The guy with the notebook is the "codriver" and plays the job of being the driver's navigator through the event; he feeds the driver the pace notes they've taken previously to running the stages on race. As for safety, don't worry, these cars are unbelievably durable and safe, you wouldn't believe how well they handle and take the hit, also the crews wear the HANS device (Head And Neck Safety) that protects you from wiplash, so they are safe on that regard too. However it's a motorsport discipline, maybe the most dangerous on the 4 wheel side, so though it's gotten crazy safer it still has its hazards and risks. Update: Better late than never. A few months ago the sport showed its ugliest face with the passing of Craig Breen during the Rally Croatia testing and 2 Spanish rally drivers and 1 of the codrivers in different races, what can only be remembered as a dark moment for rally racing in particular and motorsports in general. These events are utterly heartbreaking, but luckily stand as oddities, incredibly unlikely to happen. Thanks to the care paid to mandatory safety components in rally cars, hardly anything can pose a true threat to the crew's lifes, only being left vulnerable in the worst of scenarios, such us something making it through the car or the absolute hardest and nastiest of crashes. Such case was that of Craig Breen, in wich a pole or element alike pierced his side window and into his body, killing him instantly. Other even more unbelieveable death was that of a female Spanish rally driver last year, twisting the roll-cage by crashing into a tree at flat out speed, what caused the harnesses to thighten with force enough to suffocate her to death. Though not rally related, recently we've mourn the death of 18 year old Dilano Van't Hoff, racing the FRECA series at Spa, in an eeriely similar accident as that of Antoine Hubert in F2 just a few years ago. Motorsport has come a long, long way in safety measures and equipment on and off the car, and on and off the tracks the racing is done. However, racing will always be dangerous, and freek events will continue taking the lives of passionate people thag love their sport, to death. Luckily, with each passing year we see this happening less and less often, a trend I hope to be continued on. 2023 will forever be remembered as a dark year in the history of motorsport, and arguibly the second worst for rally racing. Be safe.
If anyone wants a reference about Rally 1 car safety, look up 2021 or 22(don't remember which year) Ott Tänak Monte Carlo crash. Make sure you see cockpit view also. Edit: Monte Carlo 2020*
He asked that because most race cars aren't street legal in the US. They don't meet various regulations. Even a lot of hobbyists weekend track cars aren't street legal, depending on what modifications have been done.
4:23 - yes, WRC cars are road legal. WRC regulations require that all participating vehicles are road legal and registered for use on public roads; simply because usually the cars drive themselves from one stage to the other, on - you guess it - public roads.
Are you sure? I’m 95% sure that they arent street legal. Yes they can drive from stage to stage if its a short distance but I think all of them have racing licenses.
they aren't but the rules has that they have to come from civilian street legal cars. They have so much mod that they are not street legal anymore except some models.
@@vincentparrilla5408 rally cars are street legal, they have to drive between stages on public roads and it doesn te matter de distance (i work on a rally team)
@@vincentparrilla5408 They're all road legal. All rally cars have to go on public roads on their own power to go from one stage to another. They also have to abide the law much like ordinary cars.
Absolutely agree their skills are amazing, I saw Rally NZ last year pouring with rain still fast i hadn't seen a live event in 10 years it was beyond any motorsport id ever seen !
Welcome to Finland to watch the world's fastest gravel rally with plenty of jumps. The guy next to him is reading sheet music so that the driver has time to react, so there are no memorized bits. Hyndai, Ford and Toyota.
The guy "taking notes" is reading notes he previously took in order to inform the driver the next moves he has to make and how to do it, for example he says in 200 meters, right turn, not too difficult, you can cut it in fourth gear, or say in 150 meters, close left corner, do not cut it, be aware of rock in the inside, second gear, inmediatly after that, easy straight full attack for 400 meters. He is the navigator and he is a really important part of the team, he is the eyes of the driver. Sometimes the driver could not see whats coming for example in a climb, and if the navigator says, it goes straight,. go full attack, he reach that blind spot at may be 130 mph in a dirt road.
You are right, with the addition that he uses a lot more coded language. There's no time to elaborate, so he can say things like "Forty, left five minus over crest opens over 40, tightens four plus, into triple caution right four over big jump off camber." And the driver understands what that means, hopefully. And the actual notes in his notebook is very literally codes. The notes I just referred would be "40 L5-/Cr 4+ -> !!!R4/BgJmp oc" in his notebook.
You completely right, except that the co-driver never tells the driver what gear they should be in. The numbers are either how tight it is, or how fast it is, but not what gear. (for example, it might be a very flowing corner, so it is called as a 6 right. But if there is a junction just after it, the driver might chose to be in 4 gear; where as if it was followed by a left 5 they would be in 5 or 6 gear)
@@Sussex192 The teams familiarize themselves with the routes before the rallies, and at that stage they make notes about the route. And the driver is the one who tells you what to put in the notes. So the co-driver does not decide by himself what kind of bend, for example, is to be marked, but rather the driver. Of course, the co-driver of a pair of drivers who have worked together for years will pretty much be able to mark certain kinds of bends, jumps, etc. without the driver even saying them, but even then it's not better to go solo So yes, those drivers often understand very well what the co-driver next to them says about the upcoming bends, jumps, etc.
Exoskeleton? Not so much: since it is installed inside the vehicle, "endoskeleton" would be more accurate. Nevertheless, the construction we are talking about is actually called a roll cage - and after having seen a car crash and continuing racing afterwards, I think the name is pretty much selfexplainatory. ;)
The person in the passenger seat is a co-driver, a couple of days before the rally takes place the driver and co-driver will do what is called a recce, during this they have that notebook you see which has the basic Corning (example 5L meaning 5 left, 5 being the severity of the corner normally it ranges from 1-6 with 1 being very tight and slow and 6 being just a slight bend which you can take full speed), the co driver also takes notes as he goes along on the stage as the stage is often run twice during a day, the speeds are immense often pushing 160mph on flat straights. The cars are fully road legal to get them between stages and into the service areas, accidents do happen and after the roll over you see on the video it's the same car in following scenes where you can see there's no windscreen and damage to the vehicle. Also most of the modern rally cars have quick shift sequential gearbox's with most having a gear box where you just shift up and down to change gears, there is also a large handbrake to the side that helps aid in cornering sharp corners. On the Finnish rally there's a jump called Colin's crest where the furthest distance jumped wins an award, it's named after the legendary rally driver Colin McRae and I would highly recommend you watch some of the footage from his career.
what makes rallying so unique is that they are racing the clock, fastest winning but each stage will have different driving conditions, from mud, gravel, tarmac, dust, rocks, water crossings. most rallies have super stages where they do a lap so that fans can watch them racing. Rally NZ this acrtually designed a stage so that fans could see the whole track.
In most racing circumstances, racing the clock and not other racers would be boring to watch. But these racers are riding the edge of catastrophe every second! I mean, that really is just the sport - how far can we push before we crash. And yes, I know that is racing in general - but the stakes more apparent to the spectators in rally.
Pls, keep these coming! There are so much to see and learn about this amazing Motorsport, which are driven in every Continent in the World. (exc. North America and that wery cold place). Best Regards from Finland!!
01:39 no time look GPS and this co-drivers who say notes ho far is next curve and what direction must turn ,how deep and long it curve is , have jump / hils and down hils ,narrow bridges and "no cut" turns on sude stone wall or deep ditch , tunnel etc.
In different countries all around the world The WRC race on roads from muddy tracks to dusty trails. The race is so fast and complex the Co driver has to have a list of all the corners (Left or Right and what angle) on the track and read them to the Driver. 😀🎈
"They must have some good tyres" - you hit a nail there. I remember an interview years ago where driver was asked that what is the biggest difference between rally car and regular car it's based on. He answered tyres. He explained that "racing tyres don't even really start to work when regular tyres would already have been destroyed". Great reaction, I like these things when people find out something completely new to them.
"i like to be on a passenger seat" . no you won't, Car shaking, jumping all the way, and measuring turning point while reading the pace notes is hell of a ride. 🤣🤣
I was used to work before, as a Sport Marshall at Hungary, at the racering, as F1, or on Rally races. Is just impossible to explain that adrenalin, and the joy what you can feel when the cars are passing you. And many places ar full of peoples, without any cordon or safety thing. I so miss that days... 😏
you never heard of 8 years old rally driver from finland? there is video of him.. thought he is the youngest EVER WRC champion in 2022.. he is from finland and his name is Kalle Rovanperä!!
the co-pilot with the notebook has the role to guide the driver trough the couse, he tells him how will the next turn be, how agressive, what speed is optimal to take it, where are the straightaways, jumps, etc.
the cars have to be street legal for them to drive between the stages of the rally. also the jumps you dont feel them so much because the travel of the suspension and it is fast you dont have the time to think about it when you are jumping.
Dude, i went to the stage Condor Copina-WRC Argentina. Its insane to see in person. Thousands of people camp over night and party to see it. Its an amazing experience.
They are street legal. They drive on normal roads from stage to stage. Where i live, there are 2 rally stages nearby, in the day prior to the event you can see all of the race cars driving on the road heading to the next stage.
To answer your question, they are technically street legal. They have license plates, functional tail lights and head lights, improved safety features, and so on. Traditionally the rally cars are driven between stages (unless is a long distance. If so i think they are taken on a truck).
No you have to drive between stages in a given time the entire parcours . When you are there too late you are punished. There also are legal noicewise. Mostly because when you don't open the throttle full and rev the engine they are quiet. It measured at 3000 rpm.
3:55 Aside from "exoskeleton" meaning external skeleton, so it cannot be inside by definition, Yes, like just about any professional racing series, WRC rally cars have roll cages, and they are among the stronger roll cages in racing.
The skill of the guys driving these cars (and the nuts on the other guy) is something else. No other kind of racing on four wheels comes close to this stuff, at least I don't think so. Sure there's some insane shit happening on race tracks as well, but the surface and the environment in wrc adds so much more excitement and insanity🙂
interstingly one of the developments for safety is they actually moved the seats sideways further into the car so that when they crash they have more space if they impact something.
those cars.. well, depends on country if they would be street legal, but in finland you can have "move-around" license so you can use that in rally also but also you can use that in traffic if you just pay for it lol.. thought, i found it funny i was in between 2 of those WRC cars last summer with my -83 Corolla DX (which has a lot of noice lol) driving between them to gas station and people in side of the road was just laughing and clapping like hell XDD
Thats the co-driver or navigator, the paper is notes on each turn on the course, the driver doesn't know the route so he's reading what's coming up ahead.
The past few years Hyundai and Toyota are dominating, before that it was Citroen, Seat and VW with Ogier, Loeb and Latvala. Long when I was young it was Audi, Lancia, Alfa battle. Probably one of the most insane couple of seasons. The cars have to be from upgraded from street legal series made cars with at least 500 sold. That is why in Europe and Japan you see those small hot hatches with 200 HP engines on sale. Just the Rally variant has some major upgrades done to it.
WRC: world rally championship, they are trying to get the fastest time possible from start to finish, and to achieve that you need to get the best running line at the fastest time, that is why you are constantly shifting between different side of the curve, and often facing the inner side of the curve at mid point (apex)
It's one thing watching but being in the car is something else 💯 I grew up around the rally lifestyle, my dad owned the Scottish forest rally school with my uncle and they used to take me out all the time. My uncle was a subaru man and my dad was into ford escorts, he had the mk1, mk2 and mk3. My personal favourite to be in was the mk2 it was literally fucking insane 😂 I grew up and got more into motorcycles so I'm a biker now but rally still holds a big place in my heart. RIP dad 💙 and no he didn't die in a crash we lost him to leukemia. He rallied for decades 💪 I remember the old cosworths too
for anyone wondering no they dont know the track, they get piece of paper and copilot is the one who says where to go and how muhc corner is, obsticles etc :D basically driver going blind full speed and his eyes is his copilot
Wtf are you talking about? Take a quess who makes the pace notes! Btw. the notes are a lot more than a "piece of paper". There are rallies where every team get same notes, but that is a different story.
Only one thing: No there is no Exoskeleton on a WRC car. Because Exoskeleton means outside Skeleton, and while they have a cage inside the car there is nothing like an outside cage on this cars, except maybe a bullcatcher on special rallys (Safari, Ivory Coast) BTW: The big stick that you see is the handbreak. For shifting these cars have pedals on the sterring wheel.
they have limited regestration, usually so many km on the roads so you can't drive one as a daily driver. (i know one who did with a an evo x and his neighbours all complained his exhaust was waking them up at at 5 am so he had to put his fuill exhaust on then take it off for the rally lol.
If you look close at those WRC cars you'll notice they have official license plates. They have to drive from one stage to another amidst the common traffic. So legally they're allowed to be driven on normal roads; the sold version of them is usually a beast but not as much as the competition version but if you have enough money to pay for an used WRC (and enough money to fix it as after a full Rally they end nearly destroyed) you can drive it on any road legally.
the guy with the piece of paper is the Codriver. he is just reading notes on every single turn, crest, dip, jump and water splash there is on the stage. everything the driver does is done much faster thanks to the codriver.
They are street legal to some extend, as they use normal roads to connect stages going with normal traffic. I've been driving next to them on the German Autobahn. Damaged cars may be even stopped by the police, such that they miss service windows and have to retire.
Man Im sure people have told you what and why by this time but if you think these are nuts you need to watch gr B from the early 80's when I was a teen watching Walter, Michelle and so many more legends. Back then you had to know how to drive no aides just you and a 500hp monster with a sea of us idiots trying to get as close to the cars as we could going 200 plus sideways. These new cars have so much tech basically there foot to the floor until they need to stop steering is all asisted. Much safer still fun to watch but nothing like GrB or even the 90-00. Days of brave drivers fighting with the cars are long gone.
Eyyyyyy. This is WRC it’s the fastest Rallye and if you didn’t know what the peace of paper is. On the paper are information of the track ahead of them so they know where to drive
Ken did a season or part of in Europe, at an interview he said, "Man I have so much to learn" he did manage to sometimes run in 10th to 12th place. RIP Ken!
Hi. If you think that's crazy then watch the 80 guys driving. They were called group B. Now those guys were real men with balls made from titanium and the size of lady liberty.
These are absolutely street legal! They are usually modified from normal factory made models, just beefed up little bit with added safety frame inside. And they are speed capped at 180km/h, so little over 100mph. On top of that the "rally tracks" are normal rural Finnish dirt roads 😃 I drive on one of those roads seen on video to my cabin 😁
@@RoyalMela not fast if you compare to Formula 1 or something but it's insane for those narrow sand roads that are no means flat 😅 Normal speed limit for those are 80km/h and even then on some curves it feels like your car is about to lose traction. (So I often go 60kmh parts of the way). These guys are unbelievable talented, drifting half of the time and literally flying parts of the track 😃
Hyundai's rally program is a huge part of how they've been able to rebrand over the last 5ish years from being a car for dorks to a "cool" manufacturer.
This guys makes all from 180-220 km/h straight, curves all from 190-210 km/h so you wana try it, all i can say is, GL with it, this guy have 10-30 years of experiences doing rally, what you got?
To be able to race there has to be at least 2000 production vehicles made, these are the same vehicles but heavily modified with more power and safety features for obvious reasons and are often driven from stage to stage so must be completely road legal in order to do this
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The guy with the notebook is the "codriver" and plays the job of being the driver's navigator through the event; he feeds the driver the pace notes they've taken previously to running the stages on race.
As for safety, don't worry, these cars are unbelievably durable and safe, you wouldn't believe how well they handle and take the hit, also the crews wear the HANS device (Head And Neck Safety) that protects you from wiplash, so they are safe on that regard too. However it's a motorsport discipline, maybe the most dangerous on the 4 wheel side, so though it's gotten crazy safer it still has its hazards and risks.
Update:
Better late than never. A few months ago the sport showed its ugliest face with the passing of Craig Breen during the Rally Croatia testing and 2 Spanish rally drivers and 1 of the codrivers in different races, what can only be remembered as a dark moment for rally racing in particular and motorsports in general. These events are utterly heartbreaking, but luckily stand as oddities, incredibly unlikely to happen.
Thanks to the care paid to mandatory safety components in rally cars, hardly anything can pose a true threat to the crew's lifes, only being left vulnerable in the worst of scenarios, such us something making it through the car or the absolute hardest and nastiest of crashes. Such case was that of Craig Breen, in wich a pole or element alike pierced his side window and into his body, killing him instantly. Other even more unbelieveable death was that of a female Spanish rally driver last year, twisting the roll-cage by crashing into a tree at flat out speed, what caused the harnesses to thighten with force enough to suffocate her to death.
Though not rally related, recently we've mourn the death of 18 year old Dilano Van't Hoff, racing the FRECA series at Spa, in an eeriely similar accident as that of Antoine Hubert in F2 just a few years ago.
Motorsport has come a long, long way in safety measures and equipment on and off the car, and on and off the tracks the racing is done. However, racing will always be dangerous, and freek events will continue taking the lives of passionate people thag love their sport, to death. Luckily, with each passing year we see this happening less and less often, a trend I hope to be continued on.
2023 will forever be remembered as a dark year in the history of motorsport, and arguibly the second worst for rally racing. Be safe.
Nowdays they are durable and safe. B-group in the 80's however...
@@ilesalmo7724 I know... Specially the 037, flimsy car.
If anyone wants a reference about Rally 1 car safety, look up 2021 or 22(don't remember which year) Ott Tänak Monte Carlo crash. Make sure you see cockpit view also.
Edit: Monte Carlo 2020*
@@andersa.9288 Rally1 isn't even a thing yet before 2022.The car class on that time was called WRC (World Rally Car).
@@abenas40 My mistake, just referred to it as similar structure.
Of course they are "street legal". They are safer than most standard production cars.
The cars have to be street legal to travel between the stages.
He asked that because most race cars aren't street legal in the US. They don't meet various regulations. Even a lot of hobbyists weekend track cars aren't street legal, depending on what modifications have been done.
Safer than most.. no, they are safer than any production car.
@@arikoivukoski4497exactly haha! I’ve worked and build rally cars, and they are 100% safer then all roadcars
But, in conjunction with the other safetygear. Helmets, HANS, suit, etc.
4:23 - yes, WRC cars are road legal. WRC regulations require that all participating vehicles are road legal and registered for use on public roads; simply because usually the cars drive themselves from one stage to the other, on - you guess it - public roads.
Yes! I live near where Rally Australia takes place (however WRC hasn’t been recently) and I saw an Audi S1 Quattro E2 on a highway!
Are you sure? I’m 95% sure that they arent street legal. Yes they can drive from stage to stage if its a short distance but I think all of them have racing licenses.
they aren't but the rules has that they have to come from civilian street legal cars. They have so much mod that they are not street legal anymore except some models.
@@vincentparrilla5408 rally cars are street legal, they have to drive between stages on public roads and it doesn te matter de distance (i work on a rally team)
@@vincentparrilla5408 They're all road legal. All rally cars have to go on public roads on their own power to go from one stage to another.
They also have to abide the law much like ordinary cars.
In a few words, this is the REAL driving.
Absolutely agree their skills are amazing, I saw Rally NZ last year pouring with rain still fast i hadn't seen a live event in 10 years it was beyond any motorsport id ever seen !
It’s the manliest driving there is.
@@vodkacannon Google for Michèle Mouton!
Welcome to Finland to watch the world's fastest gravel rally with plenty of jumps. The guy next to him is reading sheet music so that the driver has time to react, so there are no memorized bits. Hyndai, Ford and Toyota.
@Csaba Ioan Szabó I don't think he means that literally.
Finland was the best place to watch your first rally highlights flying through Finland's Forests
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The guy "taking notes" is reading notes he previously took in order to inform the driver the next moves he has to make and how to do it, for example he says in 200 meters, right turn, not too difficult, you can cut it in fourth gear, or say in 150 meters, close left corner, do not cut it, be aware of rock in the inside, second gear, inmediatly after that, easy straight full attack for 400 meters. He is the navigator and he is a really important part of the team, he is the eyes of the driver. Sometimes the driver could not see whats coming for example in a climb, and if the navigator says, it goes straight,. go full attack, he reach that blind spot at may be 130 mph in a dirt road.
You are right, with the addition that he uses a lot more coded language. There's no time to elaborate, so he can say things like "Forty, left five minus over crest opens over 40, tightens four plus, into triple caution right four over big jump off camber." And the driver understands what that means, hopefully.
And the actual notes in his notebook is very literally codes. The notes I just referred would be "40 L5-/Cr 4+ -> !!!R4/BgJmp oc" in his notebook.
You completely right, except that the co-driver never tells the driver what gear they should be in. The numbers are either how tight it is, or how fast it is, but not what gear. (for example, it might be a very flowing corner, so it is called as a 6 right. But if there is a junction just after it, the driver might chose to be in 4 gear; where as if it was followed by a left 5 they would be in 5 or 6 gear)
@@Sussex192 The teams familiarize themselves with the routes before the rallies, and at that stage they make notes about the route. And the driver is the one who tells you what to put in the notes. So the co-driver does not decide by himself what kind of bend, for example, is to be marked, but rather the driver. Of course, the co-driver of a pair of drivers who have worked together for years will pretty much be able to mark certain kinds of bends, jumps, etc. without the driver even saying them, but even then it's not better to go solo
So yes, those drivers often understand very well what the co-driver next to them says about the upcoming bends, jumps, etc.
Exoskeleton? Not so much: since it is installed inside the vehicle, "endoskeleton" would be more accurate.
Nevertheless, the construction we are talking about is actually called a roll cage - and after having seen a car crash and continuing racing afterwards, I think the name is pretty much selfexplainatory. ;)
Modern wrc/rally1 cars have tubular space frame and outer body is carbon fiber on carbon cevlar silhouette body.
He's the navigator, telling the driver what turns are coming up and in what gear to take them,
Exactly 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
And how much soil is now in his pants....
No
It is not in what gear .
Its on the wheel degres of turn
6 5 degres
5 15 degres
4 45 degres
3 90 degres
2 135 degres
1 180 degres
The co- driver/navigation must have bigger b**ls than the driver!
2:41 him saying " I don't want nobody to get hurt" while showing Craig Breen. That one hit hard, not gonna lie...
😬, R.I.P. Craig😭 #CB42
The person in the passenger seat is a co-driver, a couple of days before the rally takes place the driver and co-driver will do what is called a recce, during this they have that notebook you see which has the basic Corning (example 5L meaning 5 left, 5 being the severity of the corner normally it ranges from 1-6 with 1 being very tight and slow and 6 being just a slight bend which you can take full speed), the co driver also takes notes as he goes along on the stage as the stage is often run twice during a day, the speeds are immense often pushing 160mph on flat straights. The cars are fully road legal to get them between stages and into the service areas, accidents do happen and after the roll over you see on the video it's the same car in following scenes where you can see there's no windscreen and damage to the vehicle. Also most of the modern rally cars have quick shift sequential gearbox's with most having a gear box where you just shift up and down to change gears, there is also a large handbrake to the side that helps aid in cornering sharp corners.
On the Finnish rally there's a jump called Colin's crest where the furthest distance jumped wins an award, it's named after the legendary rally driver Colin McRae and I would highly recommend you watch some of the footage from his career.
Colins Crest is on sweden
@@EDE20052 my apologies
@@EDE20052 but still needs to check out Colin McRae
what makes rallying so unique is that they are racing the clock, fastest winning but each stage will have different driving conditions, from mud, gravel, tarmac, dust, rocks, water crossings. most rallies have super stages where they do a lap so that fans can watch them racing. Rally NZ this acrtually designed a stage so that fans could see the whole track.
I would add ice and snow to that list.
In most racing circumstances, racing the clock and not other racers would be boring to watch. But these racers are riding the edge of catastrophe every second! I mean, that really is just the sport - how far can we push before we crash.
And yes, I know that is racing in general - but the stakes more apparent to the spectators in rally.
1995 winner (Colin McRae) had a saying "when In doubt, go flat out" and that's how to win in the WRC
Pls, keep these coming! There are so much to see and learn about this amazing Motorsport, which are driven in every Continent in the World. (exc. North America and that wery cold place). Best Regards from Finland!!
Like finland isnt a very cold place :P, greetings from Viro
01:39 no time look GPS and this co-drivers who say notes ho far is next curve and what direction must turn ,how deep and long it curve is , have jump / hils and down hils ,narrow bridges and "no cut" turns on sude stone wall or deep ditch , tunnel etc.
In different countries all around the world The WRC race on roads from muddy tracks to dusty trails. The race is so fast and complex the Co driver has to have a list of all the corners (Left or Right and what angle) on the track and read them to the Driver.
😀🎈
The guy in the book was studying doctors and lawyers stuffs. It's very natural in Wrc environment
Say thank you to all your subs answering these „questions“ so patiently.
Kudos to the people in here!
"They must have some good tyres" - you hit a nail there. I remember an interview years ago where driver was asked that what is the biggest difference between rally car and regular car it's based on. He answered tyres. He explained that "racing tyres don't even really start to work when regular tyres would already have been destroyed". Great reaction, I like these things when people find out something completely new to them.
Your lock at Groupe B, that's crazy
5:21 if this is close, take a look to Gruop B rally videos. People is literally on the streets and the move just a few seconds before the car arrives
"i like to be on a passenger seat" . no you won't, Car shaking, jumping all the way, and measuring turning point while reading the pace notes is hell of a ride. 🤣🤣
I was used to work before, as a Sport Marshall at Hungary, at the racering, as F1, or on Rally races. Is just impossible to explain that adrenalin, and the joy what you can feel when the cars are passing you. And many places ar full of peoples, without any cordon or safety thing. I so miss that days... 😏
you never heard of 8 years old rally driver from finland? there is video of him.. thought he is the youngest EVER WRC champion in 2022.. he is from finland and his name is Kalle Rovanperä!!
Why would he have heard of him?
@@scottirvine121 because why not
@@scottirvine121 Kalle also drove dmec drifting.
I like your reaction to this you should look more into WRC and even the history of B group rally cars! cheers from finland!
I totally agree!
Love the energy 🤣 Plenty more of these videos on our channel!
thanks!! I'm going to check more out!
Toyota and hyundai has been developing their WRC cars here in FInland :)
the co-pilot with the notebook has the role to guide the driver trough the couse, he tells him how will the next turn be, how agressive, what speed is optimal to take it, where are the straightaways, jumps, etc.
the cars have to be street legal for them to drive between the stages of the rally. also the jumps you dont feel them so much because the travel of the suspension and it is fast you dont have the time to think about it when you are jumping.
finland is pretty famous about rally!
Okay let's be honest, Rally driver's are THE ELITE of racing 🫡🏁
Love watching americans exploring the rest of the world on the internet
Dude, i went to the stage Condor Copina-WRC Argentina. Its insane to see in person. Thousands of people camp over night and party to see it. Its an amazing experience.
They are street legal. They drive on normal roads from stage to stage.
Where i live, there are 2 rally stages nearby, in the day prior to the event you can see all of the race cars driving on the road heading to the next stage.
To answer your question, they are technically street legal. They have license plates, functional tail lights and head lights, improved safety features, and so on.
Traditionally the rally cars are driven between stages (unless is a long distance. If so i think they are taken on a truck).
No you have to drive between stages in a given time the entire parcours . When you are there too late you are punished. There also are legal noicewise. Mostly because when you don't open the throttle full and rev the engine they are quiet. It measured at 3000 rpm.
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Aside from "exoskeleton" meaning external skeleton, so it cannot be inside by definition,
Yes, like just about any professional racing series, WRC rally cars have roll cages, and they are among the stronger roll cages in racing.
The skill of the guys driving these cars (and the nuts on the other guy) is something else.
No other kind of racing on four wheels comes close to this stuff, at least I don't think so.
Sure there's some insane shit happening on race tracks as well, but the surface and the environment in wrc adds so much more excitement and insanity🙂
You need to watch the Swedish rally. They do the same thing but on snow and ice...
Actually, it is like the "Isle of Man", only with 4 wheels! Never thought of it like that before! LoL 😃
Flat out, enjoy yourself, don't die 😂
that is something, but if you really wanna be AMAZED you should check Group B rally
the pinacle of rally racing
They sometimes have to drive them through the streets to different stages. Super cool
07:54 Hynudai driver is Estonian . I am estonian too. Ott Tänak and co driver Martin Järveoja.
interstingly one of the developments for safety is they actually moved the seats sideways further into the car so that when they crash they have more space if they impact something.
those cars.. well, depends on country if they would be street legal, but in finland you can have "move-around" license so you can use that in rally also but also you can use that in traffic if you just pay for it lol.. thought, i found it funny i was in between 2 of those WRC cars last summer with my -83 Corolla DX (which has a lot of noice lol) driving between them to gas station and people in side of the road was just laughing and clapping like hell XDD
FiA regulation for WRC says they have to be street legal and registered. All WRC cars actually have license plates.
Loved your video and take on this...I think TH-cam recommended this video because I watch a lot of rallycross
You're video and reactions were awesome!
Glad you liked it!
Thats the co-driver or navigator, the paper is notes on each turn on the course, the driver doesn't know the route so he's reading what's coming up ahead.
According to WRC rules all rally cars must be street legal cause they are racing on public roads and they drive between stages on public roads
The past few years Hyundai and Toyota are dominating, before that it was Citroen, Seat and VW with Ogier, Loeb and Latvala.
Long when I was young it was Audi, Lancia, Alfa battle. Probably one of the most insane couple of seasons.
The cars have to be from upgraded from street legal series made cars with at least 500 sold.
That is why in Europe and Japan you see those small hot hatches with 200 HP engines on sale. Just the Rally variant has some major upgrades done to it.
3:38 Yeah, it's a Hyundai. The Hyundai i20 N Rally1, to be exact.
This is real racing!👍
If you really want to feel scared, check out the Sweden Rally where they race at night!
WRC: world rally championship, they are trying to get the fastest time possible from start to finish, and to achieve that you need to get the best running line at the fastest time, that is why you are constantly shifting between different side of the curve, and often facing the inner side of the curve at mid point (apex)
Plenty of trees and snow.... That's why Finland produced some of the craziest drivers of all time... Just like natural selection
It's one thing watching but being in the car is something else 💯 I grew up around the rally lifestyle, my dad owned the Scottish forest rally school with my uncle and they used to take me out all the time. My uncle was a subaru man and my dad was into ford escorts, he had the mk1, mk2 and mk3. My personal favourite to be in was the mk2 it was literally fucking insane 😂 I grew up and got more into motorcycles so I'm a biker now but rally still holds a big place in my heart. RIP dad 💙 and no he didn't die in a crash we lost him to leukemia. He rallied for decades 💪 I remember the old cosworths too
yea the guy on the lright is actually just making notes of how the racing driver takes the turns and gives points for the best drifts
„Rally of the thousand jumps“😊
that's how I drive right before the liquor store closes 😂🤣😂
Very Finnish.
I have watched wrc finland irl its so crazy the videos cant even give you a grasp of what it actually looks and feels like
The book is their pace notes and the codriver is reading out the track ahead of them.
for anyone wondering no they dont know the track, they get piece of paper and copilot is the one who says where to go and how muhc corner is, obsticles etc :D basically driver going blind full speed and his eyes is his copilot
Wtf are you talking about?
Take a quess who makes the pace notes! Btw. the notes are a lot more than a "piece of paper".
There are rallies where every team get same notes, but that is a different story.
loved your reactions mate epic😃
He is not writing, he is READING his own pre-made notes !
Real Cars.., Real Drivers !!!!! Finland.. the fastest of them ALL....
Only one thing: No there is no Exoskeleton on a WRC car. Because Exoskeleton means outside Skeleton, and while they have a cage inside the car there is nothing like an outside cage on this cars, except maybe a bullcatcher on special rallys (Safari, Ivory Coast)
BTW: The big stick that you see is the handbreak. For shifting these cars have pedals on the sterring wheel.
I think it is the most spectacular motor sport! Driving at 125 mph on a twisty dirt or rock road requires almost superhuman reflexes !
Rugby is the fore runner of American football but changed a few thing ie pads incase someone got hurt , rugby is brilliant
they have limited regestration, usually so many km on the roads so you can't drive one as a daily driver. (i know one who did with a an evo x and his neighbours all complained his exhaust was waking them up at at 5 am so he had to put his fuill exhaust on then take it off for the rally lol.
06:02 not flat tire. Tire sizes wht they use is 205 / 65 R16 T 108 open gravel tries. B cat soft tires.
If you look close at those WRC cars you'll notice they have official license plates. They have to drive from one stage to another amidst the common traffic. So legally they're allowed to be driven on normal roads; the sold version of them is usually a beast but not as much as the competition version but if you have enough money to pay for an used WRC (and enough money to fix it as after a full Rally they end nearly destroyed) you can drive it on any road legally.
Come to Portugal this year, we would welcome you so you could expirience the true essence of the WRC on this great country 💪
The guy ain't writing he's navigating...!
yeah the good old " 5 right into two left minus"^^ ahh rally is good stuff^^
Lookup the European Truck Racing Championship. It was popular in Finland during the 90s.
The guy with the note book is reading pace notes ie distance to next corner and to go either left or right And if a crest on the road
exosceleton - Rollcage ....
writing notes - READING out notes
WRC Manufacturers have to create homologation cars for the road that's how we got the lancer evolution, wrx, galant vr4, ect.
the guy with the piece of paper is the Codriver. he is just reading notes on every single turn, crest, dip, jump and water splash there is on the stage. everything the driver does is done much faster thanks to the codriver.
They are street legal to some extend, as they use normal roads to connect stages going with normal traffic. I've been driving next to them on the German Autobahn. Damaged cars may be even stopped by the police, such that they miss service windows and have to retire.
rally drivers are the most skilled drivers in the world
you need to see the wrc Portugal, the curves and the final jump is the best.
Man Im sure people have told you what and why by this time but if you think these are nuts you need to watch gr B from the early 80's when I was a teen watching Walter, Michelle and so many more legends. Back then you had to know how to drive no aides just you and a 500hp monster with a sea of us idiots trying to get as close to the cars as we could going 200 plus sideways. These new cars have so much tech basically there foot to the floor until they need to stop steering is all asisted. Much safer still fun to watch but nothing like GrB or even the 90-00. Days of brave drivers fighting with the cars are long gone.
Eyyyyyy. This is WRC it’s the fastest Rallye and if you didn’t know what the peace of paper is. On the paper are information of the track ahead of them so they know where to drive
Alpine. Citroën. Peugeot les marques qui ont remporté le championnat du monde de rallye
My man thinks the codriver is writting an essay during stage 🤣🤣🤣 and, oh it has an exoskeleton inside 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You should watch Ken Block's journey through Rally America in 2022. It's of the same caliber and Kenny drives just like this. Rest in peace Ken Block.
Ken did a season or part of in Europe, at an interview he said, "Man I have so much to learn" he did manage to sometimes run in 10th to 12th place. RIP Ken!
they gotta be next to trees because finland has a LOT of trees. it would be impossible to find a track without any trees in finland
Hi. If you think that's crazy then watch the 80 guys driving. They were called group B. Now those guys were real men with balls made from titanium and the size of lady liberty.
These are absolutely street legal! They are usually modified from normal factory made models, just beefed up little bit with added safety frame inside. And they are speed capped at 180km/h, so little over 100mph.
On top of that the "rally tracks" are normal rural Finnish dirt roads 😃 I drive on one of those roads seen on video to my cabin 😁
Top speed is not that impressive, but that acceleration... off the charts!
@@RoyalMela not fast if you compare to Formula 1 or something but it's insane for those narrow sand roads that are no means flat 😅
Normal speed limit for those are 80km/h and even then on some curves it feels like your car is about to lose traction. (So I often go 60kmh parts of the way).
These guys are unbelievable talented, drifting half of the time and literally flying parts of the track 😃
Hyundai's rally program is a huge part of how they've been able to rebrand over the last 5ish years from being a car for dorks to a "cool" manufacturer.
yes they are street legal they have indicators, brake lights, headlights and windscreen wipers all they have to do is put on a registration plate.
they usually do drive from stage to stage in traffic and yes they do get in trouble
This guys makes all from 180-220 km/h straight, curves all from 190-210 km/h so you wana try it, all i can say is, GL with it, this guy have 10-30 years of experiences doing rally, what you got?
Cars are actually street legal. There are some stages where they drive between the finish from one to start of another.
To be able to race there has to be at least 2000 production vehicles made, these are the same vehicles but heavily modified with more power and safety features for obvious reasons and are often driven from stage to stage so must be completely road legal in order to do this
It's a piece of road legally reserved for the competition but you bet people drive like that when no one is watching.
If you think this is crazy. Go watch some B-class rally from the 80’s era. Now THOSE cars, and drivers, are insane!
Before the "new" safety rules they were faster and lighter, like todays cars go faster because of other stuff but on a straight the old ones win.
just so you know, the one that is poping on jumps is called Toyota Yaris, maybe you have sen one on the street :D
You would shit your pants in those cars. I know I would 😂. But I would go anytime.
The shud check. Ott Tanak poland jump.