WRC - World Rally Championship. Race is not between countries, but drivers and teams, like on F1. Finnish race winner were Estonian driver Tänak, two Toyota cars were Finnish drivers. One of those Toyotas were Kalle Rovanperä, 2022 and 2023 champion. Races are held mostly (except some stadium superstages) on public roads, that are closed for special stages during race. Current Rally1 cars are "silhouette cars", that have tubular space frame and composite panels aroud to make car look like a street one. There is not much parts from street going versions versus WRC ones, some said that only windshield wiper motor is from production car... Each car have driver and co-driver, later has a job to read notes from the notes to tell where road turns and how fast driver can go thru that curve. When co-driver misses note, or says it incorrectly - it ends often to out of the road and causes interesting comments inside the car... :D And as said; if you got nervous watching WRC, then look group B monsters from 80's. Kind of no-limit monsters with 800kg minimum weight limit and everything else were "anything goes"...
IDK... I was driving some Rallies and think it's russian roulette to stand there... of course the drivers can handle it, but what's the biggest fear of mmost racedrivers? Right! That something breaks. And that's a very good point for this to happen. I bet you wont survive 100 beaten up Rallye cars going bye this place in race pace.
@@anttikinnunen7904 right, also 2 compressions where even a wheel or any outside part can say good bye at any time or a stone can hit you... First try at home how it feels to get a sharp carbon flap in your face with 200, followed by some stones, lol. If you can still go outside you're fine to stand there with some luck^^
Kalle on kaksinkertainen maailmanmestari. Ja saas nähdä, tuleeko ensi kaudella kolmas? Tällä kaudella ainoastaan se, että Kalle ei aja täyttä kautta estää kolmannen peräkkäisen mestaruuden saamisen.
Also the Finnish "leg" of the championship is world famous for having lots of big jumps as you can see in the video... You would definately feel the bumps even if you had their suspension, they are not set up for comfort like a Rolls Royce or something like that....
Finnish 'leg'is also wellknown for being the fastest leg of the season, as cars run nearly 100 mph all the time, most races give only speeds like 70mph to 80mph average. RAC rally used to be the main event of the season in Britain for decades.
@@Gibbetoo FWIW rally car suspensions, especially for bumpy tracks, are often not that hard (depends on the car and the tuner obviously). Quite often on soft surface rallies the suspension frequencies are below 2 Hz, which is softer than a lot of sportscars sold for general road use today. The long suspension travel is also indicative of this, if the springs were super stiff the travel would be shorter. The damping can also be softer than you'd expect, because there's not much benefit in overdamping a car for racing, while many road cars do it to "feel sporty" (fun fact: many sports cars with electronic damper adjustments are faster in comfort mode than they are in sport mode due to the more compliant suspension). Softer suspensions tend to provide more mechanical grip, and you really don't want to go too hard if you can avoid it. GT4 cars tend to live in the 2-3 Hz range, GT3s in the 3-4 Hz range, prototypes in the 4+ Hz range and highest end open wheelers like F1 cars can be in the 5+ Hz range. The reasons why the higher and higher end cars go stiffer and stiffer is because of increased downforce and general grip level. More downforce requires more support from the suspension to not just bottom out all the time. F1 cars especially massively sacrifice potential mechanical grip for the sake of maximizing their performance at downforce generating speeds. Where rally cars absolutely do become unequivocally "harsh" feeling even if they're otherwise surprisingly soft, is in the way the suspension arms etc. are mounted. Most road cars that people have experienced use rubber or polyurethane bushings, which massively damp the vibrations and shocks coming from the suspension into the chassis of the car, but racing cars tend to use metal on metal rose joints or at least super hard bushings to keep the suspension geometries steady. THAT can and does make a race prepped car feel super hard vs. a road car that's otherwise sprung and damped similarly. Another way a rally (or other racing car) can feel stiffer than the springs and dampers would make it seem, is if they're designed to ride on the bumpstops a lot of the time to minimize ground clearance, but allow for lots of extension to cushion jump landings. There are many ways to skin a cat and I don't wanna say anything too definitive, but generally you want softer suspensions for loose conditions to both increase mechanical grip and to deal with bumps better.
You should also watch: "Rallying In Finland, Fast Rally Fans Part 1" its awesome what kind of community and fans this sport has. Not only they enjoy the races but they help pull and push the cars when they get stuck or crash so they can get back to the race.
Finland: Home of the Surface-to-Air Racing. WRC Finland has a long-lasting reputation of being more technical race that forces drivers to drive on very fast narrow(er), twisty and as you can see jumpy - very often almost completely "blind" (can't see what's coming up next) - gravel roads. Depending on weather, that gravel can be 'really' slippery and if you lose control for a second you'll quickly find out what's down in that sharp ditch on the side of the road AND if your car can be used as Forestry Machine or Xmas Tree Ornament! :)
Hmm, I thought Finland's reputation was primarily being the fastest average speed rally, rather than the most technical (which usually IMO implies more twisty). =)
@@jubuttib "Most" might be a bit too superlative compared to certain other rally (there is and have been faster and trickier locations, for sure) locations but it's the combination of gravel, speed and skill demand to achieve good run that (still!) makes it stand out as a whole.
@@Makapaa Probably, and driving fast is technical (and also requires balls of steel). I guess I just associate "technical" driving to stuff like autotest etc., i.e. slow speed high twisty driving. FWIW the fastest ever average speed in a rally is Kris Meeke from 2016 Rally Finland, and in the top 30 fastest average speed rallies Finland appears 23 times (1-6 are all Finland) if you include Arctic Rally Finland in 2021, followed by Sweden 3 times (7,8 and 23), Kenya twice (15 and 27), and Argentina and Poland once (22 and 25). So yeah, definitely has a claim to being the fastest rally in the business. Just looking at the top 30, all but 5 Finnish rallies since 1999 have been in the top 30 fastest ever, hehe.
Currently spectators are at least 5-10m away from cars (on some points they get closer, but not often), back in B-days it was more like a 5-10cm... And mechanics often found bits of fingers from wings or other aero parts because that... :D
It's not technically different countries versus eachother, it's an indivdual championship between the drivers/co-drivers and also a constructors championship between the teams that build and maintain the cars, the entire "circus" travels around the world and races in several different countries just like Formula 1 does WRC stands for World Rally Championship and Finland has the second most championship titles after France who have taken over in recent years by Sebastien Loeb and Sebastian Ogier absolutely dominating, before that Finland was #1
I live in Finland, everyone drives like 80 year old granny over here in Helsinki. At least 20kph under the speed limit and dond get me started about merging. This is the stupidest thing I have ever seen
5:20 This clip is from Finland. See the "Laukaa" text in the ad above the track. Finland has always been the rally with biggest jumps and some drivers hate it because the risks are pretty high when your wheels no longer touch the ground.
Finland is as considered the spiritual home of rallying and winning Rally Finland is like winning Monaco GP in F1. You may win the title of world champion, but if you haven't won in Finland.. well, shoot.. you're not a real champion then. It takes experience and big balls. Just the fact that you have to land each jump perfectly to be ready for the next jump, so you can land that perfectly to be ready for the next jump.. and so on, while going 200kph. And there's a whole lot of jumps. And if you make a mistake, you may end up hugging a pine tree. It's madness, complete madness.. only the best of the best can have a chance of success here.
If you had rally car suspension on your car, you would feel the bumps even more than with normal suspension. Rally cars have relatively hard suspension.If they had soft suspension, the car would slam into the road and break after a big jump.
The suspension and shock absorption on these beasts has gone a long way from when they had more power but very sketchy handling. It takes some guts to hurl a 1 ton machine at 150kmh thru forest roads. I've seen these up close first time in 1991 and last in 2023, all in the 1000 Lakes Rally. Check out Marcus Grönholm for intense racing and some quintessential Rally English: "Marcus Grönholm: Up in the ass of Timo (Uncensored HD Re-up)".
Rally finland is 3 fulla days of flat out driving aroud of fast and blind cornes and jumps 😅 it really takes some balls to drive competitive speed in there. And before they had onboard videos where to learn roads it was really hard to drivers from outside of finland to vin here becouse so unic roads. Thats why there is not so many vinners from outside of finland 😅
Yeah, 2024 spec F1 cars are larger than ever before; F1 cars are about 5.5 meters long and 2 meters wide. To put that into perspective, a typical family car is about 4.6 meters long and 1.8 meters wide. For comparsion, Yaris WRC is just 4m long... and 1.8m wide.
Videolita gets some pictures, but you have to see them live to realize how good those best drivers are, it's something mind-blowing and as a Finnish rally fan, the fastest gravel rally and the most jumps, so welcome to watch. Well, the big jumps were when we got to the finish line, usually you shouldn't do crazy jumps with quick jumps because you lose time. Rally Finland 2024 starts on Wednesday, July 31, Welcome tho watsch.
I think the most insane part is that if you are 1 second slower per kilometer, that's so bad that you don't belong in WRC at all. When you look how unstable those cars look during the corners, it's a small wonder that they can drive nearly equally fast.
I hear and share your fear of getting hit by one of those things! Just listen to it! I know my neighbours to the east love rally, and plenty of swedes do aswell. -rather watch that s on the screen 😂❤
WRC (World Rally Championship). Just as F1 or any other worldwide racing series, some manufacturers and crews, doesn't matter wich country they are from for the rounds to take place in a certain country, but sometimes it does. The WRC has arguibly returned to race in Japan as Toyota's big involvement and success in the sport (think they even have a stage set around the "Toyota city"). And of course WRC is just the top level guys in its several categories, but many countries have their own national championship and some even regional ones beside the nationalwide one, outside the WRC but compliant with FIA standards.
You seem to be amazed how fast these WRC cars go. Acceleration is good enough, 10 years old WRC car go 0-100km/h (0-60mph) under 4 seconds and modern cars are faster. For safety reasons top speed is limited to 200km/h (124mph), all these top cars could easily go faster. FIA has banned some special stages through years when they noticed average speed were too high. Special stage Ouninpohja is one example, FIA pulled out that route after top cars got average speed over 160km/h (~100mph) and remember, that's with all the turns and breaking to corners. You can still find interviews around internet where now retired WRC drivers talk about their career in WRC class. Some drives still remember how they feared Rally Finland event. If you didn't go full throttle on gravel road, there was always some lunatics who would and those always win the race. Ouninpohja was the stage where you remained more airborne than on four wheels, it was literally jump after jump to corner and jump again.
gravel rally, flying through the woods, dangerous as hell, and still the highest average speed of just shy of 80mph. swedish people have a saying about us finns: "they are born with either a rally steering wheel in their hands or ice hockey skates on"
3:45 I trust the drivers to handle the car but I don't trust the cars. Nearly every stage, some car will pop a tire and it's not too uncommon to snap a suspension arm. When the car is going full speed and a suspension arm snaps, it's no longer about skill of the driver and the fans must be outside the line.
You could actually do reaction of Kalle driving and Mika Häkkinen 2 times formula 1 wc and david couldhard....reaction how fast rally drivers really are. it's quite funny
Swedish stage is a bit more interesting since they drive in snow and on icelakes. You should watch the more southern european countries if you want to see crazy fans, they pretty much stand on the track as the cars pass by.
A popular entry level motorsport class: "Racing a 1500€ Car At Epic Jokkis Race In Finland ". Top Gear entry: "Finland Race | Mika Häkkinen Teaches Captain Slow to Drive | Top Gear".
You have to go and see rallyyourself, RAC is still driven in UK, so not so far? BUT You really have to react to, Isle of Man TT race, yeah motorbikes, fast on public roads on that island, oldest motorbike racing, over 100 years, since 1907. Its worth to go watching live, to see bikes going past you, as fast like 320 km/ hour, depending where you are watching. This year, Isle of Man TT is happening From 1 to 8 of June. You need to find accomondation now , when its possible to find any. You have to watch and react to , Fastest ever lap of the Isle of Man TT/ Peter Hickman, omboard cam. Its grazy, in good way?
I m not sure but I don't think there has been any rally sport in the USA.... oh I know why cos they don't like driving stick shift as they call it... they are missing out on proper driving...
You should say Swedish, Danish, Finnish day not Sweden, Denmar, Finland day. Does not sound right to us. Rally was my father's delight and I grew up in the forest with fast cars passing by in high speeds. The best thing was to stand in a curve with a stone wall and you knew they were going to crush into it.
F1 is totally boring compared to this. ❤❤❤ And im pretty sure you can not afford that suspension 😜😎 cos its minimum 70-100k in dollars for all corners.
If you had the suspension of thode cars, you would definitely feel every smallest bump there is very clearly. Quite the exact opposite of what you said.
WRC - World Rally Championship. Race is not between countries, but drivers and teams, like on F1. Finnish race winner were Estonian driver Tänak, two Toyota cars were Finnish drivers. One of those Toyotas were Kalle Rovanperä, 2022 and 2023 champion. Races are held mostly (except some stadium superstages) on public roads, that are closed for special stages during race. Current Rally1 cars are "silhouette cars", that have tubular space frame and composite panels aroud to make car look like a street one. There is not much parts from street going versions versus WRC ones, some said that only windshield wiper motor is from production car...
Each car have driver and co-driver, later has a job to read notes from the notes to tell where road turns and how fast driver can go thru that curve. When co-driver misses note, or says it incorrectly - it ends often to out of the road and causes interesting comments inside the car... :D
And as said; if you got nervous watching WRC, then look group B monsters from 80's. Kind of no-limit monsters with 800kg minimum weight limit and everything else were "anything goes"...
Finnish rally fans know with 100% certainty where to stand. In some countries, fans are still on the wrong side of the curves
Very true! Finns does it right, as do us swedes!
IDK... I was driving some Rallies and think it's russian roulette to stand there... of course the drivers can handle it, but what's the biggest fear of mmost racedrivers? Right! That something breaks. And that's a very good point for this to happen. I bet you wont survive 100 beaten up Rallye cars going bye this place in race pace.
The place he's criticizing isn't really safe. There's jumps and braking zone just before it.
@@anttikinnunen7904 right, also 2 compressions where even a wheel or any outside part can say good bye at any time or a stone can hit you... First try at home how it feels to get a sharp carbon flap in your face with 200, followed by some stones, lol. If you can still go outside you're fine to stand there with some luck^^
So basically, if you hear people speaking Finnish, that's where you stand?
Kalle Rovanperä is the world champion 🇫🇮 The Finnish World Rally Championship is July 31 - August 4.
Kalle on kaksinkertainen maailmanmestari. Ja saas nähdä, tuleeko ensi kaudella kolmas? Tällä kaudella ainoastaan se, että Kalle ei aja täyttä kautta estää kolmannen peräkkäisen mestaruuden saamisen.
Also the Finnish "leg" of the championship is world famous for having lots of big jumps as you can see in the video...
You would definately feel the bumps even if you had their suspension, they are not set up for comfort like a Rolls Royce or something like that....
you will feel every crack in the road, suspension is so stiff.
Finnish 'leg'is also wellknown for being the fastest leg of the season, as cars run nearly 100 mph all the time, most races give only speeds like 70mph to 80mph average. RAC rally used to be the main event of the season in Britain for decades.
@@Gibbetoo FWIW rally car suspensions, especially for bumpy tracks, are often not that hard (depends on the car and the tuner obviously). Quite often on soft surface rallies the suspension frequencies are below 2 Hz, which is softer than a lot of sportscars sold for general road use today. The long suspension travel is also indicative of this, if the springs were super stiff the travel would be shorter. The damping can also be softer than you'd expect, because there's not much benefit in overdamping a car for racing, while many road cars do it to "feel sporty" (fun fact: many sports cars with electronic damper adjustments are faster in comfort mode than they are in sport mode due to the more compliant suspension). Softer suspensions tend to provide more mechanical grip, and you really don't want to go too hard if you can avoid it.
GT4 cars tend to live in the 2-3 Hz range, GT3s in the 3-4 Hz range, prototypes in the 4+ Hz range and highest end open wheelers like F1 cars can be in the 5+ Hz range. The reasons why the higher and higher end cars go stiffer and stiffer is because of increased downforce and general grip level. More downforce requires more support from the suspension to not just bottom out all the time. F1 cars especially massively sacrifice potential mechanical grip for the sake of maximizing their performance at downforce generating speeds.
Where rally cars absolutely do become unequivocally "harsh" feeling even if they're otherwise surprisingly soft, is in the way the suspension arms etc. are mounted. Most road cars that people have experienced use rubber or polyurethane bushings, which massively damp the vibrations and shocks coming from the suspension into the chassis of the car, but racing cars tend to use metal on metal rose joints or at least super hard bushings to keep the suspension geometries steady. THAT can and does make a race prepped car feel super hard vs. a road car that's otherwise sprung and damped similarly.
Another way a rally (or other racing car) can feel stiffer than the springs and dampers would make it seem, is if they're designed to ride on the bumpstops a lot of the time to minimize ground clearance, but allow for lots of extension to cushion jump landings.
There are many ways to skin a cat and I don't wanna say anything too definitive, but generally you want softer suspensions for loose conditions to both increase mechanical grip and to deal with bumps better.
You should also watch: "Rallying In Finland, Fast Rally Fans Part 1" its awesome what kind of community and fans this sport has. Not only they enjoy the races but they help pull and push the cars when they get stuck or crash so they can get back to the race.
Finland: Home of the Surface-to-Air Racing.
WRC Finland has a long-lasting reputation of being more technical race that forces drivers to drive on very fast narrow(er), twisty and as you can see jumpy - very often almost completely "blind" (can't see what's coming up next) - gravel roads. Depending on weather, that gravel can be 'really' slippery and if you lose control for a second you'll quickly find out what's down in that sharp ditch on the side of the road AND if your car can be used as Forestry Machine or Xmas Tree Ornament! :)
Hmm, I thought Finland's reputation was primarily being the fastest average speed rally, rather than the most technical (which usually IMO implies more twisty). =)
@@jubuttib "Most" might be a bit too superlative compared to certain other rally (there is and have been faster and trickier locations, for sure) locations but it's the combination of gravel, speed and skill demand to achieve good run that (still!) makes it stand out as a whole.
@@Makapaa Probably, and driving fast is technical (and also requires balls of steel). I guess I just associate "technical" driving to stuff like autotest etc., i.e. slow speed high twisty driving.
FWIW the fastest ever average speed in a rally is Kris Meeke from 2016 Rally Finland, and in the top 30 fastest average speed rallies Finland appears 23 times (1-6 are all Finland) if you include Arctic Rally Finland in 2021, followed by Sweden 3 times (7,8 and 23), Kenya twice (15 and 27), and Argentina and Poland once (22 and 25).
So yeah, definitely has a claim to being the fastest rally in the business. Just looking at the top 30, all but 5 Finnish rallies since 1999 have been in the top 30 fastest ever, hehe.
Yeah, you need to watch some group B rally from the 80's to see how close people used to stand. 😆
Currently spectators are at least 5-10m away from cars (on some points they get closer, but not often), back in B-days it was more like a 5-10cm... And mechanics often found bits of fingers from wings or other aero parts because that... :D
Ott Tänäk (Estonia), and Thierry Neuville(Belgium)drove Hyundai. They formed a team.
It's not technically different countries versus eachother, it's an indivdual championship between the drivers/co-drivers and also a constructors championship between the teams that build and maintain the cars, the entire "circus" travels around the world and races in several different countries just like Formula 1 does
WRC stands for World Rally Championship and Finland has the second most championship titles after France who have taken over in recent years by Sebastien Loeb and Sebastian Ogier absolutely dominating, before that Finland was #1
You should watch a video from inside the car. The speed of which the navigator speaks and the driver's reactions, it's very impressive!
There are some really high quality in-car videos on Kalle Rovanperä's TH-cam channel. Kalle Rovanperä is the current WRC champion.
Scandinavians are known in the rally community for our speed WE LOVE CARS
Finland is not Scandinavian...
Change Scandinavians to Nordics and will still be true :D
@@meantimppa320 i mix them up to much
we got the sport from Finland, you can see the Viking spirit in the supporters.
There's no stopping them
This is just mildly faster than when Finnish people go to their cottages 😂
And about the same speed as when those people realise that they forgot to buy alcohol and it's 8.50 PM already 😆
@@Garbox80 😂
I live in Finland, everyone drives like 80 year old granny over here in Helsinki. At least 20kph under the speed limit and dond get me started about merging. This is the stupidest thing I have ever seen
5:20 This clip is from Finland. See the "Laukaa" text in the ad above the track. Finland has always been the rally with biggest jumps and some drivers hate it because the risks are pretty high when your wheels no longer touch the ground.
Finland is as considered the spiritual home of rallying and winning Rally Finland is like winning Monaco GP in F1. You may win the title of world champion, but if you haven't won in Finland.. well, shoot.. you're not a real champion then.
It takes experience and big balls. Just the fact that you have to land each jump perfectly to be ready for the next jump, so you can land that perfectly to be ready for the next jump.. and so on, while going 200kph. And there's a whole lot of jumps. And if you make a mistake, you may end up hugging a pine tree. It's madness, complete madness.. only the best of the best can have a chance of success here.
Usually flags are positioned as the podium... so that was Tänak from Estonia who won the race!
Current world champion 22, started driving rally cars at the age of 8
Kalle Rovanpera. Finland
You should watch some onboard cams too :)
An example. Toyota Yaris in this video clip has only a 4 cylinder 1000 cc engine with turbo. 380 hp. 6 speed gearbox and weighs 1190 kg (2620 lbs)
Ott Tänak (Estonia) was winner, Kalle Rovanperä was second (currently reigning World Champion, Finland) and third was Esapekka Lappi (Finland).
Best drivers in the world
Dwayne, Efyn Evans is from Wales. He is one of the best drivers in Great Britain, and he is drive in WRC. He team is at Toyota
My hometown is Jyväskylä, the capital of rally. Been there watching since a child. You dont belive the Speed untill you se it alive.
It's safe to be in curve instead of out, It's quite unusual at drivers take curve straight instead they're pushing it wide into outern banks
Lando Norris reacted to rally and said: "they are absolutely insane"
If you had rally car suspension on your car, you would feel the bumps even more than with normal suspension. Rally cars have relatively hard suspension.If they had soft suspension, the car would slam into the road and break after a big jump.
they do this every june right near our summer cottage :) (well not wrc but like, smaller races)
10:00 check the flags. Estonia in the middle 1st place and Finland 2nd and 3rd
Rally Finland - the fastest rally race in the world!
The suspension and shock absorption on these beasts has gone a long way from when they had more power but very sketchy handling. It takes some guts to hurl a 1 ton machine at 150kmh thru forest roads. I've seen these up close first time in 1991 and last in 2023, all in the 1000 Lakes Rally.
Check out Marcus Grönholm for intense racing and some quintessential Rally English: "Marcus Grönholm: Up in the ass of Timo (Uncensored HD Re-up)".
@10:14 you can see three flags. Finn, Est and Finn. It means Estonia won and Finland took the second and the third place.
Rally finland is 3 fulla days of flat out driving aroud of fast and blind cornes and jumps 😅 it really takes some balls to drive competitive speed in there. And before they had onboard videos where to learn roads it was really hard to drivers from outside of finland to vin here becouse so unic roads. Thats why there is not so many vinners from outside of finland 😅
Finnish rally is fastest of all wrc rallies, including the asphalt ones. Also known as " gravel grand prix."
Ott Tänak from Estonia won. Our Finnish Kalle Rovanperä was second. ( Please check Kalle, he is the youngest winner for all time. )
Dude f1 cars are not small. They are about a meter or over 3 feet longer than a land rover.
Wayyyyyyy wider too.
Yeah, 2024 spec F1 cars are larger than ever before;
F1 cars are about 5.5 meters long and 2 meters wide. To put that into perspective, a typical family car is about 4.6 meters long and 1.8 meters wide.
For comparsion, Yaris WRC is just 4m long... and 1.8m wide.
Videolita gets some pictures, but you have to see them live to realize how good those best drivers are, it's something mind-blowing and as a Finnish rally fan, the fastest gravel rally and the most jumps, so welcome to watch. Well, the big jumps were when we got to the finish line, usually you shouldn't do crazy jumps with quick jumps because you lose time.
Rally Finland 2024 starts on Wednesday, July 31, Welcome tho watsch.
Rally cars often use Öhlins suspension. Swedish brand.
Watch 8yo Kalle Rovanperä driving, or some rally footage from inside the cockpit. It's pretty mad.
I think the most insane part is that if you are 1 second slower per kilometer, that's so bad that you don't belong in WRC at all. When you look how unstable those cars look during the corners, it's a small wonder that they can drive nearly equally fast.
I hear and share your fear of getting hit by one of those things! Just listen to it! I know my neighbours to the east love rally, and plenty of swedes do aswell.
-rather watch that s on the screen 😂❤
Can you pls react to rally crashes?
WRC (World Rally Championship). Just as F1 or any other worldwide racing series, some manufacturers and crews, doesn't matter wich country they are from for the rounds to take place in a certain country, but sometimes it does. The WRC has arguibly returned to race in Japan as Toyota's big involvement and success in the sport (think they even have a stage set around the "Toyota city").
And of course WRC is just the top level guys in its several categories, but many countries have their own national championship and some even regional ones beside the nationalwide one, outside the WRC but compliant with FIA standards.
Rally sport is a tour around the world to countries which have signed up to host it... .just like formula one .. most races are in Europe...
My sister's son-in-law, sold his own rally car a while ago, he was building a new one.
You seem to be amazed how fast these WRC cars go. Acceleration is good enough, 10 years old WRC car go 0-100km/h (0-60mph) under 4 seconds and modern cars are faster.
For safety reasons top speed is limited to 200km/h (124mph), all these top cars could easily go faster. FIA has banned some special stages through years when they noticed average speed were too high. Special stage Ouninpohja is one example, FIA pulled out that route after top cars got average speed over 160km/h (~100mph) and remember, that's with all the turns and breaking to corners.
You can still find interviews around internet where now retired WRC drivers talk about their career in WRC class. Some drives still remember how they feared Rally Finland event. If you didn't go full throttle on gravel road, there was always some lunatics who would and those always win the race. Ouninpohja was the stage where you remained more airborne than on four wheels, it was literally jump after jump to corner and jump again.
Oh, flying is easy part .. the trick is to survive the landing ..
(car, plane, parachute .. choose)
What do you think WRC stands for? World Rally Championship!
Just you wait until you see those insane rally car crashes. Those are brutal
No sweat, Dwayne, people very seldom dies at these races... and if you come here in Winter, we'll take you to Ice racing instead!
gravel rally, flying through the woods, dangerous as hell, and still the highest average speed of just shy of 80mph. swedish people have a saying about us finns: "they are born with either a rally steering wheel in their hands or ice hockey skates on"
you should watch the old clips of an rally B group
These jumps aren’t as high as they could be. They have plenty of aero pushing the car down at these speeds.
WRC 1 car is a cool million.
WRC winterrally Sweden next 2024🇸🇪🇫🇮
thats why thers a saying in rally... if you want to win. employ a fin ;)
Estonian Ott Tänak was winner, second and third was some from Finland.
1. Ott Tänak (driver)/Martin Järveoja (co-driver)
2. Kalle Rovanperä/ Jonne Halttunen
3. Esa-Pekka Lappi/ Janne Ferm
You can watch rally in a big part of the world.
Onboard cams!
If you think this is mad you need to watch them drive at night in the snow!
Finland mentioned and Finns flood the channel. Easiest way to get subscribers
WRCars = All-Wheel-Drive
3:45 I trust the drivers to handle the car but I don't trust the cars. Nearly every stage, some car will pop a tire and it's not too uncommon to snap a suspension arm. When the car is going full speed and a suspension arm snaps, it's no longer about skill of the driver and the fans must be outside the line.
You could actually do reaction of Kalle driving and Mika Häkkinen 2 times formula 1 wc and david couldhard....reaction how fast rally drivers really are. it's quite funny
Wait a minute isn’t this song from onepiece when choppa joined to luffy’s grew😂😂
you should watch rally group B
I’m finnish
They are racing man to man to win the title of world vhampion and also which manufacturer id best, so far Toyota is leading.
Swedish stage is a bit more interesting since they drive in snow and on icelakes.
You should watch the more southern european countries if you want to see crazy fans, they pretty much stand on the track as the cars pass by.
No icelakes in swedish rally, I'm from Umeå and know all the roads they drive on.
I think they call it a 200 000 dollar suspension.....
go watch 2024 croatia wrc now live tomorrow we got many stages
Not just watch we drive like that
World Rally Championship WRC
3:30 they do that flick on purpose
"Finns warch this?" AMIS ASK THAT?
You need to watch some onboards
ah i know the place where is it :)
4:00 look up some Group B rally,.... then you know what crazy and death-wish really means brother
People stand on the inside of the curve. The safe side...
A popular entry level motorsport class: "Racing a 1500€ Car At Epic Jokkis Race In Finland ". Top Gear entry: "Finland Race | Mika Häkkinen Teaches Captain Slow to Drive | Top Gear".
There is a rule. Never stand on the outside corner. :D
You have to go and see rallyyourself, RAC is still driven in UK, so not so far?
BUT You really have to react to, Isle of Man TT race, yeah motorbikes, fast on public roads on that island, oldest motorbike racing, over 100 years, since 1907. Its worth to go watching live, to see bikes going past you, as fast like 320 km/ hour, depending where you are watching.
This year, Isle of Man TT is happening From 1 to 8 of June. You need to find accomondation now , when its possible to find any.
You have to watch and react to , Fastest ever lap of the Isle of Man TT/ Peter Hickman, omboard cam. Its grazy, in good way?
You can have that suspension min 40 000€ max ???????€😂
Better to stand INSIDE the bend , than OUtside .................
I m not sure but I don't think there has been any rally sport in the USA.... oh I know why cos they don't like driving stick shift as they call it... they are missing out on proper driving...
F1 is not that grazy😉, love rally, must go every year to jyvaskyla for that 👍☺
Cars are built and re-built for evey big rally .......................
hiiiii
Unfortunately the Irish guy died with freak accident. He was good one but not the fastest. Requiescat in pace Craig.
Estonia won that race
You can buy that suspension for your vw polo and it will only cost about 200k/usd. WRC is just dudes competing same as F1
You should say Swedish, Danish, Finnish day not Sweden, Denmar, Finland day. Does not sound right to us. Rally was my father's delight and I grew up in the forest with fast cars passing by in high speeds. The best thing was to stand in a curve with a stone wall and you knew they were going to crush into it.
Finns just don't watch they drive like that too
Yuo probebly dont have the money to bay the serspensen 😂😂
F1 is totally boring compared to this. ❤❤❤ And im pretty sure you can not afford that suspension 😜😎 cos its minimum 70-100k in dollars for all corners.
Americans ask this? 😮
Stop pausing it for each jump they make, dear God.
nascar is no sport!
Yiu ain't see nothing yet
If you had the suspension of thode cars, you would definitely feel every smallest bump there is very clearly. Quite the exact opposite of what you said.
can you just shut up and enjoy the video?