver to tell the driver how the road is ahead so they can be prepared.
If you step the video there wasn't any steering on front tires. So I guess it's 180 deg lens with corrections to make video. There is lots of those 180 / 360 cameras there. Edit: missed about 2 frames. so it seems to turn tires when that leaves fly off and it looks like turn where is also connection to field. Edit2: also those trees looks like barrel distortion so wider lens/ Fish eye / 180 deg was used. left side those turn to right and right side those turn to left. So it may look sharper turn that it really is.
@@LimbaZero i saw steering, but never enough for a 90° with a jump - i think it was going on to be an S you can almost jump staight through. That would explain the tight line he chose too. And yes, there surely was some camera angle involved, cause the car was turning while jumping
@@andreashofer4442 Now noticing the time stamp. I was thinking 5:05 situation where he was thinking how that was possible. Not sure if it's normal fish eye or 180 deg lens. that distortion or barrel effect is pretty big near the screen edge
If you look at every turn, they're turning in well before the corner, making sure the car is pointed in the right direction well before they get there, regardless of wheter the car is in the air or on the ground. The co-driver is doing the hard job, reading out every turn in advance and the driver is just following orders.
Yea,co drivers are mostly very underrated or nobody cares much of their work. But both makes mistakes, but mostly when co driver makes mistake, they are most probably done
10:01 of course! In Finland of all places is a must. They set the car up for every jump so they land facing where they have to go. Also, they too aim for landing the car on the side of the road following the racing line. Videos of them linking jumps or just landing completely sideways never get old.
The noise you hear when the car is in the air is the rev limiter, basically the driver stays on the throttle while being airborne which makes the engine rev up to the limiter and it gives that "bouncy" sound
yes because without a limiter, if you don't take your foot off the pedal with no friction from the road, the engine will over rev and probably throw a piston/blow up
They do that to keep the nose of the car up. Centrifugal forces from the spinning tyres. Like how dirt bikes ride in the air, brake and throttle control the pitch of the bike.
7:30 The sounds you are trying and failing to describe, is the rev limiter. They keep the accelerator floored while in flight, and that’s what you hear :)
About the pace notes: they are set by the driver during recce (reconnaissance) period while the co-driver writes them down. At the race they are read back. All this requires extremely good co-operation between the driver and co-driver. An extra challenge comes from the fact that recce is driven under normal traffic rules including speed limits which requires a lot of skill to understand how you can drive on the road with the maximum pace.
The way the car lands in the bend after a jump is no coincidence, there are almost no unplanned situations in rallying, apart from an accident. The co-pilot in the WRC (World Rally Championship) plays a crucial role in giving the driver precise instructions during the journey. He uses a detailed notebook describing the route to transmit information about bends, jumps and their specific characteristics. These instructions are given in the form of codes and distances so that the driver can react in time. The co-pilot must take into account both the speed and the driving style of the driver to ensure optimal safety and performance. Close communication and trust between driver and co-pilot are crucial for success in rallying.
I’m from Finland. I live this city where this rally beginning and ending. I watching rally only tv or computer because they go so fast I see more in home. Sorry my writing English isn’t great. 💖🇫🇮
Durability comes from strong rollcage built inside the cabin, current rules set the basic frame to be an actual production car. Infamous B-class cars were just basically lightweight rollcages with composite panels covering it to look like a car, and magnesium, titanium and exotic alloy parts bolted on. Turbocharged and fast as hell, and total deathtraps in accidents with speeds driven, burned like torches. Last straw was when Henri Toivonen crashed in Corsica and burned in the wreck with his co-driver. Class was banned -86.
4:45 It's an ultra-wide lens, more or less a fisheye, only the one with a circular view will be wider. There isn't really a turn, it's a straight. It's all done by the lens.
turning pre jump for the next corner is intentional. colin mcrae in australia (i think) went over the last of 3 jumps sideways to get a better line into the following corners. these drivers are at another level.
7:40 I said this in the previous rally video but that sound is the engine hitting its RPM limiter (rotations-per-minute), all modern engines have a limiter so that they don't over-rev and cause internal damage. The reason it shoots to limiter in the air is because the guy is still floored on the pedal, and the drivetrain is no longer under load, so the engine revs much easier.
Since you are new to this sport, I'll just let you know that what you are watching is the slower (and sane) version of rally. In the early 80's the focus was on speed and making the cars as light as possible. So just about no safety features because they would weigh the car down and a lot of glass fiber that would burst into flame because it was to close to something that would get very hot. - This of course lead to dead drivers, so rules for the construction of a rally car was implemented. I think is was around '84. As a small child brought out into the woods by my racing loving father, all I really noticed that it wasn't as fun to watch anymore. The cars didn't fly the way they used to.
Huh?! Even in the 90s, the cars were faster than the 80s Group B cars. The Group B era lasted 4-5 years. It was only in the last few years, they got insane in HP and speed. And by insane, I mean around the same HPs, as today's rally cars. There are reports of Group B cars having up to 550 HP, and yes, there were tests with cars that had 750 or even 1000 HP. But that was only for testing. Yes, the cars back then, probably accelerated faster and their top speed was higher. But their cornering speed, breaking abilities and others, was nothing like today's rally cars. Group B rally cars looked like old ladies, compared to modern WRC. Of the top 30 fastest WRC rally events of all time, since 1973, there's only one Group B rally, and that's on 21th place or so. And the fastest stage in that rally, had an average speed of around 165 km/h, which basically means, there were a lot of long straights. Today, the average speeds of stages, varies from 95-125 km/h, with the odd outlier of 85 km/h to 135 km/h. And yet, today they beat Group B rallies in speed, in almost all events.
The sound the cars make in the air is the engine bouncing on the rev limiter as they maintain throttle in flight. If they come off throttle the risk is gyroscopic effect pitching the nose down
A stage can be won with a few seconds difference, so every move and placement of the car is important, why they famously drive on the limit and the car is set up for what's to come at the jumps. The sound you can't make is a combination of hitting the rev limiter and the turbo anti lag working..
Thanks for the video. I was there again. What a "tragic" end! Kalle Rovanperä was winning the race easily but at the last stage almost at the end there was suddenly a huge rock in the middle of the road😮. So he was out. These drivers don't do anything un-intentionally😅. As long as the car is ok and there isn't any nasty surprises on the road it is pedal to the medal😅. That is the sound you hear even when they jump. "Their feet is in the engine room"😂"Your knee and anckle have to be straight", "when in doubt flat out"❤. Some legendary quotes from legendary drivers❤. A real "old school" driver never takes/lifts the feet of the gas pedal even if they need to break. They are driving "against" the max. rev. limiter which makes that special sound. Even during the jumps full gas and max. revs. ❤. Finland has only one official WRC Rally / season but it is maybe the most legendary gravel race cause of the highest average speed and most amount of crazy jumps. Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Croatia, Japan, NZ, Australia are maybe the closest similar type rallies. It depends which rallies and countries are in the calendar each year.
Got to be a wide angle lens or something like that with that one weird-looking pass. Can't think anything else would make sense. I went to check one of these rallies in person 15 years or so ago. It's an interesting experience to see that sort of driving personally. Edit: As to the flying at angle question, on purpose makes sense as they do have the map for the course and know when and which direction the next turn is coming.
I get what you mean, but it is two different sports with very different challenges to master. It's almost like saying Rugby players are better than American football players.
10:10 the co-driver has pacenotes of each and every stage in the rally. he reads the pacenotes to the driver and that's how the drivers know where the road's going
4:48 Yes, it's like a wide angle lens. These can record a much wider angle then normal. This is why you see it distorted like this. 9:55 Yes, they do that on purpose indeed. And also yes, they are that good.
They are just so good! Maximum atttack for the road! There is a co-driver to tell what happens next. There is no way I would like to be one of these cars! Maddness!
the co driver reads right 3 over crest/jump therefore allowing the driver to set up his car in the right orientation, better still the codriver will have read out the next instruction before he made that jump, secondly the sound youre hearing is the engine hitting the rev limiter, this allows the car to maintain full flight, if he was to drop the throttle the nose would drop, and the camera angle you struggled with is a wide angle at low level the road was straight, keep up the good work
They have co-drivers who give them notes but when given notes to drivers they can pick what rally it is and what stage and what part of the stage. So ofc memory is important.
Man I remember rallying just being on TV on saturday or sunday mornings or whatever. Good times. The fans back then were insane though.I mean the ones standing by the track. Or on it. Still kinda are...
Your question...The co-pilot carries a so-called roadbook in his hand and his role is to give instructions to the pilot in advance. This way, the driver already knows what he's going to get ahead, the speed he should go, what gear he should take and so on.
There's no turn it's a straight line, filmed with a fish eye lense. Your brain has a hard time computing it because the editor zoomed in on a portion of the image, making the center of the lense not centered on the video. Thus you see a turn on the left side. But when they zoom out it recenters and appears clearer, your brain should have an easier time at the very end of that shot.
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I recognised some of the stages and they were in Estonia, but mostly Finland yep.
13:01 these kind of things is collected in pacenotes.... without pacenotes, drivers couldn't drive so fast...this is the reason why in rallying there are co-drivers... blind crests and jumps are a characteristic of Croatia WRC Zagorje stages, so it's important to trust your pacenotes and co-driver and follow the instructions even if you're not seeing the road...
You are very wellcome to Finland, we have Neste Rally every year! Did you know that finnish have won rally world championships so many times I can't even know? Allso right now we have Kalle Rovanperä, 2Xworld champion, and yangiest ever! 🇫🇮
The setting up your landing is 100% intentional, effectively they do not jump the way the curve goes but where does the road go when they land. Similarly, you notice that they will settle the car just before the curve to the direction the road is going after it, this happens with a little bit of Scandinavian flick action (not a dirty movie but a move where you do a slight opposite lock with throttle manipulation first which effectively unsettles the car so you can point it to which ever direction you want when you do it correctly).
The assistant driver tells the driver what is coming ahead, e.g. Jump to the right, tighten up so the driver can approach the situation at the right speed. Without the assistant driver, that wouldn't be possible.
Yes the Rally FInland is all about jumping at an angle, at a correct angle and at correct speed and correct acceleration (breaking or engaging to get the car's nose more up or down). It went terribly wrong for Ott Tänak this year in rally Estonia where he crashed big while jumping and taking a curve - search for that video. Also, the worst crash from Rally FInland 2024 was not included in this video I see - it was Ott Tänak again - you can see that video separately on Dirtfish. The co-driver got injured in the process a bit, and the damage was not yet clear at the time of making this Dirtfish video, so it was not included. It wasn't too serious after all, so all the crew started the next rally again.
Yes, the braaps braaps and the f-tutututut's. We get it :D Check out how Rovanperä did in drifting, that was pretty neat seeing a rally driver just smash drifting too.
The worst is not the crashes but the spectators standing so close (I know they were even closer before) without a care in the world. At 2:37: There are two cameras filming in the opposite directions.
You saw it multiple times, its intentional. The driver is always entering a jump preparing for the direction upon landing. As all-round drivers these are the best by far. The cars are also insanely quick from a standing start because acceleration out of corners or slow sections can be the difference in final time for the stage.
Today's toughest rally cars, i.e. cars belonging to the WRC1 category, have a combustion engine of approx. 380 hp and, in addition, a hybrid unit, to which the connected electric motor provides additional power of approx. 100 Kw (approx. 135 hp) if necessary. However, there have been many problems with the hybrid units, and according to the latest information, they would be phased out as early as next year (2025), whereas previously they were supposed to be phased out only in 2027. It's mainly about the costs, according to the current regulations, every team competing in the WRC-1 class has to buy their hydrib bikes from the same manufacturer, and their own hydrib units cannot be used. One new hybrid unit costs about one million euros (about the same in dollars). No one has yet said what powerful engines will be used after that. The current engines are 1.6l turbocharged engines, and the rules do not allow the use of larger engines, at least at the moment. Of course, big power can be taken from 1.6l turbos, after all, even 1 class machines take more than double the amount of power and yes, 1.6l turbocharged engines are used there too. Of course, F1-class machines are the result of long product development, and the metal alloys used are most likely different than in rally car engines. And of course The differencend betveen F1 cars engines and rallycars engines is that engines of f1cars is V6-engines and rallycars engines is 4 cylinders inline engines. And of WRC-1 rally cars were only allowed to have an internal combustion engine with a higher power than the current one, hardly any team would dare to develop a very high-powered and reliable engine for next season In the second hardest, i.e. WRC2 class, the engine power of the cars is something like 280-300hp, if I remember correctly.
That corner that you couldn't make any sense of was due to it being filmed on a 360 degree camera, and that burbbling noise is the rev limiter cutting in....
It's rumoured that there will be a WRC event taking place in the US in 2026. I can not imagine the amount of red tapes that has to be cut through for that to happen 😅
that turning before jump its pilot (codriver) work, they make test drive before race and pilot have every jump, turn etc on his map, note. On race pilot talk to driver how track look
You need to watch a video listening to the co-drivers notes , the co-driver tells the driver what the next corners are , usually 2 corners ahead of where they are on the road,
As much as I love F1 and WEC, I started watching WRC and MotoGP five years ago and in that time I've grown to admire Rally drivers and Motorcycle racers more. You already have to have big balls to be a racing driver but I think you need to have bigger balls to go rallying, motorcycle racing or oval racing like in Indycar.
13:08 you kinda have to, if he hit it straight he would be aimed at the trees, it wouldn't go well. 14:00 great example, you're right. That corner was quite forgiving so he got away with it.
And often the co-driver only has time to keep eyes on notes through several corners in a row, just feeling the curves while relaying on the driver - nerves (and balls) of steel, just how can they concentrate like that...
Rally Drivers are on another level when it comes to car control, you should watch Ken Block(RIP) Gymkhana to see proper car control, there's a few of them
10:00 Its no rocket science tbh... imagine doing a normal turn on the limit: You alter the speed to where at least the fronts still grip and turn in. Now if there is a little jump in the middle you alter the speed to where you can imagine to pull it off, turn in a little earlier, get more sideways and apply some more throttle, since you will be out of grip for a pretty well predictable time (of your chioce). You wanna do that while it goes up, where the tires grip the most, before you go flying.
The ftftftftft or pllrrppr or ftftft sound you can't make is the cars limiter. When the wheels lift of, there isn't ground resistance anymore and the engine revs are limited not to over-rev the car. I think this is in any production car also, you just never hear it because.... You don't drive your Honda Accord like these guys drive their WRC weapons.
9:43 Play some rally simulators, or even something like Forza Horizon 5 (it has separate rally map, not exactly a simulator tho, but very well done). This comes naturally, once you get used to the track.
10:03 you need to watch an interior view to even come close to understanding how they drive these cars…the co driver is just as important as the driver
To your question at 10:10 into this video: Yes, they do turn in intentionally before the curved jumps to be set up for the exit of the curve. That is the main job of the codriver to tell the driver how the road is ahead so they can be prepared.
I was going to say the same thing.
Not just turn but rotate and apply throttle in the desired direction, yes.
PS: I think it was grass, since the car thought it's a lawn mower :)
If you step the video there wasn't any steering on front tires. So I guess it's 180 deg lens with corrections to make video. There is lots of those 180 / 360 cameras there.
Edit: missed about 2 frames. so it seems to turn tires when that leaves fly off and it looks like turn where is also connection to field.
Edit2: also those trees looks like barrel distortion so wider lens/ Fish eye / 180 deg was used. left side those turn to right and right side those turn to left. So it may look sharper turn that it really is.
@@LimbaZero i saw steering, but never enough for a 90° with a jump - i think it was going on to be an S you can almost jump staight through. That would explain the tight line he chose too. And yes, there surely was some camera angle involved, cause the car was turning while jumping
@@andreashofer4442 Now noticing the time stamp. I was thinking 5:05 situation where he was thinking how that was possible. Not sure if it's normal fish eye or 180 deg lens. that distortion or barrel effect is pretty big near the screen edge
If you look at every turn, they're turning in well before the corner, making sure the car is pointed in the right direction well before they get there, regardless of wheter the car is in the air or on the ground. The co-driver is doing the hard job, reading out every turn in advance and the driver is just following orders.
Yea,co drivers are mostly very underrated or nobody cares much of their work. But both makes mistakes, but mostly when co driver makes mistake, they are most probably done
That’s nuts, what an insane level on trust that must take
@@MrBanaanipommi or when the radio brakes down!
4:44 fish eye lens
With a fly on it, at least at first.
360 camera, more likely...
I laughed McJibbin's confusion so much that I fell from the chair.
@@useyourheadpliz wide angle lens, fisheye bends the other way, flat earthers love those lenses
@@malcolmbraid9627 Please let there be no flerfs in this comment section, not now or never.
10:01 of course! In Finland of all places is a must. They set the car up for every jump so they land facing where they have to go. Also, they too aim for landing the car on the side of the road following the racing line. Videos of them linking jumps or just landing completely sideways never get old.
The noise you hear when the car is in the air is the rev limiter, basically the driver stays on the throttle while being airborne which makes the engine rev up to the limiter and it gives that "bouncy" sound
yes because without a limiter, if you don't take your foot off the pedal with no friction from the road, the engine will over rev and probably throw a piston/blow up
They do that to keep the nose of the car up. Centrifugal forces from the spinning tyres. Like how dirt bikes ride in the air, brake and throttle control the pitch of the bike.
Did he really actually say, "Is that asparagus?"
7:30
The sounds you are trying and failing to describe, is the rev limiter. They keep the accelerator floored while in flight, and that’s what you hear :)
Yes, setting up the car before the jump is completely intentional.
This is one of the reasons nobody in Europe is interested in Nascar.
Nascar is gay in comparison!!
Just like compairing rollercoaster and carousel
They should just fix the freaking point system with the WRC. It is so freaking random.
About the pace notes: they are set by the driver during recce (reconnaissance) period while the co-driver writes them down. At the race they are read back. All this requires extremely good co-operation between the driver and co-driver. An extra challenge comes from the fact that recce is driven under normal traffic rules including speed limits which requires a lot of skill to understand how you can drive on the road with the maximum pace.
The way the car lands in the bend after a jump is no coincidence, there are almost no unplanned situations in rallying, apart from an accident. The co-pilot in the WRC (World Rally Championship) plays a crucial role in giving the driver precise instructions during the journey. He uses a detailed notebook describing the route to transmit information about bends, jumps and their specific characteristics. These instructions are given in the form of codes and distances so that the driver can react in time. The co-pilot must take into account both the speed and the driving style of the driver to ensure optimal safety and performance. Close communication and trust between driver and co-pilot are crucial for success in rallying.
I’m from Finland. I live this city where this rally beginning and ending. I watching rally only tv or computer because they go so fast I see more in home. Sorry my writing English isn’t great. 💖🇫🇮
Durability comes from strong rollcage built inside the cabin, current rules set the basic frame to be an actual production car. Infamous B-class cars were just basically lightweight rollcages with composite panels covering it to look like a car, and magnesium, titanium and exotic alloy parts bolted on. Turbocharged and fast as hell, and total deathtraps in accidents with speeds driven, burned like torches. Last straw was when Henri Toivonen crashed in Corsica and burned in the wreck with his co-driver. Class was banned -86.
4:45 It's an ultra-wide lens, more or less a fisheye, only the one with a circular view will be wider. There isn't really a turn, it's a straight. It's all done by the lens.
That was the lens, the road was straight.
Yep, look at the trees on the back.
turning pre jump for the next corner is intentional. colin mcrae in australia (i think) went over the last of 3 jumps sideways to get a better line into the following corners. these drivers are at another level.
7:40 I said this in the previous rally video but that sound is the engine hitting its RPM limiter (rotations-per-minute), all modern engines have a limiter so that they don't over-rev and cause internal damage. The reason it shoots to limiter in the air is because the guy is still floored on the pedal, and the drivetrain is no longer under load, so the engine revs much easier.
The noise is the revlimiter and the anti-lag
Since you are new to this sport, I'll just let you know that what you are watching is the slower (and sane) version of rally.
In the early 80's the focus was on speed and making the cars as light as possible. So just about no safety features because they would weigh the car down and a lot of glass fiber that would burst into flame because it was to close to something that would get very hot. - This of course lead to dead drivers, so rules for the construction of a rally car was implemented. I think is was around '84.
As a small child brought out into the woods by my racing loving father, all I really noticed that it wasn't as fun to watch anymore. The cars didn't fly the way they used to.
Huh?! Even in the 90s, the cars were faster than the 80s Group B cars.
The Group B era lasted 4-5 years. It was only in the last few years, they got insane in HP and speed. And by insane, I mean around the same HPs, as today's rally cars. There are reports of Group B cars having up to 550 HP, and yes, there were tests with cars that had 750 or even 1000 HP. But that was only for testing. Yes, the cars back then, probably accelerated faster and their top speed was higher. But their cornering speed, breaking abilities and others, was nothing like today's rally cars.
Group B rally cars looked like old ladies, compared to modern WRC.
Of the top 30 fastest WRC rally events of all time, since 1973, there's only one Group B rally, and that's on 21th place or so. And the fastest stage in that rally, had an average speed of around 165 km/h, which basically means, there were a lot of long straights.
Today, the average speeds of stages, varies from 95-125 km/h, with the odd outlier of 85 km/h to 135 km/h. And yet, today they beat Group B rallies in speed, in almost all events.
The sound the cars make in the air is the engine bouncing on the rev limiter as they maintain throttle in flight. If they come off throttle the risk is gyroscopic effect pitching the nose down
A stage can be won with a few seconds difference, so every move and placement of the car is important, why they famously drive on the limit and the car is set up for what's to come at the jumps. The sound you can't make is a combination of hitting the rev limiter and the turbo anti lag working..
Thanks for the video. I was there again. What a "tragic" end! Kalle Rovanperä was winning the race easily but at the last stage almost at the end there was suddenly a huge rock in the middle of the road😮. So he was out. These drivers don't do anything un-intentionally😅. As long as the car is ok and there isn't any nasty surprises on the road it is pedal to the medal😅. That is the sound you hear even when they jump. "Their feet is in the engine room"😂"Your knee and anckle have to be straight", "when in doubt flat out"❤. Some legendary quotes from legendary drivers❤. A real "old school" driver never takes/lifts the feet of the gas pedal even if they need to break. They are driving "against" the max. rev. limiter which makes that special sound. Even during the jumps full gas and max. revs. ❤. Finland has only one official WRC Rally / season but it is maybe the most legendary gravel race cause of the highest average speed and most amount of crazy jumps. Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Croatia, Japan, NZ, Australia are maybe the closest similar type rallies. It depends which rallies and countries are in the calendar each year.
Got to be a wide angle lens or something like that with that one weird-looking pass. Can't think anything else would make sense.
I went to check one of these rallies in person 15 years or so ago. It's an interesting experience to see that sort of driving personally.
Edit: As to the flying at angle question, on purpose makes sense as they do have the map for the course and know when and which direction the next turn is coming.
Just looking at the treeline on the other side of the road you can see how curved the perspective is.
Fun fact: even the ladies enjoy rally in Finland. You can see both younger and older ladies watching it live.
Yes they are that good, better than F1 in my opinion.
I get what you mean, but it is two different sports with very different challenges to master. It's almost like saying Rugby players are better than American football players.
It is like saying that Messi is better footballer than Casillas.
10:10 the co-driver has pacenotes of each and every stage in the rally. he reads the pacenotes to the driver and that's how the drivers know where the road's going
4:48 Yes, it's like a wide angle lens. These can record a much wider angle then normal. This is why you see it distorted like this.
9:55 Yes, they do that on purpose indeed. And also yes, they are that good.
They are just so good! Maximum atttack for the road! There is a co-driver to tell what happens next. There is no way I would like to be one of these cars! Maddness!
the co driver reads right 3 over crest/jump therefore allowing the driver to set up his car in the right orientation, better still the codriver will have read out the next instruction before he made that jump, secondly the sound youre hearing is the engine hitting the rev limiter, this allows the car to maintain full flight, if he was to drop the throttle the nose would drop, and the camera angle you struggled with is a wide angle at low level the road was straight, keep up the good work
They have co-drivers who give them notes but when given notes to drivers they can pick what rally it is and what stage and what part of the stage. So ofc memory is important.
Man I remember rallying just being on TV on saturday or sunday mornings or whatever. Good times. The fans back then were insane though.I mean the ones standing by the track. Or on it. Still kinda are...
Your question...The co-pilot carries a so-called roadbook in his hand and his role is to give instructions to the pilot in advance. This way, the driver already knows what he's going to get ahead, the speed he should go, what gear he should take and so on.
There's no turn it's a straight line, filmed with a fish eye lense. Your brain has a hard time computing it because the editor zoomed in on a portion of the image, making the center of the lense not centered on the video. Thus you see a turn on the left side. But when they zoom out it recenters and appears clearer, your brain should have an easier time at the very end of that shot.
I recognised some of the stages and they were in Estonia, but mostly Finland yep.
5:51 it's most likely an insta 360 camera
Yes or fisheye
13:01 these kind of things is collected in pacenotes.... without pacenotes, drivers couldn't drive so fast...this is the reason why in rallying there are co-drivers... blind crests and jumps are a characteristic of Croatia WRC Zagorje stages, so it's important to trust your pacenotes and co-driver and follow the instructions even if you're not seeing the road...
You are very wellcome to Finland, we have Neste Rally every year!
Did you know that finnish have won rally world championships so many times I can't even know?
Allso right now we have Kalle Rovanperä, 2Xworld champion, and yangiest ever! 🇫🇮
4:23 that fisheye lens really fried your brain. Funny as hell that you kept it in.
It's not a fisheye lens, but a wide angle lens.
@@akyhne Ok what ever you say Poindexter.
~10:00 Yes. They predicted landing point. Co-driver read them route.
Finland the best 👏 is another level there
The setting up your landing is 100% intentional, effectively they do not jump the way the curve goes but where does the road go when they land. Similarly, you notice that they will settle the car just before the curve to the direction the road is going after it, this happens with a little bit of Scandinavian flick action (not a dirty movie but a move where you do a slight opposite lock with throttle manipulation first which effectively unsettles the car so you can point it to which ever direction you want when you do it correctly).
Cutting is turning in before the corner with or without a jump. The navigator has notes telling the driver what's coming and what to do.
The assistant driver tells the driver what is coming ahead, e.g. Jump to the right, tighten up so the driver can approach the situation at the right speed. Without the assistant driver, that wouldn't be possible.
Check out Tim Liljegren.
A swedish rally driver in an old rear wheel drive Volvo.👍
Laughter my socks off when you said “ is that asparagus?” ……..Must be the UK sense of humour!!
Yes the Rally FInland is all about jumping at an angle, at a correct angle and at correct speed and correct acceleration (breaking or engaging to get the car's nose more up or down).
It went terribly wrong for Ott Tänak this year in rally Estonia where he crashed big while jumping and taking a curve - search for that video.
Also, the worst crash from Rally FInland 2024 was not included in this video I see - it was Ott Tänak again - you can see that video separately on Dirtfish. The co-driver got injured in the process a bit, and the damage was not yet clear at the time of making this Dirtfish video, so it was not included. It wasn't too serious after all, so all the crew started the next rally again.
Oh they can drive. That is insane.
Yoy need to check out the winter rallys in Norway and Sweden...full speed on Ice and snow through the forest
4:29 What u saw, that was actually a bee on camera lens
Yes, the braaps braaps and the f-tutututut's. We get it :D Check out how Rovanperä did in drifting, that was pretty neat seeing a rally driver just smash drifting too.
7:40 it's the limiter... If it makes that noise, the driver has the accelerator flat to the floor
4.44 it’s a 360 camera, the road is straight with a crest. The camera is giving that effect due to the way the clip was edited
this is how us finns used to drive to school
Yes and most of the time it is winter 😁
The worst is not the crashes but the spectators standing so close (I know they were even closer before) without a care in the world.
At 2:37: There are two cameras filming in the opposite directions.
Pretty sure it's just a 360 camera that has then been rendered out to show a ~180 degree field of view.
the copilot reads out loud the tuns , speeds for the turns , the surface , jumps , etc etc
you can hear him about half way into the vidio
You saw it multiple times, its intentional. The driver is always entering a jump preparing for the direction upon landing. As all-round drivers these are the best by far. The cars are also insanely quick from a standing start because acceleration out of corners or slow sections can be the difference in final time for the stage.
yes, they need to plan ahead...if jumping at 160km/hr at a crest your out
Today's toughest rally cars, i.e. cars belonging to the WRC1 category, have a combustion engine of approx. 380 hp and, in addition, a hybrid unit, to which the connected electric motor provides additional power of approx. 100 Kw (approx. 135 hp) if necessary.
However, there have been many problems with the hybrid units, and according to the latest information, they would be phased out as early as next year (2025), whereas previously they were supposed to be phased out only in 2027. It's mainly about the costs, according to the current regulations, every team competing in the WRC-1 class has to buy their hydrib bikes from the same manufacturer, and their own hydrib units cannot be used. One new hybrid unit costs about one million euros (about the same in dollars). No one has yet said what powerful engines will be used after that. The current engines are 1.6l turbocharged engines, and the rules do not allow the use of larger engines, at least at the moment. Of course, big power can be taken from 1.6l turbos, after all, even 1 class machines take more than double the amount of power and yes, 1.6l turbocharged engines are used there too. Of course, F1-class machines are the result of long product development, and the metal alloys used are most likely different than in rally car engines. And of course The differencend betveen F1 cars engines and rallycars engines is that engines of f1cars is V6-engines and rallycars engines is 4 cylinders inline engines. And of WRC-1 rally cars were only allowed to have an internal combustion engine with a higher power than the current one, hardly any team would dare to develop a very high-powered and reliable engine for next season
In the second hardest, i.e. WRC2 class, the engine power of the cars is something like 280-300hp, if I remember correctly.
They keep the accelerator nailed to the floor so the engine sound you hear when they are in the air is the engine's rev limiter kicking in 😂
That corner that you couldn't make any sense of was due to it being filmed on a 360 degree camera, and that burbbling noise is the rev limiter cutting in....
Watching rally: -This is freaking fast! Driver can't see? No problem. Is that an asparagus?
0:50 - Lol, no! 😄There's only one rally per country, per year, in the countries that are part of the annual WRC calendar.
It's rumoured that there will be a WRC event taking place in the US in 2026. I can not imagine the amount of red tapes that has to be cut through for that to happen 😅
they know how drive rally car
that turning before jump its pilot (codriver) work, they make test drive before race and pilot have every jump, turn etc on his map, note. On race pilot talk to driver how track look
The shot that confused you is a fish eye lense
You need to watch a video listening to the co-drivers notes , the co-driver tells the driver what the next corners are , usually 2 corners ahead of where they are on the road,
Since you enjoy Top Gear you should check their «Rally Car Vs Bobsleigh» video ;)
One thing to remember. The WRC cars are Street Legal.
Imagine how many times an average rally driver has crashed during his career.
Gruppe B was the golden era 🙌
As much as I love F1 and WEC, I started watching WRC and MotoGP five years ago and in that time I've grown to admire Rally drivers and Motorcycle racers more. You already have to have big balls to be a racing driver but I think you need to have bigger balls to go rallying, motorcycle racing or oval racing like in Indycar.
Rally is the best!
7:39. Brrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaapppp
13:08 you kinda have to, if he hit it straight he would be aimed at the trees, it wouldn't go well. 14:00 great example, you're right. That corner was quite forgiving so he got away with it.
The camera is using a fish eye lense they use them in home real estate photos of small rooms to make them look bigger.
Imagine that at this speed the driver actually doesn't see what’s coming he relays on the co-pilot to instruct him what’s coming.
And often the co-driver only has time to keep eyes on notes through several corners in a row, just feeling the curves while relaying on the driver - nerves (and balls) of steel, just how can they concentrate like that...
That noise you like is most probably the rev limiter.
You need to check out the Raleigh of the Lakes in Kerry Ireland 🇮🇪 its something else. 👍🚘🏞😂
or old footage of the Circuit of Ireland from the 1970s !!!!!!
Rally not Raleigh!!
@@Kent. oops!🤔🤣
that rrrrrrr sound is turbo...
Rally Drivers are on another level when it comes to car control, you should watch Ken Block(RIP) Gymkhana to see proper car control, there's a few of them
Without disrespecting Ken, he was not on the level with these guys. But his videos are pretty well made.
10:00 Its no rocket science tbh... imagine doing a normal turn on the limit: You alter the speed to where at least the fronts still grip and turn in. Now if there is a little jump in the middle you alter the speed to where you can imagine to pull it off, turn in a little earlier, get more sideways and apply some more throttle, since you will be out of grip for a pretty well predictable time (of your chioce). You wanna do that while it goes up, where the tires grip the most, before you go flying.
Rally car passing by: Thats cool 😎
Same car dashcam: 😨😲🤢
The ftftftftft or pllrrppr or ftftft sound you can't make is the cars limiter. When the wheels lift of, there isn't ground resistance anymore and the engine revs are limited not to over-rev the car. I think this is in any production car also, you just never hear it because.... You don't drive your Honda Accord like these guys drive their WRC weapons.
That’s what the pilot is for. 10:19
5:00 insta360 camera
At 6''10 it was à fly or bee / hornet / mosquitos ....on camera !!
Much better than nascar....
The sound you like is from the rev limiter
@4:40 it seems weird but it must have been taken by a very WIDE angle lens, or with a 180/360 camera.
I have to say, absolutely nothing is unintentional in rally.
Trees are very tough lol
🎉yes the Europeans are pretty fast drivers.
They practice b4 so they know whats coming also thats what the co driver is for telling them what's about to happen. It is intentional
5:50 bro it's a straight road he's not turning, you never seen a fish-eye lens before? 😂
On the straight that looks like a corner I mean 😊
4:97 yeah that's a straight. Well pretty much
It's the camera yes haha
9:43 Play some rally simulators, or even something like Forza Horizon 5 (it has separate rally map, not exactly a simulator tho, but very well done). This comes naturally, once you get used to the track.
6:43 There is meter marks, for how long car will jump..
10:03 you need to watch an interior view to even come close to understanding how they drive these cars…the co driver is just as important as the driver