AMERICAN REACTS TO RALLY CARS FOR THE FIRST TIME! 😱 (FLAT OUTS & BIG JUMPS!)

[@bdcccl]

Some people have already provided some information about rallying, but here are a few more: A rally is composed of multiple stages, which are routes going from one point to another, not laps. In the World Rally Championship (WRC), there are usually around 20 stages, ranging from approximately 4 or 5 km to around 25 or 30 km in length. In typical circuit racing, drivers race on the same track with the same corners lap after lap, giving them a chance to memorize every single part of the track. However, in rallying, drivers can't memorize it because there are too many corners and too many stages. So, every rally has something called a "Recce," where every driver and co-driver will go through the stages at a slower pace (maximum 80 km/h, if I'm not mistaken) and they take "pacenotes" to describe the stage. During the actual race, the co-driver will read those pacenotes for the driver as they go. I suggest watching onboard footage to see how this dynamic works. In the actual race, each car will start with an interval of around 1 to 3 minutes from the previous one. In rallying, cars don't race side by side. The race is decided by who can achieve the quickest overall time aggregated from all of the stages. I love Formula 1 and other circuit racing, but these rally drivers are on another level. Even F1 drivers will say it. They require different skills, but I personally think rallying is crazier!

[@crytilz]

Rally cars race "track" is actually called a 'stage' and you go from point A to point B as fast as you can. Stages go anywhere from 6mi long to 19mi long usually, some stages are 30+ miles long.

[@crytilz]

also i don't know exactly why they blow a whistle when the car is coming but i'm guessing its to tell people on the sides to clear the track and make sure you safe before the car comes round.

[@FirstUpGolf]

Thanks so much for the info 🙏

[@alexbardoux7297]

The images you watch are coming from the rallye of Finland, one of the most impressive because of high speed and massive jumps . There are two men in the car, the pilot, and the copilot who reads the pacenotes to describe the road.

[@longlowdog]

The whistle is marshals warning fans to gtf off the road.

[@FirstUpGolf]

Ohhh ok thank you!

[@akyhne]

08:05 No, they are not photoshoped, those are genuine photos.

[@nemrod501]

rally is a point to point type deal where you don't fully know the track and you're relying on a dude next to you reading notes on how fast to take a corner, watch some group B compilations in portugal if you want to see some crazy ass fans they used to block the road with 200 plus people whilst the cars were going just as fast

[@FirstUpGolf]

Omg really? I’m checking that out next!

[@FirstUpGolf]

group B video just dropped! kzbin.info/www/bejne/goPbiauIZsh6hKs

[@cairomiravity]

Rally drivers do a test run of the track before their actual lap which is why the co-pilot is reading directions.

[@detectingchicago7768]

If you think modern rally is crazy then watch some Group B rally footage from back in the day. And F1 is nuts bc of speed and fragility of the cars but rally racing is just plain crazy!! These guys have balls of steel!!! Or are just the craziest drivers on the planet!!

[@FirstUpGolf]

I’ll definitely check out group B seems like these drivers are crazy asf 😭

[@FirstUpGolf]

group B video just dropped! kzbin.info/www/bejne/goPbiauIZsh6hKs

[@weepair2]

This is nothing like Nascar, this is exciting.

[@chrisharvey1091]

If you think this rally is crazy, you ain't seen nothing yet. You need to watch Group B rally from the 80's where the entire track is lined with hundreds of spectators RIGHT AT THE EDGE OF THE TRACK.

[@FirstUpGolf]

No way 😭 that’s the 2nd suggestion for that

[@chrisharvey1091]

@@FirstUpGolf Dude, it really was batshit f***ing insane. Group B, and I could be wrong about this, didn't even get a full season before it got cut and banned for just how dangerous it was, for both spectators AND drivers.

[@FirstUpGolf]

video coming out tomorrow i filmed the video 😎

[@FirstUpGolf]

video just dropped! kzbin.info/www/bejne/goPbiauIZsh6hKs

[@akyhne]

Group B was from 1982 to 1986. It ended prematurely, because of accidents. And they don't race on tracks in rally, they race on stages - closed public roads.

[@larencontremusique-halle1415]

Hello from France ! to answer your question there can be a lot of spectators! The race takes place on public roads (secondary roads) and we cannot prohibit access to the public! otherwise it becomes rally cross and then it happens on the circuit (dirt and asphalt)

[@FlankerB3]

the fastest rally on the current World Championship calendar is Rally Sweden (snow and ice). that video is all about Rally Finland (also part of the WRC) (hence the Finnish flag). We have here in Croatia also an event that's part of the WRC (can't wait for the 2024 season wich starts soon with Rally Monte Carlo)

[@panamafloyd1469]

RE: The whistles - the workers at these events carry whistles because it's one of the few things you can hear over the sound of the cars. I come from a road-racing background, where flagging/safety/communications workers will blow the whistle to get another worker's attention (when the worker's out of the station and across the road or something), and then use hand signals to give/receive messages to each other. From what I've observed at rallies, they do pretty much the same thing. One extra thing they use whistles for is to let the spectators further down the road know that a car is coming, so that they'll stand back a lil' bit.

[@FirstUpGolf]

thank you for the info!

[@panamafloyd1469]

@@FirstUpGolf , NP dude! I'm enjoying it that more of 'my fellow Americans' are discovering my favorite versions of motorsport. If I had a dollar for every time I've said, '..no not like NASCAR.." over the last 40yrs, I could buy that new Nismo Z. 😀

[@FirstUpGolf]

😭🤣

[@Jari-p1y]

FULL ONBOARD - SS12 Rovanperä/Halttunen | WRC Rally Estonia 2023

[@FirstUpGolf]

awesome i added it to my list!

[@Dimmie1976]

Rallycars drives in Stages 1-10 or 12 and can repaired for the next Stage but they dont have much time.And the stottering in the air is the speedlimiter by the jumps they drives fullthrottle.

[@frankbudge2500]

Rally, no practice, just a co-driver who passes instructions about the up-coming turns. These are the elite drivers on a par with F1.

[@FirstUpGolf]

thanks insane

[@DrMcKay66]

THE greatest show on earth on 4 wheels. Ask any F1, indy or nascar driver 😊

[@berounmv7024]

3:40 Here you can learn about WRC (World Rally Championship) kzbin.info/www/bejne/anmnhJmjas-da9k

[@testicat8462]

You gotta watch group b rallying next the cars in the 80s were literal off-road supercars and thousands is spectators used to stand in the road trying to touch the cars as they sped by

[@FirstUpGolf]

I will check it out!

[@FirstUpGolf]

video just dropped! kzbin.info/www/bejne/goPbiauIZsh6hKs

[@akyhne]

They were lighter, and some more powerful, than current day WRC1. But they were not as fast, as WRC1, on a stage.

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

@@akyhne Group-B records were beated in the late -90's. Nearly 30 years ago.

[@FlankerB3]

Rally is not circuit race. It consists of timed Special Stages point A to point B which combined make 300 km in length (for WRC rally) (similar to F1 race distance). There are some so called Super Special Stages - which are short and usually on a circuit, or even parallel circuit (for duels), but they are just a small part of rally competition (as they are only 2-3 km long) and are made for large spectator crowds (for example the Mikolajki Arena stage in rally Poland (no longer on the calendar), old Lisboa (Rally Portugal street stage, the street stage in Tirer for rally Deutschland). Not all rallies on the WRC calendar have super special stages. Average stage length is about 16-18 km, but the longest stage was Guanajuatito (Rally Mexico) with almost 80 km of length. The rallies are usually single surface (either gravel (sometimes mixed with dirt and mud) (Finland, Estonia, Mexico,...) dirt/mud (depending on the weather), tarmac (Rally Croatia (my homecountry), Central Europe rally, Japan), snow-tarmac (Monte Carlo, except last season when there was very little snow), snow+ice (Rally Sweeden - actually the fastest rally on the WRC calendar - speeds reaching just under 200 km/h, or Arctic Rally Finland (which was a replacement for Sweden during COVID) - not to be mixed up with Rally Finland). But combined surface rally is not banned and there were some like that (Rallye de Catalunya sometimes combined tarmac and gravel stages), but rallies like that are extremely rare as it is very difficult to setup the car for both surfaces. Croatia Rally is also difficult as it consist of four different types of tarmac stages but it is still on the calendar.

[@FlankerB3]

...best drivers are in the WRC, but they compete in multiple categories - JWRC or WRC Junior with Rally3 class cars (Fiesta Rally3), WRC3 also Rally3 class cars (only ford Fiesta Rally3 for now), WRC2 (Rally2 class cars - Ford Fiesta Rally2, Škoda Fabia Rally2 and Rally2 Evo, Hyundai i20 N Rally2, Citroën C3 Rally2, Toyota GR Yaris Rally2, but also R5 class cars like Citroën DS3 R5, Citroën C3 R5, Ford Fiesta R5, Hyundai i20 R5, Peugeot 208 T16 R5, Škoda Fabia R5, Volkswagen Polo GTI R5, Proton Iriz R5) and the main "big boy" category - the WRC wich uses Rally1 class cars - the most powerful at this time (Hyundai i20 N Rally1, Ford Puma Rally1, and Toyota GR Yaris Rally1). All Rally1 class cars are hybrids (petrol+electric with so called hybrid boost). And the current World champion (in the main category), actually two years in a row is Finn Kalle Rovanperä (and he is also the youngest ever WRC champion), driving for Toyota. But there's a negative side of the sport - it can be lethal. Fatalities don't happen often but they do happen. Last season (2023) during pre-event practice session in Croatia Irish driver Craig Breen (Hyundai i20 N Rally1) was killed in an accident just a few days before the start of the competition. And Croatian organizers offered to cancel the competition but Craig's family and Hyundai team talked them out of it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3W6pKqoiKmXfdE Fatalities like that are not common, but they can happen. Not just drivers are in danger, but also co-drivers and spectators. For example in WRC season 2005 Markko Martin's co-driver was killed in an accident during Rally Wales. And also there were spectator fatalities also like in Portugal 1986 (one of two fatal accidents in that years that lead to banning of Group B cars - the other one was Rally Corsica (Tour de Corse) devastating accident that killed Henry Toivonen and his co-driver Sergio Cresto (Lancia Delta S4 Group B): "During the second leg, on Friday, 2 May, at the seventh kilometre of the 18th stage, Corte-Taverna, Toivonen's Lancia went off the side of the road at a tight left corner with no guardrail. The car plunged down a ravine and crashed on its roof. The aluminium fuel tank underneath the driver's seat was ruptured by the trees and exploded. The fuel tank was not protected by a skid plate, an item used mainly on gravel rallies, which was not fitted for the all-asphalt Tour de Corse. The explosion happened within seconds of the crash, and Toivonen and his co-driver, Sergio Cresto would not have had time to get out if they were still alive. The fire caused by the explosion was so intense that the Delta S4, built of fast-burning kevlar-reinforced plastic composite, was unidentifiable as a car afterwards. Both Toivonen and Cresto died in their seats. Toivonen left behind wife Erja (married in 1982) and two young children, son Markus and daughter Arla, while Cresto was single with no children."

[@johnhood3172]

Also you want to watch group b rally from the 80s total madness.

[@ptk5553]

Rally 1 speeds up to 200 mph off road/ tarmac. whistles are to warn a car is coming.

[@FirstUpGolf]

200 mph is crazyyyy these drivers are unreal

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

*km/h

[@r3uvsgaming]

​@@FirstUpGolflmao, he either made a mistake, or is straight up lying. in reality it's just 200 KPH, which is 120mph. still pretty crazy considering they race on gravel, dirt, mud, snow, and ice, but still, it's not 200mph

[@akyhne]

I don't know where this myth comes from, but I've seen a lot say, they can do 300 km/h. In modern WRC1, they rarely go above 190 km/h, and around 190-195 km/h, depending on the maker, the rev limiter kicks in.

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

@@akyhne They could easily do 300 km/h, but they don't because they are not build for that. All you need is a high-speed gearbox, which doesn't exist in rally world.

[@danieldaugaard403]

A course is between 5 km to 50km. F1 drivers say Rally drivers are crazy and insane. That says something… im a massive Rally driver. You should try search for group b era .. please film your reaction.. they go through the course 1 time before male notes, one practice round of the first 2-3km then its for real all course

[@jalbertseabra2283]

Foto-shop? Go to Europe and watch the action. Most of the cars fearure red ,white, touches of green or Yellow to afford visibility -- thee is a lot of dust and sand. Obviously ,mos of the time Ralliee takes place on narrow, dirt or gravel roads. Snow, rain, racing during the night add to the competition. Skills, fantastic reflexs and a great co-pilot,always telling the driver, next turn right, followed by sharp turn left, 35 degrees. Etc. Rallies take place on roads, going through woods, desert, etc. A rally may rake place during 2 or 3 days, going through different roads, night and day. Accidents seldom take place, althoug the crowds are just there. However, Around 15 years ago, the super cars, Class B were far to fast. During the Portugal Rally, a famous driver lost control and 30 persons wre killed and dozens injued. The following month, the Champions driving a Lancia turbo and super- charged lost control and crashed downhill. Both lives were lost. After that, the Class B cars were banned . Apparently, thei were racing around 150 miles -- roads like that don't tolerate mistakes. Nascar and Indianapolis drivers ? Comparatively, that's nothing vis a vis Rallies.

[@FirstUpGolf]

That seems super intense !!

[@akyhne]

31 were injured, and 3 killed. Not 30! "On the "Lagoa Azul" stage of the Portuguese Rally near Sintra, Portuguese driver Joaquim Santos crested a rise, turning to his right to avoid a small group of spectators. This caused him to lose control of his RS200. The car veered to the right and slid off the road into another group of spectators. Thirty-one people were injured and three were killed. All the top teams immediately pulled out of the rally and Group B was placed in jeopardy.".

[@Danielsimpsonite]

These guys are crazy, tt riders are fucking insane

[@FirstUpGolf]

Fax 😭

[@ChrisHüwels]

02:33 not trust only skill

[@AlfredMeador]

Check out the Baja races

[@Mojova1]

Some people die yes but mostly just stupid people in a wrong place on the stage. Rally cars are really sturdy so you really do need to go down a cliff for the driver to take serious damage. After a crash people try to push the car back on the road or the driver just usually walks it off.

[@Robyn_Andrews]

rallying isnt circuit, its a race from point a to point b where cars go one at a time, and the fastest time wins basically

[@FirstUpGolf]

Ohh ok so is it 1 take or do they multiple tries to get it right?

[@Robyn_Andrews]

@@FirstUpGolf only once!

[@FirstUpGolf]

awesome!

[@r3uvsgaming]

​@@FirstUpGolfit's not just one point-to-point course. It's multiple point-to-point courses, called stages, in a span of 3 days. Each day in a rally, it's an average of 5-7 stages in a day (though it may vary), after the drivers run a stage, they have to travel to the next stage using public roads and obeying traffic laws

[@paul39a]

we dont mess about in the uk...lol

[@danielcarter94]

Rally lasts a weekend

[@eerolz8758]

lol if you think F1 is crazy, you need to listen to what F1 drivers say about Rallying.. The current champion, youngest ever and a double champ on top, Kalle Rovanperä took two old F1 drivers up for a ride and both of them said it was the scariest thing they've ever experienced. On top of the current best F1 driver Max Verstappen has said he'd never want to try Rallying because its too risky. Although, considering all, the sport is getting safer, but there are still some deaths, like Craig Breen last year. But that goes for all motorsports. There are absolutely crazy looking crashes where everyone has walked out of, those cars are impressive.

[@FirstUpGolf]

Definitely the most dangerous of all racing!

[@eerolz8758]

​ @FirstUpUSA I'd say stuff like dirt bike racing and then especially aerial racing.. but from 4 wheeled car racing, probably yeah. Still its such a great sport to watch, have grown up in a town that hosts Rally Finland, the one you reacted to. Last death of a racer in it was in 1983, and after that there was two spectator deaths in the 90s, one of which was quite the accident that made them not run the stage for 10 years. (a car ran off into a group of spectators, 1 dead, 36 injured) Very glad to myself only having witnessed spectacular rollovers where nobody got hurt. And hopefully will get to keep it that way.

[@akyhne]

​@@FirstUpGolfEver heard about The Isle of Man TT?

[@FirstUpGolf]

ive heard the name but never watched it 🤔

[@paul39a]

once you get into rally. no matter where you are....i drive fast, butthese nguys.....i do it in my gamme easy, withr steering wheel....

[@chetcarman3530]

...how to make Rally almost boring.

[@Sussex192]

I'll subscribe if you react to some more rally vids. Bonuse points if you find some about the co-drivers, onboards, and crashes. This is a very good one, please react to it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZ22dZWoiq14qNE Rallies are made up of stages, which are closed (normally public) roads. Between the closed roads where they driver competitively, the cars need to drive on open public roads with normal traffic, so all the cars have to be 'road legalish' (rally rego allows more mods then normal rego, and you have more conditions that you have to abide by) At the start of a special stage (the closed off roads) there is a time control, and you have to check in on your exact minute. This is where co-drivers are very important. Cars have between 1 and 3 minutes between them, so multiple cars will be on the same stage, but with some distance between them. They only go on the same roads once, or at most twice. Co-drives read out the pacenotes; which were made during recce a day or two before. The crew drive the route at a slow pace and the driver calls the notes, and the co-driver writes them down. Fastest time over all wins.

[@FirstUpGolf]

ill check it out!

[@johnhood3172]

You want to see a rally car jump over a dog.

[@Antena308]

More about rally kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2i7dp6des58Y9ksi=omUEtwWLmOPIgkxO

[@chevroletbelair1]

F1 drivers are not as good as rally car drivers, f1 drivers do 1 lap and they know the route. rally drivers dont know where is a tree , a putthole , a bump in the road. they have super fast reflexes they whistlle because to lett the people know there is a car coming

[@Anna_KTZ]

to me, somebody who's been watching rally for years, f1 is extremely boring xD

[@robertlonsdale5326]

Not really for Americans lol.

[@FirstUpGolf]

im honestly loving rally its so exciting

[@danielnystrom6117]

rally cars can do up to around 120 - 150 mph but on any road, tarmac, gravel, mudd, snow. group B is alot better, them cars were bonkers. also rally cross is good. got to say rest in peach craig breen, died in a rally chrash on a test stage in april last year 😔

[@FirstUpGolf]

Ohhh dammm

[@akyhne]

The top speed is around 190-195 km/h. Which is 121 mph max. Then a rev limiter kicks in. Some of the old Group B, could do 220-225 km/h. But top speeds are rare, as the stages don't allow them. If you check the official site for the Ford WRC1 team, it says, the top speed is 200 km/h. But I've never seen them do more than around 195.

[@chetcarman3530]

Not the best intro to Rally...

[@FirstUpGolf]

do you have any suggestions? ill check them out!

[@chetcarman3530]

@@FirstUpGolf try here for starters. Check out some longer WRC & Group B Rally if you want to edit or just watch -- it will amaze you! Also: Check out "Isle Of Man TT Motorcycle Race -- deadliest race in the world. 💯 (I'm a retired motorcycle & car racer*) kzbin.info/www/bejne/hma1equArNOnZ5Isi=Pm1lUQIuuoFqV-nt kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnuappyaj7ajgJIsi=m2YoYdddQKbCLsqz kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqTZeKulZs2kma8si=QrARuzEahPqdJYg8

[@FirstUpGolf]

awesome thank you so much ill check those out!

[@johnveerkamp1501]

NASCAR IS SHIT. DRIVING AROUND IN CICLES.

[@FirstUpGolf]

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