yoo man, thank you so much for reacting my video, appreciate the comments of it! This video is compilation of 18 different events what I filmed during the year, and I did drive over 9000 kilometres / 5600 miles with my own car to attend these events. I welcome everyone to visit some rally events of Finland, it sure is a really nice experience!
I noticed that the first clip (with the red Manta) was taken at Siikajoki Ralli. Do you have any footage from stage 5 (Ylipää, Lumijoki)? That's where I drive my school bus route.
0:53 Opel Manta B (400) 1:00 Ford Escort Mk2 (most likely RS2000 or RS Mexico) 2:004:26 Škoda Fabia Mk4 Rally2 1:212:30 Toyota Corolla Levin GT coupe (version of the famous AE86) 2:37 Hyundai i20N Rally1 (WRC) 2:45 Škoda Fabia Mk3 Rally2 2:50 Volvo 200 series 3:08 2nd gen Toyota Starlet 3:18 Citoren C2 4:04 Peugoet 208 T16 R5 (Rally2) 5:00 Ford Fiesta 6th gen Rally 3 or 4 (not sure which one). Or it could be stock one (as you said) with few mods 5:21 Lada VFTS. Rally car based on Lada 2105 5:33 7th gen Fiesta Rally 3 or 4 6:07 wait till you find out about Ferrari 308 GTB 4 rally car 6:25 Mitsubishi Evo 3 6:38 Opel Astra F 2-door hatchback 7:23 Mitsubishi Mirage (Colt in Europe) 7:29 Honda Civic EP3 8:12 CrossCar/CrossKart
We do this in everyday life too. Last winter, while dodging a drunkard running over the street in Hakaniemi, Helsinki, I ended up stuck in the snow. I barely had a chance to react before three guys were already helping me out the snowbank. Thanks to those guys I continued my way to home less than 5 min later. I've done it too. It makes sense to help people and cars stuck in the snowbanks because more than likely someday YOU will need that help.
A Finn here! Not sure if you know already but The American Rally Association hosts rallies annually in the states in the Midwest and Tennessee. You should 100% attend one of those!
1:12 Come to Sweden and do a "folkrace"! ☺ 2:14 The pink hay bale is actually a thing in the Nordic countries. Pink hay bales are in support of women's breast cancer, blue hay bales are in support of men's prostate cancer.
We have folk races in Norway also. I remember it so good from my childhood when my father competed on both ice (on a frozen lake) and dirt. A lovely kind of motorsport!
Rally in the snow, in dark.. It's actually easier than in the summer, first of you have information of every corner and obstacles down to every 10 meters from the co driver. Then when you miss some corner a bit you have the snow banks as support, in the summer you'r off.. And with the studded rally tires you have better traction then on gravel.
If you see snow and darkness in Finland, that doesn't mean it was night. ;) You see, today the sun was above the horizon in the Helsinki area from 09:23 to 15:26 and Rovaniemi (around the Arctic Circle) had the sun three hours "above" the horizon from 10:52 to 13:52. Helsinki is approximately as north as Seward, Alaska. If Anchorage, Alaska was in Finland, it would be roughly a 70-minute drive from Helsinki using our winter speed limits (100 km/h) on the motorway.
@@TearothDK oh, never heard of those..A friend had an 80's Toyota celica that looked very similar to that one,it was a white gts. The few 86's I've seen had that angled rear window going right to the spoiler
Hi Ian, the first car is an Opel Manta, probably a "400" (or at least the 400-trim), same platform as the Opel Ascona @ 8:03. This was not a bad platform at all - Walter Röhrl won his 2nd Worldchampionship in one of those against the mighty Audi Quattros in 1982. These Opel are still a popular platform because there are still a lot of parts around, they are easy to maintain and repair, AND some nice real-life hacks like makeshift 16V-heads (!!!) made out of 24V-heads for performance! I kid you not! Go to the scrapyard, find an Opel or Vauxhall Senator "B" 24V, take the head, CUT OFF the last 2 cylinders, plug the "surplus" Water- and Oil canals, regrind the camshafts, and there you go - >260 sturdy HP with the 2,4l-4cyl.-block. You don´t even need to buy the expensive historic Weber-DCOE-carburetors, the cheaper Dell´Ortos will do! Cost: Next to nothing!
Thanks for your very entertaining videos! I love those older rally cars, especially the BMWs sounded very wicked in that video. Regarding the winter conditions, we have had lots of snow since mid November here in all of Finland and this past week has seen very cold weather: around -20 degrees C (-4 F) here in southern Finland, in the north below -30 C (many places below -35), and the record for this winter so far is -38.7 C (-37.6 F) yesterday in Ylitornio. Also very cold in northern Sweden. Feels a bit like the north pole.
My dad was a rally car driver, so I more or less grew up on the side of the stages, also noting stage time and what not when I was a bit older. I can highly recommend watching it live. Even the amateur groups are great fun.
I am a fan of the Dakar Rally, especially the old Paris Dakar images and especially the truck category. My favorite Dakar truck is the double cabin DAF from Jan de Rooy
Falling into ditches: You get sucked in because, well, it depends on how far in you are, the angle, your car width and setup. But if the wheel out of the ditch loses traction and your car can't shift power away from that wheel then the differential send all the torque to the free wheel and now all your drive power is gone. It's usually the front of the car too so half your steering is gone as well. Then there's gravity pulling you down. If you're lucky you get a bit of streering when you're wheel hours the opposite side of the ditch, if you're lucky momentum climbs the ditch, levels the car and you get your power and steering back. Or you have enough steering to get the ditched wheel to climb the side next to the track and same effect, level the car and regain power and control. And that's all of you don't beach it on the edge. Mostly it's about having enough momentum going in get out again.
Before the french started dominating through Sebastian Loeb and Sebastian Ogier, Finland had the highest number of World Rally Championship titles of all countries, 16 titles, France now has 18 thanks to Loeb and Ogier having 9 and 8 respectively, the 18th being claimed by Didier Auriol way back in -94 Finland is quite sucsessful in motorsports overall, most recently in my mind, Ida Zetterström won the european Top Fuel dragracing championship and set a european record run of 3,77 seconds at 321 mph, and she just recently became the first european ever to be hand picked to make the move over to the US and race in the NHRA in the Top Fuel class, she even had offers from several teams, that's how sought after she was
Even the hobbyist rally series is insane, my dad and his friend returned to the hobby after 20years and are almost back to their best. Winning many northern parts of the rally in senior class but losing some southern parts because those are alot straighter and faster bmw´s win on the straights but lose on the more challenging parts at the northen rallies
That Citroën model was Citroën C2... when they presented C2 on the Geneva motor show back in 2003, they presented it in the rally concept form and were later competing and won the JWRC championship with C2 S1600...🙂
your reactions are SO entertaining, Buddy! :) (After watching your videos, I feel like you are one of my buddies.) :) I read that jumps of 57 metres length are not unusual in Rally Finland WRC. They don't build roads around hills, they build them OVER the hills. :)
I started to learn how to drive on the ice of a lake when I was 16. I got my drivers licence when I was 18 years old. It was legal to drive on ice underaged without the licence back then in the 1980’s. I have to say those hours and experience on the ice with a Lada 1200 has saved me many times from spinning in the winter months on slippery roads. And I’m not afraid to drive in any weather conditions. The reason how a rally driver knows where to drive in the darkness of the night is that he/she has a ”map reader” go-driver who reads coordinates where the road goes during rally. A good go-driver is as important as the driver herself. 😊
Opel Manta used a lot in the 80s. RWD and couldn't stick to the big guns but cool car. Also fun fact: Hyundai Rally1 in the thumbnail like all three of them launches harder on a runway than an old V8 Red Bull F1 car. F1 car of course catches up and passes real quick. Proof on Red Bull's channel. Msport Ford used there instead of the Hyundai but same thing.
if you want to make a whole holiday out of it, i´d suggest going to Norrlandsveckan first up in northern Sweden (three Rallycross events). Then head to the Finnish World Rally Championship in Jväskylä Finland. in 2023 they also had a Legends race at the horserace track in Jyväskylä the same weekend. Somewhere near those dates there also a three days Folk Race(jokamies) racing event up in Pello which imo is the best folkrace event in Finland.
Finland is the cradle of great drivers. They learn from the age of 16 how to drive and race. No wonder. And it's air. Finnish air is clean and breathing is great there. Go there sometime, your lungs will feel the difference.
0:58 - Opel Manta of 80s. I believe GM had their version too. It should if not directly, in same way related with the Chevrolet Monza. 02:31 Toyota........ Celica may be. Again from 80s. 03:38 Not 100% sure but either a Suzuki Swift or Mitshubishi Colt ..... again from 80s.
@@foxy126pl6i don't think that's an ae86,those had pop up headlights, and this trunk is way longer(flatter) the ae86 rear window slopes all the way back .. This looks like an 85 celica gts,headlights, trunk..
@@inb4230 AE 86 had both fixed headlights (levin) and trueno (popup) versions, same with the rear, it had coupe and hatchback versions. This one here looks like a levin coupe
@@foxy126pl6 yeah didn't know that version, I've only seen a handful of 86's and all were the sloped rear window version, a friend had an 80's celica gts about 20 something years ago that looked pretty similar to this (I've never seen another one of those either)
I remember when there was a Lada recall here 🇹🇹, can't remember the reason but some owners opted to repair them themselves. There was one painted champagne red, barely legal tint and nice rims and the owner was about his music so you'd hear it before seeing it!
If you like the older 2wd rally cars you must take a look at Tim Liljegren driving a yellow volvo 240 with around 290hp and also his teams volvo 940. He also competes in "folkrace" and he is a beast. His videos are mostley in Swedish but the vids are amazing and how he can be at the top with the 240 is actually crazy.
@@Hartmut-oo5ts Adidas Jogging High, a mustage, rolled up trousers with white socks and a fox tail on the antenna also were a must for every Manta "pilot" 🤣
I have in 1997! With my BMW 318I (1986)on the "Randmeer". Driven. And of course also played! That is between the province of Utrecht and the province of Flevoland. I live in Spakenburg, the Utrecht side. And I just drove down the "DIJK". After I saw a Mercedes-Benz with a trailer driving on the ice. Truly a whole day of fun!
Lots of different levels here mate. You've probably got many different groups and drive levels including front wheel drive, rear wheel drive and then the top levels with the All Wheel Drive. Fun to watch and a lot of skill involved no matter what the level.
To be fair, a good part of the year, you don't have much of any choice but to drive at night in Finland. That far up north, a good chunk of the year a day is nothing but twilight hours and black of night.
0:53 opel manta, 02:32 toyota corrolla AE 86 (ultimate begginers drift car whic in good condition is almost impossible to find and good ones are priced astronomically high-great at handling for begginer drifters-only 100 HP), 03:14 Toyota starlet, 03:40 subaru justy, 05:02 ford fiesta, 7:33 honda civic, ....generally as european car guy- mostly only full throttle saves you on snow.😁
"never pictured a BMW going sideways in the snow" Yeah you clearly haven't been to Finland then. That's like the number one reason for 20-year old men (or boys if we are being honest) to get a BMW. Because it is RWD, looks cool, sounds cool, so you can imagine you're in rally as you turn off traction control and slide around everywhere. You really can't go through a winter here, without seeing BMWs just going door first around corners.
Strangely enough, rally on snow is quite fast. With the right tires, the snow isn't that slippery, and because the walls of snow kinda keep you in track is you mess up the pilots don't hesitate to flat out. Mud is another animal though. ^^
4:24 There's another Škoda in the view, this time not on rubber wheels. The train in background was produced by the other Škoda brand, based in Pilsen (Škoda Transportation). But hey, for us, Czechs, it's Škoda after all
First car is an open mantra. A version of the car is a cult legend in the N24 (watch one, its epic!) A lot of old escorts in there, old evos and pretty much anything with wheels! I'm about 20 miles from Goodwood. Always welcome to crash on the sofa if you're ever over here for it!
The many jokes we had about Skoda in my youth... Why buy a Skoda when you can walk. How to double the value of a Skoda? A full tank of gas. Why are there heaters in the back window of a Skoda? To warm the hands of whomever is pushing it.
I still would love it if you reacted to more Scandinavian classic (as in using classic cars) rallying. TONS on the 'Tube, especially from Sweden and Finland.
Judging by your face at that last exoskeleton car, you should really take a look at the Ariel Atom. In fact, all small British sports cars. Like a Triking Type 4. Pembleton T24 The ultra low produced numbers kit like stuff. I especially like the Triking, which, when taken to show off to Colin Chapman, was promptly atolen by Mario Andretti. 😂 After several hours he returned, Tony Divey, the designer and builder of said _prototype,_ was most glad it hadn't killed Mario.
Coming from the Austrian Alps, i never got how US americans can possible not LOVE to drive on snow. It' the only good thing on winter! :)) There's even a german commercial, where the guy with the Audi Quattro goes outside with his car key and sees the snow on his yard, takes a shovel and puts it from the yard on the melted driveway to make a solid Ice Rally track, before he drives away^^
"Dam that was clean" Hayden Paddon (born 20 April 1987) is a New Zealand rally driver. He was PWRC world champion in 2011 and won the New Zealand Rally Championship in 2008, 2009, 2013, 2018 and 2021
The first one is the Opel Manta B of the early 80. Second was Ford Escort Mk3 I guess - also from the 80s. Nothing fancy after all - but still rallyed on "Veteran" events.
First car Opel Manta,was kind of cult car in the 70s rear wheel drive coupe, even had a famous cult movie called Manta Manta!!! and one of them still competes at 24 hours of Nürburgring and has a lot of fans still
Love finnish ralllycars. They are just a little more extreme. Spesially the bmw's and the toyota's. You should check out Ilmo Lario's insane bmw m3 Rally car. 400 hp😮 10 000rpm😮. See the video Pirelli Bmw, Ilmo Lario do some heavy powersliding. And the sound is sick. 😊
hey i really enjoy your reaction vids about europe from an american perspective and i dont know how about others but Id like to see a video about the US and your car culture like idk maybe show us some nascar etc. thats something “exotic” to us and I think it would be an interesting idea for a video. all the best man
There's nothing better than sitting inbetween some trees 11 AM in the snow, with beer and a disposable bbq, watching a car flying by on roads ment for horse sleds every 15 minutes. AND, it's very likely to be a huge party in the town any rally ends in, with a whole chunk of people who started drinking way to early in the day 🙂 Just great events for every one.
has he heard about that one finish dude that is seen in countless rallies he runs upp to most accidents always first with a rope in hand. hes a legend. jimmy broadbent did a video on him " where ever this man goes, massive car crashes follows." he is in this video to has a funny hat on him. he is in this video to.
8:10 I was wondering how long it's going to take until you stumble into Kartcross (there's also Rallycross... just saying...). I kinda dig the Kartcross-Buggys, they look like a lot of fun - and seem to be relativly "cheap" (in comparison to other (dirt)racing...).
Hello my Friend👋🏻👋🏻. The car in the first minute is an Opel Manta, Europe-GM Brand. There is an 2.0L(~122cubinch) atmospheric engine with approx 280-300 HP, it revs till 9’000 RPM. Greats from Luxemburg 👍🏻👍🏻
I wish every team had Drone flyer back in the car trying to follow the car with camera to film it go. You know it would require iron stomach to handle being blinded with first person goggles on trying to follow the car you are in feeling the G-Forces 🤣
7.22 "Liina perseeseen!" I laught so hard that I started coughing and almost choked. Helping with such devotion. What he says means roughly "pulling string in ass."
The first car you didnt know is an Opel Manta from de 70s-80s, the second one is a Toyota AE86 levin, the therd one is an Opel/Vauxal kadet and the white hatchback yo misscalled as a Volvo is an Opel Corsa
First up was the awesome opel mantra. Not the fastest but a class looking car. The Irish band Therapy? Have a song called opel mantra, cause singers friend had one.... Though obviously this song isn't about that. Accelerator is their song about crashing it 😂
Speaking of rally, I can't seem to locate your first reaction to rally. The earliest videos I can find, seems to be the second or more reaction, because of what you said, and your reaction. Maybe the first has been deleted, or just had its status set to hidden, or private.
Here Finland is almost every weekend somewhere Finland Motorsport events like Rallying, rallysprints, rallicross, folkrace etc. But 4, 11 & 12 months (i don't remeber this months names😅) it's not Motorsport events.
yoo man, thank you so much for reacting my video, appreciate the comments of it! This video is compilation of 18 different events what I filmed during the year, and I did drive over 9000 kilometres / 5600 miles with my own car to attend these events. I welcome everyone to visit some rally events of Finland, it sure is a really nice experience!
Tää on kyllä semmonen ukko että vois jopa tarjota reissun tänne ralleihin jos olis ylimäärästä lompsas :D
I noticed that the first clip (with the red Manta) was taken at Siikajoki Ralli. Do you have any footage from stage 5 (Ylipää, Lumijoki)? That's where I drive my school bus route.
@@pronty77 nope, only footage from the stage 4.
Ite ajattelin samaa 👍@@laineracing
my parents have though rally travel they did the finland WRC and had a ball. reckon it was rally and drinking but loved it.
0:53 Opel Manta B (400)
1:00 Ford Escort Mk2 (most likely RS2000 or RS Mexico)
2:00 4:26 Škoda Fabia Mk4 Rally2
1:21 2:30 Toyota Corolla Levin GT coupe (version of the famous AE86)
2:37 Hyundai i20N Rally1 (WRC)
2:45 Škoda Fabia Mk3 Rally2
2:50 Volvo 200 series
3:08 2nd gen Toyota Starlet
3:18 Citoren C2
4:04 Peugoet 208 T16 R5 (Rally2)
5:00 Ford Fiesta 6th gen Rally 3 or 4 (not sure which one). Or it could be stock one (as you said) with few mods
5:21 Lada VFTS. Rally car based on Lada 2105
5:33 7th gen Fiesta Rally 3 or 4
6:07 wait till you find out about Ferrari 308 GTB 4 rally car
6:25 Mitsubishi Evo 3
6:38 Opel Astra F 2-door hatchback
7:23 Mitsubishi Mirage (Colt in Europe)
7:29 Honda Civic EP3
8:12 CrossCar/CrossKart
@5:21 is actually at Datsun 1600 / 510
4:08 that's actually the slower N5 version of the Peugeot 208
@@craigobrien3283 510 is a 2 door
I this case this should be Datsun 1600
@ 8:00 is an Opel Ascona B. Somewhere from the 1980s.
You're a legend Thanks!
I love Finns running to rescue rally cars deep in snow. They're just waiting for it. Great energy.
We do this in everyday life too. Last winter, while dodging a drunkard running over the street in Hakaniemi, Helsinki, I ended up stuck in the snow. I barely had a chance to react before three guys were already helping me out the snowbank. Thanks to those guys I continued my way to home less than 5 min later. I've done it too. It makes sense to help people and cars stuck in the snowbanks because more than likely someday YOU will need that help.
A Finn here! Not sure if you know already but The American Rally Association hosts rallies annually in the states in the Midwest and Tennessee. You should 100% attend one of those!
I absolutely have to This year! Thanks for the info
@@IWrocker the late ken block actually raced and nearly won the series in 2022 before he passed away. there is a doco somewhere
7:20 "Liina perseeseen, jee!" == "Strap to the ass, yeah!"... Legend.
1:12 Come to Sweden and do a "folkrace"! ☺
2:14 The pink hay bale is actually a thing in the Nordic countries. Pink hay bales are in support of women's breast cancer, blue hay bales are in support of men's prostate cancer.
I actually as a Finn have never heard the meaning of different colour bales
Yeah come!!!!!!!
We have folk races in Norway also. I remember it so good from my childhood when my father competed on both ice (on a frozen lake) and dirt. A lovely kind of motorsport!
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@@Raastoff Yeah Sweden,Norway and Finland we drive on frosen lakes and have fun :) And rally is a big thing!
Rally in the snow, in dark..
It's actually easier than in the summer, first of you have information of every corner and obstacles down to every 10 meters from the co driver.
Then when you miss some corner a bit you have the snow banks as support, in the summer you'r off..
And with the studded rally tires you have better traction then on gravel.
If you see snow and darkness in Finland, that doesn't mean it was night. ;) You see, today the sun was above the horizon in the Helsinki area from 09:23 to 15:26 and Rovaniemi (around the Arctic Circle) had the sun three hours "above" the horizon from 10:52 to 13:52. Helsinki is approximately as north as Seward, Alaska. If Anchorage, Alaska was in Finland, it would be roughly a 70-minute drive from Helsinki using our winter speed limits (100 km/h) on the motorway.
Also snow doesn't mean it's winter.
Most years it does though...@@XtreeM_FaiL
And winter doesn't always mean snow..
S. LOEB used to say : Snow is not that bad, it's like gravel with nailed tyres. The worst slippery is mud tracks.
Monte Carlo is not Finnish rally...
😘😘
2:34 is a Toyota Corolla AE86
3:09 is a Toyota Starlet KP61
6:44 is a Opel Astra F CC
I'm 99% certain that's an 85 celica gt-s,way longer trunk than the ae86, no pop up headlights..
The ae86 didn't had a flat 5 foot trunk like this car
@@inb4230it's 1983-1985 Corolla Levin GT coupe. Not every Corolla of that gen is AE86 from anime
@@inb4230 It's a Levin with the sedan rear.
@@TearothDK oh, never heard of those..A friend had an 80's Toyota celica that looked very similar to that one,it was a white gts. The few 86's I've seen had that angled rear window going right to the spoiler
Hi Ian, the first car is an Opel Manta, probably a "400" (or at least the 400-trim), same platform as the Opel Ascona @ 8:03. This was not a bad platform at all - Walter Röhrl won his 2nd Worldchampionship in one of those against the mighty Audi Quattros in 1982.
These Opel are still a popular platform because there are still a lot of parts around, they are easy to maintain and repair, AND some nice real-life hacks like makeshift 16V-heads (!!!) made out of 24V-heads for performance! I kid you not! Go to the scrapyard, find an Opel or Vauxhall Senator "B" 24V, take the head, CUT OFF the last 2 cylinders, plug the "surplus" Water- and Oil canals, regrind the camshafts, and there you go - >260 sturdy HP with the 2,4l-4cyl.-block. You don´t even need to buy the expensive historic Weber-DCOE-carburetors, the cheaper Dell´Ortos will do! Cost: Next to nothing!
Hi, it is not a Manta 400 it is missing the larger fenders.
Now you know why Finnish and Swedish drivers are among the best in the world
Thanks for your very entertaining videos! I love those older rally cars, especially the BMWs sounded very wicked in that video. Regarding the winter conditions, we have had lots of snow since mid November here in all of Finland and this past week has seen very cold weather: around -20 degrees C (-4 F) here in southern Finland, in the north below -30 C (many places below -35), and the record for this winter so far is -38.7 C (-37.6 F) yesterday in Ylitornio. Also very cold in northern Sweden. Feels a bit like the north pole.
My dad was a rally car driver, so I more or less grew up on the side of the stages, also noting stage time and what not when I was a bit older. I can highly recommend watching it live. Even the amateur groups are great fun.
I am a fan of the Dakar Rally, especially the old Paris Dakar images and especially the truck category. My favorite Dakar truck is the double cabin DAF from Jan de Rooy
Falling into ditches:
You get sucked in because, well, it depends on how far in you are, the angle, your car width and setup.
But if the wheel out of the ditch loses traction and your car can't shift power away from that wheel then the differential send all the torque to the free wheel and now all your drive power is gone.
It's usually the front of the car too so half your steering is gone as well.
Then there's gravity pulling you down.
If you're lucky you get a bit of streering when you're wheel hours the opposite side of the ditch, if you're lucky momentum climbs the ditch, levels the car and you get your power and steering back.
Or you have enough steering to get the ditched wheel to climb the side next to the track and same effect, level the car and regain power and control.
And that's all of you don't beach it on the edge.
Mostly it's about having enough momentum going in get out again.
Before the french started dominating through Sebastian Loeb and Sebastian Ogier, Finland had the highest number of World Rally Championship titles of all countries, 16 titles, France now has 18 thanks to Loeb and Ogier having 9 and 8 respectively, the 18th being claimed by Didier Auriol way back in -94
Finland is quite sucsessful in motorsports overall, most recently in my mind, Ida Zetterström won the european Top Fuel dragracing championship and set a european record run of 3,77 seconds at 321 mph, and she just recently became the first european ever to be hand picked to make the move over to the US and race in the NHRA in the Top Fuel class, she even had offers from several teams, that's how sought after she was
Also, a Finnish driver has won the World Rally Championship the last two years in a row.
some cars you asked about were Opel Manta B, Toyota Corolla GT and Toyota Starlet..
Toyota corolla ae 86
@@petrihakkinen2336 same thing..
@@Sirkkeli there is lot of diffirent corolla gt in world
@@petrihakkinen2336 and that's one of them. What's yout point?
Even the hobbyist rally series is insane, my dad and his friend returned to the hobby after 20years and are almost back to their best. Winning many northern parts of the rally in senior class but losing some southern parts because those are alot straighter and faster bmw´s win on the straights but lose on the more challenging parts at the northen rallies
@0:50 Opel Manta B
Which was originally based on 8:01 Opel Ascona B :)
That Citroën model was Citroën C2... when they presented C2 on the Geneva motor show back in 2003, they presented it in the rally concept form and were later competing and won the JWRC championship with C2 S1600...🙂
your reactions are SO entertaining, Buddy! :) (After watching your videos, I feel like you are one of my buddies.) :)
I read that jumps of 57 metres length are not unusual in Rally Finland WRC. They don't build roads around hills, they build them OVER the hills. :)
Glad to hear that! You're my buddy in my book.. so many awesome people in this channel's community. 🎉😎 Rally Finland is always entertaining
I started to learn how to drive on the ice of a lake when I was 16. I got my drivers licence when I was 18 years old. It was legal to drive on ice underaged without the licence back then in the 1980’s. I have to say those hours and experience on the ice with a Lada 1200 has saved me many times from spinning in the winter months on slippery roads. And I’m not afraid to drive in any weather conditions. The reason how a rally driver knows where to drive in the darkness of the night is that he/she has a ”map reader” go-driver who reads coordinates where the road goes during rally. A good go-driver is as important as the driver herself. 😊
Opel Manta used a lot in the 80s. RWD and couldn't stick to the big guns but cool car. Also fun fact: Hyundai Rally1 in the thumbnail like all three of them launches harder on a runway than an old V8 Red Bull F1 car. F1 car of course catches up and passes real quick. Proof on Red Bull's channel. Msport Ford used there instead of the Hyundai but same thing.
if you want to make a whole holiday out of it, i´d suggest going to Norrlandsveckan first up in northern Sweden (three Rallycross events). Then head to the Finnish World Rally Championship in Jväskylä Finland. in 2023 they also had a Legends race at the horserace track in Jyväskylä the same weekend. Somewhere near those dates there also a three days Folk Race(jokamies) racing event up in Pello which imo is the best folkrace event in Finland.
Finland is the cradle of great drivers. They learn from the age of 16 how to drive and race. No wonder. And it's air. Finnish air is clean and breathing is great there. Go there sometime, your lungs will feel the difference.
You a Scania guy? Bruce Wilson has some Scanias is the US somewhere in Florida I believe. He has a growing youtube channel too!
0:58 - Opel Manta of 80s. I believe GM had their version too. It should if not directly, in same way related with the Chevrolet Monza.
02:31 Toyota........ Celica may be. Again from 80s.
03:38 Not 100% sure but either a Suzuki Swift or Mitshubishi Colt ..... again from 80s.
The toyota was an AE86, the last RWD corolla. The 3rd car looks kinda like a 1st gen opel corsa to me
@@foxy126pl6i don't think that's an ae86,those had pop up headlights, and this trunk is way longer(flatter) the ae86 rear window slopes all the way back ..
This looks like an 85 celica gts,headlights, trunk..
@@inb4230 AE 86 had both fixed headlights (levin) and trueno (popup) versions, same with the rear, it had coupe and hatchback versions. This one here looks like a levin coupe
@@foxy126pl6 yeah didn't know that version, I've only seen a handful of 86's and all were the sloped rear window version, a friend had an 80's celica gts about 20 something years ago that looked pretty similar to this (I've never seen another one of those either)
I remember when there was a Lada recall here 🇹🇹, can't remember the reason but some owners opted to repair them themselves. There was one painted champagne red, barely legal tint and nice rims and the owner was about his music so you'd hear it before seeing it!
First car was an Opel Manta
Opel Manta B. I like Manta A better
@@burra7in uk is a Vauxhall
If you like the older 2wd rally cars you must take a look at Tim Liljegren driving a yellow volvo 240 with around 290hp and also his teams volvo 940. He also competes in "folkrace" and he is a beast. His videos are mostley in Swedish but the vids are amazing and how he can be at the top with the 240 is actually crazy.
Great english video about folk-racing: th-cam.com/video/Cr1GdqIjqyU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=x81wBiY7wtXcJyQu
It's a Manta (Opel) - THE car in thee 80's for guys with their hair like front practical and rear beautiful^^
Hahaha! Great! Best description for a mullet i ever read!
@@Hartmut-oo5ts Adidas Jogging High, a mustage, rolled up trousers with white socks and a fox tail on the antenna also were a must for every Manta "pilot" 🤣
I have in 1997! With my BMW 318I (1986)on the "Randmeer". Driven. And of course also played! That is between the province of Utrecht and the province of Flevoland. I live in Spakenburg, the Utrecht side. And I just drove down the "DIJK". After I saw a Mercedes-Benz with a trailer driving on the ice. Truly a whole day of fun!
Lots of different levels here mate. You've probably got many different groups and drive levels including front wheel drive, rear wheel drive and then the top levels with the All Wheel Drive. Fun to watch and a lot of skill involved no matter what the level.
To be fair, a good part of the year, you don't have much of any choice but to drive at night in Finland.
That far up north, a good chunk of the year a day is nothing but twilight hours and black of night.
0:53 opel manta, 02:32 toyota corrolla AE 86 (ultimate begginers drift car whic in good condition is almost impossible to find and good ones are priced astronomically high-great at handling for begginer drifters-only 100 HP), 03:14 Toyota starlet, 03:40 subaru justy, 05:02 ford fiesta, 7:33 honda civic, ....generally as european car guy- mostly only full throttle saves you on snow.😁
"never pictured a BMW going sideways in the snow"
Yeah you clearly haven't been to Finland then. That's like the number one reason for 20-year old men (or boys if we are being honest) to get a BMW. Because it is RWD, looks cool, sounds cool, so you can imagine you're in rally as you turn off traction control and slide around everywhere.
You really can't go through a winter here, without seeing BMWs just going door first around corners.
1:40 It's hard to tell.
There is a saying.
Finnish summer is short, but very little snow.
00:57 Opel Manta.. brothr of Opel Monza and analog like in USA was Ford Capri 3,0
Opel is Euro GM.
Strangely enough, rally on snow is quite fast.
With the right tires, the snow isn't that slippery, and because the walls of snow kinda keep you in track is you mess up the pilots don't hesitate to flat out.
Mud is another animal though. ^^
4:24 There's another Škoda in the view, this time not on rubber wheels. The train in background was produced by the other Škoda brand, based in Pilsen (Škoda Transportation). But hey, for us, Czechs, it's Škoda after all
First car was a Opel manta its a German brand and this was a 80,s model
At the Nürburgring you are allowed to drive your private vehicle around the race track, there are many videos about this.
1st: Opel Manta B (Second generation Manta 1975-1988).
First car up is an Opel manta, I still run one of these in the UK, admittedly a resto mod with a 3.0 six in it now.
First car is an open mantra. A version of the car is a cult legend in the N24 (watch one, its epic!)
A lot of old escorts in there, old evos and pretty much anything with wheels! I'm about 20 miles from Goodwood. Always welcome to crash on the sofa if you're ever over here for it!
Lol
The many jokes we had about Skoda in my youth...
Why buy a Skoda when you can walk.
How to double the value of a Skoda? A full tank of gas.
Why are there heaters in the back window of a Skoda? To warm the hands of whomever is pushing it.
Greetings from Finland! We are a Rally nation.
I still would love it if you reacted to more Scandinavian classic (as in using classic cars) rallying. TONS on the 'Tube, especially from Sweden and Finland.
Judging by your face at that last exoskeleton car, you should really take a look at the Ariel Atom.
In fact, all small British sports cars.
Like a Triking Type 4.
Pembleton T24
The ultra low produced numbers kit like stuff.
I especially like the Triking, which, when taken to show off to Colin Chapman, was promptly atolen by Mario Andretti. 😂
After several hours he returned, Tony Divey, the designer and builder of said _prototype,_ was most glad it hadn't killed Mario.
You should react to finnish 80s -90s rally, ive watched vhs finnish rally since i was 1 yr old and yet to this day it never fails to entertain
3:38 the Citroën in the clip 3:21 was a Citroën C2, i have owned one :)
I love how there is applause from audience and then there's sarcastic applause from audience.
Last one sounds like it has a motorcycle engine.
it does.
It was basically a quad bike with a plastic body.
The King of Rallying Juha Kankkunen - with pure engine sounds. Check that out, pure gold
1st car was an opel Manta, you should look up Ari Vatanen "Dear God"
Coming from the Austrian Alps, i never got how US americans can possible not LOVE to drive on snow. It' the only good thing on winter! :)) There's even a german commercial, where the guy with the Audi Quattro goes outside with his car key and sees the snow on his yard, takes a shovel and puts it from the yard on the melted driveway to make a solid Ice Rally track, before he drives away^^
"Dam that was clean" Hayden Paddon (born 20 April 1987) is a New Zealand rally driver. He was PWRC world champion in 2011 and won the New Zealand Rally Championship in 2008, 2009, 2013, 2018 and 2021
The first one is the Opel Manta B of the early 80. Second was Ford Escort Mk3 I guess - also from the 80s. Nothing fancy after all - but still rallyed on "Veteran" events.
First car Opel Manta,was kind of cult car in the 70s rear wheel drive coupe, even had a famous cult movie called Manta Manta!!! and one of them still competes at 24 hours of Nürburgring and has a lot of fans still
Love finnish ralllycars. They are just a little more extreme. Spesially the bmw's and the toyota's. You should check out Ilmo Lario's insane bmw m3 Rally car. 400 hp😮 10 000rpm😮. See the video Pirelli Bmw, Ilmo Lario do some heavy powersliding. And the sound is sick. 😊
hey i really enjoy your reaction vids about europe from an american perspective and i dont know how about others but Id like to see a video about the US and your car culture like idk maybe show us some nascar etc. thats something “exotic” to us and I think it would be an interesting idea for a video. all the best man
There's nothing better than sitting inbetween some trees 11 AM in the snow, with beer and a disposable bbq, watching a car flying by on roads ment for horse sleds every 15 minutes. AND, it's very likely to be a huge party in the town any rally ends in, with a whole chunk of people who started drinking way to early in the day 🙂 Just great events for every one.
has he heard about that one finish dude that is seen in countless rallies he runs upp to most accidents always first with a rope in hand. hes a legend. jimmy broadbent did a video on him " where ever this man goes, massive car crashes follows." he is in this video to has a funny hat on him. he is in this video to.
8:10 I was wondering how long it's going to take until you stumble into Kartcross (there's also Rallycross... just saying...).
I kinda dig the Kartcross-Buggys, they look like a lot of fun - and seem to be relativly "cheap" (in comparison to other (dirt)racing...).
0: 51 Opel Manta B ``european pony car´´
Hello my Friend👋🏻👋🏻. The car in the first minute is an Opel Manta, Europe-GM Brand.
There is an 2.0L(~122cubinch) atmospheric engine with approx 280-300 HP, it revs till 9’000 RPM.
Greats from Luxemburg 👍🏻👍🏻
You can see lots of amazing old cars in Hillclimb events .
I wish every team had Drone flyer back in the car trying to follow the car with camera to film it go.
You know it would require iron stomach to handle being blinded with first person goggles on trying to follow the car you are in feeling the G-Forces 🤣
Wanna find a new (old) car? Check out Datsun 1200. No longer manufactured but in Portugal they still race them
You should see the jumps, it is absolutely crazy to see flying rally cars
Last vehicle was music to my ears
Have you done Rallycross yet?
1:39 It's regular Finnish summer day🥵🥶🤧😎🤣
OK, that 7:22 "Liina perseeseen" caused me to spray my screen, luckily just water.
7.22 "Liina perseeseen!" I laught so hard that I started coughing and almost choked. Helping with such devotion.
What he says means roughly "pulling string in ass."
The first car you didnt know is an Opel Manta from de 70s-80s, the second one is a Toyota AE86 levin, the therd one is an Opel/Vauxal kadet and the white hatchback yo misscalled as a Volvo is an Opel Corsa
The first car was opel manta, those were in group b also!
You asked "how they can see in night?" You really have to trust your co-driver and listen the notes you hear your co driver. Thats it!!!
If you make mistake you make mistake... then you are middle off the forrest or bottom on the hill or stuck on the snow... That's rally!
0:55 a legendary Opel Manta B
We all know what you need to do, travel to Finland and get a onboard ride in a rally car... preferably driven by Rovanperä or some other champ. 🤟
First car was a Opel Manta, oldtimer. I had one and i loved it.
The second "cool" car was a toyota corolla '80 model.
Mate check out Group N rally, it's basically showroom cars with cages
Weird that a yank don't know a Sierra When he see one sliding by.
Creator JPeltsi has good compilations of finnish rally with a descent mix of new cars , classics , crashes and power slides.
7:20 LIINA PERSEESEEN! :D
First up was the awesome opel mantra. Not the fastest but a class looking car. The Irish band Therapy? Have a song called opel mantra, cause singers friend had one.... Though obviously this song isn't about that. Accelerator is their song about crashing it 😂
it wasn't at night. although it was dark, it was a normal winter day in the north, the sun doesn't rise there
Rally Sweden starts on the 15th of February.
That first car is opel manta, one of the most legendary rally cars
Speaking of rally, I can't seem to locate your first reaction to rally. The earliest videos I can find, seems to be the second or more reaction, because of what you said, and your reaction.
Maybe the first has been deleted, or just had its status set to hidden, or private.
Finns begin driving still in dippers...
0:45 OPEL MANTA (maybye "400" )
Literally everything hits different in Finland 🇫🇮❤ no niin
No clips of the crazy jumps? Finnish rally is all about air.
I find it funny how excited he gets over škoda when the brand is pretty much a common mans car.
Rally is race,where viewer can take part in race. Help racer to go on.
You should check out how rally snow tires look, you will be suprised 😅
The clip at 7:35 could very well have been around 6 or 7 pm it's just very dark in the winter
Look up for a video off the Opel Manta 400 and Opel Ancona 400..love those rally cars becose I own a Opel Manta i200
Here Finland is almost every weekend somewhere Finland Motorsport events like Rallying, rallysprints, rallicross, folkrace etc. But 4, 11 & 12 months (i don't remeber this months names😅) it's not Motorsport events.