I looked through the comments to see if anyone else pointed it out, but at 1:16 the craziest thing to me isn't that they're jumping that close to each other, it's the fact that the lead car has his view almost entirely blocked by the hood being up on the windshield.
which also explains why they're so close to each. the crash originally cost them a lot of time to get back on the road again from, and then they couldn't keep great pace with the view almost totally obscured
@@StanleyKubick1 at first I was thinking of the incredible run by a team whose car rolled and was wrecked but he ended up running the best stage time out of the group. But that was a Subaru team. I wish he’d react to that too.
You are forgetting that these special stages are run with a co-driver who reads from his notes every turn coming up, what king of turn it is, how much gas to apply, what gear to be in. And the teams go throuhg the stages before the rally actually takes place so each of the top drivers knows the stage like the palm of his hand. It is a legendary true story before the time when drivers realised they have to practice to know the stage and in a certain rally (I think San Remo) Walter Roehrl, one of the best drivers that ever was, on the night before the stage, went to bed and clocked himself doing the special stage with his eyes closed. When he opened his eyes, he looked at his stop watch and his time was just 1 or 2 seconds off the time he had actually done. The next day during the stage there was a fog as thick as it gets. Roehl won the rally right then and there as he beat everyone else by several minutes in that one stage.
And that's why they are close to each other, they have 1 minute lag og departure in the begining of the stage, in normal situations this wouldn't happen but the hood situation does happen, that's why the other car gets there that fast...
Coming from a bloke that raced motocross, this would scare the hell out of me.. but how much fun would that be…and pain..and repairs..and underwear. Love it.👍❤️
1:44 it was Lancia Delta S4 Group B in classic Martini livery. Most horrorful, harsh, tricky, nible and advanced hi-tech car in the whole Group B. Even Markku Alen said once (couple years earlier during demo-run at ex-works Delta S4 as "zero" car in Finland rally stage) that he respect this car, but he still feel some fear from it. Imagine that, Markku Alen, who held record of stage-wins in WRC over years and decades (before Loeb came)
We were driving a Lancia Delta at the time, so watching a lookalike (I bet it had only the silhouette in common with the S4) car winning in rally was awesome! But yeah, the S4 in definitely a car that wants to kill you. Just like the Stratos before it.
@@altergreenhorn no, they're not. The Delta went into production in 1979, and was produced until the early 90s. The S4 was a 1986 group B car very loosely based on the Delta. They then went on winning for five years with the Group A Delta.
6:40 Being completely honest, WRC-level rally drivers are the best in the world. Not just in rally, either, these are some of the best drivers, period, in the world. F1 drivers may get the "there are only 20 drivers, with 10 reserve drivers, that hold a FIA Super license in the world" glorification, and they do get going pretty damned fast (231.4 MPH is the current top speed any F1 car has gone, by Valtteri Bottas at the 2016 Mexican Grand Prix down the MASSIVE back straight), and they are, truly, in one of the pinnacle motorsports of the world. Rally drivers, however, are from another dimension. They combine the fitness and focus of an F1 driver with the understanding of a MotoGP or World SBK rider regarding weight shifts, the insane ability to focus for hours on end of an Endurance driver, and the ability to drive COMPLETELY on the edge with all of their mind. In fact, if you look up in-car cameras of rally drivers on insane stages like Ouninpohja in Finland or pretty much any stage of the Argentinian rally where they're driving between boulders at over 160 KPH with inches to spare on either side, you'll notice two things: 1) they never, ever blink and 2) their mouths hang wide open. This is because the 0.0003% of the brain that we normals use to hold our mouths closed and blink our eyes to keep them wet and comfortable, they somehow tap into to use for driving. If you want to see one of the best in the Group N/Rally 2000 era, watch this full special stage run of Petter Solberg (father of Oliver Solberg, a rally prodigy and is in the Rally 1, aka WRC, class this year) and legendary co-driver Phil Mills on Ouninphoha, one of the single most technical, gnarly, and fastest stages in the world of rallying: th-cam.com/video/jpDSPhECTSA/w-d-xo.html
Never forget a number of years ago, walking along a dirt road to our spot during a A.R.C round in South Australia, the stage was in the Barossa Valley and all of a sudden Possum Bourne (R.I.P) come flying over the crest! Fair to say we scattered to the side very quickly haha. The speed was unbelievable!
Possum Bourne.. my fav. A cancer charity day at Amaroo Park.. and he was taking cancer kids for a ride around the the track, and 4 wheel drifting every corner.. absolute legend.. No big head..
AFAIK some of the sideway jumps are on purpose to be optimally set up for the next turn when they land. I agree with your assessment. These guys are superhuman.
Love your reactions man, originally from mid Wales,rally heartland, remember cycling with mates up into the forests to find good vantage points,way back in my day Ford Escorts ruled and you still saw minis,showing my age I know! I can't claim to be a devotee of autosports,but have always believed that the best( allround) drivers are in rally.
The escorts were a dime a dozen but it was a rock solid design, relatively cheap to acquire and maintain, and excelled at rally cross. You can still see marks 1 and 2 racing nowadays, they participate a lot in Hill Climb Racing (on asphalt) contests in Europe, with souped up 10k rpm engines. You hear'em coming, unmistakably! th-cam.com/video/3qUHbIf4Lt8/w-d-xo.html
First rally I ever saw was in Wales. My parents had rented some run-down leaky cottage in the middle of a forest with no heating or electricity and we got there in the middle of the night with a storm blowing. I was pretty miserable the next morning and wasn't too pleased about the 'invigorating' early morning walk through the woods I was forced to take but then we found a road not too far from the cottage with a bunch of people standing around which turned out to be part of the stage for a BRC event that year. It ended up being an amazing day! 😊
Agreed = sheer balls, often driving a bent car, relying solely on your navigator not to cough at the wrong time.. The only other motorsport people with courage like this are TT riders (who are all slightly mad imho).
I’m from South Wales and have been brought up around Rally. My grandfather has been rallying ever since I was a child. He now has himself a Skoda Fabia R5 which is beautiful🙂
5:42 Toyota ST205 Celica Turbo GT-Four, which was under homologation rules so that's where that generation of Celica GT-Fours, with the 3S-GTE engine in it, came from. The big revolution it brought about was a twin-entrance turbocharger, which took input from BOTH exhaust headers to spin up, cancelling out exhaust shockwave interference and would get the turbine up to speed at like 2,500 RPM so it MONSTERED out of hairpins and 90 degree corners in the WRC
I love that chittering sound they make too. Just the best. I was watching one of your other clips and this popped up in a thumbnail and I said YEAH MAN LET'S RALLY. Just love it.
Yeah man this guys are from other world what an super skill drivers. I'm 62 from Barcelona i use to go to some rally races , in the night it's incredible , ligths sounds , a litle bit dangerous for the people standig so close. Nice reaction, Congratulations.
Rally is the most extreme. The different surfaces, dirt, gravel, sand, dust, tarmac, ice, snow. All against others but against a clock, you have no clue how close or far off a competitor is or if they are even still in the rally. At least normal circuit racing you v me, we can still see each other to know, can I catch him? Can I keep my lead? Can I back off? Chasing you I can learn where I can be better or pass you, and hold you off once I'm passed you. You can lead and make me quicker, be it drafting or inspiring a desperate lunge or whatever, but rally? We will have no clue what the other's status is. They're amazing. Not going in totally blind as they run over the course prior but with a lot of faith in the notes and conditions. Incredible.
The first car, is Frank Kelly, an Irish tarmac supremo - the speed at which he can push his 45yo Mk2 Escort through the skinny Irish lanes is mesmerising. You need to find some clips of him!
that celica i prob or used to have a photo of it from that very shot. it is a cattle grid on a special stage in WRC perth way back in the early 90's. I walked up there to get pics of the cars getting airborne then a friend paid for a helo ride following one of the rally cars. it was awesome how quick they are
G'day Ian love to see the best crashes of Rally championships l think they would be the most spectacular and dangerous in the car racing world, great vision, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.
You gotta look at rallycross. Several cars racing all together on a short circuit with different parts of track, dirt and tarmac and they all have to take a detour section when they want .
The best part is, is that a lot of these jump videos, they put the distance markers on the side of the roads on both side. They usually read in meters so a lot of these drivers are jumping about 100-200 feet at length
Ian, loving your videos. I grew up in the UK, lived in Canada until recently. They have rallies in Ontario and Quebec. Canadian Rally Championship. Was sponsored by Subaru years ago. It’s within your reach, easily. Winter rallies in the snow, too.
There's an old joke about the driver commenting to his co-driver after a very near miss "Hahaha, half the people watching thought we were going to crash", with the response "Half the people in here thought so too".
1:39 - that thing was Lancia Delta S4, it was the car that Henri Toivonen died in corsica rally, and after that group B was cancelled due to way too dangerous cars
Yup, I wanted to mention that too. Most terrific, tricky, nible and hi-tech car in whole the Group B. Even Markku Alen said once (couple years earlier during demo-run at ex-works Delta S4 as "zero" car in Finland rally stage) that he respect this car, but he still feel some fear from it. Imagine that, Markku Alen, who held record of stage-wins in WRC over years and decades (before Loeb came)
I bet you all going to love Sata Rally Azores from ERC (European Rally Championship). The Sete Cidades course is for most pilots very hard and with breathtaking views. Strongly recomend to everyone that enjoys rally.
I'm french and have never enjoyed going to see such racing events although they are quite a common thing, aside of the WRC, in our landscapes. I'm talking about what we call "course de côte" (coastal races). The best 4 wheels motorsport ever raced I've ever seen on a screen :)
There are actually 2 F1 drivers, whose fathers are in Rallying, Carlos Sainz father was a famous world champion for years, Max Verstappen's father Jos was not only a well known F1 driver but now is also participating in Rallye courses and doing well too.
The cars that can take the jumps and KEEP on taking the jumps are usually factory built purpose R2-R5 or WRC/ex-WRC cars. Some of those cars were £1,000,000+ from the factory, and then you see a 50k home/small workshop build Evo or something go into a crest a bit quicker than intended and definitely break something, the main difference to watch for is how far the suspension travels/wheels droop to tell how hard that guy is about to hit the ground.
Have you ever been on any of these Euro rally stages, Ian? Camping, pic-nic-ing, meeting people from everywhere and all guaranteed oddities that come with it, etc... 4:14: Portugal's Fafe-Lameirinha stage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know I said It before in another vídeo, but you should definitely check ETRC, European Truck Racing Championship. It's basically European-style semis racing. Full contact racing like DTM or WTCR but with lorries
You should watch the group B mini documentary from The Grand Tour! It’s about the fight between Lancia and Audi. In your free time or in a reaction video, both ways are fine. It’s a must see! Greetings from a Dutch viewer ✌🏼
That old Celica was filmed at Rally Australia , Muresk AG College stage , 1991? Make sure you watch the Rally Australia vieos and Western Australian Rally Champoinship TH-cam vids.
I just recently discovered your channel. I don't know why but it's hella fascinating watching Americans reacting to stuff non American. Cheers from the Netherlands!
That's the thing about rally, they're all crazy! From the drivers to the spectators to the engineers and even the people in charge of safety, apparently 😅
At 1:15, the car was breaking hard because right after the jump there was an almost 180° curve, so the pilot was drifting to align the car with the road.
Been a casual fan of rally since the '80s, and I never cease to be amazed at how well some of these cars fly. I'm sure at least part of it is down to the driver, because you see them screw it up sometimes, but even their most untidy jumps are so much better than anything else it's incredible. I mean, watch an old episode of Dukes of Hazard or something - that car was totalled almost every time they jumped something, and then it's magically beck to pristine in the next shot. Those were professional drivers too (obviously not of the same calibre, but almost certainly better than you or I) and they still couldn't get that tub to not headbutt the ground.
That car weighed about 2 ton with a massive V8, they also put concrete in the back so it didn't nosedive but the jumps were insanely high, much higher than any rally jumps, they had to have the driver suspended in a harness, not actually sat on the seat so he didn't shatter every bone in his body on landing. One of the best looking cars ever made, shame they had to wreck so many of them.
@@wullaballoo2642 Agreed on all points. The GL and Daisy Duke's pants were about the best parts of that show, imo. My point was that thing /did/ nosedive an awful lot - even with a huge load of ballast.
At 3:33 the driver set the car up for the turn before he hit the jump so he was already pointed in the right direction when he went over and landed it takes hella skill and is impressive AF to watch. Also the skill to jumping a car to get it to land right with all the downforce some of these cars have especially the W RC cars, is to hit the brakes before you get to the crest of the jump when you get to the crest of the jump you smash the gas so they car tilts backwards otherwise the car starts to do a nose plant because of all the downforce that generates at the front it's also best to land so that one wheel Touches down at a time so you go 1-2-3-4 wheels
Love your vids, glad you like rally, it's cool isn't? But you gotta learn about these cars man, and some rally history!! Yes, that was a Celica GT4, from the Group A days (after group B) in the '90's. Keep up the videos, great fun!
the jump-drift Evo: the co-driver told the driver "right 6, over crest, jump!" so the driver simply positioned the car nose to the apex and floor it!! hit the ground running. awesome skill, though, from both of them.
Servus from Bavaria, super comments. In the landing zone of the rally cars are white flags, the numbers on the flags show how far the car has jumped. In meters
as stupid mad and crazy as rally is, and there's a lot about it that is insane, the crowds, the flying so close to immovable objects such as trees, the one thing that always makes me smile more than anything, is seeing them drive these things ON THE STREETS to get to the next stage, in traffic and everything... Maybe it's not like that today, but it certainly used to be! epic shit.
Hey, i know this Car on the Top Left Video recomendation. Thats the Green Beast, Marco Koch/Stefan Assmann, Group H (Historical) Opel Kadett C. This Guy is FAST, he smoked a Bunch of Evos and Subarus on some local Rally events in Germany (mostly Tarmac).
Rally drivers are the grown up versions of the kids who grew up driving their home roads in the country side, untill rally team bosses picked them up...
Rally drivers are absolutely insane. Doing that in a forest (or sometimes close to cliffs and stuff) on open road kind of tracks with wildlife like moose (or even elephants) possible encounters, while sorrounded by fans... its insanity. No safe zones, barriers or gravel pits here. You make a misstake, you put your car into a tree.
As for the angle of the car during the jump. Releasing the throttle or going full beans on the rev limiter, the momentum of the tires effects the car's pitch during 'flight'.
So obviously on a normal car if you slide sideways on something that grabs like dirt or grass its gonna without a doubt mess something up. But the insane part, with those kinds of vehicles it doesnt even knock them out of alignment. As long as theres no significant impact from like say a rock or something they can take jumps, slides, being dug into the dirt at 140mph, all without even flinching. Once it hits something solid tho thats usually the end
Most injuries in motorsport comes with motorcycle racing, especially motorcycle road racing. As for the cars popping off the limiter, there's a reason for it. To keep the car as level as possible it helps to keep the wheels spinning and to use the gyro effects keep the nose up and back down. Using the brakes can cause the nose to dip and the car to dive.
Rally drivers must have the largest balls of any motorsport driver. I'm surprised the car can even move (let alone literally FLY) with how heavy they must be.
imho the best pilots/racecar drivers are those who have honed their skills in multiple disciplines. People like Walter Rohl, Ari Vatanen, Jacky Ickx, Mika Hakkinen, etc. (yes, Mika hakkinen is also a capable rally driver)
Or like Kalle Rovanperä has driving rally car sins he was 8 y old. He was ready for WRC allready when he was 16 but regulations for not having drivinglicens made a detour for his rally debute in WRC for him until he gets drivinglicens. A day after his 17th birthday, courtesy of a waiver by the Finnish government he started to drive WRC2 (Škoda) and to day he's driving for Toyota Gazoo Racing in WRC.
As a Finnish guy, seeing people from USA get excited about rally feels so good! :D
I looked through the comments to see if anyone else pointed it out, but at 1:16 the craziest thing to me isn't that they're jumping that close to each other, it's the fact that the lead car has his view almost entirely blocked by the hood being up on the windshield.
which also explains why they're so close to each. the crash originally cost them a lot of time to get back on the road again from, and then they couldn't keep great pace with the view almost totally obscured
@@StanleyKubick1 at first I was thinking of the incredible run by a team whose car rolled and was wrecked but he ended up running the best stage time out of the group. But that was a Subaru team. I wish he’d react to that too.
You are forgetting that these special stages are run with a co-driver who reads from his notes every turn coming up, what king of turn it is, how much gas to apply, what gear to be in. And the teams go throuhg the stages before the rally actually takes place so each of the top drivers knows the stage like the palm of his hand. It is a legendary true story before the time when drivers realised they have to practice to know the stage and in a certain rally (I think San Remo) Walter Roehrl, one of the best drivers that ever was, on the night before the stage, went to bed and clocked himself doing the special stage with his eyes closed. When he opened his eyes, he looked at his stop watch and his time was just 1 or 2 seconds off the time he had actually done. The next day during the stage there was a fog as thick as it gets. Roehl won the rally right then and there as he beat everyone else by several minutes in that one stage.
And that's why they are close to each other, they have 1 minute lag og departure in the begining of the stage, in normal situations this wouldn't happen but the hood situation does happen, that's why the other car gets there that fast...
Coming from a bloke that raced motocross, this would scare the hell out of me.. but how much fun would that be…and pain..and repairs..and underwear. Love it.👍❤️
It's fun to see how excited you have become for rallying. Rally is just super cool! 🙂👍
1:44 it was Lancia Delta S4 Group B in classic Martini livery. Most horrorful, harsh, tricky, nible and advanced hi-tech car in the whole Group B. Even Markku Alen said once (couple years earlier during demo-run at ex-works Delta S4 as "zero" car in Finland rally stage) that he respect this car, but he still feel some fear from it. Imagine that, Markku Alen, who held record of stage-wins in WRC over years and decades (before Loeb came)
Group B. Their time was short, but so sweet. For me, the Audi Quattro S1 and S2 AWDs will always have a special place in my heart.
We were driving a Lancia Delta at the time, so watching a lookalike (I bet it had only the silhouette in common with the S4) car winning in rally was awesome!
But yeah, the S4 in definitely a car that wants to kill you. Just like the Stratos before it.
@@rasmuswi Delta and Delta S4 are different cars from different era
@@altergreenhorn no, they're not. The Delta went into production in 1979, and was produced until the early 90s. The S4 was a 1986 group B car very loosely based on the Delta. They then went on winning for five years with the Group A Delta.
Group B car where designed not to jump much
Jumps means loosing speed
6:40 Being completely honest, WRC-level rally drivers are the best in the world. Not just in rally, either, these are some of the best drivers, period, in the world. F1 drivers may get the "there are only 20 drivers, with 10 reserve drivers, that hold a FIA Super license in the world" glorification, and they do get going pretty damned fast (231.4 MPH is the current top speed any F1 car has gone, by Valtteri Bottas at the 2016 Mexican Grand Prix down the MASSIVE back straight), and they are, truly, in one of the pinnacle motorsports of the world.
Rally drivers, however, are from another dimension. They combine the fitness and focus of an F1 driver with the understanding of a MotoGP or World SBK rider regarding weight shifts, the insane ability to focus for hours on end of an Endurance driver, and the ability to drive COMPLETELY on the edge with all of their mind. In fact, if you look up in-car cameras of rally drivers on insane stages like Ouninpohja in Finland or pretty much any stage of the Argentinian rally where they're driving between boulders at over 160 KPH with inches to spare on either side, you'll notice two things: 1) they never, ever blink and 2) their mouths hang wide open. This is because the 0.0003% of the brain that we normals use to hold our mouths closed and blink our eyes to keep them wet and comfortable, they somehow tap into to use for driving.
If you want to see one of the best in the Group N/Rally 2000 era, watch this full special stage run of Petter Solberg (father of Oliver Solberg, a rally prodigy and is in the Rally 1, aka WRC, class this year) and legendary co-driver Phil Mills on Ouninphoha, one of the single most technical, gnarly, and fastest stages in the world of rallying: th-cam.com/video/jpDSPhECTSA/w-d-xo.html
I could watch you watching rally all day mate, your enthusiasm is infectious... with love from Scotland
That Evo going 90 degrees mid air defied the laws of physics.
Your reactions are great, greetings from Brazil.
Never forget a number of years ago, walking along a dirt road to our spot during a A.R.C round in South Australia, the stage was in the Barossa Valley and all of a sudden Possum Bourne (R.I.P) come flying over the crest! Fair to say we scattered to the side very quickly haha. The speed was unbelievable!
Possum Bourne.. my fav. A cancer charity day at Amaroo Park.. and he was taking cancer kids for a ride around the the track, and 4 wheel drifting every corner.. absolute legend..
No big head..
AFAIK some of the sideway jumps are on purpose to be optimally set up for the next turn when they land.
I agree with your assessment. These guys are superhuman.
Love your reactions man, originally from mid Wales,rally heartland, remember cycling with mates up into the forests to find good vantage points,way back in my day Ford Escorts ruled and you still saw minis,showing my age I know! I can't claim to be a devotee of autosports,but have always believed that the best( allround) drivers are in rally.
Don't forget the stock cars were rallying bootlegger!!!!!
They used to race each other to see who had the best car
The escorts were a dime a dozen but it was a rock solid design, relatively cheap to acquire and maintain, and excelled at rally cross. You can still see marks 1 and 2 racing nowadays, they participate a lot in Hill Climb Racing (on asphalt) contests in Europe, with souped up 10k rpm engines. You hear'em coming, unmistakably!
th-cam.com/video/3qUHbIf4Lt8/w-d-xo.html
First rally I ever saw was in Wales. My parents had rented some run-down leaky cottage in the middle of a forest with no heating or electricity and we got there in the middle of the night with a storm blowing. I was pretty miserable the next morning and wasn't too pleased about the 'invigorating' early morning walk through the woods I was forced to take but then we found a road not too far from the cottage with a bunch of people standing around which turned out to be part of the stage for a BRC event that year. It ended up being an amazing day! 😊
Agreed = sheer balls, often driving a bent car, relying solely on your navigator not to cough at the wrong time.. The only other motorsport people with courage like this are TT riders (who are all slightly mad imho).
I’m from South Wales and have been brought up around Rally. My grandfather has been rallying ever since I was a child. He now has himself a Skoda Fabia R5 which is beautiful🙂
Hey, book a trip to Finland and the Jyväskylä Rally in early August if you want to see those huge jumps live!
5:42 Toyota ST205 Celica Turbo GT-Four, which was under homologation rules so that's where that generation of Celica GT-Fours, with the 3S-GTE engine in it, came from. The big revolution it brought about was a twin-entrance turbocharger, which took input from BOTH exhaust headers to spin up, cancelling out exhaust shockwave interference and would get the turbine up to speed at like 2,500 RPM so it MONSTERED out of hairpins and 90 degree corners in the WRC
Love your enthusiasm. Viewing it through your eyes makes me remember what I love about rally
I love that chittering sound they make too. Just the best. I was watching one of your other clips and this popped up in a thumbnail and I said YEAH MAN LET'S RALLY. Just love it.
Star Wars pod racer sounds.
Yeah man this guys are from other world what an super skill drivers.
I'm 62 from Barcelona i use to go to some rally races , in the night it's incredible , ligths sounds , a litle bit dangerous for the people standig so close.
Nice reaction, Congratulations.
no matter what car or how fast you are driving; rally drivers are absolutely insane and they have balls out of neutron star matter or so.
3:58 Love the marks so you can see how far they jump. Great reaction as always! Thanks! 👍
Ian, that first car jumping... WAS Frank Kelly's Mark 2 Escort I've been harping on about !!
More rally videos. Please. So much action, and watching your reactions to the craziness is entertaining.
Most people dont seem to realise how insane it is to jump 50 meters in a little hatchback. These drivers are superhuman for sure
Be good to get some more on board footage. Love that stuff. Definitely feels like a video game!
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"Samir!"
Definitely, full onboard stages are awesome.
Rally is the most extreme. The different surfaces, dirt, gravel, sand, dust, tarmac, ice, snow. All against others but against a clock, you have no clue how close or far off a competitor is or if they are even still in the rally. At least normal circuit racing you v me, we can still see each other to know, can I catch him? Can I keep my lead? Can I back off? Chasing you I can learn where I can be better or pass you, and hold you off once I'm passed you. You can lead and make me quicker, be it drafting or inspiring a desperate lunge or whatever, but rally? We will have no clue what the other's status is. They're amazing. Not going in totally blind as they run over the course prior but with a lot of faith in the notes and conditions.
Incredible.
I love how they have the measurements of the jump length and yep I don't know who is the bravest and craziest ones involved 😂
The first car, is Frank Kelly, an Irish tarmac supremo - the speed at which he can push his 45yo Mk2 Escort through the skinny Irish lanes is mesmerising. You need to find some clips of him!
Mad, loud and Sideways Frank!!! A definite watch
Frank Kelly - Fast, Sideways and Mental 3
@@zzbbss100 That's the best of many - the navigator comments are hilarious, and Frank finds them funny too!
I doubt many bits of that Escort are anywhere near 45 years old now lol
@@TomoHawKzZ 😄
that celica i prob or used to have a photo of it from that very shot. it is a cattle grid on a special stage in WRC perth way back in the early 90's. I walked up there to get pics of the cars getting airborne then a friend paid for a helo ride following one of the rally cars. it was awesome how quick they are
G'day Ian love to see the best crashes of Rally championships l think they would be the most spectacular and dangerous in the car racing world, great vision, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.
You gotta look at rallycross. Several cars racing all together on a short circuit with different parts of track, dirt and tarmac and they all have to take a detour section when they want .
Good suggestion! He may be familiar with Travis Pastrana and Ken Block, could possibly already know a few of the drivers.
I suggested that in another vid of his with a highlights vid link. Love Rallycross.
The best part is, is that a lot of these jump videos, they put the distance markers on the side of the roads on both side. They usually read in meters so a lot of these drivers are jumping about 100-200 feet at length
Ian, loving your videos. I grew up in the UK, lived in Canada until recently. They have rallies in Ontario and Quebec. Canadian Rally Championship. Was sponsored by Subaru years ago. It’s within your reach, easily. Winter rallies in the snow, too.
There's an old joke about the driver commenting to his co-driver after a very near miss "Hahaha, half the people watching thought we were going to crash", with the response "Half the people in here thought so too".
1:39 - that thing was Lancia Delta S4, it was the car that Henri Toivonen died in corsica rally, and after that group B was cancelled due to way too dangerous cars
At 1:43 the car was a Lancia Delta S4 from Group B
Yup, I wanted to mention that too. Most terrific, tricky, nible and hi-tech car in whole the Group B. Even Markku Alen said once (couple years earlier during demo-run at ex-works Delta S4 as "zero" car in Finland rally stage) that he respect this car, but he still feel some fear from it. Imagine that, Markku Alen, who held record of stage-wins in WRC over years and decades (before Loeb came)
Rally is the only motorsport I can think of where the people watching on the side lines are crazier then the drivers and co-drivers lol xD
Mind-bending courage and skills and reactions these drivers possess in spades !!
I bet you all going to love Sata Rally Azores from ERC (European Rally Championship). The Sete Cidades course is for most pilots very hard and with breathtaking views. Strongly recomend to everyone that enjoys rally.
I'm french and have never enjoyed going to see such racing events although they are quite a common thing, aside of the WRC, in our landscapes. I'm talking about what we call "course de côte" (coastal races). The best 4 wheels motorsport ever raced I've ever seen on a screen :)
Loving your reactions to the rally videos 👍 You obviously appreciate the sport which is beyond the grasp of most people.
There are actually 2 F1 drivers, whose fathers are in Rallying, Carlos Sainz father was a famous world champion for years, Max Verstappen's father Jos was not only a well known F1 driver but now is also participating in Rallye courses and doing well too.
This looks like one sport where the spectators are crazier than the players.
The cars that can take the jumps and KEEP on taking the jumps are usually factory built purpose R2-R5 or WRC/ex-WRC cars. Some of those cars were £1,000,000+ from the factory, and then you see a 50k home/small workshop build Evo or something go into a crest a bit quicker than intended and definitely break something, the main difference to watch for is how far the suspension travels/wheels droop to tell how hard that guy is about to hit the ground.
That mean sound at @4:43 was the flat four engine (boxer) of the Subaru WRC, a very unique sound
Have you ever been on any of these Euro rally stages, Ian? Camping, pic-nic-ing, meeting people from everywhere and all guaranteed oddities that come with it, etc... 4:14: Portugal's Fafe-Lameirinha stage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know I said It before in another vídeo, but you should definitely check ETRC, European Truck Racing Championship. It's basically European-style semis racing. Full contact racing like DTM or WTCR but with lorries
You should watch the group B mini documentary from The Grand Tour! It’s about the fight between Lancia and Audi. In your free time or in a reaction video, both ways are fine. It’s a must see! Greetings from a Dutch viewer ✌🏼
Thankss!
Because of you I started to watch only the original clips ;)
all I hear when I see this is "jump maybe...jump maybe."😂😂
At 1:16, did the first car of the two have the bonnet (hood) flipped back over the windscreen?
Yes
That old Celica was filmed at Rally Australia , Muresk AG College stage , 1991? Make sure you watch the Rally Australia vieos and Western Australian Rally Champoinship TH-cam vids.
Can you imagine trying to pitch Rallying for the first time in 2022. They’d lock you up thinking you were insane 😊
I'm imagining someone pitching it on Dragon's Den 😂
@@laserpanda94 "and for safety what will the run off areas be like?"....."trees, cliffs and crowds of people" 😂
Mr M is a superb channel :) I also happened on your channel and am so glad that you are falling in love with rally
I just recently discovered your channel. I don't know why but it's hella fascinating watching Americans reacting to stuff non American. Cheers from the Netherlands!
1:40 WHAT WAS THAT THING?!
That Sir, was a Lancia Delta Integrale, a group B beast.
The Integrale was the group A beast, this was the Delta S4, the group B monster.
@@rasmuswi Indeed.
That's the thing about rally, they're all crazy! From the drivers to the spectators to the engineers and even the people in charge of safety, apparently 😅
I remember as a kid people kept saying we'll have flying cars by the time you grow up, well technically we do
Haha I guess we do 🤣
The very first clip is your standard back road in Ireland....that was frank kelly I think......mad man 🤣🤣
Thank you for your content, I have been an F1 and Rally car fan for years.
Formula One? As much as I love it, Rally is the true king's discipline of driving.
the cars, the cars, the cars. No Ian, THE DRIVERS, THE DRIVERS, THE DRIVERS. Dont take their foot of the accelerator.
Your reactions are so wholesome xD. Love your vids. You speak straight from the heart. Especially on rally xD.
gotta love the distance markers beside the landing areas... :)
If you like the older cars The Grand Tour did a great piece on the 1983 WRC battle between Lancia and Audi, it’s well worth a watch
At 1:15, the car was breaking hard because right after the jump there was an almost 180° curve, so the pilot was drifting to align the car with the road.
Been a casual fan of rally since the '80s, and I never cease to be amazed at how well some of these cars fly. I'm sure at least part of it is down to the driver, because you see them screw it up sometimes, but even their most untidy jumps are so much better than anything else it's incredible.
I mean, watch an old episode of Dukes of Hazard or something - that car was totalled almost every time they jumped something, and then it's magically beck to pristine in the next shot. Those were professional drivers too (obviously not of the same calibre, but almost certainly better than you or I) and they still couldn't get that tub to not headbutt the ground.
That car weighed about 2 ton with a massive V8, they also put concrete in the back so it didn't nosedive but the jumps were insanely high, much higher than any rally jumps, they had to have the driver suspended in a harness, not actually sat on the seat so he didn't shatter every bone in his body on landing. One of the best looking cars ever made, shame they had to wreck so many of them.
@@wullaballoo2642 Agreed on all points. The GL and Daisy Duke's pants were about the best parts of that show, imo.
My point was that thing /did/ nosedive an awful lot - even with a huge load of ballast.
At 3:33 the driver set the car up for the turn before he hit the jump so he was already pointed in the right direction when he went over and landed it takes hella skill and is impressive AF to watch. Also the skill to jumping a car to get it to land right with all the downforce some of these cars have especially the W RC cars, is to hit the brakes before you get to the crest of the jump when you get to the crest of the jump you smash the gas so they car tilts backwards otherwise the car starts to do a nose plant because of all the downforce that generates at the front it's also best to land so that one wheel Touches down at a time so you go 1-2-3-4 wheels
Love your vids, glad you like rally, it's cool isn't? But you gotta learn about these cars man, and some rally history!! Yes, that was a Celica GT4, from the Group A days (after group B) in the '90's. Keep up the videos, great fun!
the jump-drift Evo: the co-driver told the driver "right 6, over crest, jump!" so the driver simply positioned the car nose to the apex and floor it!! hit the ground running. awesome skill, though, from both of them.
After watching this, you will like: fall asleep during 2h nascar and then think " what a boring sh*t, give me more Raaaallllyyyy" :0
If you ever watch Rally racing, you will never be able to watch NASCAR again without falling asleep.
You should check out Colin McRae v Travis pastrana at X games. That showed all the skills needed to be a rally driver. Absolute class.
See that M-sport fiesta when you pause at 2:47? You can just buy one of those in that spec for about 200k euros lol
1:16 the first car's bonnet was flipped up.
Servus from Bavaria, super comments. In the landing zone of the rally cars are white flags, the numbers on the flags show how far the car has jumped. In meters
as stupid mad and crazy as rally is, and there's a lot about it that is insane, the crowds, the flying so close to immovable objects such as trees, the one thing that always makes me smile more than anything, is seeing them drive these things ON THE STREETS to get to the next stage, in traffic and everything... Maybe it's not like that today, but it certainly used to be! epic shit.
Those spectators at 1:26 were REALLY crazy. One false move by the car, and somebody is going to get seriously injured.
Hey, i know this Car on the Top Left Video recomendation. Thats the Green Beast, Marco Koch/Stefan Assmann, Group H (Historical) Opel Kadett C. This Guy is FAST, he smoked a Bunch of Evos and Subarus on some local Rally events in Germany (mostly Tarmac).
Rally drivers are like your top gun pilots, the best of the best
Rally drivers are the grown up versions of the kids who grew up driving their home roads in the country side, untill rally team bosses picked them up...
The first one was Frank Kelly. Look up his Fast, Sideways and Mental videos.
Walter Röhrl said: "If I wanted to fly, I would have become a pilot"
Rally drivers are absolutely insane. Doing that in a forest (or sometimes close to cliffs and stuff) on open road kind of tracks with wildlife like moose (or even elephants) possible encounters, while sorrounded by fans... its insanity. No safe zones, barriers or gravel pits here. You make a misstake, you put your car into a tree.
Rally drivers are either insane or they got huge gonads.
Definitely awesome to watch 😎
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"That could have gone a lot worse" pretty much sums up rally :p
A Lot more skill involved than driving round a banked oval
As for the angle of the car during the jump. Releasing the throttle or going full beans on the rev limiter, the momentum of the tires effects the car's pitch during 'flight'.
So obviously on a normal car if you slide sideways on something that grabs like dirt or grass its gonna without a doubt mess something up. But the insane part, with those kinds of vehicles it doesnt even knock them out of alignment. As long as theres no significant impact from like say a rock or something they can take jumps, slides, being dug into the dirt at 140mph, all without even flinching. Once it hits something solid tho thats usually the end
Loved when are you doing fan mail again cannot wait for your reaction to what I sent you
Filmed a couple today!!! One posted tomorrow 🎉👍
2:05 "When you jump a car in real life"
When the car goes down a slope and I'm not expecting it is already scary.
I think it's more crazy to drive 500 rounds in a circuit that is just a big circle.
Your reaction is making me smile so hard my face is hurting
it is not about not damaging the car, it is about bringing it to the finish line as fast as possible
Rally cross truly is the most extreme motor sport. And it does require next level skills to not crash within 5 minutes.
Most injuries in motorsport comes with motorcycle racing, especially motorcycle road racing. As for the cars popping off the limiter, there's a reason for it. To keep the car as level as possible it helps to keep the wheels spinning and to use the gyro effects keep the nose up and back down. Using the brakes can cause the nose to dip and the car to dive.
Rally drivers must have the largest balls of any motorsport driver. I'm surprised the car can even move (let alone literally FLY) with how heavy they must be.
The Skoda Fabia which headed towards the wall on landing. Is accentually a VW Polo. As Skoda is part of the Volkswagen Group.
imho the best pilots/racecar drivers are those who have honed their skills in multiple disciplines. People like Walter Rohl, Ari Vatanen, Jacky Ickx, Mika Hakkinen, etc. (yes, Mika hakkinen is also a capable rally driver)
Or like Kalle Rovanperä has driving rally car sins he was 8 y old. He was ready for WRC allready when he was 16 but regulations for not having drivinglicens made a detour for his rally debute in WRC for him until he gets drivinglicens. A day after his 17th birthday, courtesy of a waiver by the Finnish government he started to drive WRC2 (Škoda) and to day he's driving for Toyota Gazoo Racing in WRC.
Tou should check out the Swedish Rally, a winter race and there yiu see the skills of the drivers in winter conditions.
How more spectators don't get killed is beyond me. No way I'd stand so close to the track
I would love if you looked in to the rallycross aswell, they are super fun and have some amazing moments!