@@olecrampesan Kimi Räikkönen went to the trial and was the best F1 driver, but those are two different sports and I think the Rally is much tougher at the World Cup level.
The flutter, chirping noise is the turbo release valve, the other noise, like a machine gun, is the rev limiter hitting max. The driver is keeping their foot nailed. And they are all 4wd. Peace you two.
Rally drivers are a different breed!!! Flat out at over 100mph with no room for error,one mistake and your ending up in hospital. They actually turn before the corner so slide into it powering out,all to do with suspension and bloody good tyres!!! Oh and an expert co driver
Grp. B is as nuts as it gets and those cars have way more power. However these modern WRC cars are much, much faster than the grp. B cars. But they are pretty "clinical" to watch. Grp. B cars were basically out of control and compensated for that with more power.
@@laupstad The fastest route in the history of the World Rally is still held by a Group B car, Audi Quattro A2, which in the 1983 Argentina Rally did a special of 81 km in 25 minutes, averaging 190 km/h.
@@Vicente-nu3sy Highest average on a stage that basically hasn't been run since yeah. Certainly not in modern times. That stage must have been pretty much a straight considering the car wasn't geared to go much faster than that and almost twice as long as any modern day WRC stage. Introduce a few turns and the modern WRC cars will run circles around the grp. B cars. Highest top speed on a rally stage belongs to a WRC Subaru and not even a new one (Peru 2007) which means it was basically a souped up road car with half the power and was nowhere near as good as the current field of WRC cars which are what I would call "prototype" race cars with very little in common with the road going version. Almost like grp. B only with half the power and a 40 year advantage in tech. I love group B and it was peak rally as far as I'm concerned, but the new ones are much faster. Boring, but faster.
Rally drivers are the most talented drivers in the world. They are also probably amongst the lowest paid of race car drivers. Sponsors want an enclosed course where they can charge the audience, with the driver getting a cut. People can just walk up to the side of the road and watch your race for free? No money in that. Rally Drivers are a special breed, like no other.
Nothing is crazier than the onboards of these maniacs. I'm a big F1 fan and always thought they are such skilled drivers, which they are. But something about rally and those tight roads, jumps and surrounded by trees makes it seem that much more intense. Especially when you see onboards of the drivers and the copilot
As a brit we love rally its addictive to watch even better to witness. My favourite drivers are out lad from Finland 🇫🇮 boy can they drive another legend God rest his soul the absolute beast that was COLIN MCREA who was tragically taken from us.an amazing driver a fantastic lad Scotland finest. When you get to see these cars driving past ypu in tbe flesh the adrenaline rush is unbeatable to me those cars give me 100% EARGASM 😆. I'm new to your channel I really appreciate your reaction content your an awesome couple well worth a sub. Takecare from across the pond 🇬🇧 👍🇺🇸
These cars are highly modified versions of classic road cars such as Toyota, Peugeot, Ford, Skoda, Citroen, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, etc. They are equipped with a roll cage and are one of the safest cars on the planet. They have racing seats and a five-point seat belt. Sometimes up to seven-point. Despite this fact, serious accidents can occur. Craig Breen died in 2023 during tests for Rally Croatia. However, such serious accidents are exceptional. It just might happen. They are equipped with powerful engines and those from the WRC1 class even with a hybrid drive, which gives them more energy when accelerating. WRC1 cars (in this year it is Toyota Yaris WRC, Ford Puma WRC and Hyundai i20 WRC) each have over 500 horsepower in the sum of the outputs of both engines. They race on closed public roads in all conditions, that is also in the rain, then in the heat, winter, at night, in the fog. As for surfaces, all imaginable surfaces such as asphalt, gravel, mud, snow and ice. During the Kenya Safari Rally, they drive through the savanna, where sometimes there is more sand on the road than the road itself. We must not forget the encounters with wild animals, I remember shots where giraffes ran across the track in Kenya, or moose in Finland. Each surface has its advantages and disadvantages. The snow in Sweden has the advantage that it also creates barriers against which the car can lean and thus prevent a major accident. However, if he drives into it quickly, he can get bogged down and either just waste time, or worse, have to quit. Gravel and dirt have the advantage that you can drift well on them, but compared to snow and ice, the car holds better and does not spin as much. But when it's wet, it's muddy, so it slows down. or when it is quite dry, but there is really a lot of it, including sand. Check out some Safari rally videos and you'll see what I mean in some footage. On the tarmac, there the car holds the best, has the best grip, but when it is wet, it slides. And as we verified during the Rally Central Europe, when the tarmac is wet and there are also fallen leaves on it, it's a killer combination. Check Esapekka Lappi crash on 2023 Central European Rally. The cost of a Rally1 car is close to €1 million, while Rally2 cars are capped at approximately €200,000. Of course, the weaker the car, the cheaper it is. A Peugeot 208 Rally4 can cost much less, now in a quick search I found one already ready for racing for 73,200 euros. So the prices vary a lot. On the other hand, the Audi Quattro S1, the legendary Group B car, costs around €2 - 2.5 million.
Thanks, from the newly curious, and we lovers like you for taking the time to give a quick, detailed picture that separates this type of driving from all the rest. Watching WRC is also one of the more exhausting TV spectator sports ;)
Did rally marshalling for many years in the UK, loved it, now am to old in my 70s Love it... If you hear a whistle it is to warn the people further up the road that a rally car is coming and get of the track...
Dakar might be fun for you guys to check out too. While Group B was popping off in the 80s, there was also a ton of wild vehicles at Dakar. My personal favorite were the Kamaz trucks, gigantic, 5 ton + trucks the size of a garbage truck able to keep up with rally cars like these (at least, the ones of the time) as they flew through the dunes. There's a very infamous clip of the DAF TurboTwin truck overtaking a world-famous rally car of the year mere moments before a devastating crash which would reshape the entire league for racing trucks. I'm pretty sure there's videos of those DAF TurboTwin trucks and the end of the unlimited Kamaz trucks. Toby price is a super inspiring story from there too, Aussie guy who was paralyzed in wreck, but came back to race again and still does to this day
I once stood there in the middle of the woods, only 2 meters away from the track and everytime one of those cars flew by it felt like my heart stopped pounding for two seconds and I had to breathe twice as much because most of the surrounding air/oxygen in the area was sucked away by the passing cars. That might sound a bit overexaggerated, but I kid you not! For 2 or three seconds it really felt like these cars took away most of the available oxygen and I had to breathe air out of a plastic bag instead out of the surrounding nature.
After all, the cars always have a co-driver who has notes made before the rally, with corners, jumps, distances, etc. marked. So, for example, is there going to be a gentle left or a tight right, and is the bend gentler toward the end or a tighter turn, and is there, for example, a stone on the inside corner that could break something from the car, etc. are things that are usually noted in the notes. The assistant driver then reads them to the driver so that the driver knows what is coming. Since the time to read the notes is short, the markings are usually arrows, numbers and various symbols, each of which has its own meaning. And of course, what is recorded there, how much the driver wants information about what is coming, also has an effect. the teams are always given a few days before the start of the rally to familiarize themselves with the route (the driver drives with his co-driver through the route, possibly even several times, within the given time limit of course) and the co-driver takes notes based on what the driver says
If you want more mind blowing. Watch videos onboard for the rally races to see how drivers drive and how they control the cars at that speed.. It's crazy.. And if you want me to tell you more about Rallying. tell me. i tell you what i know about it. 😊
@@Maniac-du8gm So, you want back to times when a lot of drivers and rally fans died? There's reason why Group B was stopped. Btw, these cars are faster than Group B ever was.
As the title said, this is from the Finnish stage of the WRC, World Rally Champinoship where they race in a bunch of different places all around the world the finnish stage is famous for having some of the highest average speeds and the most and biggest jumps of the entire championship, and yeah they do race in snow too, the Swedish rally is usually in snow and parts of some of the stages of the Swedish rally are even on frozen lakes. Annother one that always kinda blew my mind was the Brittish rally which pretty much always takes place in very muddy conditions
Imagine how fast the co-driver is talking to pass the pace notes to the driver. Every corner, dip and incline they face is communicated to the driver verbally by his/her co-driver
There's a lot of rally stages around where I live used by the British and World rally, It's amazing to watch, one of my favourites is the Great Orme stage in Llandudno which is a road course around a rocky headland, in some sections there's just a low wall stopping the cars driving off cliffs into the sea, I've seen a few cars punch holes in the wall but yet to see one go right through.
It happens lots in Canada. It must have been commented but I can't read all the way back to find out... the main reason the drivers can drive all sideways and come into corners at speeds pushing the limits of physics is they have "Navigators", who are constantly tell ing the driver exactly what's around the next corner, or what he'll have to deal with when the car comes down on the other side of the jump... you need to find one that shares in car chatter and listen to the code they speak to convey so much info so fast. As for maintenance after the days racing segment, they completely teardown and rebuild every car for the next day's leg. My family owned a Motor Inn in Kamloops when I was a teen, and we had the two "Triumph TR-7" race teams stay at our establishment.. my brother and I got to watch the nightly teardown and rebuilds. We also got to go out and watch live 3 different days (segments). Needless to say, we soon started driving our dune buggies as if they were rally cars. lol.
I used to steal my mom's Mercury Bobcat station wagon and rally race it! It was slow in the straight aways, but it was real fast in the corners -and light as a feather when airborne!
I consider these the best drivers in the world. Not round and round on the same course, it's constantly changing and takes incredible reflexes and timing. They have to set up for curves and jumps before they can even see them. If they screw up, there are no guard rails, just trees to hit. They also do this on pavement and in the snow.
How amusing! You see less than one minute of Rallying and say that it's like the Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift Style and those of us brought up on Rally B, look at the Fast and the Furious think "Oh, a poor copy of the excitement of Rally B"! Scandi Flick Time!
..2 min interval in stages..WRC is World Rally Championship.. day, night, snow, rain, gravel, tarmac..many countries included.. usually in a Rally, first start wrc cars, then junior,4 weel drives.. then cars with only 2 weel drive.. ..sometimes then nacional or locals are included more on the end of event, or nacional rallies..even "classic rally" cars..crashes videos, funny rally or spectators videos.. It's great!
They rally on all surfaces, pavement, gravel,mud, snow. These events use public roads to travel to the stages and then the competitive stages are closed public roads. Fastest from A to B wins it all. These cars are heavily modified smaller cars from most manufacturers. Small turbocharged 3 and 4 cylinder with very specialized 4wd drivetrains. As for Canadian events check out the Rally of the Tall Pines from Bancroft Ontario.
I'd recommend having a look at group B rally, it was the best and craziest era of rallying, those of us who witnessed it back in the 80's often think that everything after that is pretty tame, have a watch and you'll understand why.
Would have been great for you guys to have seen a compilation of different events; forest/tarmac (asphalt), mud and snow. The skill levels required make them the best drivers in the world. And when you have seen that, check out the group B rally era in the 1980,s when the rules, the cars, the fans all got out of control - magical insanity
Rally isn’t about who goes the fastest, but the ones who can keep concentrating amongst the variables that constantly barrage you during every stage. You mishear one word, and you’re done. The best phrase for rally was once “an F1 driver takes 1 turn 1000 times, his talent is repetition, a Rally drive takes 1000 turns once. His talent is adaptation.”
FYI These cars are all 4WD and highly modded. These cars have about 400 to 600 HP. The modifications goal is maximum of acceleration and traction. Their speed is almost limited at a topspeed of about 150 mph, but they can accellerate (on gravel) faster than most of todays supercars with more horsepower (0-60 mph under 4 seconds). On snowy stages of a race, the tires are with spikes for more grip. The co-driver reads the socalled "Roadbook" he wrote before the race while all drivers and co-drivers are exploring the next stage of the race. One of the most successfull rally-drivers of the world (Walter Rörl, Germany) told in an interview about a crash at a Rally in the 90´s (Rally Monte Carlo 4-times-winner), that he didn´t noticed the instructions of his co-driver for the next turn. So he run in to fast and flew of the road. The way he told this the reporter was so funny 🤣. Walter Rörl is known for his dark humor. The comentary at the beginning of this video "F1 is for boys, rally is for men" was out of an interview with Walter. The first (very) successfull woman in rally-sport was Michelle Mouton (in the 70´s/80´s). She won Monte Carlo, Paris-Dakar (the toughes and longest rally in the world) and was also first at Pike´s Peak. Pike´s Peak is today a Race on tarmac roads. She was the first female Winner: ua-cam.com/video/R757lbCEUjQ/v-deo.htmlsi=WKMwRAtPND7WWKGs She is the female legend of Rally-Sport.
A young woman named Michelle Mouton won the world championship for the fastest class of cars back when they were 1000hp beasts. There are several classes both 2WD and 4WD but the cars here are turbocharged 4 cylinder AWD race cars with tube frams=es yheavily modded suspensions and lots of care and maintenence.
Back a decades ago .... one of the factory teams motto was .... "If you wanna win, hire a FINN". When the Group A arrived ... other nations got their chance too. 🙂 The Group B cars were a true beasts, which were needed to be tamed .... usually by a FINNs 🙂 Kalle Rovanperä started rallying w Toyota Starlet @ 8 yrs old ... go figure, why the scandinavian ppl's car handling and driving by the "seat of the pants" are "something else", to say it polite. Greetings from 🇫🇮.
"Modded" is a bit of an understatement. These are manufacturer teams - the cars are built for this. Mostly they have to be based on a production model, the minimum production number is around a thousand IIRC, but still can't be fully custom.
There is a lot to like about the WRC class of motor sport. First is the drivers, to perform at the top level on various road surfaces and conditions is truly mindblowing to me. On the techical side, the motors are very limited by the class rules, but the suspension and balance of the cars is a constant source of amazement to me.
Look for the video of Ari Vatanen climbing Pikes Peak with a rally car. That was before they put asphalt and guard rails to the road. A beautiful and impressive video. Makes you hold your breath,
The video id on YT: UEuZG37gFdM And some of the comments on it: "This is one of the most fearsome, and best filmed runs up Pike's Peak ever. If this doesn't get your blood boiling, feel your chest to see if you are still breathing, you may just be dead!" "I started growing chest hair after watching this. Some real man shit right here."
I was lucky to drive in club rallies in the 1970s and was also an accredited Press photographer for the British International Rallies in the 1980s. So I was lucky to photograph Group B monsters. Happy days.
Just a heads-up for when you react to other WRC videos: if you feel like you're watching the same cars over and over again going through the same places and doing the same jumps, it's because each team has two cars and many of the stages (that's what's called to the stretches of road they have to race through from point A to point B) are run twice.
There's one rally clip I remember (I think from Greece) where i don't know if it was a stray dog or someone's pet just got off the lead but the dog ran out on to the course just as the rally car came around the corner the car (fortunately) hit the jump and just cleared the running dog
These cars top out at about 125mph on gravel. The races are on closed public roads and as you assumed, it's a time trial type situation, but it's not the time of a single run that counts, instead they do multiple courses per day over several days, and the best overall time wins.
Average gravel road width in finland is between 5,75-6,25 meters. Average speed in rallyes (WRC class) is 120-130 km/h. Finnish Rallly driver Kalle Rovanperä did 133,5km/h average speed at 2024 , so at some point at long straight places he drove 160++km/h. In the middle of the forest. Come to Finland to see rally!! 😃
These are the most talented drivers in professional motor racing. Hence the crashes are a lot less frequent than you might think. They do happen, but the cars are so well prepared, that injuries are rare.
These cars are actually driven by two people: The actual driver and a co-pilot in the passenger seat. The second guy has a roadbook from which he/she constantly (sic!) reads out information about the upcoming section of the track (curves, angles, distances, crossroads, climbs/descents, jumps, potholes, etc.). The driver then primarily(!) relies on these informations to steer the car - because otherwise he/she would not be able to prepare for parts of the track that he cannot see. His/her own vision is only secondary to that input. Try to convince your brain to work like that! Driving by what they can actually see would slow them down - a lot. Have a look at clips from onboard cameras (with onboard audio). It's really amazing to see and hear how much input the drivers get from their co's. I would not be surprised if they were able to even handle a track blindfolded and based on the spoken information alone.
They are racing against the clock. Have you checked out the Baha 1000 race? If you noticed, they had to start turning before the curve. You have to know where to stand. Never stand outside the curve or on the inside of the curve of the outbound side of the curve.
Check out Group B from the 80s, it's banned now but it was in a different league. Done on Snow and Ice and in pitch dark night stages. The number of Deaths, including spectators, because of how insanely close to the cars they got led to it being Banned completely.
The drivers have a co-driver who is calling out speed and intensity of corners by a number system, it means that the driver doesn't have to process what's coming up and can just concentrate on speed and technique, it's how they can go so insanely fast on a narrow winding road.
f1 drivers have taken rides w/ wrc drivers and all so noway they could do what they do, one commented wben offered a second trip he got out immediately saying he was scared the whole ride and did not ever want to do that again!! incredible drivers and cars!
The art of rally is to drive so fast that you lose control and fly off the road... and then back off the throttle juuuuust enough so that doesn't happen! 😂
WRC is fun but B rally group was the real deal like isle of man but now its not allowed due to safety concerns but you still should check some of that :) As kid i watched em live now we have to sit at specific spots and just watch while back then car roll over ppl went to help fixing it or just save the crew inside CRAZY. To explain it short the diff is in the car and race regulations in WRC while in B group you pick a car and just do what you want!
4 cylinder very small hatchbacks with a massive turbocharger+hybrid system reving shy of 8K RPMs making 520hp Super lightweight, just shy of 2800lbs, sequential 6 speed gearbox most of the time in a very short ratio set up, AWD with a rear bias going flat out on tiny roads with blind corners, jumps, roundabouts, crossroads, etc and yeah........lots of skills, these guys have to be fast on tarmac, gravel, mud, snow, sand sometimes wet and dry surfaces. Even Formula 1 drivers say they're ( WRC guys ) the most skilled.
There's a navigator in the passenger seat relaying track info constantly. Saw a ground effects race years ago in Germany when a dear jumped out the exact moment a car passed by going well over 100mph. Dear sailed 70 ft high into the air & disappeared 100ft or so off into the forrest. Hardly affected the car but it I'm sure it must have cracked the windshield. Poor dear didn't know what hit him.
Before each race, the drivers and their co-drivers drive slowly, and the pilot takes notes about the turns and at what speed they can go, and this is the result
They have co pilots reading information on the track ahead writen down on a pad when the next bend is which way left or right and how sharp the bend is so the driver can be driving at optimum speed
You guys should check out some of the videos from King Of The Hammers especially the 4400 (unlimited) class race. It is a race in California that mixes high speed desert racing with technical rock crawling. One of the toughest one day races out there. Also W.E.Rocks rock crawling competition videos. These vehicles do some insane stuff you would never think possible.
These cars belong to what may be the fastest era the WRC has gone through, labelled 'WRC+' or 'Super WRC', they run a few years of 1.6 liter, turbocharged inline 4 engines making ~380hp, with heavy anti lag and the most extensive use of aero the WRC has ever seen. Someone will know for sure, but I think these cars were faster than the current (and now close to extintion) Rally1 class. Then there's the rally itself, Finland; fastest event on the calendar, sometimes they find themselves being completely flat out over 1 full minute. Very demanding for both driver and codriver and the cars. The scenes of Hannu Mikkola's S1 E2 plowing through the stage leaving a trail of burnt oil and water vapor from the brakes lives rent free in my head.
4-wheel drive and high RPM engines are great for gravel roads. The trick is to never brake in a slide -do the exact opposite and accelerate out of it with good aim on where you want your car to go next.
I'm surprised there wasn't any scenes with close calls with spectators. The navigator's that ride along with driver's are just as impressive with their skills.
Source some old Group B footage, they were so fast the drivers had a hard time keeping up with them. They were outlawed after too many teams died. They were nic-named The Killer B's. They were outlawed in 1987. so between 1982 to 1987.
Most skilled drivers on the planet IMHO.
Four world tittles in F1 and divers in rally.
defo
Fast cars go straight, fast drivers go around the corner.
yeah i do like motor drivers as well.
@@olecrampesan Kimi Räikkönen went to the trial and was the best F1 driver, but those are two different sports and I think the Rally is much tougher at the World Cup level.
These are the best drivers on the planet,they have to take instructions while paying attention to the road.
If you thought F1 was nuts, Rally drivers are the completely mental, Rally drivers are the most skilled of all motor sports
Most F1 drivers have stated that they would shit their pants when they would have to drive like rally drivers do😲
I agree unless you've actually been to a rally and see how insanely gifted these guys are you can't fully appreciate it
for people who dont agree with this comment, you havent seen true rally
Indeed. Rally is amazing!
Honestly WRC is the best motor sport ever .. tarmac..mud gravel ..snow and ice ... Endless scenarios at insane speeds .
Be great to see the view from inside the car, with the co-driver communicating the pace notes.... it's an art!
There were some videos around a while back that were great viewing.
The flutter, chirping noise is the turbo release valve, the other noise, like a machine gun, is the rev limiter hitting max. The driver is keeping their foot nailed. And they are all 4wd. Peace you two.
The top categories are 4wd yes, but there are some more budget-friendly categories where the cars are 2wd.
Rally drivers are a different breed!!! Flat out at over 100mph with no room for error,one mistake and your ending up in hospital. They actually turn before the corner so slide into it powering out,all to do with suspension and bloody good tyres!!! Oh and an expert co driver
can't wait for you to see group B. also on snow, there are so many video's on UA-cam. this one will seem weak in comparison. Great reaction
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Weak? Did we watch the same video lol. These new WRC cars are pretty much on par with Group B cars in terms of power and aero.
Grp. B is as nuts as it gets and those cars have way more power. However these modern WRC cars are much, much faster than the grp. B cars. But they are pretty "clinical" to watch. Grp. B cars were basically out of control and compensated for that with more power.
@@laupstad The fastest route in the history of the World Rally is still held by a Group B car, Audi Quattro A2, which in the 1983 Argentina Rally did a special of 81 km in 25 minutes, averaging 190 km/h.
@@Vicente-nu3sy Highest average on a stage that basically hasn't been run since yeah. Certainly not in modern times. That stage must have been pretty much a straight considering the car wasn't geared to go much faster than that and almost twice as long as any modern day WRC stage. Introduce a few turns and the modern WRC cars will run circles around the grp. B cars.
Highest top speed on a rally stage belongs to a WRC Subaru and not even a new one (Peru 2007) which means it was basically a souped up road car with half the power and was nowhere near as good as the current field of WRC cars which are what I would call "prototype" race cars with very little in common with the road going version. Almost like grp. B only with half the power and a 40 year advantage in tech.
I love group B and it was peak rally as far as I'm concerned, but the new ones are much faster. Boring, but faster.
Great video hello from Bolton England, to me Rally drivers are the best drivers in the world, utter amazing control.
Being German {Bavarian} I remember watching the Group B rally cars that were totally insane & were outlawed, those were the days ✌💖☮
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for 37 year that i love rally . Amazing sport
Rally drivers are the most talented drivers in the world. They are also probably amongst the lowest paid of race car drivers. Sponsors want an enclosed course where they can charge the audience, with the driver getting a cut. People can just walk up to the side of the road and watch your race for free? No money in that. Rally Drivers are a special breed, like no other.
Equal to TT riders imho.
Nothing is crazier than the onboards of these maniacs. I'm a big F1 fan and always thought they are such skilled drivers, which they are. But something about rally and those tight roads, jumps and surrounded by trees makes it seem that much more intense. Especially when you see onboards of the drivers and the copilot
"Samir....You're breaking the car!!!" - lollll look it up
It's not just the drivers but the cars they use are utterly phenomenal
THE definition of "on the edge of out of control". Great stuff. 😳
Or on the edge of in control.
@@Shoomer88 I think it goes back and forth between the two second by second. 😳
love when they jump as soon as they land the car just connect straight to the road and stick like glued, shock absorbers working flawlessly.
Snow, rain, sunshine. They are timed. One driver and a passenger that gives where the turns are. You will also like pro snow cross.
RALLY CAR POV is IMO the best way to react to this video. Watching how they drive and how fast they react to situations is next level.
As a brit we love rally its addictive to watch even better to witness. My favourite drivers are out lad from Finland 🇫🇮 boy can they drive another legend God rest his soul the absolute beast that was COLIN MCREA who was tragically taken from us.an amazing driver a fantastic lad Scotland finest. When you get to see these cars driving past ypu in tbe flesh the adrenaline rush is unbeatable to me those cars give me 100% EARGASM 😆. I'm new to your channel I really appreciate your reaction content your an awesome couple well worth a sub. Takecare from across the pond 🇬🇧 👍🇺🇸
best drivers in hole world, they are damn crazy
It’s 10x as crazy as you vic you seen, I’ve been watching it for years on TV and every time I can’t can’t get my head around it
These cars are highly modified versions of classic road cars such as Toyota, Peugeot, Ford, Skoda, Citroen, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, etc. They are equipped with a roll cage and are one of the safest cars on the planet. They have racing seats and a five-point seat belt. Sometimes up to seven-point. Despite this fact, serious accidents can occur. Craig Breen died in 2023 during tests for Rally Croatia. However, such serious accidents are exceptional. It just might happen. They are equipped with powerful engines and those from the WRC1 class even with a hybrid drive, which gives them more energy when accelerating. WRC1 cars (in this year it is Toyota Yaris WRC, Ford Puma WRC and Hyundai i20 WRC) each have over 500 horsepower in the sum of the outputs of both engines.
They race on closed public roads in all conditions, that is also in the rain, then in the heat, winter, at night, in the fog. As for surfaces, all imaginable surfaces such as asphalt, gravel, mud, snow and ice. During the Kenya Safari Rally, they drive through the savanna, where sometimes there is more sand on the road than the road itself. We must not forget the encounters with wild animals, I remember shots where giraffes ran across the track in Kenya, or moose in Finland.
Each surface has its advantages and disadvantages. The snow in Sweden has the advantage that it also creates barriers against which the car can lean and thus prevent a major accident. However, if he drives into it quickly, he can get bogged down and either just waste time, or worse, have to quit. Gravel and dirt have the advantage that you can drift well on them, but compared to snow and ice, the car holds better and does not spin as much. But when it's wet, it's muddy, so it slows down. or when it is quite dry, but there is really a lot of it, including sand. Check out some Safari rally videos and you'll see what I mean in some footage. On the tarmac, there the car holds the best, has the best grip, but when it is wet, it slides. And as we verified during the Rally Central Europe, when the tarmac is wet and there are also fallen leaves on it, it's a killer combination. Check Esapekka Lappi crash on 2023 Central European Rally.
The cost of a Rally1 car is close to €1 million, while Rally2 cars are capped at approximately €200,000. Of course, the weaker the car, the cheaper it is. A Peugeot 208 Rally4 can cost much less, now in a quick search I found one already ready for racing for 73,200 euros. So the prices vary a lot. On the other hand, the Audi Quattro S1, the legendary Group B car, costs around €2 - 2.5 million.
Thanks, from the newly curious, and we lovers like you for taking the time to give a quick, detailed picture that separates this type of driving from all the rest. Watching WRC is also one of the more exhausting TV spectator sports ;)
@@markhodge7 Exhausting to watch? Why? Adrenalin?
@@berounmv7024 I'm an Ice Hockey Goalie. Addicted to adrenaline. You nailed it! What a ride. Me next!!
Did rally marshalling for many years in the UK, loved it, now am to old in my 70s Love it... If you hear a whistle it is to warn the people further up the road that a rally car is coming and get of the track...
Fast & Furious is nothing compared to these highly skilled and brave rally drivers!!
Dakar might be fun for you guys to check out too. While Group B was popping off in the 80s, there was also a ton of wild vehicles at Dakar. My personal favorite were the Kamaz trucks, gigantic, 5 ton + trucks the size of a garbage truck able to keep up with rally cars like these (at least, the ones of the time) as they flew through the dunes.
There's a very infamous clip of the DAF TurboTwin truck overtaking a world-famous rally car of the year mere moments before a devastating crash which would reshape the entire league for racing trucks.
I'm pretty sure there's videos of those DAF TurboTwin trucks and the end of the unlimited Kamaz trucks.
Toby price is a super inspiring story from there too, Aussie guy who was paralyzed in wreck, but came back to race again and still does to this day
... and Live it's something else, just the sound pumps your adrenaline to top !!!
I once stood there in the middle of the woods, only 2 meters away from the track and everytime one of those cars flew by it felt like my heart stopped pounding for two seconds and I had to breathe twice as much because most of the surrounding air/oxygen in the area was sucked away by the passing cars. That might sound a bit overexaggerated, but I kid you not! For 2 or three seconds it really felt like these cars took away most of the available oxygen and I had to breathe air out of a plastic bag instead out of the surrounding nature.
After all, the cars always have a co-driver who has notes made before the rally, with corners, jumps, distances, etc. marked. So, for example, is there going to be a gentle left or a tight right, and is the bend gentler toward the end or a tighter turn, and is there, for example, a stone on the inside corner that could break something from the car, etc. are things that are usually noted in the notes. The assistant driver then reads them to the driver so that the driver knows what is coming. Since the time to read the notes is short, the markings are usually arrows, numbers and various symbols, each of which has its own meaning. And of course, what is recorded there, how much the driver wants information about what is coming, also has an effect.
the teams are always given a few days before the start of the rally to familiarize themselves with the route (the driver drives with his co-driver through the route, possibly even several times, within the given time limit of course) and the co-driver takes notes based on what the driver says
These are the best drivers in the world period no contest, rally crashes are really wild when it goes wrong
If you want more mind blowing. Watch videos onboard for the rally races to see how drivers drive and how they control the cars at that speed.. It's crazy..
And if you want me to tell you more about Rallying. tell me. i tell you what i know about it. 😊
Great reaction, but think you watched one of the most boring Rally videos ever.... like same jump and corner for 10min..
I was just going to say that. One of the worst rally vids I’ve seen
@@swedishgooner6339 yeah they should watch the "rally group b tribute" video - that some oldschool insane rally racing
@@Maniac-du8gm So, you want back to times when a lot of drivers and rally fans died? There's reason why Group B was stopped.
Btw, these cars are faster than Group B ever was.
Hench, come to Finland and let's see if you can do that. I'd be ready to bet you would be slower than Rovanperä was at 8.
They're not to blame tho, people send the videos to them to react haha
You guys have to watch rally in dash cam to truly realize how skilled are those pilots!
experiance an event like this is even more awsome than a video. 🚗🚙😱
As the title said, this is from the Finnish stage of the WRC, World Rally Champinoship where they race in a bunch of different places all around the world the finnish stage is famous for having some of the highest average speeds and the most and biggest jumps of the entire championship, and yeah they do race in snow too, the Swedish rally is usually in snow and parts of some of the stages of the Swedish rally are even on frozen lakes. Annother one that always kinda blew my mind was the Brittish rally which pretty much always takes place in very muddy conditions
Look at group b... Walter röhrl and his audi quattro s 1....best ever...❤😊
100%
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Or Michelle Mouton, one of the greatest and her Pike's Peak record run is stunning.
Or ... Hannu Mikkola and Audi Quattro S1E2@ Ouninpohja. R.I.P. a true gentleman and master of special stages. 🙂
Imagine how fast the co-driver is talking to pass the pace notes to the driver. Every corner, dip and incline they face is communicated to the driver verbally by his/her co-driver
And in advance ... @ 150-210 kph. 🙂
those drivers super skilled,magnificent
Hello from Finland ❤
There's a lot of rally stages around where I live used by the British and World rally, It's amazing to watch, one of my favourites is the Great Orme stage in Llandudno which is a road course around a rocky headland, in some sections there's just a low wall stopping the cars driving off cliffs into the sea, I've seen a few cars punch holes in the wall but yet to see one go right through.
It happens lots in Canada.
It must have been commented but I can't read all the way back to find out... the main reason the drivers can drive all sideways and come into corners at speeds pushing the limits of physics is they have "Navigators", who are constantly tell ing the driver exactly what's around the next corner, or what he'll have to deal with when the car comes down on the other side of the jump... you need to find one that shares in car chatter and listen to the code they speak to convey so much info so fast.
As for maintenance after the days racing segment, they completely teardown and rebuild every car for the next day's leg.
My family owned a Motor Inn in Kamloops when I was a teen, and we had the two "Triumph TR-7" race teams stay at our establishment.. my brother and I got to watch the nightly teardown and rebuilds. We also got to go out and watch live 3 different days (segments).
Needless to say, we soon started driving our dune buggies as if they were rally cars. lol.
I used to steal my mom's Mercury Bobcat station wagon and rally race it! It was slow in the straight aways, but it was real fast in the corners -and light as a feather when airborne!
Brutal attack to the track and a genocide on tires and I loveee that madness!
I consider these the best drivers in the world. Not round and round on the same course, it's constantly changing and takes incredible reflexes and timing. They have to set up for curves and jumps before they can even see them. If they screw up, there are no guard rails, just trees to hit. They also do this on pavement and in the snow.
How amusing! You see less than one minute of Rallying and say that it's like the Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift Style and those of us brought up on Rally B, look at the Fast and the Furious think "Oh, a poor copy of the excitement of Rally B"!
Scandi Flick Time!
..2 min interval in stages..WRC is World Rally Championship.. day, night, snow, rain, gravel, tarmac..many countries included.. usually in a Rally, first start wrc cars, then junior,4 weel drives.. then cars with only 2 weel drive.. ..sometimes then nacional or locals are included more on the end of event, or nacional rallies..even "classic rally" cars..crashes videos, funny rally or spectators videos.. It's great!
They rally on all surfaces, pavement, gravel,mud, snow. These events use public roads to travel to the stages and then the competitive stages are closed public roads. Fastest from A to B wins it all.
These cars are heavily modified smaller cars from most manufacturers. Small turbocharged 3 and 4 cylinder with very specialized 4wd drivetrains.
As for Canadian events check out the Rally of the Tall Pines from Bancroft Ontario.
you forgot the night trails ^^ same terrain😁
I'd recommend having a look at group B rally, it was the best and craziest era of rallying, those of us who witnessed it back in the 80's often think that everything after that is pretty tame, have a watch and you'll understand why.
Would have been great for you guys to have seen a compilation of different events; forest/tarmac (asphalt), mud and snow. The skill levels required make them the best drivers in the world. And when you have seen that, check out the group B rally era in the 1980,s when the rules, the cars, the fans all got out of control - magical insanity
Rally isn’t about who goes the fastest, but the ones who can keep concentrating amongst the variables that constantly barrage you during every stage. You mishear one word, and you’re done. The best phrase for rally was once “an F1 driver takes 1 turn 1000 times, his talent is repetition, a Rally drive takes 1000 turns once. His talent is adaptation.”
the way they go round corners is the scandinavian flick....also,please check out the infamous group b
The driving stile is called Scandinavian flick. They use the 500-600- and some 700 HP to get traction to take the turns. The cars are 4 wheel drive.
FYI These cars are all 4WD and highly modded. These cars have about 400 to 600 HP. The modifications goal is maximum of acceleration and traction. Their speed is almost limited at a topspeed of about 150 mph, but they can accellerate (on gravel) faster than most of todays supercars with more horsepower (0-60 mph under 4 seconds). On snowy stages of a race, the tires are with spikes for more grip.
The co-driver reads the socalled "Roadbook" he wrote before the race while all drivers and co-drivers are exploring the next stage of the race.
One of the most successfull rally-drivers of the world (Walter Rörl, Germany) told in an interview about a crash at a Rally in the 90´s (Rally Monte Carlo 4-times-winner), that he didn´t noticed the instructions of his co-driver for the next turn. So he run in to fast and flew of the road. The way he told this the reporter was so funny 🤣. Walter Rörl is known for his dark humor.
The comentary at the beginning of this video "F1 is for boys, rally is for men" was out of an interview with Walter.
The first (very) successfull woman in rally-sport was Michelle Mouton (in the 70´s/80´s). She won Monte Carlo, Paris-Dakar (the toughes and longest rally in the world) and was also first at Pike´s Peak. Pike´s Peak is today a Race on tarmac roads. She was the first female Winner: ua-cam.com/video/R757lbCEUjQ/v-deo.htmlsi=WKMwRAtPND7WWKGs
She is the female legend of Rally-Sport.
You should see the winter rallys.
Same speed but .....on ice !
👍👍👍💕😎🇸🇪
The Group B compilation is craziness. I even saw this stuff in America as a teen .... It was that crazy
A young woman named Michelle Mouton won the world championship for the fastest class of cars back when they were 1000hp beasts. There are several classes both 2WD and 4WD but the cars here are turbocharged 4 cylinder AWD race cars with tube frams=es yheavily modded suspensions and lots of care and maintenence.
yeah look up group b rallying it was nuts back then.
Back a decades ago .... one of the factory teams motto was .... "If you wanna win, hire a FINN". When the Group A arrived ... other nations got their chance too. 🙂 The Group B cars were a true beasts, which were needed to be tamed .... usually by a FINNs 🙂 Kalle Rovanperä started rallying w Toyota Starlet @ 8 yrs old ... go figure, why the scandinavian ppl's car handling and driving by the "seat of the pants" are "something else", to say it polite. Greetings from 🇫🇮.
"Modded" is a bit of an understatement. These are manufacturer teams - the cars are built for this. Mostly they have to be based on a production model, the minimum production number is around a thousand IIRC, but still can't be fully custom.
There is a lot to like about the WRC class of motor sport. First is the drivers, to perform at the top level on various road surfaces and conditions is truly mindblowing to me. On the techical side, the motors are very limited by the class rules, but the suspension and balance of the cars is a constant source of amazement to me.
Look for the video of Ari Vatanen climbing Pikes Peak with a rally car. That was before they put asphalt and guard rails to the road. A beautiful and impressive video. Makes you hold your breath,
The video id on YT: UEuZG37gFdM
And some of the comments on it:
"This is one of the most fearsome, and best filmed runs up Pike's Peak ever. If this doesn't get your blood boiling, feel your chest to see if you are still breathing, you may just be dead!"
"I started growing chest hair after watching this. Some real man shit right here."
Nice reation ..and the swedish winter rally🇸🇪
I was lucky to drive in club rallies in the 1970s and was also an accredited Press photographer for the British International Rallies in the 1980s. So I was lucky to photograph Group B monsters. Happy days.
To see this live is kinda hard to explain to people that has not. Go see it live and you will be hooked 😂❤
Just a heads-up for when you react to other WRC videos: if you feel like you're watching the same cars over and over again going through the same places and doing the same jumps, it's because each team has two cars and many of the stages (that's what's called to the stretches of road they have to race through from point A to point B) are run twice.
Check out The Paris to Dakar race. Especially the trucks "Heavy's".
That exhaust berbule you hear is the rev limiter working as they have the throttle pinned to the floor...
I've been in racing of all kinds most of my life but was never dumb enough to do this or stand anywhere near the edge of the road like that.😂
There's one rally clip I remember (I think from Greece) where i don't know if it was a stray dog or someone's pet just got off the lead but the dog ran out on to the course just as the rally car came around the corner the car (fortunately) hit the jump and just cleared the running dog
These cars top out at about 125mph on gravel. The races are on closed public roads and as you assumed, it's a time trial type situation, but it's not the time of a single run that counts, instead they do multiple courses per day over several days, and the best overall time wins.
Sébatien Loeb and Sébastien Ogier, nothing else!!
They are the best.
Legendary Xsara WRC!
Look up the old group b rally, that was total insanity on wheels
Miss those sounds and sights
They do that in the snow and ice too
Hi it's Steve from Cornwall in the UK. I reckon the USA would do well at Rallying. What with NASCAR etc and the general love for cars.
You should look at some of the videos of the crashes and rollovers.
Average gravel road width in finland is between 5,75-6,25 meters. Average speed in rallyes (WRC class) is 120-130 km/h. Finnish Rallly driver Kalle Rovanperä did 133,5km/h average speed at 2024 , so at some point at long straight places he drove 160++km/h. In the middle of the forest. Come to Finland to see rally!! 😃
These are the most talented drivers in professional motor racing. Hence the crashes are a lot less frequent than you might think. They do happen, but the cars are so well prepared, that injuries are rare.
These cars are actually driven by two people: The actual driver and a co-pilot in the passenger seat. The second guy has a roadbook from which he/she constantly (sic!) reads out information about the upcoming section of the track (curves, angles, distances, crossroads, climbs/descents, jumps, potholes, etc.). The driver then primarily(!) relies on these informations to steer the car - because otherwise he/she would not be able to prepare for parts of the track that he cannot see. His/her own vision is only secondary to that input. Try to convince your brain to work like that! Driving by what they can actually see would slow them down - a lot.
Have a look at clips from onboard cameras (with onboard audio). It's really amazing to see and hear how much input the drivers get from their co's. I would not be surprised if they were able to even handle a track blindfolded and based on the spoken information alone.
How are you coping with the right hand corners?
Just imagine it's raining at racing day...... That's more wild that dry road 😏😏.. 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 my most fav racer of all time SEBASTIAN LOEB. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
They are racing against the clock. Have you checked out the Baha 1000 race? If you noticed, they had to start turning before the curve. You have to know where to stand. Never stand outside the curve or on the inside of the curve of the outbound side of the curve.
Check out Group B from the 80s, it's banned now but it was in a different league. Done on Snow and Ice and in pitch dark night stages. The number of Deaths, including spectators, because of how insanely close to the cars they got led to it being Banned completely.
The drivers have a co-driver who is calling out speed and intensity of corners by a number system, it means that the driver doesn't have to process what's coming up and can just concentrate on speed and technique, it's how they can go so insanely fast on a narrow winding road.
f1 drivers have taken rides w/ wrc drivers and all so noway they could do what they do, one commented wben offered a second trip he got out immediately saying he was scared the whole ride and did not ever want to do that again!! incredible drivers and cars!
The art of rally is to drive so fast that you lose control and fly off the road... and then back off the throttle juuuuust enough so that doesn't happen! 😂
WRC is fun but B rally group was the real deal like isle of man but now its not allowed due to safety concerns but you still should check some of that :) As kid i watched em live now we have to sit at specific spots and just watch while back then car roll over ppl went to help fixing it or just save the crew inside CRAZY. To explain it short the diff is in the car and race regulations in WRC while in B group you pick a car and just do what you want!
Oh, what! No Ice and Snow, no Mountain sections, no Night Driving?
You guys drive a lot in snow. Hopefully you can check rally Sweden on Norway or something like that in the snow
4 cylinder very small hatchbacks with a massive turbocharger+hybrid system reving shy of 8K RPMs making 520hp
Super lightweight, just shy of 2800lbs, sequential 6 speed gearbox most of the time in a very short ratio set up, AWD with a rear bias going flat out on tiny roads with blind corners, jumps, roundabouts, crossroads, etc and yeah........lots of skills, these guys have to be fast on tarmac, gravel, mud, snow, sand sometimes wet and dry surfaces.
Even Formula 1 drivers say they're ( WRC guys ) the most skilled.
There's a navigator in the passenger seat relaying track info constantly. Saw a ground effects race years ago in Germany when a dear jumped out the exact moment a car passed by going well over 100mph. Dear sailed 70 ft high into the air & disappeared 100ft or so off into the forrest. Hardly affected the car but it I'm sure it must have cracked the windshield. Poor dear didn't know what hit him.
Before each race, the drivers and their co-drivers drive slowly, and the pilot takes notes about the turns and at what speed they can go, and this is the result
They have co pilots reading information on the track ahead writen down on a pad when the next bend is which way left or right and how sharp the bend is so the driver can be driving at optimum speed
You guys should check out some of the videos from King Of The Hammers especially the 4400 (unlimited) class race. It is a race in California that mixes high speed desert racing with technical rock crawling. One of the toughest one day races out there.
Also W.E.Rocks rock crawling competition videos. These vehicles do some insane stuff you would never think possible.
These cars belong to what may be the fastest era the WRC has gone through, labelled 'WRC+' or 'Super WRC', they run a few years of 1.6 liter, turbocharged inline 4 engines making ~380hp, with heavy anti lag and the most extensive use of aero the WRC has ever seen. Someone will know for sure, but I think these cars were faster than the current (and now close to extintion) Rally1 class. Then there's the rally itself, Finland; fastest event on the calendar, sometimes they find themselves being completely flat out over 1 full minute. Very demanding for both driver and codriver and the cars. The scenes of Hannu Mikkola's S1 E2 plowing through the stage leaving a trail of burnt oil and water vapor from the brakes lives rent free in my head.
Can not imagine the adrenaline rush those drivers are getting.
4-wheel drive and high RPM engines are great for gravel roads. The trick is to never brake in a slide -do the exact opposite and accelerate out of it with good aim on where you want your car to go next.
do you have a ham radio repeater going somewhere?
I heared some morsecode ID around 6:36
Hi . SWEDICH WINTERRALLY 2023 wrc is a reel snow rally worth to watch. Kj
GROUP B rally was really insane
I'm surprised there wasn't any scenes with close calls with spectators. The navigator's that ride along with driver's are just as impressive with their skills.
Spectators nowadays are not allowed to get too close on the action. That's why.
u can look at Groub B Rally that is old time Rally but that wos nuts
The whistle your hearing in some of these is actually for the spectators warning them to get out of the way.
Source some old Group B footage, they were so fast the drivers had a hard time keeping up with them. They were outlawed after too many teams died. They were nic-named The Killer B's. They were outlawed in 1987. so between 1982 to 1987.