The incredible history of the World Rally Championship

[@GoodwoodRR]

Who is your ultimate rally hero?

[@Cemi_Mhikku]

The Black Volcano.

[@taz2400]

It could only be Colin McRae for me.

[@drewpierce2273]

For me it's Carlsson On-the- Roof. 😁 The great Saab 93 rally king, Erik Carlsson because his era was my first memory of European rallys as a teen. I might as well include his wife Pat Moss. They were definitely 2 of the best in the 50s and 60s. For those who don't know the on the roof reference is to a children's book, but you can guess how EC gained the nickname.😁😁

[@aeroace]

All the Fins (except useless Valtteri)

[@adamadam-bicskei3783]

Colin McRae for all my life

[@ryuhayashi97]

0-60 in 2.7 seconds, On gravel, Using Stick Shifts.

[@MOZZGOED]

80s and 90s was a golden era of rally.

[@iconix3946]

Agreed.

[@fidan2fast]

Can't beleive that I lived trough half of this history... Everything feels like yesterday

[@holeshotshane6344]

There were times when their cars would return to the paddock and the crew would find severed fingers from fans who were trying to touch the cars as they go blasting past. The crazy Group B aero packages with their huge wings and sharp angles act like a cleaver at 80mph.

[@joellima4250]

I just started watching WRC, thanks for sharing this amazing video!

[@NoBrakesWC]

Great video to expand my knowledge on all thing cars 👍

[@gsxrbuggy7460]

I'm only here cuz mcrae is my sporting hero along with senna

[@kifz1418]

The stratos and quattro are just glorious

[@anonymousinternetaddict]

Grew up on racing games and played the WRC/Dirt games for hours a day. Given I'm 01 born, I have a narrower timescale to remember rallying but my favourite so far is Miko Hirvonen in the Ford Focus, just brings back so many memories as a kid

[@davidwood1923]

That was a Fun Video... Thanks for Sharing

[@davidwood1923]

Very informative... Thanks for Sharing

[@royd72]

Great video, very informative 👏👏👏

[@angus3963]

Great video!

[@diogomelo872]

It is still to come! COME ON!

[@TT-ed9yk]

only came for the subaru part onwards. and i came.

[@thetreblerebel]

I love the Ford Escort, Lancia Delta, Quattro, and the Renault R5 Turbo

[@StephenLMW]

1990-2003 was the golden era of the WRC beautiful cars, stunning livery’s and most importantly absolutely outstanding drivers such as Colin McRae, Tommi Makkinen, Marcus Gronholm, Carlos Sainz, Richard Burns, Petter Solberg, Juha Kankkunen, Didier Auriol, and a very young and up and coming Sebastian Loeb who from 2004-2012 become mr WRC winning 9 consecutive world titles

[@gsxrbuggy7460]

What a banging vid!

[@baldobaz1]

The golden era was when you could buy road going versions of the cars, now they bare no resemblance to the road going cars.

[@fidan2fast]

Basically, what happened was that they tried to bring back of the prototype group b era

[@taz2400]

I would have agreed till recently but Toyota have just brought the new GR Yaris and its quite similar. its a 1.6l turbo 4wd with 200KW

[@aydankhaliq2967]

Toyota has entered chat

[@pierreaugustevinluan]

From the humble beginnings in the early 1970s, the WRC has come a long way. Back then there wasn't even a world title for the drivers and it was won by, of all things, and Alpine A110! Since then the FIA World Rally Championship has gone through so many changes a chameleon would be jealous, but each one has brought new and exciting times to the world of rallying. From the mighty Group B cars, through WRC-spec cars which made legends of the likes of Colin McRae and Tommi Makinen to today's machines, which are the fastest rally cars the world has ever seen. In 2022 Group Rally1 cars are due to be introduced in time for the FIA World Rally Championship season as a replacement for the World Rally Car which has been in place in various forms since 1997. And Group Rally1+ cars are due to be also introduced in time for the 2023 FIA World Rally Championship season.

[@drewpierce2273]

Predating WRC drivers were greats like Paddy Hopkirk and Timo Makinen who could make a Mini do amazing rally runs. Rally drivers are either the craziest or bravest drivers in motor sports.

[@Cemi_Mhikku]

They're for sure among the fittest atheletes, period! I remember when those stats came out, blew a LOT of people's minds!

[@tyrellereese1033]

golden era of rally

[@SpatialDragon]

With the technology of today's cars, they don't need the huge horsepower to weight of the Group B cars, the new suspensions and drivetrains allow all the power to be put to to ground. Add to that the modern sequential transmissions and the overall times of the runs are quite fast already, add the hybrid systems and that means the possibility of even faster cars. I will always love the "H" patterned wild and wooly Gr. B and the idiotic crowds trying to touch the cars and sometimes succeeding which occasionally left a finger for the crew to find...

[@sergeymaltzeff2481]

Group "B" are super powerful cars, the mass / power ratio is fantastic ... that's why this group was closed

[@jeteculanbatar4692]

the reason was that it was too fast, drivers couldnt keep up with the cars for more than like 2 hours, after 2 hours, they couldnt concentrate too much and then crashing became absolutely normal in grp. B. People died because of too much power, no reliability or just they couldnt keep up with the cars speed like Toivonen:( . But in fact youre right that its good to be safe. :)

[@akyhne]

WRC1 is faster.

[@jacobszymkowiak3681]

Group b will always be the legends. Never will ever see races like that or cars .

[@MOSSFEEN]

Could have been a great video BUT JUST TO MANY MISTAKES with your info made VW were never in a rally till the Polo came along ??????? Group A GOLF ,VW GOLF F2, SS1600 etc etc

[@gmain1977]

He is on about the WRC , not non World Rally Championship events as in from factory not private

[@Brickhazard]

@@gmain1977 F2 Kit car was eligible for the World Rally Championship. Some cars won out right in the 90's on tarmac rallies beating the Group A cars. The MK3 Golf and MK4 Golf ran a factory team for half a dozen years! It is actually a shame he left it out as the F2 kit cars of the 90's were equally as interesting as the Group A cars and a big part of the WRC in that Era.

[@gmain1977]

@@Brickhazard did those Golfs race in the actual World Championship with factory teams . I know there was a world rally cup which was sub heading for WRC but I am about WRC top level.. Example premiership football and championship , Premiership is the top league. VW was not a main player at all in WRC I am sure they raced but not for top trophy

[@Brickhazard]

@@gmain1977 Kenneth Erikson won the 1987 Rally Ivory Coast which was a sanctioned WRC event. They ended up that season as 4th in the constructors. They homologated the Golf Syncro to compete in WRC so yes they had a history of top works teams and had work teams in the F2 championship which was sanctioned to run along the WRC and eligible for points in the WRC championship.

[@thetreblerebel]

Modern Fiestas are great too

[@jeteculanbatar4692]

not that great like these cars

[@abbielindley123]

COLIN MCRAE

[@Holanduzo]

Kankkunen never joined Sainz in the Celica, actually they switched cars.

[@moskitosTR]

Hope wrc will come back to turkey in 2021

[@jdavidrhea]

“Celeeeeeka”

[@marciocarvalho8975]

There are footage of Joaquim Santos crash. I believe FIA or some authority about motorsport dont aloud that footage to be used and showed whitout permission

[@svenrauber507]

[@cuckoojack]

Not sure, but ken block's electric rally cross car looks pretty epic.

[@b145701s]

No it doesn't

[@wesleyrennie1315]

Wash your mouth!

[@aydankhaliq2967]

@@b145701s yes

[@DEVOTED2YaHUaH144k]

Subaru dominates 90's and up lol 😂 group B rally racing cars were godlike.

[@andreas1453]

Yeah yeah Group B is best, we know it. But Trabant won Rally Monte Carlo in 1970!

[@jeep2003]

In your dreams it did

[@andreas1453]

in their class they did 😗

[@d-d-i]

Facts are again all over the place. Magnesium bodies ? Kevlar and carbon fiber was the thing.

[@TuomioK]

And Finland is not a scandinavian country.

[@Brickhazard]

I think he meant Magnesium wheels!

[@marciocarvalho8975]

Then came the Sierra that toked Ford from a well next escort....

[@gmain1977]

80s and 90s best Era, when Subaru and Mitsubishi left I lost interest. Peugeot and Citroen did not make a rally street car because they did not need to. Delta, Escort Cosworth, Scooby, Evo, Celica GT4 were all homologated , Leob drove in a crap era the cars looked rubbish...same with touring cars , 90s Super Saloons were awesome then they changed the cars

[@HavokR505]

Loeb's success basically killed WRC. got boring real fast.

[@marciocarvalho8975]

Group B Ford was wird and the next Ford car was really out of rally standards. 🤮

[@andredeketeleastutecomplex]

Rally is dead.

[@akyhne]

Why?

[@Holanduzo]

From McRae? I dont get it, I cant understand how such overrated driver know in its time more for crashing than for his wins had become an icon...

[@hamsandwich1860]

Group B 4 lyfe