@@vitorsantos3971 spot on. Going at that speeds, with so many cars around and so much information coming in from the spotter would be sensory overload!
@@15HSVDT i can only speak from iracing but yeah nascar is so intense and fun its really misleading how boring it is to watch xD but rally i also loads of fun, as vitor said they just require differente skills
@@vitorsantos3971 we ain't saying that Nascar isn't hard (we all know that all different types of Motorsport is insanely hard) but WRC is the next level
"We're looking at Eastern Europe countries, possibly Middle East..." Nope 😂 France, Portugal, Finland, Mexico, Argentina, Turkey... it's a global sport unlike Nascar
These appear to be older video clips, but fore note: I grew up in England loving Ralley Cross, and I have lived in the US for 11 years. There is NO motorsport in the US that can compare. These guys drive courses on multiple surfaces and are HIGHLY talented
@@navet8459 I saw a car hit a tree at about 30mph one time, the tree was probably around 18" diameter. It lost some bark and that was all, the cars front end was absolutely demolshed though. They are much tougher than you'd think.
@@tntfreddan3138 same, but it wasa sticker in the back of my car in the back windshield? I can't really remmeber what it's called, but it went across from one side to another
As Markku Allen used to say, always go for MAXIMUM ATTACK, always 110%, not 99%. Maybe you can win, maybe you can crash... But that's the only way to go.
Being close to the track is inherent to rally. You don't go to a rally to see cars from 40 yards away, you go there to feel the power on that machines when pass in front of you. There's nothing about living conditions in that countries. In fact, most of that countries have better living conditions than USA by far (Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, etc.). Anyway, this is old footage. Nobody does that anymore. You get close to the track but you get better positioning. You avoid the outside part of the turns, you protect yourself behind a tree or a rock, etc.
Rally is point to point. A rally event has a certain number of stages in it and cars try to get the quickest possible time for each. Every stage time is combined to get a total time and the car with the shortest wins. Also, as a person who has been a spectator and a navigator (person in the passenger seat reading directions), being in the car is way more adrenaline inducing than being a spectator. Greetings from Australia. 🤘🇦🇺
I don't know if you'll see thus but props to you man, i have mega respect to the co driver and driver of any rally car, have a good day to you - a trinidadian rally fan
It’s called “getting a dab” if you could touch a car as it passing. Portugal notorious for close crowds. But a lot of rally is on isolated roads. One rule stand on the inside of a corner.....most of the time.
I am an aerospace engineering. I love f1 I love how f1 is kind of a pinnacle of engineering. But rally that shit is scary. You need iron balls to do rally. These guys r legends to drive like that.
"Why are there people on the track!" They don't do that any more. Those clips are from "Group B" rallying, which was briefly popular in the 80's. As you can see, it's ridiculously dangerous, and they stopped doing it when too many people got killed. And as others have mentioned, there are compilation videos of Group B clips. You should do them; they're terrifying.
Yeah, Group B cars were monsters with up to 600 HP and very little restrictions constructionwise. In the last years of these cars they were almost undriveable for their sheer power and due to an increasing number of deadly incidents involving drivers, co-pilots and spectators, Group B was banned from racing in 1986 for good.
@@nikline60 And to rallycross in Europe. I remember in the late 80s. There were 6-700 hp Peugeot 205 T16 and Ford RS200, tiny little cars weighting almost nothing and accelerating to 100kph/60mph in a couple of seconds. The top division in rallycross had even less regulations than group B (if possible).
@@amundbjerve group b was declared banned in may 1986 but the last race was in january 1987. Rallycross are in racing circuit, it’s less dangerous to have 600 or more power for spectator and cars are more safer, the henri thorvonen proved that back in time the organisation don’t care about driver security.
2:40 - First, because it was the 80's and the portuguese spectators were batshit crazy and second, it's not a track, in rallies it's called a stage. : ) 10:53 - And what's more amazing is that it's a FWD car! 13:27 - Another FWD car. 17:40 - It's the opposite: videogames were based on this.
2:37 Portugal (still) has some crazy Rally fans! And yes, it is like a festival, people go up to the montains the day/days before with beers and food, just camp there, have fun and eat dust :D
Rally has a big cultural influence in all of Europe, but specially in the south western countries (Spain, Portugal, France, Switzerland and Italy) and nordic countries (Finland, Sweden and Norway)
Rallying without doubt requires the most skill in Motorsport on 4 Wheels. Colin McCrae was a legend before he sadly passed away in a Helicopter crash, if you check out his onboard footage you'll realise how they work as a team with a Co-Driver.
As a former driver/codriver, yeah, I have rolled, I have done frontal collisions with guardrails and I have done it most, but I have never ended up upside down in water, and I'm thankful for that. We didn't train for it, but you were pretty quick hitting the belt release after a crash, and if you are upside down you quickly learn what gravity does.
Finns are known as having a great history of rallying (and a few F1 drivers) I used to work for a boss who was Finnish. I once asked her "Do all drivers in Finland drive like rally drivers?"I think she took it as an insult. It was just a joke. To be fair to her, I had also asked whether the Finns also ate reindeer. She said "Yes". When she went back to Finland to visit family for Christmas, she bought me back some air dried reindeer meat.
Hope you guys continue to watch rallying,, one thing to consider is that a creation number of “road” versions of the cars have to be available to the public to buy, the late Colin McRae raced in Ford Focus’ and Cosworth’s as well as Subaru Legacy’s and Impreza’s
My dad was an amateur rally driver, he lost a tooth when crashing into a forest. Also when ever I’ve visited Finland this sport is a religion there, and they drive in thick snow!
You two sound like typical Americans when watching rallying 😂. We aren’t wrapped in cotton wool like you guys are. We did this at every rally in Europe and it was fuckin mega 🤘🤘
Americans are weird. They think this is dangerous, but having all sorts of people carrying guns in public is perfectly safe. Even makes things safer, according to them. Still they have like 15,000 gun related deaths each year. Americans clearly have a problem interpreting statistics and doing math and simple logic.
@@HGSolberg At least us Americans are free to speak our minds without the Gov shooting us. Not to mention the most powerful nation on earth, but hey, cry some more snowflake.
@@Zytironmate I live in Ireland , we don’t get shot by our government , our government listens to us when we don’t like what we see , we don’t have mass shootings and we don’t get terrorist attacks , idk about you but I rather live here where it’s much safer rather then most “powerful nation in the world” where the ways I can die increase 10 fold , also we have a decent healthcare system, get fucked
After seeing the Isle of Man TTS, Rallying and the pinnacle of track racing in Formula 1, you’ll forgive us Europeans when we laugh at watching a bunch of cars turning left only in a closed controlled environment! You should check out some 2020 footage of rallying
when I was a kid and lived in England my dad used to take me to a circuit called castle Combe on Saturdays. it was awesome because there were so many different classes of racing, different groups, actual driving. once we went to a touring car race and spent 6-7 hours only to see a couple minutes in total of cars. one time he took me to a rally day in the forest. it had a loophole that meant you could go as close as you want to the track. and I'm telling you... it was one of the best experiences I ever felt. cars just going insane literally inches from you. from Porsches, hondas, mitsubishi, Subaru, even a Supra. one moment, a big s class Merc came past and rolled over right in front of us. it sounded like a little hatchback with a turbo bolted to it. it rolled and some people next to us dragged the guys out as it was on fire. the driver/co driver just came and started chit chatting with us all. they had a full support team with a car to pick them up but they rather stay and thank all who dragged them out. quite possibly the best Motorsport. it's so underrated. I'm sure thousands upon thousands of people have great memories of rally from every era.
My father was a navigator for some small trophy truck team during the baja 1000. People used to stand close to cars and try to touch them as they went by, not knowing how fast they were which would usually result in a broken finger. Not this time. He remember PULING A FINGER OF THE FRONT OF HIS TRUCK AT THE END OF DAY 1.
2:12 My heart sank watching that Lancia get destroyed. I was all set for watching it go past, and then... I have to admit, the drivers safety was an afterthought.
Those cars, like it or not, are disposable, as in any form of racing. The vehicles I feel sorry for are the ones that are destroyed by their owners driving impaired/road raged.
Your reactions are so great when you realise that European Rallying back in the 80's was awesome. Colin Mcrae was the best and proper competitive racing foot to the floor in rain, sand or snow day and night is beyond the American comfort zone.
@@Lonestar1430 I didn't forget Juha, he drove my favourite car for a short period, The escort RS Cosworth. I didn't mention him or Ari, or any of the other greats as I was referring to a epic rivalry between two people/manufacturers
Where are you living.. Rallysport was driven all over Europe. From Germany to Switzerland, Finnland up to Italy. Threy are Rallying by snow, night, rain, dust. This is real Motorsport and we are all proud to see the legendary Groupe B monsters. You have to be at the track. It's a kind of respect to the drivers. These guys are the really motorsport drivers, not F1 or Nascar, they drive the same way for several rounds... that's boring stuff. You have to look for group B or a tape of Walter Roehrl and the Audi S1, f that's Rally heaven. Keep on Racing Stephan 🏁🏁🏁
Rally drivers and motorcyclists who race road races like the TT are some of the madness, bravest, stupidest but most skilled humans ever. I rate them highly.
My father was a rallye pilot in the late 70s, raced in a Simca 1000. He also did security for races later on. First thing you need to know is that rallye is on normal roads that are closed just for the time of the event, so no time to put guard rails or anything. I live in the southern alps so I often drive on those roads used for rallyes and it's very scary to think they could fall down at their speed. Also, security is tighter now but we still have accidents sadly
the clips you saw where the spectators were too close to the road was from group b. the cars they drove were banned by the fia-wrc later on because it was literally too fast for the drivers to control properly which lead to multiple fatalities throughout its short run
These races take place everywhere in Europe! England, Ireland, Germany, France, Portugal, Scandinavia, everywhere! The skills of the drivers are amazing! And your reactions made me laugh… 😂😂😂
Rallying is very competitive and makes other motorsport events like NASCAR seem quite dull in comparison! The group B days with the Audi Quattros we’re brilliant and quite extreme. I loved those day’s. 😎
Rally is pretty popular downunder too - more so in New Zealand than Australia. There is a lot of contemporary footage available. You still get spectators close by the roadside without guardrails, but not big crowds and not on the road. Love watching Americans discovering the rest of the world. If only there was more of it! PS our best (Australian) road racer, Peter Brock died at 61 after retiring from RR and taking up rally driving.
Granted now there's a piece of string where we live to separate you from the road but this is basically how rallying tracks are, the drivers are just so on point that the people who watch know where to stand
love my rally racing, i run the North Arkansas rally circuit... most adrenaline inducing few laps of my life, and i get the pleasure of running it every year.
And the clip missed one of the scariest bits of rallying - onboard footage of a night stage. There are a few on UA-cam. Imagine what you just watched, but the driver can only see what is in the beam of the headlights.
For the Rally heads here checkin out these guys minds being blown.... ...what about hearing that Stratos at 10:40 ? Still gives me goosebumps every time i hear one. What. A. Sound. For the Americans......with all that space y'all have and a love of cars i've always wondered why Rally never took off over there. It actually boggles my mind ! Great video guys. Did anyone mention that drivers and their co drivers used to pick people finger tips off their cars from Dabbing, back in the 80's ? Yes....spectators finger tips caught on the cars panel edges ! Also...Drifting as a "Thing" was inspired by rally driving skills with high powered cars maintaining speed around corners. Street Guys turned it into a thing of its own.
Hahah this is my favourite reaction yous have done! When I was growing up in the 90s in the UK, our goal was to touch the car as it speeds past its called getting a 'dab'! And also ut shows just how skillful the drivers are that they don't run anyone over, these guys are in a class of their own and the driving is impeccable! If you ever get a chase to go then go you won't be disappointed
That was Colin mcrae talking with the crowd real close , he helped make the Subaru iconic in rallying also a fellow Scot R.I.P. oh still about buzzing going on boys🙈😂👍
Been to the rally in Wales numerous times near snowdonia. The night stage is awesome and your right next to the cars as they fly by with their brakes glowing red hot.
We do, but it's never been popular here.I have never heard one advertised for. But though it's different, the annual pikes peak rally has always been popular.
@@mwlvranken I knew that it was a hill climb, but it was all we had that was close, because of the different road conditions. Didn't know about the other thing though. I live in the midwest and had never heard of it in any form. We do have what they call rallycross events, but they are a far cry from anything that's true rally style as they usually take place in a pasture that has zero prep beyond some cones. They are fun but more country fair type stuff. Bad management though is probably why it never advertised where I live though. I would love to have a real rally event in the US that draws the top rally drivers from around the world every year though. It would definitely be worth seeing that.
Great stuff lads... Def gets the anxiety levels up but there's loads more examples of rally going wrong... The Co driver reads the course and how to drive it to the driver so the driver is essentially going on how the Co driver tells him to do it like corner angles and gears to be in... It is crazy! it is done in the snow! and sometimes cars go off mountains but they do it cos they love it...
Uma parte importante das filmagens são do rally de Portugal na decada de 80. Min 4:00 / 4:50 - rally de Portugal na zona da Serra de Sintra (perto de Lisboa-Portugal). Em 1986 após morte de 3 pessoas e dezenas de feridos devido a acidente de uma viatura , levou a que as regras mundias deste classe de competição fossem alteradas.
I used to go to the rally nearby when I was like 6-8yrs with my dad and two little brothers, and while not this bad, yeah we used to stand quite close to the dirt track in the forest and never even thought about it ! And that was Scotland '99 🤣
No, a lot of these comes from countries with great healthcare. Plus 200-300k USD for a "stock" rally Toyota Yaris hatchback, so with a good mechanic team, you can go rally like a pro. Of course it can be done cheaper.
So I used to love watching rally as a kid .. and I miss it greatly . It used to be in TV every year all through the. 70'80' and 90's . But then satalite TV took it of the terrestrial and I havnt seen it since early 2000's .... It is time trail based . Cars set off five minutes apart .. the driver with the fastes times over 12 races would win the country's overall trophy and seasonal points .. would go to teams .. cars had to be cars being available for public consumption . But the parts were supped up and tinkered with for the course raced that day .. the value of a rally car becuase of this would be an average of 60- 90k Vs the 20- 40k public versions ... .. this was I believe eight to 12 races in each country and raced in 8- 10 country's per season .. you would have tarmac , gravel, sand and snow races each year .. people were free to spectate but would do so at there own risk these were always roads in town or country side . Rarely ever held on race courses each course would be walked the day before and notes were taken of distance degree off bend the gear needed for the fastest line and any hazards like bumps . The condriver would read the notes as they were raced
Fans close to the track are all a part of the sport. The American Rally scene has some amazing events for spectators. Sit on the inside of turns, and up high or near something you can jump behind. Its a one of a kind experience.
4 time World Champion and 23 time World Rally winner Juha Kankkunen has said in the 1980s fans were so crazy his team found fingers in his air box from fans wanting to touch his car at speed.
The Clips in the Vide are from the 1980th to 2010th, some are not Rally but Hilclimb. Please Reacte to the 1989 short film (4,5 Minutes) "Climb Dance" Featureing Ari Vatanen drive at Pikes Peak.
Rally (WRC) drivers are the most fearless people in motorsport. You never know what hides behind the next turn... Snow? A puddle? Ice? A person? A cow? Or even THE TRACTOR?!?!?!? I love rallies, those drivers are like superheroes of motorsport.
It's great to see Americans finally wanting to learn about other countries motorsports, because the majority of them just refuse to accept anything from another country could be better than something American. When you forget your ego, and open your eyes, there are a lot of amazing things to learn. Well done guys, I'm glad you enjoyed experiencing what us Europeans were enjoying 30-40 years ago.
Hey, you have a clip of my brother racing the White Manta 400. I used to go with him as part of the pit crew. Some of the crashes he had where incredible & yet still completed the special stage. It was then an overnight rebuild before starting again the next day. Happy days!
Ex-Group-B engineer for the 3rd Gen. Audi Quattro here: We used to, on the regular, find pieces of clothes and hair stuck in the fenders. There even was the odd ripped-off finger, ear and even a nose wedged into the cracks of the side's and rear bodywork. There were more days in which we found someone's scalp or ripped-off t-shirt/jeans, than days in which we didn't and, as you can probably imagine, I dreaded going to work more than any other job I had before or after. The 90s weren't the industrial revolution though, people actually did care about not hurting bystanders and viewers, but the boards didn't, all they saw was regulations and laws that hadn't caught up to the new requirements of giving huge companies with unlimited funding a carte blanche for developing a vehicle to the maximum of their abilities. 🤢 Despite drivers and crew complaining about the lack of security, they (The FIA) didn't mind the entire thing just endangering human lives on so many different levels for a few more bucks of revenue.. P.S.: The drivers all are okay, even in the 90s they were strapped in by 5-point-harnesses, had helmets, fireproof suits and neck-guards to prevent whiplash, additionally they were in a very heavily scrutinized roll cage. It always looks hella gruesome when the car sheds its bodywork, but they're expected to. They're just many, many smaller panels of fiberglass, filling putty, paint and stickers in order to save weight, which are bolted to the frame. Looks way worse than it actually is; provided you keep your arms, legs and head inside of the roll cage. 😂
I live right by one of the major World Rally Championship routes in the forests. It is even faster watching it from among the trees. There are no fences, there's some hairy drops and the flying gravel hurts.. a lot.. haha. There are no people on the tracks we are in the trees lining the route.
The safety cages on these cars are incredible and it's very rare for the driver and/or navigator to get hurt, but having their "bells rung" is a whole different matter. ;-) In the past, the fans would reach out and touch the cars as they passed at speed, moving out of the way just in time. I was introduced to Pro-Rallying in the early 80s (Northwest, America) by a British roommate and a couple friends of his. Normally a broken suspension (especially if it's passing you) means you're done on that stage, if not the rest of the event. Rally fans are the most involved of any in motorsports, bar none. I get a kick out of a driver who pulls the car out from the brink of disaster and keeps going.
It's the navigator in the passenger seat he or she reads the track notes ahead of the turn's and obstacle. They are the one's with the largest Cahonas.
He's alive lol the cars are reinforced with roll cages, the chassis and running gear are all well above normal consumer grade. I know this is a couple of years old now but you guys should check out some of the co-driver and inside camera footage, it's mind blowing and also sometimes hilarious.
"I hope no-one dies" while watching a Group B clip... I have some bad news guys.
Yeah......some of the drivers..
@@BernardWilkinson - And some of spectators as well... Just another Group B weekend.
Not many though it started getting bad and they banned it
And people say hot hatches are slow
The co driver i guess
NASCAR: 250 kph oval racetrack. WRC: i will pick a mountain village and do 250 there
Nascar is insanely fun and requires different set of skills but it looks much easier than it is.
@@vitorsantos3971 that's true, but in my opinion rallying is the most raw motorsport you can do. (two wheelers are a different sport tho..)
@@vitorsantos3971 spot on. Going at that speeds, with so many cars around and so much information coming in from the spotter would be sensory overload!
@@15HSVDT i can only speak from iracing but yeah nascar is so intense and fun its really misleading how boring it is to watch xD but rally i also loads of fun, as vitor said they just require differente skills
@@vitorsantos3971 we ain't saying that Nascar isn't hard (we all know that all different types of Motorsport is insanely hard) but WRC is the next level
"We're looking at Eastern Europe countries, possibly Middle East..."
Nope 😂 France, Portugal, Finland, Mexico, Argentina, Turkey... it's a global sport unlike Nascar
American ignorance at its finest, lol :D
😂😂
Nascar is american version of wannabe rally but in circles... and on asphalt...
and by the way... better living conditions....
Nope ?? lol ... Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and the Russian Federation best rally ever !
Hey guys, thank you for your reaction! I really enjoyed watching you scream and laugh all the time. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Bruh,you the GOAT you know that?fr Keep spreading that Rally Magic
Mr. M! sah dude, best rally content on yt
These appear to be older video clips, but fore note: I grew up in England loving Ralley Cross, and I have lived in the US for 11 years. There is NO motorsport in the US that can compare. These guys drive courses on multiple surfaces and are HIGHLY talented
there is only one famous similar thing in the US, hillclimb, specially pikes peak hillclimb race
@@zulik9831 Fair enough. That truly is big
Well, they have rally there too, in the US. It's just not popular.
I've learnt over the years that if a rally car is heading your way on a Forest stage get behind a tree ideally one of the largest ones.
Just normal driving in Devon.
@@kieranburge2502 to be truthful its a bit tame compared to day to day driving on Dartmoor
It must be a BIG tree, cuz what if the tree just fall down on your face?
@@navet8459 The trees in that area were all over 80 years old, a few were over 100 years old. If a car hit them they stopped dead
@@navet8459 I saw a car hit a tree at about 30mph one time, the tree was probably around 18" diameter.
It lost some bark and that was all, the cars front end was absolutely demolshed though. They are much tougher than you'd think.
As colin mcrae would say -if in doubt ,flat out..
He always had that pedal to the floor. R.i.p
Have that quote as a sticker above my left headlight on my car.
@@tntfreddan3138 same, but it wasa sticker in the back of my car in the back windshield? I can't really remmeber what it's called, but it went across from one side to another
Colin was an absolute rally legend!!
A true legend, indeed.
As Markku Allen used to say, always go for MAXIMUM ATTACK, always 110%, not 99%. Maybe you can win, maybe you can crash... But that's the only way to go.
Being close to the track is inherent to rally. You don't go to a rally to see cars from 40 yards away, you go there to feel the power on that machines when pass in front of you. There's nothing about living conditions in that countries. In fact, most of that countries have better living conditions than USA by far (Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, etc.). Anyway, this is old footage. Nobody does that anymore. You get close to the track but you get better positioning. You avoid the outside part of the turns, you protect yourself behind a tree or a rock, etc.
"nobody does that anymore" i beg your pardon. It's not as popular as it was but there's always a group of idiots watching from really close.
@@dark3rthanshadows You can see it once in a while but you will never see 400 people inside the road in a narrow corner as you could see in the 80's.
I laughed when he talked about living conditions
And the spectators have to help the drivers and push the cars if they crash.
@@theovanhurtere Yeah that was epic, poor guy he thought he was in a better place.
Rally is point to point. A rally event has a certain number of stages in it and cars try to get the quickest possible time for each. Every stage time is combined to get a total time and the car with the shortest wins. Also, as a person who has been a spectator and a navigator (person in the passenger seat reading directions), being in the car is way more adrenaline inducing than being a spectator.
Greetings from Australia. 🤘🇦🇺
I don't know if you'll see thus but props to you man, i have mega respect to the co driver and driver of any rally car, have a good day to you - a trinidadian rally fan
It’s called “getting a dab” if you could touch a car as it passing. Portugal notorious for close crowds. But a lot of rally is on isolated roads. One rule stand on the inside of a corner.....most of the time.
Spot on, dabbed a couple as a lad. Wouldnt dare now!
Finger(s) lost? War battle stories
@@nurlindafsihotang49 Yup, a number of fingers were collected by the drivers.
I am an aerospace engineering. I love f1 I love how f1 is kind of a pinnacle of engineering. But rally that shit is scary. You need iron balls to do rally. These guys r legends to drive like that.
You got that right 100%, there is nothing better than rally and no drivers more skilled than rally drivers
Looks like you guys aged well 10 years in 10 min. Ha ...Welcome to Europe.
I hadn't seen rally racing from an American perspective before. I grew up going to rally races with my Dad. It was normal.
Or asia or africa.
Motor head unite!
"Why are there people on the track!"
They don't do that any more. Those clips are from "Group B" rallying, which was briefly popular in the 80's. As you can see, it's ridiculously dangerous, and they stopped doing it when too many people got killed.
And as others have mentioned, there are compilation videos of Group B clips. You should do them; they're terrifying.
Yeah, Group B cars were monsters with up to 600 HP and very little restrictions constructionwise. In the last years of these cars they were almost undriveable for their sheer power and due to an increasing number of deadly incidents involving drivers, co-pilots and spectators, Group B was banned from racing in 1986 for good.
Yeah and when group B get banned, all cars engaged go to pykespeak.
@@nikline60 And to rallycross in Europe. I remember in the late 80s. There were 6-700 hp Peugeot 205 T16 and Ford RS200, tiny little cars weighting almost nothing and accelerating to 100kph/60mph in a couple of seconds. The top division in rallycross had even less regulations than group B (if possible).
@@amundbjerve group b was declared banned in may 1986 but the last race was in january 1987. Rallycross are in racing circuit, it’s less dangerous to have 600 or more power for spectator and cars are more safer, the henri thorvonen proved that back in time the organisation don’t care about driver security.
Alot of them were actually post group B......
2:40 - First, because it was the 80's and the portuguese spectators were batshit crazy and second, it's not a track, in rallies it's called a stage. : )
10:53 - And what's more amazing is that it's a FWD car!
13:27 - Another FWD car.
17:40 - It's the opposite: videogames were based on this.
10:53 this driver was an absolute god of tarmac
And those stages are public roads.
Video games are not quite that realistic yet.. probobly have to give it a other 10 years or so
2:37 Portugal (still) has some crazy Rally fans! And yes, it is like a festival, people go up to the montains the day/days before with beers and food, just camp there, have fun and eat dust :D
Rally has a big cultural influence in all of Europe, but specially in the south western countries (Spain, Portugal, France, Switzerland and Italy) and nordic countries (Finland, Sweden and Norway)
And Germany
And Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia...).
And uk.
Rallying without doubt requires the most skill in Motorsport on 4 Wheels. Colin McCrae was a legend before he sadly passed away in a Helicopter crash, if you check out his onboard footage you'll realise how they work as a team with a Co-Driver.
F1.
@@elliotwilliams7421 F1 hahaha 🤣
Colin mcrae x games is insane too
I second this comment.. check out McRae in car footage!
@@elliotwilliams7421 😂😂😂
As a former driver/codriver, yeah, I have rolled, I have done frontal collisions with guardrails and I have done it most, but I have never ended up upside down in water, and I'm thankful for that.
We didn't train for it, but you were pretty quick hitting the belt release after a crash, and if you are upside down you quickly learn what gravity does.
I wanna try out rally I’ve been obsessed for years
Finns are known as having a great history of rallying (and a few F1 drivers)
I used to work for a boss who was Finnish.
I once asked her "Do all drivers in Finland drive like rally drivers?"I think she took it as an insult. It was just a joke.
To be fair to her, I had also asked whether the Finns also ate reindeer. She said "Yes". When she went back to Finland to visit family for Christmas, she bought me back some air dried reindeer meat.
Hope you guys continue to watch rallying,, one thing to consider is that a creation number of “road” versions of the cars have to be available to the public to buy, the late Colin McRae raced in Ford Focus’ and Cosworth’s as well as Subaru Legacy’s and Impreza’s
And Peugeot 405, 205, 206; Citroen Xsara, DS3, Mit Lancer Evo, Lancia Delta, Audi Quattro, Renaut 5, Skoda Fabia, VW Polo...
My dad was an amateur rally driver, he lost a tooth when crashing into a forest. Also when ever I’ve visited Finland this sport is a religion there, and they drive in thick snow!
i was in sweden years ago and the local vickor was a female rally driver.
The land of metalhead and motorhead? You viking really love to go to vallhalla in speedway, huh?
The land of metalhead and motorhead? You viking really love to go to vallhalla in speedway, huh?
Universal healthcare, a car in the face don’t cost you anything...😂
Universal healthcare dosn't matter when you are dead
@@Jaygraterthanyou it was a joke I plum
@@Jaygraterthanyou That was the point of the post. Who has the family brain cell today muggle? Nice post James!
@@Jaygraterthanyou it was a joke. Jesus christ
made me laugh.
You two sound like typical Americans when watching rallying 😂. We aren’t wrapped in cotton wool like you guys are. We did this at every rally in Europe and it was fuckin mega 🤘🤘
They would die on the 1k Lakes Rally in Finland ;) or just go out of commission after watching the old Group B days
Expect it would seem exciting when you're used to watching cars racing round and round in circles.
Americans are weird. They think this is dangerous, but having all sorts of people carrying guns in public is perfectly safe. Even makes things safer, according to them. Still they have like 15,000 gun related deaths each year. Americans clearly have a problem interpreting statistics and doing math and simple logic.
@@HGSolberg At least us Americans are free to speak our minds without the Gov shooting us. Not to mention the most powerful nation on earth, but hey, cry some more snowflake.
@@Zytironmate I live in Ireland , we don’t get shot by our government , our government listens to us when we don’t like what we see , we don’t have mass shootings and we don’t get terrorist attacks , idk about you but I rather live here where it’s much safer rather then most “powerful nation in the world” where the ways I can die increase 10 fold , also we have a decent healthcare system, get fucked
After seeing the Isle of Man TTS, Rallying and the pinnacle of track racing in Formula 1, you’ll forgive us Europeans when we laugh at watching a bunch of cars turning left only in a closed controlled environment!
You should check out some 2020 footage of rallying
Track Formula 1 is ass but yeah the tts and rally is awesome especially downhill rally
The Isle of man TT exists so Nascar drivers have heros to look up to.
You either get it or you don't.
Rally takes place almost everywhere. most of these clips were Portugal, Finland, Sweden, Turkey, Ireland.
Africa to
@@dirkpiro5359 And Spain and Great Britain (the RAC rally)
7:30 polish driver: "o kurwa, żyjemy" - "f*ck, we live"
Group B rallying era, even watching it now I still get goosebumps. Complete different time of life.
when I was a kid and lived in England my dad used to take me to a circuit called castle Combe on Saturdays. it was awesome because there were so many different classes of racing, different groups, actual driving. once we went to a touring car race and spent 6-7 hours only to see a couple minutes in total of cars. one time he took me to a rally day in the forest. it had a loophole that meant you could go as close as you want to the track. and I'm telling you... it was one of the best experiences I ever felt. cars just going insane literally inches from you. from Porsches, hondas, mitsubishi, Subaru, even a Supra. one moment, a big s class Merc came past and rolled over right in front of us. it sounded like a little hatchback with a turbo bolted to it. it rolled and some people next to us dragged the guys out as it was on fire. the driver/co driver just came and started chit chatting with us all. they had a full support team with a car to pick them up but they rather stay and thank all who dragged them out. quite possibly the best Motorsport. it's so underrated. I'm sure thousands upon thousands of people have great memories of rally from every era.
That's just what rally fans do fellas.. it is the way!👍😉
My father was a navigator for some small trophy truck team during the baja 1000. People used to stand close to cars and try to touch them as they went by, not knowing how fast they were which would usually result in a broken finger. Not this time. He remember PULING A FINGER OF THE FRONT OF HIS TRUCK AT THE END OF DAY 1.
YIKES!!!
in rally there is no souch ting as navigator.tjere is co-pilot
@@zepter00 I didn’t say rally I said Baja. Also learn to read your comment before you post.
@@Max34-l3p in baja or Dakar rally there is no navigators also.
@@zepter00 dude my dad calls himself a navigator
2:12 My heart sank watching that Lancia get destroyed. I was all set for watching it go past, and then...
I have to admit, the drivers safety was an afterthought.
Same lol
Those cars, like it or not, are disposable, as in any form of racing. The vehicles I feel sorry for are the ones that are destroyed by their owners driving impaired/road raged.
Your reactions are so great when you realise that European Rallying back in the 80's was awesome. Colin Mcrae was the best and proper competitive racing foot to the floor in rain, sand or snow day and night is beyond the American comfort zone.
Colin McRae vs Tommi Makinen was probably the greatest rivalry.. Those two were balls to wall, win or have big offs trying..
@@DStead2239 And don't forget Juha Kankkunen, another rally legend, as Ari Vatannen.
Or my Favorit driver Walter Röhrl on Audi Quattro.
@@Lonestar1430 I didn't forget Juha, he drove my favourite car for a short period, The escort RS Cosworth. I didn't mention him or Ari, or any of the other greats as I was referring to a epic rivalry between two people/manufacturers
Where are you living.. Rallysport was driven all over Europe. From Germany to Switzerland, Finnland up to Italy. Threy are Rallying by snow, night, rain, dust. This is real Motorsport and we are all proud to see the legendary Groupe B monsters. You have to be at the track. It's a kind of respect to the drivers. These guys are the really motorsport drivers, not F1 or Nascar, they drive the same way for several rounds... that's boring stuff. You have to look for group B or a tape of Walter Roehrl and the Audi S1, f that's Rally heaven. Keep on Racing
Stephan 🏁🏁🏁
"I bet this man never chopped down a tree again" 😂😂😂
btw there are two guys in these cars one is the driver ,the other is the navigator giving advance instructions on what is ahead
That's right, adrenaline inside the car and adrenaline outside the car That's the rally👍👍👍
Jean Ragniotti with his Clio, it was something !! Amazing skill, amazing driver !!
Two very likeable guys always great reactions.. I love this sport pleased to see you liked it.
Rally drivers and motorcyclists who race road races like the TT are some of the madness, bravest, stupidest but most skilled humans ever. I rate them highly.
My father was a rallye pilot in the late 70s, raced in a Simca 1000. He also did security for races later on.
First thing you need to know is that rallye is on normal roads that are closed just for the time of the event, so no time to put guard rails or anything. I live in the southern alps so I often drive on those roads used for rallyes and it's very scary to think they could fall down at their speed.
Also, security is tighter now but we still have accidents sadly
the clips you saw where the spectators were too close to the road was from group b. the cars they drove were banned by the fia-wrc later on because it was literally too fast for the drivers to control properly which lead to multiple fatalities throughout its short run
These races take place everywhere in Europe! England, Ireland, Germany, France, Portugal, Scandinavia, everywhere! The skills of the drivers are amazing! And your reactions made me laugh… 😂😂😂
Rally is a world sport, not just an European. There's even rally in the US.
Rallying is very competitive and makes other motorsport events like NASCAR seem quite dull in comparison! The group B days with the Audi Quattros we’re brilliant and quite extreme. I loved those day’s. 😎
Great as always chaps! Love your sport reactions
You guys have just the best shock reactions. Can we have more sports reactions please or near death experience videos?
I think the riskiest thing that Spencer has ever done is drink tap water.
The best all round drivers bar none..👍
Rally is pretty popular downunder too - more so in New Zealand than Australia. There is a lot of contemporary footage available. You still get spectators close by the roadside without guardrails, but not big crowds and not on the road. Love watching Americans discovering the rest of the world. If only there was more of it!
PS our best (Australian) road racer, Peter Brock died at 61 after retiring from RR and taking up rally driving.
Granted now there's a piece of string where we live to separate you from the road but this is basically how rallying tracks are, the drivers are just so on point that the people who watch know where to stand
love my rally racing, i run the North Arkansas rally circuit... most adrenaline inducing few laps of my life, and i get the pleasure of running it every year.
And the clip missed one of the scariest bits of rallying - onboard footage of a night stage. There are a few on UA-cam. Imagine what you just watched, but the driver can only see what is in the beam of the headlights.
For the Rally heads here checkin out these guys minds being blown....
...what about hearing that Stratos at 10:40 ?
Still gives me goosebumps every time i hear one.
What. A. Sound.
For the Americans......with all that space y'all have and a love of cars i've always wondered why Rally never took off over there. It actually boggles my mind !
Great video guys. Did anyone mention that drivers and their co drivers used to pick people finger tips off their cars from Dabbing, back in the 80's ?
Yes....spectators finger tips caught on the cars panel edges !
Also...Drifting as a "Thing" was inspired by rally driving skills with high powered cars maintaining speed around corners. Street Guys turned it into a thing of its own.
Todays lesson was. If you want to rob a bank, make sure that your getaway driver is a European, preferably Scandanavian, rally driver!
Or definitely Finnish :P.
@@Trag1cVision Finland is part of Scandnavia.... kind of. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia
Hahah this is my favourite reaction yous have done! When I was growing up in the 90s in the UK, our goal was to touch the car as it speeds past its called getting a 'dab'! And also ut shows just how skillful the drivers are that they don't run anyone over, these guys are in a class of their own and the driving is impeccable! If you ever get a chase to go then go you won't be disappointed
That was Colin mcrae talking with the crowd real close , he helped make the Subaru iconic in rallying also a fellow Scot R.I.P. oh still about buzzing going on boys🙈😂👍
😂😂 you guys are hilarious. I grew up on group b rally and the reactions are funny "get out the track"
We watch motorsports up close, you live in a country where it seems everyone is armed and dangerous - it's all a matter of perspective.
Been to the rally in Wales numerous times near snowdonia. The night stage is awesome and your right next to the cars as they fly by with their brakes glowing red hot.
Rally happens on public roads, they drive on snow, mud, gravel and tarmac. USA has also a national rally championship (Ken Block, Travis Pastrana)
We do, but it's never been popular here.I have never heard one advertised for. But though it's different, the annual pikes peak rally has always been popular.
@@rustyreese4006 Pikes Peak is a hillclimb and not a rally. Global Rally Cross was growing in popularity, but was canceled due to bad management.
@@mwlvranken I knew that it was a hill climb, but it was all we had that was close, because of the different road conditions.
Didn't know about the other thing though. I live in the midwest and had never heard of it in any form. We do have what they call rallycross events, but they are a far cry from anything that's true rally style as they usually take place in a pasture that has zero prep beyond some cones. They are fun but more country fair type stuff. Bad management though is probably why it never advertised where I live though. I would love to have a real rally event in the US that draws the top rally drivers from around the world every year though. It would definitely be worth seeing that.
Great stuff lads... Def gets the anxiety levels up but there's loads more examples of rally going wrong... The Co driver reads the course and how to drive it to the driver so the driver is essentially going on how the Co driver tells him to do it like corner angles and gears to be in... It is crazy! it is done in the snow! and sometimes cars go off mountains but they do it cos they love it...
it's an european thing, you don't understand.
I grew up in Sweden and spent a lot of time in Finland as well. Rallying is in our DNA up here lol, we do it in the snow!
Uma parte importante das filmagens são do rally de Portugal na decada de 80.
Min 4:00 / 4:50 - rally de Portugal na zona da Serra de Sintra (perto de Lisboa-Portugal).
Em 1986 após morte de 3 pessoas e dezenas de feridos devido a acidente de uma viatura , levou a que as regras mundias deste classe de competição fossem alteradas.
I used to go to the rally nearby when I was like 6-8yrs with my dad and two little brothers, and while not this bad, yeah we used to stand quite close to the dirt track in the forest and never even thought about it ! And that was Scotland '99 🤣
No, a lot of these comes from countries with great healthcare. Plus 200-300k USD for a "stock" rally Toyota Yaris hatchback, so with a good mechanic team, you can go rally like a pro. Of course it can be done cheaper.
Laughing at Nicky Grist's pace notes at 5:00 "...into long 6 right, now this is crazy..."
So I used to love watching rally as a kid .. and I miss it greatly . It used to be in TV every year all through the. 70'80' and 90's . But then satalite TV took it of the terrestrial and I havnt seen it since early 2000's .... It is time trail based . Cars set off five minutes apart .. the driver with the fastes times over 12 races would win the country's overall trophy and seasonal points .. would go to teams .. cars had to be cars being available for public consumption . But the parts were supped up and tinkered with for the course raced that day .. the value of a rally car becuase of this would be an average of 60- 90k Vs the 20- 40k public versions ... .. this was I believe eight to 12 races in each country and raced in 8- 10 country's per season .. you would have tarmac , gravel, sand and snow races each year .. people were free to spectate but would do so at there own risk these were always roads in town or country side . Rarely ever held on race courses each course would be walked the day before and notes were taken of distance degree off bend the gear needed for the fastest line and any hazards like bumps . The condriver would read the notes as they were raced
I remember watching with my bestie those videos back in the 80s. There was a whole section in the video rental store about racing accidents.
Lol it’s not the States lads. We are free to do what we want.
Awesome video guy’s. More please.
Would like to see a reaction to
WHO'S GONNA PAY FOR THIS CRASH? Rally Cars vs Houses... | RACINGFAIL 2020
sometime ?
Once again guys fabulous reaction
Watch some Colin Mcrea onboard footage, some of the footage when with Ford is outstanding from the early 2000's
Fans close to the track are all a part of the sport. The American Rally scene has some amazing events for spectators. Sit on the inside of turns, and up high or near something you can jump behind. Its a one of a kind experience.
Look into how the driver and co-driver are working together.....then watch and react to a Group B/Killer B's Rally car video
In 11:54 he is talking about Scandinavian flick
Why are there no catchfences...😐 boi it is on a public road,
4 time World Champion and 23 time World Rally winner Juha Kankkunen has said in the 1980s fans were so crazy his team found fingers in his air box from fans wanting to touch his car at speed.
Have a look at the group B cars the ones they banned
That People in the Road, most of the scenes its Portugal 🤣🤣 ended in 1986 with Rally Group B
The Clips in the Vide are from the 1980th to 2010th, some are not Rally but Hilclimb.
Please Reacte to the 1989 short film (4,5 Minutes) "Climb Dance" Featureing Ari Vatanen drive at Pikes Peak.
ua-cam.com/video/UEuZG37gFdM/v-deo.html
"That was 1998 when lives didn't matter..." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 im crying hahahaha
You should check out the onboard video of the Pikes Peak. I believe the Peugeot is the best 1.
Ari Vatanen was driving it
Rally (WRC) drivers are the most fearless people in motorsport. You never know what hides behind the next turn... Snow? A puddle? Ice? A person? A cow? Or even THE TRACTOR?!?!?!? I love rallies, those drivers are like superheroes of motorsport.
Gaurd rails are for people who need safe words for when they feel upset
It's great to see Americans finally wanting to learn about other countries motorsports, because the majority of them just refuse to accept anything from another country could be better than something American.
When you forget your ego, and open your eyes, there are a lot of amazing things to learn.
Well done guys, I'm glad you enjoyed experiencing what us Europeans were enjoying 30-40 years ago.
Now.THIS is proper driving! Way more fun than.NASCAR 😋 🇬🇧✌🇺🇸
rally drivers are a special breed and we loved groub b in the 80s 90s
4.55 the Greatest rally driver that’s ever lived Colin McRae RIP always in our hearts 😢😢
Sorry but Walther röhrl is still alive as far as I know... ;)
Henri Toivonen....
Hey, you have a clip of my brother racing the White Manta 400. I used to go with him as part of the pit crew. Some of the crashes he had where incredible & yet still completed the special stage. It was then an overnight rebuild before starting again the next day. Happy days!
Love your commentary!!
the crash itself was scary
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and you adding a sudden stop (in 17:35 to 17:40 +), you add some nightmare in it
I saw some of the RAC rally back in the late 80s in person, the group B cars were insane
Ex-Group-B engineer for the 3rd Gen. Audi Quattro here: We used to, on the regular, find pieces of clothes and hair stuck in the fenders. There even was the odd ripped-off finger, ear and even a nose wedged into the cracks of the side's and rear bodywork. There were more days in which we found someone's scalp or ripped-off t-shirt/jeans, than days in which we didn't and, as you can probably imagine, I dreaded going to work more than any other job I had before or after.
The 90s weren't the industrial revolution though, people actually did care about not hurting bystanders and viewers, but the boards didn't, all they saw was regulations and laws that hadn't caught up to the new requirements of giving huge companies with unlimited funding a carte blanche for developing a vehicle to the maximum of their abilities. 🤢
Despite drivers and crew complaining about the lack of security, they (The FIA) didn't mind the entire thing just endangering human lives on so many different levels for a few more bucks of revenue..
P.S.: The drivers all are okay, even in the 90s they were strapped in by 5-point-harnesses, had helmets, fireproof suits and neck-guards to prevent whiplash, additionally they were in a very heavily scrutinized roll cage. It always looks hella gruesome when the car sheds its bodywork, but they're expected to. They're just many, many smaller panels of fiberglass, filling putty, paint and stickers in order to save weight, which are bolted to the frame. Looks way worse than it actually is; provided you keep your arms, legs and head inside of the roll cage. 😂
i had to comment. "is That Snow ? " u guys are so hilarious XDXDXDXD i know u dont do it propusly but its so funny. :)
I live right by one of the major World Rally Championship routes in the forests. It is even faster watching it from among the trees. There are no fences, there's some hairy drops and the flying gravel hurts.. a lot.. haha. There are no people on the tracks we are in the trees lining the route.
The safety cages on these cars are incredible and it's very rare for the driver and/or navigator to get hurt, but having their "bells rung" is a whole different matter. ;-)
In the past, the fans would reach out and touch the cars as they passed at speed, moving out of the way just in time.
I was introduced to Pro-Rallying in the early 80s (Northwest, America) by a British roommate and a couple friends of his.
Normally a broken suspension (especially if it's passing you) means you're done on that stage, if not the rest of the event.
Rally fans are the most involved of any in motorsports, bar none.
I get a kick out of a driver who pulls the car out from the brink of disaster and keeps going.
It's the navigator in the passenger seat he or she reads the track notes ahead of the turn's and obstacle. They are the one's with the largest Cahonas.
He's alive lol the cars are reinforced with roll cages, the chassis and running gear are all well above normal consumer grade.
I know this is a couple of years old now but you guys should check out some of the co-driver and inside camera footage, it's mind blowing and also sometimes hilarious.
You guys have got to watch Climb Dance. Surely the best car control ever filmed.