Rally driving is part of the Driving test for one of the scandanavian countries, I forget which. but yeah, huge in europe and even more so in the nordic countries where they can do it on ice and snow consistently.
in addition to TV production helicopters at some events factory teams also use helicopters that flyies ahead to check for wildlife or obsticles on the stages for safety.
@@KarILsson the have pace notes to know where to know , teams don't use helicopters to report about wildlife since they can't even have radio connection to the car, it's purely for TV production
1:14 not a Beemer. Does have a similar front tho. But that's a Lancia Delta. An Italian Car which had many wins. Glad you guys liked Rally. Very big here in Europe one of my favourite sports growing up and still is.
@@Anomoomin asians have 180sx not 200sx like we finns have and we in finland dont have any touges so no touge racing for us and drifting gained popularity cuz keichii tsuchiya idk how to say his name but he was winning evwry race and people got bored of him winning always so he started to drift
Ah, someone else that likes rally racing! When i turn 16 and get my license in 2 years i want to rally race. Thing is, i dont know if there is any places for rally racing, both for teaching and racing here in ontario canada.
@@aaronbalchand5475 go to team oneal rally school. its not too far and ive been many times. you can even go before you have your license. then Look into the canadian rally championship. tall pines is in ontario :)
A roll cage is not only for protection. It also increases the rigidity of the car, so movements feel more precise, on top of any suspension adjustments you made. And I think that helicopter is a bird's-eye-view camera.
Come on men.... Everyone misses Colin and it was my favourite driver. But every group B driver were 100 times better than him. Ari Vatanen, Walter Rohrl....
"I thought these were only like a big thing over in like in Asia and whatnot" "whatnot" might also include Europe, that other continent across the ocean, where this is one of the most popular motorsports. Stage rally is one of the reasons why, it cuts across people's cities, villages, and so on... you get to see it live without having to pay for tickets or get to an arena. Curiously, the number of spectator fatalities is lower than you would expect seeing how recklessly most of the spectators place themselves in dangerous areas.
plus this WRC season was available live completely on WRC+ platform (EVERY STAGE of EVERY RALLY), and best stages of each rally also got aired on lot of sports tv stations in the world. In the old days rally was so difficult to air live, but nowdays even longer stages sometimes get ther live tv coverage. And WRC rally in America is not Pike's Peak. There are two WRC events in the Americas (MEXICO and ARGENTINA, and they are perhaps two of the most difficult rallies to drive), and a third one is added for 2019 season - CHILE.
Rallies are the Mother of all car-competition. Rallies have been taking lace in Europe for about 100 years. Probably the most famous one is the Rally of Monte Carlo.
8:15 These are not competitions you drive in car parks or special race tracks. This is rally, and all the special stages are public roads which are closed from public cars. They drive from start to finish, then move to next special stage and drive again. Rally event is made from number of special stages and total time from all them is the final time and based on that there is a winner. And it is one car at the time on the road or atleast they are sent with a decent time between them. So they do not drive against another like track racing. They drive against the clock.
I am 100% with you on NASCAR Jon!! Driving round and round in circles is not entertaining or skilled driving/racing in my opinion, just boring. I believe they have rallying in Pikes Peak in the US, it’s a hill climb, rallying is mainly a European thing though, drivers from Finland tend to be the best at it due to the terrain on climate they have, in the UK, if we have an inch of snow, everything stops, lol, it’s chaos, but there they are used to it and they are used to driving in shite conditions so they tend to be far more skilled drivers because of it, saying that, the french have dominated in say the last decade, one man in particular really, Sébastien Loeb! But that’s just the World Rally Championship
I agree that Nascar is boring to watch but they are definitively skilled drivers. Driving 200mph while actually touching 40 other cars lol. Check out some fly by videos too, shit is intense in real life.
Boring to watch, but driving at an oval is something really different. It's more about aerial dynamics and precision. So I'm sure that's definitely not boring to race in.
... some drivers from other racing styles tried to switch to rally but most of them fail. Robert Kubica switched from formula 1 to rally and was almost killed but continued to compete winning WRC2 title in 2013. He is returning to F1 next season (for Williams F1 Team). WRC - main competition category - WRC class cars, WRC2 - multiple car categories allowed - R5, S2000, RRC, JWRC (Junior WRC) - R3 category cars - only ford fiesta R3. There used to be WRC3 comptetition category (with r3 cars) (at that time JWRC had r2 cars) but it was abandoned and replaced by R3 car JWRC. WRC2 is a combination of S-WRC and P-WRC competitions from the past. When WRC car class was created former main WRC car category (called Group A) was basically moved to P-WRC (Subaru Imprezza, Mitsubishi Lancer EVO 8-10, Ford Escort RS Cosworth, etc) and S-WRC used S2000 class cars (also known as Super-2000) like Skoda Fabia S2000, Fiat Grande Punto Abbarth, Ford Fiesta S2000, etc). RRC cars are very veird as they can be converted to pre-2017 WRC class cars in under 10 hours)
This is more a European sport than Asia. Brits, and Scandinavians are particularly good at it, because of the experience they have from driving the varied terrain in their own countries. The Finnish, in particular, are renowned for their skill at this
7:26 - The driver says (in french) just before the hit "dammit, no brakes" amd you can see his right leg trying to push the brake pedal but nothing happend. Cause he lost brakes, what a scary moment it should have been
I'm from Finland and we have huge WRC Rally week in the city where I come from in the central finland. Obviously I been there, watching the race either from huge screens, watching cars driving back from the race while standing on bridge, also been beside the race road in the forest to watch. The helicopters are used to videograph the race on live time from tv or to the center where cars go to get fixed etc for the next race. There is also concerts on evening, once there was a huge fireworks show and since the place is in port, there are restaurant/bar ships that sail on the lake, seadoos for rent and air board renting + teaching. It's basically just lots of fun during that week. 😁 Rally is just great! I drove it on frozen lake once. It was cool to use the ice and snow for smooth drifts and such, but it certainly isn't easy lol.
7:16 : The pilot screamed "The brakes !" He lost the brakes, he wasn't able to do anything. The role cage saved litteraly their lives, even if they were to hospital for several weeks and had re-education for the co-driver if I remembered correctly. There was nothing left except the role cage after that crash.
The World Rally Championship in 2020 will consist of: Monte Carlo, Sweden, Mexico, Argentina, Portugal, Sardinia, Kenya, Finland New Zealand, Turkey, Germany, Wales and Japan. In my opinion the best time to watch a rally is during the night sections.
I know this is an old video. But I loved the comment - get away driver :D I lived nearby where annual winter rally was happening. Those guys are really skilled :D I once sat through as passenger. Shit, that is scary. trees fly by, and the feeling if guy makes slightest mistake and you are pancake. Never again. I would trust the guy to get my kids to the school in usual traffic. But I would never when those guys switch to race mode.
In Finland where I was born the two favorite school sports were Ice Hockey and Rally Driving, I own one of the original 1997 Subaru Wrx Sti from the first batch of 200. My car number is #3, was used in the Rally of Finland and Sweden. It's at my home in Australia now and I love it.
As someone that is turning 16 in 2 years and wants to get my license as soon as i turn 16 so i can rally race, this is funny. Also you should watch group b rally clips from the 80s. Group b is no longer a thing because the cars got so fast that it was actually so dangerous that it was cancelled. Thats where the famous audi quattro rally car and some other boxy rally beasts are from. Those things would be going 170kmh or more in the straights. They are legendary.
Role cage transfers impact energy from the front, rear, top, and or side of the vehicle around the area that holds the driver and the passenger instead of the cabin crinkling in on you.
When you go to watch a rally you know the risks. I've stood in some right sketchy places... small farm walls in the middle of the Welsh countryside, up on banks in the Welsh forests... you know the risks and it's yours to take. Great fun and an amazing motorsport. Nothing compares. *Edit; yes they do have rally in the USA and they are getting good at it too.
One of my favorites is the first clip where the guy saves the car from wrecking and then giggles. That's a true adrenaline junky. Too bad you kind of missed it.
Roll cages are just hollow steel tube erected in a manner that's intended to keep the passenger compartment from crushing in on the occupants. There are rules about how a roll cage is to be built, like what type of steel tube can be used, methods of welding, and geometry of the cage itself. These rules vary depending on the racing organization and the weight of the car (bigger cars have heavier tubing).
Rally drivers are trained to treat humans like trees and rocks - ignore them and treat them like any other obstacle, which means come as close as you can without hitting it. Also, rally driving is HUGE in Scandanavian countries - hence the snow and ice stages. With the right tires, driving in the cold can actually feel like driving on dry pavement. Rally drivers are, without a doubt, THE most skilled and fearless drivers in all of motorsport, period. Even an F1 driver will tell you the same thing. Back in the day, Group B rallying was the most far-out form of motorsports of their era. To this day, no crazier closed-wheel race cars have ever been built, or ever will be. You had tiny hatchbacks with AWD, up to 800 horsepower, and weighing less than a metric ton in most cases. It was considered the golden age of rallying, but also was insane by every single metric. But if you ever get a chance, react to Group B. Those cars make the ones in this video look like kiddie go-karts.
Aaron Balchand The Delta Integrale. Loved em when I was little. I saw a video on one not too long ago (I think it was Donut) & it reminded me what awesome cars they were, especially in their day.
Also for the question at 7:33 rollcages are to avoid the car to deform too much, so that the drivers zone are safe and to not let any part of the car crumple onto the people inside
In Asia there is no rally. This is a Europeann and south America sport. This is huge here in Europe. The helicopter was following it because this is a world sport covered by different media outlets, mainly broadcasted in TV. If you want to know more visit the WRC website
The helicopters 1:55 are for filming, and if the driver and co-driver of the car gets lost the Helicopter can be used as help to get back on the route so the co-driver can take over.
There is a rule on Rallye racing: -if you are a spectator DO NOT stay on an outside of a corner, even more if is a harpin. As ex Racing marshall from Italy (over 5 years and with WRC as well on my back) I always reccomanded places away and safe to ppl, if possible with wraps signalin where they can go and stay
Nope, there was an event there but not as a part of WRC, but as a part of X Games in 2006. google wrc, you can find various season calendars. Some rallies are pretty permanent fixtures (like Wales, Germany, Finland, Sweden, etc). But calendars change from season to season. Most seasons in the last 15 years had 13 rallies. 2019 will have 14 (Chile is added). and 2020 might have even 16 (if both Croatia and Kenya get added). PS Croatia was hos of an European Rally Championship event in 2013.
There used to be a Group B series for rally cars during the eighties. (They now only race under limited conditions for historic racing events) In terms of out right performance, they'd leave today's rally cars standing. They banned that series after fatal accidents involving the crowd. They were rally cars with formula 1 engines. Today's cars are around 300 bhp. The Group B series were capable of between 600-800 bhp with four wheel drive. Having a power to weight ratio of a handkerchief. They would out accelerate any of the worlds newest hyper bullshit cars with ease.... On gravel!!
There's sometimes a programme on UK TV and it's a competition between F1 drivers and Rally Drivers. The Rally Drivers win it every time. If you don't like NASCAR then you should check out the BTCC, especially from the glory days of the 80's and 90's. Also the Bathurt 1000 from Australia, possibly the only race in the world where Kangaroos cross the racetrack!
Big thing in Asia. Most shots in Europe and most of them speaking either french and finnish. Rally is a HUGE thing in Europe. I used to photograph rallies.
Fun fact thats two years late. Rally drivers have no idea what theyre driving and what they do relies solely on their passengers pace notes and what they see in front of them.
You're right, people DO get injured...... mainly by debris (gravel, stones the occasional flying branch), but back in the glory days of group B cars - it used to be the cars that did most damage.......... they were 4 wheel drive 1.5 tonne rocket ships that were modified beyond all engineering recommendations, Ford RS 200 for example pretty much put an end to all out development, one of these cars was in the hands of a relatively inexperienced driver who lost control and ploughed into spectators (at full speed), killing some of them. But thanks to likes of Audi Quattro we all see 4 wheel drive road cars regularly You could still buy an old RS 200 today, probably cost you over $1 million as only 24 were ever made. One last thing, roll cages are as described by Jon.......... think metal pipes built into a safety cage and a car built around that cage........... if the cage gets damaged, then the car is scrap metal
You guys seems to like James from donut media, go react to his group b rally up to speed video. Definitely one of the most important time periods for rally. Short lived and deadly, but absolutely amazing.
Okay... Guys, at 1:16 did I hear him say "a beemer" as reffereng to a BMW?? I hope I heard it wrong, because that would be an insult 🤣 Poor Lancia... 😂 And the helicopter is there to film it for live TV
You'd probably like some of the Group B rallying videos that are available. I think it was a Finnish rally driver who said "WRC is for boys, Group B is for men".
Ashtyn's correct, there's a pro rally league in the US, the SCCA. I've been to the Maine Forest Rally twice, myself. It's a pretty awesome time, but you won't see people on the course like that, at least, I didn't see it at MFR. As I understand it, they'd threaten to shut down that stage of the race if people didn't stay off the course. Though, it can be fairly dangerous standing at a distance as well. During one of the stages, one year, a woman who was a member of the polish team (Peugot), got drilled in the head by a rock launched from a back tire. (The tracks are huge, so you kind of have to pick your viewing point and stay there and just watch as each car goes by. For some strange reason, risk of injury be damned, people choose the areas around the outside of corners, quite often. Anyway, she had to be stretchered out. No joke, she got blasted by that thing. What's really funny, are the 'joke' cars. One year there was a 70's Corvette Stingray, that'd been converted...sorta, into a rally car. The body didn't take kindly to the bumps.
It's like with pretty much all sports; USA does its own thing with nascar, american football, baseball etc and the rest of the world does the normal sports :) Rallying takes place mostly in Europe but is also big in other continents except north america.
The snow tyres has hundreds of metal studs in them. The drivers say they have more grip in the snow with the studded tyres, than the normal tyres on gravel.
Why rally drivers are crazy: 1. They has never seen the road: the codriver tell to the driver what there'll be next; 2. Cars are really strong and keep going after jumps, little crashes, rollovers; 3.They race with EVERY weather condition;
They drive on dirt, gravel, ice/snow and tarmac. The WRC world rally championship competes in Europe, Australia, South America and I think Asia. But just for fun .. google rally fans from 70s/80s . That shits crazy!
1:52 - two possible reasons for the helicopter following them like that... a/ media company filming it b/ that was back in the group B days when they could serve and repair cars in the stages as well as in designated service areas, so it would be keeping close company c/ looks like it may have been an African rally and many of those were on open roads and/or places where the population weren't aware of how fast the cars could be and was to give a 'heads up' to the co-driver about hazards ahead - usually, though, the chopper would be higher and forward of the car. d/ something else
rally cross can be across a whole country though various stages over days sometimes weeks, the driver doesnt have prior knowledge of the track hes guided by the notes of his partner who has already seen the track beforehand, which goes to show the skill and trust the pair have between each other.
A fun little fact: after the first ever WRC Season, the drivers and co drivers requested the FIA allow bigger cars because their balls could barely fit in the car.
The part where you got excited about how he pre manipulated the corner? It's called a Scandi Flick. Short for "Scandinavian Flick." Come into a left hander, flick to the right, then steer to the left so you can drift the corner. 🙂
Rally is an European thing. It goes over all European countries actually. Sweden, Greece, France, Spain, Portugal, etc etc. It was later adopted in Asian countries I think... And about the people that go to these things, they are responsible for their own safety. They just risk it plain and simple, the organizers can only do so much.... But there have been some deaths unfortunately. Mainly because people didn't respect safety rules.
WRC sponsers one in northern Ontario or used too Rally of the Tall Pines. In Bancroft. Its a bit of a joke now. Rally is all over minisota and new york state
Most skillful, demanding and exciting motor sports on the planet, and although they do have Rallying in the U.S it's not very big, Rallying is mainly European, and the Helicopter is for filming/photography.......
Rally is not that much from Asia it is more from Europe
Jass Official yee i think he messed up drifting😂
Well Southern Asian peninsula does conduct some
Rally driving is part of the Driving test for one of the scandanavian countries, I forget which. but yeah, huge in europe and even more so in the nordic countries where they can do it on ice and snow consistently.
@@AnikaJarlsdottr I think it is in Finland they have to learn how to slide a car.
And the Caribbean I'm surprised more people don't know about Caribbean rally races.
Thank you for this reaction! I hope you enjoyed my video 🔥
Oh hey, the man himself is here! I love your vids.
Came for the milk mate, sorry!
The helicopter above that car was for filming the event
in addition to TV production helicopters at some events factory teams also use helicopters that flyies ahead to check for wildlife or obsticles on the stages for safety.
@@KarILsson the have pace notes to know where to know , teams don't use helicopters to report about wildlife since they can't even have radio connection to the car, it's purely for TV production
1:14 not a Beemer. Does have a similar front tho. But that's a Lancia Delta. An Italian Car which had many wins. Glad you guys liked Rally. Very big here in Europe one of my favourite sports growing up and still is.
He's not from the EU and I don't think he's a car guy neither, so I wont go to hard on him..but damn..that got me shooked xD
I think he confused the signature martini racing colours for Lancia with the BMW M colours.
Lancia Delta S4, the most famous rally car ever
sane0matic u mean europe
Harja Talonen but it's not an s4
Asia thing? :D lol More like EU thing
European thing
Right? :D Asia is more drifting/street racing focused .
EU thing 😱 European.
@@Anomoomin And F1...and F-E...and LMS.....aaand DTM
@@Anomoomin asians have 180sx not 200sx like we finns have and we in finland dont have any touges so no touge racing for us and drifting gained popularity cuz keichii tsuchiya idk how to say his name but he was winning evwry race and people got bored of him winning always so he started to drift
Sorry, too busy focusing on the half-shown milkers to focus on the footage.
Idk if you are talking about the boobs or not.... but i like the boobs. Im an ass man, but i will appreciate what is fine in the world
You both are dirty minded.
His girlfriend is just sitting there in a bra
Practically tweaked a nipple at 3:49
5:01 it's a technique called the Scandinavian flick that's used quite often in rally driving
I love doing the flick when I'm driving on the back roads and it is quite possibly the easiest way to drift a fwd car
RBR Rally School flashbacks
Ah, someone else that likes rally racing! When i turn 16 and get my license in 2 years i want to rally race. Thing is, i dont know if there is any places for rally racing, both for teaching and racing here in ontario canada.
@@aaronbalchand5475 You better have money because its not cheap on any level. From an old co-driver i wish you good luck though 😉
@@aaronbalchand5475 go to team oneal rally school. its not too far and ive been many times. you can even go before you have your license. then Look into the canadian rally championship. tall pines is in ontario :)
A roll cage is not only for protection. It also increases the rigidity of the car, so movements feel more precise, on top of any suspension adjustments you made.
And I think that helicopter is a bird's-eye-view camera.
You should do reaction of the Isle of Man Motobike race
Ya man! They'd freak out lol
Kept getting distracted.
me too, i wonder how
same i saw some watermelons
she is only wearing a thin bra/ top
A year later, still very much distracting. I didn't see very many cars in this video.
@im batman avert your virgin eyes
Keep getting distracted, my eyes keep going somewhere And I have a sudden urge to have milk
got bad news for you...
R.I.P Colin McRae, greatest rally driver of all time.
Rip ofc, but "greatest rally driver of all time"? Nope.
Come on men.... Everyone misses Colin and it was my favourite driver.
But every group B driver were 100 times better than him. Ari Vatanen, Walter Rohrl....
The best is sebastian loeb
“You were good son, real good. Maybe even the best.”
-rick may. 1940-2020
He is up there with colin now.
@@ismychrif6097 dude no
"I thought these were only like a big thing over in like in Asia and whatnot"
"whatnot" might also include Europe, that other continent across the ocean, where this is one of the most popular motorsports.
Stage rally is one of the reasons why, it cuts across people's cities, villages, and so on... you get to see it live without having to pay for tickets or get to an arena.
Curiously, the number of spectator fatalities is lower than you would expect seeing how recklessly most of the spectators place themselves in dangerous areas.
plus this WRC season was available live completely on WRC+ platform (EVERY STAGE of EVERY RALLY), and best stages of each rally also got aired on lot of sports tv stations in the world. In the old days rally was so difficult to air live, but nowdays even longer stages sometimes get ther live tv coverage. And WRC rally in America is not Pike's Peak. There are two WRC events in the Americas (MEXICO and ARGENTINA, and they are perhaps two of the most difficult rallies to drive), and a third one is added for 2019 season - CHILE.
Rallies are the Mother of all car-competition.
Rallies have been taking lace in Europe for about 100 years.
Probably the most famous one is the Rally of Monte Carlo.
8:15 These are not competitions you drive in car parks or special race tracks. This is rally, and all the special stages are public roads which are closed from public cars. They drive from start to finish, then move to next special stage and drive again. Rally event is made from number of special stages and total time from all them is the final time and based on that there is a winner. And it is one car at the time on the road or atleast they are sent with a decent time between them. So they do not drive against another like track racing. They drive against the clock.
K n o w l e d g e
I am 100% with you on NASCAR Jon!! Driving round and round in circles is not entertaining or skilled driving/racing in my opinion, just boring.
I believe they have rallying in Pikes Peak in the US, it’s a hill climb, rallying is mainly a European thing though, drivers from Finland tend to be the best at it due to the terrain on climate they have, in the UK, if we have an inch of snow, everything stops, lol, it’s chaos, but there they are used to it and they are used to driving in shite conditions so they tend to be far more skilled drivers because of it, saying that, the french have dominated in say the last decade, one man in particular really, Sébastien Loeb! But that’s just the World Rally Championship
I agree that Nascar is boring to watch but they are definitively skilled drivers. Driving 200mph while actually touching 40 other cars lol. Check out some fly by videos too, shit is intense in real life.
Boring to watch, but driving at an oval is something really different. It's more about aerial dynamics and precision. So I'm sure that's definitely not boring to race in.
Well informed comment :) 👍
Sean Mccullough Agreed. I prefer road courses but to say NASCAR isn't skilled is just wrong. Its a whole different beast.
... some drivers from other racing styles tried to switch to rally but most of them fail. Robert Kubica switched from formula 1 to rally and was almost killed but continued to compete winning WRC2 title in 2013. He is returning to F1 next season (for Williams F1 Team).
WRC - main competition category - WRC class cars, WRC2 - multiple car categories allowed - R5, S2000, RRC, JWRC (Junior WRC) - R3 category cars - only ford fiesta R3. There used to be WRC3 comptetition category (with r3 cars) (at that time JWRC had r2 cars) but it was abandoned and replaced by R3 car JWRC. WRC2 is a combination of S-WRC and P-WRC competitions from the past. When WRC car class was created former main WRC car category (called Group A) was basically moved to P-WRC (Subaru Imprezza, Mitsubishi Lancer EVO 8-10, Ford Escort RS Cosworth, etc) and S-WRC used S2000 class cars (also known as Super-2000) like Skoda Fabia S2000, Fiat Grande Punto Abbarth, Ford Fiesta S2000, etc). RRC cars are very veird as they can be converted to pre-2017 WRC class cars in under 10 hours)
This is more a European sport than Asia. Brits, and Scandinavians are particularly good at it, because of the experience they have from driving the varied terrain in their own countries. The Finnish, in particular, are renowned for their skill at this
7:26 - The driver says (in french) just before the hit "dammit, no brakes" amd you can see his right leg trying to push the brake pedal but nothing happend.
Cause he lost brakes, what a scary moment it should have been
1:14 This dude just called the Lancia Delta Integrale a Beamer xD I can't even.
1:54 "why there's a helicopter above?" in a time where drone didn't exist and overhead shoot was did in the cool way
I'm from Finland and we have huge WRC Rally week in the city where I come from in the central finland. Obviously I been there, watching the race either from huge screens, watching cars driving back from the race while standing on bridge, also been beside the race road in the forest to watch.
The helicopters are used to videograph the race on live time from tv or to the center where cars go to get fixed etc for the next race. There is also concerts on evening, once there was a huge fireworks show and since the place is in port, there are restaurant/bar ships that sail on the lake, seadoos for rent and air board renting + teaching. It's basically just lots of fun during that week. 😁 Rally is just great! I drove it on frozen lake once. It was cool to use the ice and snow for smooth drifts and such, but it certainly isn't easy lol.
7:16 : The pilot screamed "The brakes !" He lost the brakes, he wasn't able to do anything. The role cage saved litteraly their lives, even if they were to hospital for several weeks and had re-education for the co-driver if I remembered correctly.
There was nothing left except the role cage after that crash.
damn. thats scary as fuck. brakes failing at about 120km/h. soooo spooky
Rip Collin that car and his soul will always be in my heart
The World Rally Championship in 2020 will consist of: Monte Carlo, Sweden, Mexico, Argentina, Portugal, Sardinia, Kenya, Finland New Zealand, Turkey, Germany, Wales and Japan. In my opinion the best time to watch a rally is during the night sections.
3:50 CZECH REPUBLIC ❤️❤️❤️
In Finland we had open classes every year/winter. Those were crazy to watch
I know this is an old video. But I loved the comment - get away driver :D I lived nearby where annual winter rally was happening. Those guys are really skilled :D I once sat through as passenger. Shit, that is scary. trees fly by, and the feeling if guy makes slightest mistake and you are pancake. Never again. I would trust the guy to get my kids to the school in usual traffic. But I would never when those guys switch to race mode.
Also Rally Sarma - 'Sarma' from latvian translates as 'frost' in english :D
In Finland where I was born the two favorite school sports were Ice Hockey and Rally Driving, I own one of the original 1997 Subaru Wrx Sti from the first batch of 200. My car number is #3, was used in the Rally of Finland and Sweden. It's at my home in Australia now and I love it.
The roll cage is also a great way to increase frame rigidity which is desirable in racing typically.
Not a single vintage video of Group B with the crowds in the road
Rally drivers are a completely different breed of human beings
Check Finnish Rally Crashes.
There are new clips coming every year.
Or Rally jumps. Many of them happen on Finnish rallys.
Yo check out group B!
As someone that is turning 16 in 2 years and wants to get my license as soon as i turn 16 so i can rally race, this is funny. Also you should watch group b rally clips from the 80s. Group b is no longer a thing because the cars got so fast that it was actually so dangerous that it was cancelled. Thats where the famous audi quattro rally car and some other boxy rally beasts are from. Those things would be going 170kmh or more in the straights. They are legendary.
Role cage transfers impact energy from the front, rear, top, and or side of the vehicle around the area that holds the driver and the passenger instead of the cabin crinkling in on you.
When you go to watch a rally you know the risks. I've stood in some right sketchy places... small farm walls in the middle of the Welsh countryside, up on banks in the Welsh forests... you know the risks and it's yours to take. Great fun and an amazing motorsport. Nothing compares.
*Edit; yes they do have rally in the USA and they are getting good at it too.
we have always been good at it, press on regardless rally was in the USA. hardest rally in the world (and one of the longest)
What was the video about?? I was focusing on something else lol
One of my favorites is the first clip where the guy saves the car from wrecking and then giggles. That's a true adrenaline junky. Too bad you kind of missed it.
Those crazy spectators you were mentioning are the same people you will find running with the bulls in Pamplona dressed in red shirts.
Roll cages are just hollow steel tube erected in a manner that's intended to keep the passenger compartment from crushing in on the occupants. There are rules about how a roll cage is to be built, like what type of steel tube can be used, methods of welding, and geometry of the cage itself. These rules vary depending on the racing organization and the weight of the car (bigger cars have heavier tubing).
Rally drivers are trained to treat humans like trees and rocks - ignore them and treat them like any other obstacle, which means come as close as you can without hitting it. Also, rally driving is HUGE in Scandanavian countries - hence the snow and ice stages. With the right tires, driving in the cold can actually feel like driving on dry pavement. Rally drivers are, without a doubt, THE most skilled and fearless drivers in all of motorsport, period. Even an F1 driver will tell you the same thing.
Back in the day, Group B rallying was the most far-out form of motorsports of their era. To this day, no crazier closed-wheel race cars have ever been built, or ever will be. You had tiny hatchbacks with AWD, up to 800 horsepower, and weighing less than a metric ton in most cases. It was considered the golden age of rallying, but also was insane by every single metric. But if you ever get a chance, react to Group B. Those cars make the ones in this video look like kiddie go-karts.
0:33 they are not circuits, they are actual public roads closed for the event
God, those Lancias. I wanted one so badly when I was a kid. After watching this, I still do..
The stratos, delta, or 037?
Personally the rally car i want is a stratos. Im a small person so i would probably actually fit in it pretty well.
Aaron Balchand The Delta Integrale. Loved em when I was little. I saw a video on one not too long ago (I think it was Donut) & it reminded me what awesome cars they were, especially in their day.
Also for the question at 7:33 rollcages are to avoid the car to deform too much, so that the drivers zone are safe and to not let any part of the car crumple onto the people inside
In Asia there is no rally. This is a Europeann and south America sport. This is huge here in Europe. The helicopter was following it because this is a world sport covered by different media outlets, mainly broadcasted in TV. If you want to know more visit the WRC website
Good to see NASCAR fans watching Rally (WRC etc ) there's not only circle tracks dude
That whipping the car around is called 'The Scandinavian flick ' btw 😊
The helicopters 1:55 are for filming, and if the driver and co-driver of the car gets lost the Helicopter can be used as help to get back on the route so the co-driver can take over.
Totally miss what you reacted. I react couple other things. Nice video.
Nice for the double show-up...please some moore!
This young man, has the same level of respect for this young lady, as she does for herself.
Well that would explain why she's with him right?
There is a rule on Rallye racing:
-if you are a spectator DO NOT stay on an outside of a corner, even more if is a harpin.
As ex Racing marshall from Italy (over 5 years and with WRC as well on my back) I always reccomanded places away and safe to ppl, if possible with wraps signalin where they can go and stay
great video!
7:14 his brakes went out
Brakes: i have decided to stop working
Rally is in a lot of countries, in Asia, Europe and America which the one in America is Pikes Peak
thats hill climb
Waterybint * I don’t think it does
Nope, there was an event there but not as a part of WRC, but as a part of X Games in 2006. google wrc, you can find various season calendars. Some rallies are pretty permanent fixtures (like Wales, Germany, Finland, Sweden, etc). But calendars change from season to season. Most seasons in the last 15 years had 13 rallies. 2019 will have 14 (Chile is added). and 2020 might have even 16 (if both Croatia and Kenya get added). PS Croatia was hos of an European Rally Championship event in 2013.
Pike's Peak is not a rally - it is far too short only 19.something kilometers. Average WRC rally has 300 km (ERC 150 km).
Most rallies are much shorter than 300km
the best thing is most of these cars are normal production cars that have been modified. Instead of some creation from a lab it feels more personal
There used to be a Group B series for rally cars during the eighties. (They now only race under limited conditions for historic racing events)
In terms of out right performance, they'd leave today's rally cars standing. They banned that series after fatal accidents involving the crowd.
They were rally cars with formula 1 engines. Today's cars are around 300 bhp.
The Group B series were capable of between 600-800 bhp with four wheel drive.
Having a power to weight ratio of a handkerchief. They would out accelerate any of the worlds newest hyper bullshit cars with ease.... On gravel!!
There's sometimes a programme on UK TV and it's a competition between F1 drivers and Rally Drivers. The Rally Drivers win it every time. If you don't like NASCAR then you should check out the BTCC, especially from the glory days of the 80's and 90's. Also the Bathurt 1000 from Australia, possibly the only race in the world where Kangaroos cross the racetrack!
Which tv show is it?
As Colin McRae would say "if in doubt, go flat out"
1982 -1986 was B group rally cars wight 1,1 -1,4 ton ( 2,500 - 3,100 lbs ) but power was 400 -700 hp 0-100 km/h 3-4 second on gravel roads
Big thing in Asia. Most shots in Europe and most of them speaking either french and finnish. Rally is a HUGE thing in Europe. I used to photograph rallies.
Fun fact thats two years late. Rally drivers have no idea what theyre driving and what they do relies solely on their passengers pace notes and what they see in front of them.
Definitely need too watch some isle of Mann TT highlights, absolutely ring pinching racing
Rally racing is pure adrenaline love the sport mad respect for the drivers and the passengers don’t remember what they are called...
Rallying is a world wide sport, mostly held in Europe.
You're right, people DO get injured...... mainly by debris (gravel, stones the occasional flying branch), but back in the glory days of group B cars - it used to be the cars that did most damage.......... they were 4 wheel drive 1.5 tonne rocket ships that were modified beyond all engineering recommendations, Ford RS 200 for example pretty much put an end to all out development, one of these cars was in the hands of a relatively inexperienced driver who lost control and ploughed into spectators (at full speed), killing some of them. But thanks to likes of Audi Quattro we all see 4 wheel drive road cars regularly
You could still buy an old RS 200 today, probably cost you over $1 million as only 24 were ever made.
One last thing, roll cages are as described by Jon.......... think metal pipes built into a safety cage and a car built around that cage........... if the cage gets damaged, then the car is scrap metal
Group B cars were lethal monsters that didn't want to be tamed
You guys seems to like James from donut media, go react to his group b rally up to speed video. Definitely one of the most important time periods for rally. Short lived and deadly, but absolutely amazing.
7:30 ... I like the way she said... "you can't get hurt" .... yes you can.. it's called coming second.. :o)
You guys should react to the history of group B rally. Drivers like Michele Mouton, Walter Rohl
Okay... Guys, at 1:16 did I hear him say "a beemer" as reffereng to a BMW?? I hope I heard it wrong, because that would be an insult 🤣 Poor Lancia... 😂 And the helicopter is there to film it for live TV
1:53 They are filming it, live. To tv.
You'd probably like some of the Group B rallying videos that are available. I think it was a Finnish rally driver who said "WRC is for boys, Group B is for men".
Nascar is boring cause there's just WAYY too many laps and the tracks are just oval. F1 Racing >> Nascar
Rallying > F1
Rally Is also quite big in Britain, are landscape is quite good for it
2:35 the car went yeet
Here is the thing people from Minnesota we know how to drive in the snow no problem
The one race that stood out to me.
"Relive the final 5 laps from earnhardts 76th win"
Ashtyn's correct, there's a pro rally league in the US, the SCCA. I've been to the Maine Forest Rally twice, myself. It's a pretty awesome time, but you won't see people on the course like that, at least, I didn't see it at MFR. As I understand it, they'd threaten to shut down that stage of the race if people didn't stay off the course. Though, it can be fairly dangerous standing at a distance as well. During one of the stages, one year, a woman who was a member of the polish team (Peugot), got drilled in the head by a rock launched from a back tire. (The tracks are huge, so you kind of have to pick your viewing point and stay there and just watch as each car goes by. For some strange reason, risk of injury be damned, people choose the areas around the outside of corners, quite often. Anyway, she had to be stretchered out. No joke, she got blasted by that thing.
What's really funny, are the 'joke' cars. One year there was a 70's Corvette Stingray, that'd been converted...sorta, into a rally car. The body didn't take kindly to the bumps.
You find that Car Rallying is big in the UK, Ireland, France, Scandinavia and other places in western and eastern Europe. 🚘🚗🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
It's like with pretty much all sports; USA does its own thing with nascar, american football, baseball etc and the rest of the world does the normal sports :) Rallying takes place mostly in Europe but is also big in other continents except north america.
Ashton trusts Rally drivers to go somewhere... Hi I'm your Uber. (Yes I have a Class 1 FIA licence).
The snow tyres has hundreds of metal studs in them. The drivers say they have more grip in the snow with the studded tyres, than the normal tyres on gravel.
the whip is called the scandinavian Flick alot swedes and finns use it
Why rally drivers are crazy:
1. They has never seen the road: the codriver tell to the driver what there'll be next;
2. Cars are really strong and keep going after jumps, little crashes, rollovers;
3.They race with EVERY weather condition;
we have seen the road, just only (usually) 2 times and only briefly at about 35MPH.
Rallying is one of many racing sports that has everyone in extreme danger.
That's why its so fun, the exhilaration.
They drive on dirt, gravel, ice/snow and tarmac. The WRC world rally championship competes in Europe, Australia, South America and I think Asia. But just for fun .. google rally fans from 70s/80s . That shits crazy!
Check out the Ouninpohja stage of rally finland... "If I wanted to fly, I would be a jet pilot , not a racing driver," Walter Rohrl
1:52 - two possible reasons for the helicopter following them like that...
a/ media company filming it
b/ that was back in the group B days when they could serve and repair cars in the stages as well as in designated service areas, so it would be keeping close company
c/ looks like it may have been an African rally and many of those were on open roads and/or places where the population weren't aware of how fast the cars could be and was to give a 'heads up' to the co-driver about hazards ahead - usually, though, the chopper would be higher and forward of the car.
d/ something else
Ash and Jon legends!!😃
rally cross can be across a whole country though various stages over days sometimes weeks, the driver doesnt have prior knowledge of the track hes guided by the notes of his partner who has already seen the track beforehand, which goes to show the skill and trust the pair have between each other.
Small correction: rallying. Rally cross is half track, half dirt racing.
I have a rally stage 10 miles from where i live,we all drive like this in the UK.
I dont even know if there are rally stages where i live. Im canadian in ontario.
The American rally circuit has rally’s in New England (Maine new Hampshire etc) and a few in Oregon Washington area
A fun little fact: after the first ever WRC Season, the drivers and co drivers requested the FIA allow bigger cars because their balls could barely fit in the car.
@10:16 the helicópter is for live tv
they absolutely dont have these at elko speedway. these truly are european/asian
Haha the first one is in Ireland haha they sound like there from donegal too (that's where I'm from lol)
The part where you got excited about how he pre manipulated the corner? It's called a Scandi Flick. Short for "Scandinavian Flick."
Come into a left hander, flick to the right, then steer to the left so you can drift the corner. 🙂
Or in Japan they would call it a Monji.
Rally is an European thing. It goes over all European countries actually. Sweden, Greece, France, Spain, Portugal, etc etc. It was later adopted in Asian countries I think... And about the people that go to these things, they are responsible for their own safety. They just risk it plain and simple, the organizers can only do so much.... But there have been some deaths unfortunately. Mainly because people didn't respect safety rules.
As if the roads aren't difficult enough, the organizers have to add obstacle chicanes.
WRC sponsers one in northern Ontario or used too Rally of the Tall Pines. In Bancroft. Its a bit of a joke now. Rally is all over minisota and new york state
Most skillful, demanding and exciting motor sports on the planet, and although they do have Rallying in the U.S it's not very big, Rallying is mainly European, and the Helicopter is for filming/photography.......