Portugal always had an insane rally culture. Especially in the golden age of rally, IT WAS MAD. Edit: You should defo do a react video to one of those old school Portugal ones.
I’m From Portugal You have to see it live to really have the perfect knowledge of the speed the car and the noise from the shifting is something of an other world.... the fans are absolutely crazy and the friendship.... come to Portugal Your will be very welcome were and to enjoy the stages like we do, you need to be on the terrain the day before and “sleeping on open air” party all night long that’s the spirit. Look for videos off rally stage - ( Fafe/Lameirinhas ) , (Amarante) , (Góis) and many more INSANE 👍💪🏻😀 WELCOME TO PORTUGAL 🇵🇹 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹 WE ARE THE BEST
I'm from Fafe, and since I can confirm, we love the rallye. The night before the race we camp there and it's really really amazing. You should check Fafe-Salto da Pedra Sentada, and Fafe-Confurco.
I just watched Swedish rally on tv. This year the average speed was 137 kmh and the highest speed measured was 187 kmh. And this on very narrow forest roads.... Insane !!! But wow the beautiful landscape.... Take care / J
I remember when I was a kid and went to see Michelle Mouton on the Audi .. Loved the Group B by that time, but my dad always took me to secure locations because it was too much crazy ... I remember the night stage... going through the forest with so many people and lights and suddenly .. thunder blistering noises and explosions from those pipes lol I was around 8 ... I was ... wtf? is this war?
I visit WRC Portugal and it was amazing, the environment, the people, the party's absolutely nice! but I think this are videos from the test area's before Rally de Portugal. Also because the antenne on the bonnet of the Ford Puma. That's to get data from I guess the aerodynamic. The video's below are the in stage footages; Dirtfish: th-cam.com/video/QtbuqnF5uxI/w-d-xo.html , Rally-ES: th-cam.com/video/TmN0nuVPkAE/w-d-xo.html , JR-Rallye: th-cam.com/video/pXV5t7RPsIs/w-d-xo.html
A rather difficult segment of the Rally. Narrow, dirt roads don't forgive any mistakes. The spectators truly take some chances. Neverthless, accidents related to spectators are extremely rate. People really trust the skills of the drivers. However, around 20 years ago, in the Rally of Portugal, a Famous Driver lost control, plowing into the Fans. Thirty people passed away and dozens were injured. A few weeks later, in the Rally of Italy, the then Champion driving a Lancia 4×4, Turbo and also Supercharged, missed a turn and went downhill. The Driver and the Navigator, or co-driver, passed away. Both accidents caused a huge impact, leading to the end of the Class B cars -- there were no limitations, and the vehicles were far too powerful and dangerous.
Rally Portugal is a gravel rally, drivers know what they're going to be up against when they come here. That's why many of them consider it to be one of the toughest rallies in the calendar. Oh, and about your pronunciation of Matosinhos: it was very close but not quite. I saw you struggled with the "nh" sound but since you know a bit of Spanish, it has the same sound as the "ñ" in Spanish. 🙂
Fafe,Sines and the good old Sintra circuits are the best! Im Portuguese and I used to go on all circuits with some teams(the latest one team VW when was Andreas Mikkelsen the champ),since my 14! I did this on every motorsport circuit the entire year long! Im one of the guys that paintted the drivers helmets!
@*UncleJoe* Australia is a good mix of fast sections and technical sections, not to mention the added challenge of you eventually needing to dodge some wildlife.
@@SUPRAMIKE18 In Europe, if you hit a local bunny🐇or a local bird 🕊, you risk to damage your bumper. In Australia, if you hit a local "bunny"🦘, or a local bird 🦤, it's pretty much game over😅
Hi there first time watching your channel and what a surprise to see the Portugal ralli😀every year I go and see it love It’s freaking amazing. This year I was in Amarante stage pretty cool, but as always Fafe is the best . And yes the cats go fast as we like ☺️
At the moment theres events of WRC in portugal hapening. The "stage" is so dustry because the country its with 75% dry/drought scenario due to the lack of rain. You should check the "Fafe Rally course" and the "Oporto Stage" that happens in the middle of the city. I have see personally the Fafe and Oporto rally and its so awesome, its unbelievable the speed they drive...
Yeeeee! I live very close from the place where they stop at the end of the races everyday. So cool to watch them on the real roads going to the tracks 💪 all the best from Porto, Portugal
The Swedish part of the WRC is arranged in my hometown, Karlstad. I’ve seen many of these amazing cars in traffic. I was sitting on the bus once when the French rally driver Senastien Loeb pulled up next to the bus in his Citroen
Hey brother, im from Portugal too I see you got alot of people watching it from here, i just want to say one thing. You as a NASCAR driver here in Portugal we kinda follow the same thought "Hit the gas" ahah portuguese rally, portuguese drift contests, motorcycles we all go redline 🤣❤️
I'm Portuguese I really love rally in my country but if you want to watch fast rally stages you need to check the rally of Finland. And the jumps are crazy in Finland.
@yhjo521 You can buy whatever you want anywhere mate. Not my properties in Portugal because they are not for sale, so that's impossible for you.. But I got property in the UK, more exactly Richmond, London. One of my properties is on the market, if you can afford it go for it , just costs north of 4 million £.
1:40 Most of the late Spring/early Summer in Portugal is sunny and dry. In the early Summer there are ofc some days (even weeks) of rain, but most of the Summer is just sunny and hot in all the country (more in the south and center than in the north, but overall great Summer).
In Portugal. Have them in the months of February to May. Much less rain than usual. That's why everything is so dusty. And is there already a forest fire warning! Greetings from Spakenburg, the Netherlands.
I actually was there, i live like 10 miles from the spott and it's always nice to see Rally de Portugal. There is some other stuff near by... like Rampa da Falperra its a Hill Climb event
These are just tests from WRC1 cars... during th Rally it turns much worse, the dust and the best is the audience... AWESOME!!!! Very tecnhical and hard Special stages during 3 days!
Been to a few wrc rallyes and I can defently tell you that those guys driving is from another planet and as a spectator you can't get more close to the action than this!!!
The only problem i think the actual wrc category have is that they have only 3 manufacturer brands this sport deserve better if it have at least 2 more manufacturer brands it will be perfect.
In Rally Portugal there's almost always issues with dust. It's common in the early stages that drivers have issues with dust clouds from the drivers in front. The organizers eventually have to change the gaps to 4 minutes between the cars. I have a suspicion that the dust is very fine so it hangs in the air for longer than usual.
I'm here for the rally. Rally just hits different. Amazing to see them carving through the dirt and dust at those speeds. WRC today must be matching Group B performance of yesteryear.
It's faster... these cars are heavier than Group B, and are roughly 400hp - which is lower than the peak of Group B.... but they have better suspension and brakes, their handling and grip is way beyond Group B levels, so the average speeds are much higher! Thankfully they are a lot safer too.. though accidents can still happen (RIP Craig Breen)
Being a gamer and lover of rally. I play the game WRC Legacy, and they have some great rally courses there. Rally Kenya is super wide open and FAST. Rally Argentina is tight and rocky with severe cliffs
You need to search specifically for the Fafe stage, which has one of the most iconic jumps in the WRC history, named "Salto da Pedra Sentada". There are some outstanding jumps
You got to react to Rally group B stage in Portugal. Those were some wild days back in the day, people near the track used to play with the rally cars like if they were Bulls XD super danger and thats one of the reasons gruop B was canceled (in part due to us, Portuguese fans)
Easiest way to watch these is a subscription on WRC site. I think it's about 10 Eur per month. I usually subscribe and cancel renewal right before the rally and often get two events within that one month sub. With the subscription you get all the stages throughout the weekend transmited live with commentary, otherwise the site also has the live timings, stage itinerary and other usual stuff for free.
Answering your question about it being high speed on some sections, actually it is always max speed at all times,the drivers try to keep the car on the edge of maximum speed,grip and accelaration thru all the corners and sectors, to make it short, it's max atack all the time.
I’ve always wondered with rally, what is the difference between the distance travelled on the in car odometer compared to the actual road distance? Since the wheels are spinning getting traction, on a 20klm track do they drive 40klms from the car point of view?
50 percent of the landscape will be burned and gone probably by August. The area where they were racing is hit by bush fires every year, being it all ready this dry in May.... trouble is ahead. (BTW; I'm living on a lonesome hill in central Portugal, and rarely have a week where I can not see big clouds of smoke in the area). It only keeps a little spark... from a glass bottle that was left in nature or the tiniest spark from hitting a rock with a metal object (like the exhaust of a car). So just to say that the dust looks spectacular, but at the same time is a big warning for us living in this area... PS. Like your comments on the videos, I watch a lot of them, all the best from Portugal. OH, BTW: You like trucks and 4x4's and such, you should look into the Portuguese build UMM 4x4's !!!
Summer in Portugal (or spring end.. middle May in this case) is usually dry. The last rains usually (usually) happen in the first week of May. Then, no rain until October. Usually. Again, you may have a couple days of rain in between. So, in mid-May, the temperature starts to rise at first to comfortable 26ºC in May to 35ºC in Summer (sometimes it hits 40). The terrain is dry, especially in mountains, and highly flammable. Which is probably why the rally does not happen in the middle of the summer.
At this level a lot oft the driving is not done reactively/reflexively. That would be too slow. Its well coordinated and planed along with your co drivers pace notes. Several turns have to be setup well before you can see them.
In the 80s was a lot more insane. People in the middle of the road which took off when the cars came in at the very last second. 🤣 Portugal is getting even more dry right now, I live in the south Algarve and if we get a good week of rain once a year it’s like a surprise. Where I live is blue skies 95% of the year.
Rally is very broad when it comes to cars, their setup and types of tracks. From mountainy technical tracks to speedier flat courses, while changing from mud, to dirt, to tarmac or even snow and ice all in the same course. Just the complexity of pilot/co-pilot communication throughout the course so they dont die against a tree or off a cliff is amazing. I've driven in a lot of race tracks but nothing scared me more than seeing a huuuge drop to your left on a tight right corner and your ass feels like it's sliding to you death
I watched a lot of rally, in my young days. It was around the time of Group B. Unfortunately I list the option to watch along. I think it was because Eurosport stopped transmitting rally, as they skipped transmitting Formula Offroad from Iceland, GP500, and other motorsports I liked. Very recently I got a subscription to WRC, via their app, and watches highlights of the first races of the year. Rally Portugal was the first event I watched fully, from Friday to Sunday. It was so cool to see, after all these years. One of the reasons I really got the interest back, was because of all the reaction channels, who reacted to rally, and knew nothing about it. Your channel was on the front of those channels, so I guess I have to thank you, for lightning an old flame. It was so cool to "be back", and I totally disagree with people, who says Group B was better. It wasn't. I find the current WRC at least as exiting. I don't mind the lack of crowds blocking the road. I don't miss seeing live in TV, that a spectator got his legs crushed, because he stood in front of a house, where a rally car list control, and drove right into him. I can't wait for the next event, to take place!
4:00 And no, what you saw up to that point, was the very slow parts of the stages. Rally Portugal is by no means the fastest rally of the year. They drove with small fear ratio. The highest speed I saw them do, was around 170 km/h (max rpm), and average speed was from 87-103 km/h.
We are in moderate to severe draught. Didn't rain in April and temperatures are around 85-90F which is not normal for this time of the year. That explains why the soil is so dry and raise so much dust.
1 last coment i notice that you were intriged by portugal just yesterday i saw a really weel produced vid about Madeira with is an iland in portugal i think that you would reaally love it this is the name of the video btw. The 600-Year Battle to Settle Madeira, Portugal
Testing for the event here... That's why you see people near the road. On the event, lot more speed... and people are only allowed on "FanZone´s", for security reasons. If you look, no event stickers and numbers on the cars. =)
Best advice at these dry gravel events ? Check were the wind is comming from. If there are no people standing on one side of the road, that’s the first warning.
This was a very dry year at Portugal ,and these forest sections on this trails are dusty and spectacular .I recommend to go looking for videos of the golden era of group B, somme rally's at Portugal had the crowds fully filling both sides of the roads at those older times ,that ended badly with deadly accidents , putting a end to group B , put enforcing the crowd control for safety... as usual some people don't respect the safety rules and we find some Darwin award contestants 3 feet of a jumping spot of a rally stage , near the safety rails on the nurbourg ring and so on...
I tried to post this yesterday but for some reason it didn't get posted so here it is: th-cam.com/video/iCD99tofANQ/w-d-xo.html It's the highlights for the 2022 Rampa da Falperra, an annual hill climb competition in Portugal. It's happening again this weekend. Cars have to get to the top of the mountain in as little time as possible. It's a fun watch because many different cars and car types compete.
This rally is crazy when its the atual race and not training, people stand next to the road and some dudes even touch the car some of them even lose their fingers doing that.
If you think this is crazy you need to see some videos from the 80’s old Group B championship. Search for Walter Röhrl Portugal with Audi Quattro S1. You have at least one video inside the car with cameras showing foot work and some exterior ones where you can see how crazy it was by then with crowded stages…
The normal Portuguese who walk on the road already fly and drift with their cars LOOOL So the rally drivers it is another level. But we are used to this since we were children :)
I'm curious: how do these guys drive outside the race? do they get bored in traffic? how about taking road-trips with their family? do they drive with the kids in the back seat going to the beach? can any of them drive Miss Daisy?
Those dusty gravel trails are good to see the rear aero work.. air is being pushed up to push the car down.. but when air is forced up it creates a negative airpressure and sucking the dust up upwards.. so if the car doesnt have downforce it will just spray gravel everywhere like you have with a normall car..
The tech used to build those R1s... really i think that those are the B Group of our times. And remember you all, every single rally car is road legal! Between special stages they're driving through the ordinary traffic.
Ok, so I gotta confess something. The 80s group A alfa romeo gtv6 rally car is my favorite sounding rally car, and I'm super curious what you would think of it. A turbocharged 16 valve 2.6 liter v6 straight piped and reclining? Pure bliss...there's not much footage of it round here, but the ones you can find look into.
Hello I am Portuguese since I was 6 years old I live the rally of Portugal. There is already a myth: on the day of passage it is holy day, therefore St. rally's day. It is a day of pilgrimage to the place where we choose to see the rally, it is a day of union between friends, we have to live the rally that is inside our hearts. the best wrc in the world is in Portugal, it's not me saying it, it's the riders themselves who pass through here.
Im from southern spain near portugal and we are suffering one of the toughest dry seasons ever, so i suppose Portugal is sufferimg the same.
Yeap se have some zones with severe drought, almost all of our water comes from spain 😂
brother 40 % severe drought and 80 % drought
@@pyrophile9972 meanwhile our country suffers from too much rain xD
Southern Portugal, is always dry.
North Portugal is always wet.
Yeah, we are getting major causes of water shortage. Firefighters are starting to transport water to remote locations
Portugal always had an insane rally culture. Especially in the golden age of rally, IT WAS MAD.
Edit: You should defo do a react video to one of those old school Portugal ones.
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@@hatchimmmmm exactly. Group B was absolutely crazy
Like the video where the spectators are actually on the track😂
I’m From Portugal You have to see it live to really have the perfect knowledge of the speed the car and the noise from the shifting is something of an other world.... the fans are absolutely crazy and the friendship.... come to Portugal Your will be very welcome were and to enjoy the stages like we do, you need to be on the terrain the day before and “sleeping on open air” party all night long that’s the spirit.
Look for videos off rally stage - ( Fafe/Lameirinhas ) , (Amarante) , (Góis) and many more
INSANE 👍💪🏻😀
WELCOME TO PORTUGAL 🇵🇹 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
WE ARE THE BEST
You absolutely need to watch the Fafe special stage from Rally Portugal, best crowds hands down! Literally tens of thousands
only because of the jump
I'm from Fafe, and since I can confirm, we love the rallye. The night before the race we camp there and it's really really amazing. You should check Fafe-Salto da Pedra Sentada, and Fafe-Confurco.
I just watched Swedish rally on tv. This year the average speed was 137 kmh and the highest speed measured was 187 kmh.
And this on very narrow forest roads.... Insane !!!
But wow the beautiful landscape....
Take care / J
I remember when I was a kid and went to see Michelle Mouton on the Audi .. Loved the Group B by that time, but my dad always took me to secure locations because it was too much crazy ... I remember the night stage... going through the forest with so many people and lights and suddenly .. thunder blistering noises and explosions from those pipes lol I was around 8 ... I was ... wtf? is this war?
I visit WRC Portugal and it was amazing, the environment, the people, the party's absolutely nice! but I think this are videos from the test area's before Rally de Portugal. Also because the antenne on the bonnet of the Ford Puma. That's to get data from I guess the aerodynamic. The video's below are the in stage footages; Dirtfish: th-cam.com/video/QtbuqnF5uxI/w-d-xo.html , Rally-ES: th-cam.com/video/TmN0nuVPkAE/w-d-xo.html , JR-Rallye: th-cam.com/video/pXV5t7RPsIs/w-d-xo.html
A rather difficult segment of the Rally.
Narrow, dirt roads don't forgive any mistakes.
The spectators truly take some chances. Neverthless, accidents related to spectators are extremely rate.
People really trust the skills of the drivers.
However, around 20 years ago, in the Rally of Portugal, a Famous Driver lost control, plowing into the Fans.
Thirty people passed away and dozens were injured.
A few weeks later, in the Rally of Italy, the then Champion driving a Lancia 4×4, Turbo and also Supercharged, missed a turn and went downhill.
The Driver and the Navigator, or co-driver, passed away.
Both accidents caused a huge impact, leading to the end of the Class B cars -- there were no limitations, and the vehicles were far too powerful and dangerous.
this was the 1st wrc rally i go to and it was awesome(i was at vieira do minho). Going next year too.
Rally Portugal is a gravel rally, drivers know what they're going to be up against when they come here. That's why many of them consider it to be one of the toughest rallies in the calendar.
Oh, and about your pronunciation of Matosinhos: it was very close but not quite. I saw you struggled with the "nh" sound but since you know a bit of Spanish, it has the same sound as the "ñ" in Spanish. 🙂
Gotcha thank You for the correction 😎
it's like pronouncing LASAGNA
Fafe,Sines and the good old Sintra circuits are the best!
Im Portuguese and I used to go on all circuits with some teams(the latest one team VW when was Andreas Mikkelsen the champ),since my 14! I did this on every motorsport circuit the entire year long!
Im one of the guys that paintted the drivers helmets!
You need to see the golden years of rally especially Group B
Portugal is fast but Finland has the fastest speeds on dirt/gravel.
nordic lots of full straights with jumps little bends .another tipe of rallying here
@*UncleJoe* Australia is a good mix of fast sections and technical sections, not to mention the added challenge of you eventually needing to dodge some wildlife.
@@SUPRAMIKE18 In Europe, if you hit a local bunny🐇or a local bird 🕊, you risk to damage your bumper. In Australia, if you hit a local "bunny"🦘, or a local bird 🦤, it's pretty much game over😅
@@sergiogiacomosammartano7623 I just imagine someone getting a DNF from hitting an emu at 130 xD
@@SUPRAMIKE18 try to hit some wilde hogs thats a bit thougher than a kangoroo and thats a plague here in Portugal
I miss A LOT my best rallyes with Lancia and Audi back the 80's here in Sintra It was maaad!!
Hi there first time watching your channel and what a surprise to see the Portugal ralli😀every year I go and see it love
It’s freaking amazing. This year I was in Amarante stage pretty cool, but as always Fafe is the best . And yes the cats go fast as we like ☺️
At the moment theres events of WRC in portugal hapening. The "stage" is so dustry because the country its with 75% dry/drought scenario due to the lack of rain.
You should check the "Fafe Rally course" and the "Oporto Stage" that happens in the middle of the city.
I have see personally the Fafe and Oporto rally and its so awesome, its unbelievable the speed they drive...
Well that's a fucking LIE right there
Yeeeee! I live very close from the place where they stop at the end of the races everyday. So cool to watch them on the real roads going to the tracks 💪 all the best from Porto, Portugal
The Swedish part of the WRC is arranged in my hometown, Karlstad. I’ve seen many of these amazing cars in traffic. I was sitting on the bus once when the French rally driver Senastien Loeb pulled up next to the bus in his Citroen
Hey brother, im from Portugal too I see you got alot of people watching it from here, i just want to say one thing.
You as a NASCAR driver here in Portugal we kinda follow the same thought "Hit the gas" ahah portuguese rally, portuguese drift contests, motorcycles we all go redline 🤣❤️
I'm Portuguese I really love rally in my country but if you want to watch fast rally stages you need to check the rally of Finland. And the jumps are crazy in Finland.
@yhjo521 You can buy whatever you want anywhere mate. Not my properties in Portugal because they are not for sale, so that's impossible for you..
But I got property in the UK, more exactly Richmond, London. One of my properties is on the market, if you can afford it go for it , just costs north of 4 million £.
Portugal rally was considered to be the best rally in the world many times
Check out Fafe's jump and old Portuguese footage on Group B racing. Also, Portuguese Baja racing is also nice.
If you want to go crazy, watch 1980's Group B Rally de Portugal. You will go crazy from the fans, the sounds, the 600hp cars... Magic!!
1:40 Most of the late Spring/early Summer in Portugal is sunny and dry. In the early Summer there are ofc some days (even weeks) of rain, but most of the Summer is just sunny and hot in all the country (more in the south and center than in the north, but overall great Summer).
In Portugal. Have them in the months of February to May. Much less rain than usual. That's why everything is so dusty. And is there already a forest fire warning! Greetings from Spakenburg, the Netherlands.
I actually was there, i live like 10 miles from the spott and it's always nice to see Rally de Portugal. There is some other stuff near by... like Rampa da Falperra its a Hill Climb event
These are just tests from WRC1 cars... during th Rally it turns much worse, the dust and the best is the audience... AWESOME!!!! Very tecnhical and hard Special stages during 3 days!
My favorite kind of motorsports. Thanks for watching together ; )
Been to a few wrc rallyes and I can defently tell you that those guys driving is from another planet and as a spectator you can't get more close to the action than this!!!
R.I.P Craig breen
The only problem i think the actual wrc category have is that they have only 3 manufacturer brands this sport deserve better if it have at least 2 more manufacturer brands it will be perfect.
It would be awesome if citroen,audi,mitsubishi,lancia or subaru would return to the sport
In Rally Portugal there's almost always issues with dust. It's common in the early stages that drivers have issues with dust clouds from the drivers in front. The organizers eventually have to change the gaps to 4 minutes between the cars. I have a suspicion that the dust is very fine so it hangs in the air for longer than usual.
I'm here for the rally. Rally just hits different.
Amazing to see them carving through the dirt and dust at those speeds.
WRC today must be matching Group B performance of yesteryear.
It's faster... these cars are heavier than Group B, and are roughly 400hp - which is lower than the peak of Group B.... but they have better suspension and brakes, their handling and grip is way beyond Group B levels, so the average speeds are much higher!
Thankfully they are a lot safer too.. though accidents can still happen (RIP Craig Breen)
Being a gamer and lover of rally. I play the game WRC Legacy, and they have some great rally courses there. Rally Kenya is super wide open and FAST. Rally Argentina is tight and rocky with severe cliffs
This was last week nice that you are totally updated with wrc
Check out WRCs tribute to Craig Breen.. A brilliant Irish driver killed in a crash a few weeks ago. It's a great video.. Sad but worth a look at
You need to search specifically for the Fafe stage, which has one of the most iconic jumps in the WRC history, named "Salto da Pedra Sentada". There are some outstanding jumps
You got to react to Rally group B stage in Portugal.
Those were some wild days back in the day, people near the track used to play with the rally cars like if they were Bulls XD super danger and thats one of the reasons gruop B was canceled (in part due to us, Portuguese fans)
very, very true, I did it early 70s
It was after that horrible crash into the spectators, and a driver died in a crash earlier on another rally.
There are parts of the circuit where they go over 150km/h! It's so cool :)
Hey Ian the rally is on this weekend just 60 km from where I live. Usually go watch every year but have a fractured hip so can't this year
Easiest way to watch these is a subscription on WRC site. I think it's about 10 Eur per month. I usually subscribe and cancel renewal right before the rally and often get two events within that one month sub. With the subscription you get all the stages throughout the weekend transmited live with commentary, otherwise the site also has the live timings, stage itinerary and other usual stuff for free.
It's probably in the middle in terms of speed during a rally. But FINLAND, ESTONIA KENYA is where the speeds are just unreal.
Answering your question about it being high speed on some sections, actually it is always max speed at all times,the drivers try to keep the car on the edge of maximum speed,grip and accelaration thru all the corners and sectors, to make it short, it's max atack all the time.
There is going to be a test event in the usa in september 2023 near Tennessee, organized by the WRC
I’ve always wondered with rally, what is the difference between the distance travelled on the in car odometer compared to the actual road distance?
Since the wheels are spinning getting traction, on a 20klm track do they drive 40klms from the car point of view?
Great question🤔
I have a rally coming up, I'll see if i can do a check. Obviously not a wrc car, but will still give an idea!
50 percent of the landscape will be burned and gone probably by August. The area where they were racing is hit by bush fires every year, being it all ready this dry in May.... trouble is ahead. (BTW; I'm living on a lonesome hill in central Portugal, and rarely have a week where I can not see big clouds of smoke in the area). It only keeps a little spark... from a glass bottle that was left in nature or the tiniest spark from hitting a rock with a metal object (like the exhaust of a car). So just to say that the dust looks spectacular, but at the same time is a big warning for us living in this area...
PS. Like your comments on the videos, I watch a lot of them, all the best from Portugal.
OH, BTW: You like trucks and 4x4's and such, you should look into the Portuguese build UMM 4x4's !!!
💚❤️🇵🇹👍🏻 Portugal
Summer in Portugal (or spring end.. middle May in this case) is usually dry. The last rains usually (usually) happen in the first week of May. Then, no rain until October. Usually. Again, you may have a couple days of rain in between. So, in mid-May, the temperature starts to rise at first to comfortable 26ºC in May to 35ºC in Summer (sometimes it hits 40). The terrain is dry, especially in mountains, and highly flammable. Which is probably why the rally does not happen in the middle of the summer.
To run 125 mph in these conditions, you have to have extraordinary reflexes!
At this level a lot oft the driving is not done reactively/reflexively. That would be too slow. Its well coordinated and planed along with your co drivers pace notes. Several turns have to be setup well before you can see them.
In rally you can camp with your friends during the night and day. You just make funny stories for life. Its the vibe, we live it fully.
That's close to my house... And they can make a curve on 90km per hour... Super fast... Hugs from Portugal... ✌️
Sadly in the video you don't have the Fafe special with the famous jump.
Man you have to see Live in Portugal, the tracks are insane.
good choice headphones, a friendly hug from Portugal 🇵🇹
In the 80s was a lot more insane. People in the middle of the road which took off when the cars came in at the very last second. 🤣
Portugal is getting even more dry right now, I live in the south Algarve and if we get a good week of rain once a year it’s like a surprise. Where I live is blue skies 95% of the year.
No Toyota shots? That's curious.
velocidades de 160 a 180 kmh em alguns troços ,..é realmente assustador ,..é incrivel ,...
Rally is very broad when it comes to cars, their setup and types of tracks. From mountainy technical tracks to speedier flat courses, while changing from mud, to dirt, to tarmac or even snow and ice all in the same course.
Just the complexity of pilot/co-pilot communication throughout the course so they dont die against a tree or off a cliff is amazing.
I've driven in a lot of race tracks but nothing scared me more than seeing a huuuge drop to your left on a tight right corner and your ass feels like it's sliding to you death
I watched a lot of rally, in my young days. It was around the time of Group B. Unfortunately I list the option to watch along. I think it was because Eurosport stopped transmitting rally, as they skipped transmitting Formula Offroad from Iceland, GP500, and other motorsports I liked.
Very recently I got a subscription to WRC, via their app, and watches highlights of the first races of the year. Rally Portugal was the first event I watched fully, from Friday to Sunday.
It was so cool to see, after all these years. One of the reasons I really got the interest back, was because of all the reaction channels, who reacted to rally, and knew nothing about it. Your channel was on the front of those channels, so I guess I have to thank you, for lightning an old flame.
It was so cool to "be back", and I totally disagree with people, who says Group B was better. It wasn't. I find the current WRC at least as exiting. I don't mind the lack of crowds blocking the road. I don't miss seeing live in TV, that a spectator got his legs crushed, because he stood in front of a house, where a rally car list control, and drove right into him.
I can't wait for the next event, to take place!
4:00 And no, what you saw up to that point, was the very slow parts of the stages.
Rally Portugal is by no means the fastest rally of the year. They drove with small fear ratio. The highest speed I saw them do, was around 170 km/h (max rpm), and average speed was from 87-103 km/h.
Yup, audio coming through just the left side....
THIS IS CRAZY BUT IN THE 80´S WAS INSANE..
We are in moderate to severe draught. Didn't rain in April and temperatures are around 85-90F which is not normal for this time of the year.
That explains why the soil is so dry and raise so much dust.
1 last coment i notice that you were intriged by portugal just yesterday i saw a really weel produced vid about Madeira with is an iland in portugal i think that you would reaally love it this is the name of the video btw. The 600-Year Battle to Settle Madeira, Portugal
Testing for the event here... That's why you see people near the road. On the event, lot more speed... and people are only allowed on "FanZone´s", for security reasons. If you look, no event stickers and numbers on the cars. =)
Inboard cameras were suburb, Dirtfish is one of the best Tube channels in rally, and off course official WRC.
I would not recommend official wrc channel.. Dirtfish yes.
Best advice at these dry gravel events ? Check were the wind is comming from. If there are no people standing on one side of the road, that’s the first warning.
Check Fafe jump in Portugal rally, thats a iconic jump, lots of group B photos are there!
Great portuguese accent reading locations, amazing video
The actual Rallye-cars are near the same 'Monsters' of Group B in the '80's. But they are tecnically way better now.
I legit thought it was one of my phone speakers that didn't work until he said the sound was coming only from one side 😂😂
Fafe, best stage um the world
This was a very dry year at Portugal ,and these forest sections on this trails are dusty and spectacular .I recommend to go looking for videos of the golden era of group B, somme rally's at Portugal had the crowds fully filling both sides of the roads at those older times ,that ended badly with deadly accidents , putting a end to group B , put enforcing the crowd control for safety... as usual some people don't respect the safety rules and we find some Darwin award contestants 3 feet of a jumping spot of a rally stage , near the safety rails on the nurbourg ring and so on...
You need to see Fafe jump,só many fans
I tried to post this yesterday but for some reason it didn't get posted so here it is:
th-cam.com/video/iCD99tofANQ/w-d-xo.html
It's the highlights for the 2022 Rampa da Falperra, an annual hill climb competition in Portugal. It's happening again this weekend.
Cars have to get to the top of the mountain in as little time as possible. It's a fun watch because many different cars and car types compete.
The weight if their nuts must be hard to lug around. 😂 rally deivers really are a completely different breed
Thanks or Covering Portugal, Its very beautiful...
You need to see some video from the stage of fafe. Been there this weekend
This rally is crazy when its the atual race and not training, people stand next to the road and some dudes even touch the car some of them even lose their fingers doing that.
Really nice ;) love from Portugal
Hi ... from 🇵🇹
The rally is on the road of fire departm or break line ... and they drive all the rally .. hi rpm ...
If you think this is crazy you need to see some videos from the 80’s old Group B championship. Search for Walter Röhrl Portugal with Audi Quattro S1. You have at least one video inside the car with cameras showing foot work and some exterior ones where you can see how crazy it was by then with crowded stages…
All the Rally of Portugal, happens in the north, this is center around Viseu
The normal Portuguese who walk on the road already fly and drift with their cars LOOOL
So the rally drivers it is another level. But we are used to this since we were children :)
There is on center and north of Portugal its looks like Olympus Rally on Washington .
The footage is from pre event testing, not actually from the Rally de Portugal. if you look, the cars don't have numbers for example.
Melhor rally do mundo!
You have to watch “fafe” one of the most iconic stages in rally history and one of the oldest
I'm curious: how do these guys drive outside the race? do they get bored in traffic? how about taking road-trips with their family? do they drive with the kids in the back seat going to the beach? can any of them drive Miss Daisy?
Thanks for sharing this video 👍
Come to Sintra stages ahahahah
We had a drought this winter the usual rain didn't fall at all...
Watch rally videos from Portugal in the 80’s. Crazy shiznit!
Damn, gonna need a dust mask for these in case the dust comes through my screen! WOW, this was EPIC!
Those dusty gravel trails are good to see the rear aero work.. air is being pushed up to push the car down.. but when air is forced up it creates a negative airpressure and sucking the dust up upwards.. so if the car doesnt have downforce it will just spray gravel everywhere like you have with a normall car..
The tech used to build those R1s... really i think that those are the B Group of our times.
And remember you all, every single rally car is road legal! Between special stages they're driving through the ordinary traffic.
Ok, so I gotta confess something. The 80s group A alfa romeo gtv6 rally car is my favorite sounding rally car, and I'm super curious what you would think of it. A turbocharged 16 valve 2.6 liter v6 straight piped and reclining? Pure bliss...there's not much footage of it round here, but the ones you can find look into.
the grooves are like slot car tracks watching these masters
Im from Portugal. Thanks for all of your work.
GT World Challenge is free streamed on YT, it's not rally, but GT3 and GT4.
Hello I am Portuguese since I was 6 years old I live the rally of Portugal. There is already a myth: on the day of passage it is holy day, therefore St. rally's day. It is a day of pilgrimage to the place where we choose to see the rally, it is a day of union between friends, we have to live the rally that is inside our hearts. the best wrc in the world is in Portugal, it's not me saying it, it's the riders themselves who pass through here.