Kalle participated at the age of 14, in the Latvian rally championship, as it is one of the only countries, where you don't need a driver's license. He won the R2 class.
That white car you’re questioning wasn’t a Porsche. It was an alpine A110. The car originally competed in rally racing throughout the 60s and 70s and then fairly recently. The manufacturer decided to make a modern version of their classic sports/rally car and that was what you were looking at. It still called the alpine A110.
You may also note that Alpine is a sub-brand of Renault, the Alpine A110 is Mid-Engined and Rear-Wheel-Drive with a Renault Mégane RS 1.8 Turbo Engine with 250- 300HP Output 😄
This is from WRC Croatia 2023. Greets from Croatia 😊 Hyundai cars are in colors of the Irish flag. This was tribute to Craig Breen who passed away one week prior to the event also in Croatia during testing for the rally.
You wondered what the car was at 7:17 This is an Alpine A110, A french sports/rally car designed to be lightweight and fun, It is a modern take on the old A110 from the 60s
I live in Croatia and this year was the third time we had WRC championship so it's all new to us. The sound they make while going past you flat out can only be experienced live. No video, no sound equipment can show you the feeling of being there. It just can't. Today on Vinwiki some guy was talking about bringing WRC to USA so I really hope you get it there!
In 2011 Petter Solberg got his drivinglisence suspended for speeding between stages and his co-driver Chris Patterson drove the last super stage of Rally Sweden.
You can see from the number plate where the car is officially registered. Small letters on a blue background is the country in Europe: PL: Poland D: Germany In Germany, the next 1-3 letters designate mostly the Landkreis (~ county) D ALZ: Aschaffenburg (ALZ stands for ALZenau) D AW: Ahrweiler
Its the same in Poland but Ford in 4:56 has custom plates. First letter is voivodeship ( state ) then second and third letter is County and City where car is registered
funny that you guys metioning the Poland because we have fuck*d up this thing in our country. For short: Rally car need to have full rollcage, and valid MOT (public road inspection) to take a part in rally event. But car with rollcage cannot pass polish MOT, because its "heavily modified chassis structure" MOT inspector as to risk their neck to "stamp" rally cars... there were huge buzz last year, when police came to the rally and catch up rally cars on public road between special stages (we call it "dojazdówka") and impouded the papers of some cars. Situation is so weird that rally teams started to register cars in Czech Republic to avoid problems. Goverment dont really bother, because its couple of cars compared to amount of cars on civic roads, and they had to change whole resgistration laws because of this... "my country, so beautiful..."
This is the part of a rally you don't often see, as 99% of the attention is on the Special Stages. Pay attention to that nomenclature, as the Special Stages are roads that are closed specifically for the rally to run on. The normal stages are the drives between the special stages, to and from the service park, and all that, and they are timed. The organizers of a rally will do a drive between the locations a week or so before the rally, at the speed limit and following all the rules of the road, and then the competitors must match that time +/- a few minutes, as part of the rally. If they are early, they get penalized. If they are late, they are penalized. It is all part of the timekeeping of a rally, and that absolutely golden piece of paper that the co-driver handles, the time sheet. Each stage, special or normal, must have the start and end time recorded and signed off by a timekeeping marshal. The penalties are also significant. For example, if you have to be at a place within 5 minutes of the nominal time, and you show up at 5 minutes and 10 seconds, you can incur a penalty of 30 seconds to your overall rally time, which for the leaders can drop you from first place to the mid-teens in one fell swoop. It's also why the co-driver is called a "co-driver" and not a navigator, as they are allowed to drive the normal sections while the driver rests in the co-driver's seat. If you lose your time sheet, that's game over, no matter who you are. If you run a stage without a time sheet, knowingly or not, you can incur fines and even disqualification from subsequent events. I think it happened to Thierry Neuville recently, when they lost their time sheet, did a stage, and as they couldn't produce it to get the special stage signed off, were fined 10,000 Euros.
@@cameronliddell9533 The transit time is absolutely measured before an event in normal conditions and generally slightly overestimated to give time for traffic etc. But in WRC, you absolutely get penalties for arriving too late or early. It's literally in the WRC rules (44.2.10 and some other sections). Here's a simplified version "Target Time The official time allowed for a WRC car to complete a non-competitive road section. Time penalties are applied if competitors check-in earlier or later than their target time. " "Time Penalty Rally crews are penalised 10 seconds for every minute the car is late to a time control - for instance a stage start, service-in control, service-out control. Checking-in early to a time control carries a stiffer penalty of one minute for every minute early. "
Back in the days when Wales Rally GB finished in the centre of Cardiff it was always surreal seeing all the cars making their way to the finish stage in the same traffic as people going to do their weekly shop. On one particularly filthy year one of the drivers even nipped into the local car wash and got his car clean before the final run in front of the cameras! There was an investigation as it was thought that they had received unauthorised outside assistance form the team but no, there was footage on social media of them at the local Tesco with the driver and co-driver cleaning it themselves. Worth it for the sponsors as they were the only car that you could see the livery on!
I remember when Loeb broke a wheel during a commute between two stages, so his copilot had to sit on the side of the car to lift the damage side. Wild.
I remember years ago at the Kielder Forest Rally (UK) one of the rally cars had a crash and completely lost one of their wheels. They carried on anyway, on public roads. The police said it took them miles to catch up with it and pull it over 😀
Loeb did a similar thing in the Xsara. I think his co-driver Daniel Elena was hanging out from the passenger window to try and balance the car on 3 wheels.
Yes, you are correct, and this is why, in the 90's, I used my rally car as a day-by-day car, it was road legal... and a lot of fun to drive to work, or the shops.
@@paulomarinho1963 So did my dad in the 80ies. Him and his buddy used to rally a vauxhall stationcar and when not racing they used it for moonlighting as electricians... LOL
Yes. And they have to get to the start of the next special stage within a certain time. So, of course, if they get stuck in traffic or something, it's tempting to speed a little bit to catch up some time. But they do get pulled over and fined, like any other driver would, if they are caught by the police speeding, running a red light or something.
@@HGSolberg Yes. I know because I'm from Croatia .and there was already a problem with the accidents and underage really drivers. In past. Although on a worse was crash Pagani Zonda HP Barchetta During Croatian Supercar Meet. When it comes to financial view
Somewhere in 5.30 you said something about trouble. Sometimes guys just stop to take a piss😃 But they also change wheels many times in bus stops etc. Like front left to back right and so on…
I’m a rally co-driver in Australia and this one is always fun seeing peoples reactions when they don’t know a rally is on… even funnier as an all girl team and seeing heads turn when it’s a long liaison and we take our helmets off hehe To answer your question, no, no cool suits, no air conditioning, just a roof scoop to push some air through if your lucky so rally in the Australian summer can be a punish! They are more comfortable then you’d think tho!!
Regarding AC, rally cars don't have AC installed exactly for the same reasons you mentioned. They have some air vents that they can open up and then push some air into the car. But in some rallies it can get to 60-70 degrees celsius (around 150f) inside the cockpit. Especially with the latest gen cars there were problems with the heat. For example the exhaust pipes were installed right next to the codrivers seat and were so badly insulated that they even melted some codrivers boots. So the manufacturers jumped through all sorts of hoops to get the temp down, e.g. Hyundai installed a golden roof in order to reflect more sunlight etc. Fingers crossed that US will have a WRC event in Tennessee next year. I'll definitely hop on a plane and come visit then :)
This is very common. WRC cars are road legal because they often have to drive on public roads between races. They have to drive on road to reach the next special race. So if you’re close to a race, you might see them driving in the road like you see here on the video. They don’t use trucks or other trailer to bring the car to the race, they simply drive it. Also, I believe the only thing that isn’t road legal on those cars are the loud exhaust.
3:20 If you want something special (more than just a missing fender), look for the video of Sebastian Loeb that was missing a wheel and train, and got arrested by cops for driving in those conditions with his copilot out of the window to counter the missing wheel with his body weight, etc… it’s absolutely crazy, but it happened between two specials of a race, and if they couldn’t convinced the cops to continue to drive, they couldn’t reach the next race point and would be disqualified.
When its rally season in Portugal, they are a common sighting on the roads, as well tons of police checking that they dont exceed the speed limite since they use highways to get to rally stages.
In the sixties it happened that F1 cars left the circuit to drive on public road to parc fermé. I saw it back then as a small boy in Zandvoort. It was only a mile or so, but still, public road and they drove by themselves straight through the public that was leaving the circuit. A Lotus actually almost drove over my toes.
That was rally Croatia you were asking about. Hyundai had there car in that Irish flag livery as a mark of respect for their driver Craig Breen who died the week before in a testing accident. Also, air comes in through a roof vent that can be opened and closed and has directional vents inside so the driver/ Co driver can direct the air towards them, but yeah, no Air Con.
I grew up in perth Australia back when there still was a rally Australia, it was awesome seeing the race spec. WRXs and EVOs driving between stages in the hills then back into the city!
@Australian Dave - I was in Perth back in 2000-'01. I really wanted to go and watch the WRC while I was there but no one else was up for it. I really regret not just going by myself. Much nicer watching the rally in beautiful weather rather than back here in the UK were it can get pretty cold stood out in the forest all day. I absolutely loved my time in WA. Unfortunately it ended with a 5 month stay in Perth Royal Hospital after my tent caught fire up in Coral Bay. I hope to make it back out to WA some time and finish my trip.
@@Davo_enchilada You dude's have some great racing over in Oz. I really got into V8 Supercars (Supercars, as its now known as) while I was there. Still love watching it. Such a great race series.
@@paulfletcher3998wow I’m sorry to hear about your 5month stay at RPH I’ve spent more time there that I would have liked but nothing like that! I take it you were over here to do the lap? And having lived i the uk I can imagine what it would be like watching rallies over there!
In Nov 1993 i was co-driving on UK’s WRC round in a Group N Sierra Cosworth 4x4. On the freeway between stages another competitor was in the slow lane with a front wheel missing following an incident on previous stage with their chase car hiding misding wheel in midfle lane from police patrol cars!
These cars have a a race mode and a street mode setting (with a switch on the steering wheel). When they cross the finish line, the pilot enables street mode. Quite recognizable is the sound. Street mode is more quite than race mode. And no: no ac, no stereo radio …
Last year I went to see rally in person for the first time ever. It was WRC rally Finland 2022. Already when I was driving to my targeted stage and spectating area I saw few of the Toyota WRC crews just casually parked at the side of the road doing some maintance and stuff way before the spot where I was heading to. I slowed down and did a unusually smooth downshift on my normal manual car and Janne Fern (co-driver of Esa-Pekka Lappi) looked at me and I was like (omg omg he looked at me). Later I realised that I should have waved at him, still regret that. But man, just seeing them there on the side of a everyday normal road was awesome. Also the whole experience just going to see the rally and seeing the rally cars race was one of the best things in my life. And I feel like one of the best things is the sound, you can't hear even half of it in videos I can tell you that. Those things, especially the rally1 cars sound absolutely out of this world when they echo through the forests from miles away.
Saw this in person when rally cars were moving from one stage to the next when it was nearby in parts during the Wales Rally. Was nice to see the cars drive by, followed by usual support vehicles and all.
as a kid i saw group B...you feel the car before you ear the car because the ground vibrates (it was the case in the 80's because group B cars were louder than nowadays) 7:10 Alpine A110
in Australia, they come past my house every year to go to a stage that is about 20klm away. last year i was in a convoy of 5 of them driving through the mountains, it was pretty cool.
From 2009 to 2019 The Dakar Rally was held in South America, there are a lot of online videos of Rally cars and Trucks on regular roads between stages.
Modern rally cars have basically two modes ; a "stage" mode with every bit of performance turned to the max and a "travel" mode more chill and rideable on trafic conditions :)
@@sebastianandersson8093 lol naah chief they are street legal, they even have a mode for driving in between stages where they don't rev as much, engine power is limited and they have everything a normal car has, turn signals rear view mirrors.
The competitors do this in the dakar rally on their transit stages too. Few years ago in world sports cars they often drove little sections on the public roads between their service and workshops and the track (or occasionally some late night high speed testing of certain components and repairs like peter brock and larry perkins did with a group c porsche 965 back in the early 80s). Theres a pic of the 80s porsche lemans racers driving in peak hour traffic on melbourne from their workshop to the track that ive seen.
Cool, I was one of the people who suggested this video. I'm waiting for a reaction from a video about speedway, I come from Poland. Well, Croatia is one of my favorite holiday destinations
in italy, for transferts between "special stages" you can drive your car in the street (of course special papers needed from autorities) for the "1000 miles" is always full of spectacular cars on the streets ^^
I believe these cars are street legal,as they have regular car plates like any car in Europe. Im from Serbia, (next to Croatia) and here, racing cars cant be driven on streets, iif they dont have car plates and car insurance. Without plates, they carry them on trailers. I believe, cars on videos are being driven also on streets and is possible they came down to that place on their own.Polish,German car plates, and Subaru wearing regular Croatian car plate ZG which means Zagreb.
It happens a lot when there are special street stages in some countries, the cars are not moved by truck or anything they just on to the road and drive to the stage. You see that a lot in Portugal.
They can also be stopped by police and even get fines, because they have to be fully road legal and they're subject to the same safety rules as anyone else. There is a famous video where Marcus Gronholm is stopped by police driving a busted up car (he might've been even missing a wheel or something if I remember correctly) and is arguing with them whether or not he can safely reach the service area.
@@amaizeing.dumbass5123 Possibly? I kinda stopped actively following rally when all of my favorite drivers either died or stopped driving *and* the cars changed too much.
First time I went to rally, few of them were just arriving to the start of the stage and man were they loud, it was amazing. And best thing is their brakes, you could hear the breaks squeal and scream even when they were driving slowly in traffic. It sounded like metal to metal rubbing and for some reason it really made strong impression, and kinda tells you how hard these cars are driven.
@ Ya its a QV but it stands for QuadriFoglio Verde (Green 4 leaf clover) not quattrovalvole. Quattrovalvole is a Ferrari thing. PS: I drive a Giulietta QV myself :)
AC it's banned in the WRC, but in early 2000's, Peugeot 206 WRC, and the Citroën Xsara got AC, the cars have to comply with a minimal weight and AC was added to help reach that weight requirements Later on was banned, even as VO, or Variant Option
That weird thing was a Peugeot. You can compare the 'striped' rearlights to lion nails ( lion being the sign of Peugeot ). The front lights you can compare to the lions teeth. Now you know how to recognize modern Peugeots.
My girl friend and I went to Corsica for the WRC, we were travelling between stages on our rental Fiat Panda, going down a hill towards a hairpin right when Colin McRea came past on the left and chucked it sideways right infront of us and hung the tail out right round the bend.
7:00 fav moment 🤣🤣🤣, actually driving to this year's rally Portugal Dani Sordo caught up to me in the toll booth neat Amarante 🤣. Got me all fired up to see the stage.
When I was a kid I met a Dakar car on the French autobahn(autoroute)because in the past this was really Paris to Dakar! And it is insane to meet a such car in open road! It is just a souvenir I was like 6 or 7 years old!
Once a year this is common to me but it's freaking awesome! I let them through where I can! Usually happens when we go from one special to the next. Look up Rally of Ypres. Finally got WRC last couple of years but this rally is Historic. And an insane asfalt rally! Feel free to look up. I'm 42 and have been attending this rally since i was 8 (that i can remember 😉) Great video!
Just last weekend there was a Ford Escort and a Hyundai i20 full race liveries on the road near Eindhoven. I think they were going to an event? but damn, stripped down to the bone, noisy as hell! Loved it!
In the early 2000's I used to live in Spain. So, on one January morning, as I was commuting to work and I took the highway for some 30 km as per usual, I was overtaken by a huge convoy of racing cars, buggies, 4x4's, racing trucks and bikes. It turned out that they were from the Paris - Dakar rally bombing down the highway. That was something surreal to me. Once in a lifetime experience. Hard to forget.
Fun fact: the rally cars have a switch that instructs the motor management system to switch from a 'normal' road legal engine mapping to the engine mapping used during the rally stints, this mapping also enables the anti-lag systems. This would change the engine from a 200 bhp car to a 450bhp car. Thr anti-lag system has the most impact because that is a system that is pumping gasoline in the turbo to keep it running off throttle (this is also the reason why fire is coming from the exhaust). Another fun fact is that no rally driver dares to speed when driving from stint to sting because speeding can cause you to be kicked out of the event or lose points.
When i was about 11 my father took me to an rally event and when we went from the one stage to the next we were driving behind one of the cars. It was so freaking amazing
Something that is quite special about these WRC cars is that they have a mode that they use on the single stages, they also have a mode for road driving, this to save both electricity and fuel.
Danish guy here. I've seen rally cars driving in transit between stages, and it is indeed a spectacular sight. In most regards WRC spec cars really is the top tier race type build, not just in terms of performance, but because they are actually street legal under special conditions. Plus they also have that recognisable one to one physical appearance (add body mods and decals). There, the similarities end though. Everything inside the chassis is of pure racing breed. Maybe a few smaller bolts and some light bulbs are the same, but that's it.
im a navigator in queensland rally sometimes, we only use rotaries and get a huge thumbs up from everyone when we are on the way to stages and also when we do display at night
Usually,they have small lids on the plastic windows that they can slide open, i think some also have small vents on the roof that can be opened as well but most likely no AC.
5:34 BTW, that's Kalle Rovanperä in the Toyota, the current reigning WRC Champ. You've featured him in that older video where he was just a little kid.
Yeah my city receives the HQ of Rally of Portugal ... and between stages they come to the hq everyday.... sometimes is a mess because everything stops to give them priority on the road, but is sweet going on the highway and listen those sounds :) ... although they are limited in this roads.. they cannot send it... :D
Rally cars need to be street legal and taxed and insured to take part. That is why they all have licence plates. And if you break down between stages and you can't fix the car you are out of the rally. This is how rallying started and it has stuck troughout to years.
Here in Ireland in days gone by when pure tarmac events were running, completely 'bald' slicks were used on dry stages, and left on the cars between stages. Actually against the law, but the cops turned a blind eye knowing the story behind why the cars were on the roads this way. And there was a time when race cars were driven to and from circuits - including in the US....
during the rally, the cars are only allowed to move without the help of a trailer or something... from track to track they drive on public roads. last year at the rally of ypres there was a ride on the circuit of Spa-Francorchamps, a distance of 250km
Many years ago went to rally GB, in Wales. Remember around 5am following 3 WRC cars out of Cardiff... one did gun it at a set of traffic lights when they went to amber, apart from a epic noise from the Lancer Evo the other bit i remember is the traffic light/speed camera flash 😂. I dont rememver much else as i was in the back of the car and around 10 at the time.
OK so they actually have a switch with different modes so you get street spec. race spec so when they are driving to the nxt stage it's not so rich and responsive
02:34 License plate ALZ Today, the license plate ALZ stands for the district of Aschaffenburg in the state of Bavaria. Originally, the distinctive sign was assigned to the district of Alzenau in Lower Franconia in 1956 and issued there until 1973. In the course of license plate liberalization, the license plate has been available in the district of Aschaffenburg since 2013.
7:19 This is Renault Alpine A110 it racing in the same category as the Porsche 718, Fiat 124 Abarth, or Lotus Exige. (Rally-GT modified GT4 cars) This reminded me of when I was in Prague and the rally cars were passing through the historic center of the city. What really amazes me about this video is that the Hyundai i20 had a Irish crew, but a German license plate. 2:18 And another Hyundai had a French crew and also a German license plate. 3:19 And Finnish Hyundai too. 6:30
In Zagreb, Croatia is common to see them when there is a Zagreb street rally. Few years ago I saw bunch of them going from work while they were going to the gathering and starting area for race...they come from all over Europe.bunch of those footages are from Zagreb actually, ZG plates...... Street rally in Zagreb is brought by rally driver, one of my friend's cousin...
Dear friend, I just discovered your excelent channel and became a fan. I´m from Portugal and Rallying is a religion here (just like soccer is a bit smaller scale) but Rally de Portugal takes hundreds of thousands people (Portuguese and Spanish) to book vacation to follow the rally through the country. Just let me explain something, a Rally is a sports event of generally three days in public roads, just the timed stages are closed to car circulation. You get out of the motor parking un the morning (ex. 8.12h) and you have to be in the start of the timed stage at ex. 8.44h, you go there for normal road and in respect for driving normal rules. You are only cleared for speedind in time estages. When you finish the time stage you go to the next one, and you have to start exactly on time or you are penalised (most teams use this intermediate relocation to perform tire changes and small repairs. This process continues until lunch and restarts after lunch until the end of day, starting all over the next day. Every car knows exactly the hour and minute he has to be be in every start of a stage and has to know how to get there, on public road. Forgive me for the poor English. Keep up with the magnificent work/fun.... Just a gift for you ruclips.net/video/hBunLyAdCmc/видео.html
5:04 That is a Peugeot 208 7:09 This one is an Alpine A110, the modern remake of the legendary Renault Alpine A110 (1962-1977). It’s a coupe that won many races back in the day, didn’t know that they raced the modern remake as well though.
It is a Touring stage and they are not allowed to break the local road rules. If the service vehicles get caught speeding the completion car gets a time penalty in addition to any fines. Some touring stages also have service points on them and it was fun to invade the one horse towns and borrow the workshop of the local service station or truck stop when doing Rally of New Zealand.
You americans might get a WRC round next year in Tennessee. The local organizer are trying to make this happen. But next years calendar is under works so nothing is certain at this point.
The rally 1 cars no longer have a split center differential this means the cars understeer ALOT we have a roundabout about 50 meters from my house which they really struggle to go around they usually end up plowing through a snow barrier to get around
This is what I think to have recognized. 2:26 Hyundai D ALZ-R 238. The white D stands for Germany. It is licensed in ALZ which is the city of Alzenau Bavaria Germany. 3:06 Skoda D AW-TS 441. It is licensed in AW which is the city of Ahrweiler Rhineland-Palatinate Germany. 3:18 Hyundai D ALZ-WR 38. It is licensed in ALZ which is the city of Alzenau Bavaria Germany. 3:46 Hyundai D ALZ-WR 903. It is licensed in ALZ which is the city of Alzenau Bavaria Germany. 4:36 Subaru HR ZG 6706HP is from Zagreb Croatia. 4:51 Ford PL K6 MSRT8 is from Poland 5:05 Peugeot HR GM-836 ZN is from Croatia. 5:54 Toyota FIN A-6765 is from Finland 6:34 Hyundai D ALZ-WR 912. It is licensed in ALZ which is the city of Alzenau Bavaria Germany. 7:10 Renault Alpine F FV-513-HX is from France 7:28 Skoda H SP 11-48 is from Hungary 7:46 Skoda L SK 2223 is from Luxembourg
It is no longer called WRC for the class of cars from the 2022 season. But the top class is Rally1 (Ford Puma Rally1, Hyundai i20 N Rally1, Toyota GR Yaris Rally1), Rally2 (Skoda Fabia RS Rally2, etc.), etc. etc.
about 16 years ago me and my friend were cruising down the autobahn in his lightly modified (and delimited) 2002 M5 about100 mph when a heavily modified Subaru STI covered in sponsors rolled up next to us and after a nod and 3 honks we were of, we were neck and neck until I think he was running out of gear at 170 mph while we got to 177mph. dumb but crazy fun.
Yup, I've seen a rally car on a public road, a Group B Audi Quattro S1. It was long after Group B was banned though, and I don't think there was any rally in my country at the moment, so it could have been a replica or something. It looked a lot like the real thing though!
I had the pleasure of going with my uncle in Cordoba, Argentina and driving next to a Lancia S4 and a Audi Quattro Group B cars while they will travel between stages back in the early 80s.
2:50 But there is something very strange. This licence plate should be a german one (because on the left side is the letter “D” for Deutschland), but the plates are absolutly no regular german plates, not even near the regular one 🤷♂️ On 3:10 you see the regular german plates with the stickers from the admission office.
I remember Tommi Makinen blowing past me when I was heading home from Raglan, NZ, after watching a WRC rally in the '90s. It was still on a dirt road and I nearly crashed trying to get out of his way, in my very non-rally spec. Mark V Ford Cortina !!
The one that looks like a porsche is the modern version of the legendary Renault Alpine A110 (a beauty of a car in my opinion) that was built in the 60's wich started with a 1,1l engine with 65 hp and a total weight of 550 kilo, latest version was upgraded with a 1.8 l engine with 185hp and a weight of 730 kilo, it was a successfull rally car in the 70's, that now has been remade with the classic look but that i find very expensive for what it is, starting at 60 thousand € and having up to 300 hp and 1200 kg of weight.
Having driven a Seat Ibiza WRC F2 I can tell you they are loud, thirsty and crazy fast on the road, I have seen quite a few or the Subarus on the roadand a few Mitzubishi's they are not a rare car in the UK but they are expensive. To be allowed to race in the Rallys they have to produce quite a few for use on the road, the only difference is they may not have the roll cage and have rear seats
no AC, just the wind from the roof is cooling the interior, and exhaust is going under the car, the codriver side which is fraking hot and warms up the interior
The sound you're probably hearing in the low speed clips, is the whirring of the straight cut gears.. Not saying they're not hybrids, but I've heard a similar sound coming from other cars that were not hybrid
I was watching the WRC in Wales in 2009. I was heading to the next stage when a rally car (zebra colours) appeared behind me. There was no where for them to overtake and I didn't want to slow them down so I put the pedal to the metal! They have to (kinda) stick to the speed limit, so I saw them disappear in my rear view mirror!! I was in a 1.3 litre Proton!! Of course they could've beat me! But I may have broken the speed limit!! Tiny Welsh roads, but I didn't want to hold them up! 😁
We once were at the wrc rally de france. One of the tires on the rear axle from a wrc car was broken off. They had to drive on the street with all the other cars and had to reach the garage. The driver and co driver leaned to one side in the car so they got weight of the broken axle 😂
in 2003, marcus gronholm was stopped by the police for a damaged wheel in wales, UK he argued with the police to no avail, public roads demand 4 good tyres, his race was over...
Fun fact, norwegian rally driver Oliver Solberg raced in WRC before he got his drivers licence. His copilot had to drive on public roads 😁
I think the same was also true for the current reigning WRC champion Kalle Rovanperä
reminds me a bit of Max Verstappen. Driving a F1 car but didnt had a driver license :D
That happens a lot on a bunch of motor sports!Pilots/riders get their Sport license first.cause its easyer to obtain!
There are also rallies for under age.
Kalle participated at the age of 14, in the Latvian rally championship, as it is one of the only countries, where you don't need a driver's license.
He won the R2 class.
That white car you’re questioning wasn’t a Porsche. It was an alpine A110. The car originally competed in rally racing throughout the 60s and 70s and then fairly recently. The manufacturer decided to make a modern version of their classic sports/rally car and that was what you were looking at. It still called the alpine A110.
The Police also drives it there.
Yes It is also the first car Michelle Mouton drove given to her by her father
Its a car i used for my marriage (the 60s model), not made for a wedding dress 😅. But now the proud owner of the current model
You may also note that Alpine is a sub-brand of Renault, the Alpine A110 is Mid-Engined and Rear-Wheel-Drive with a Renault Mégane RS 1.8 Turbo Engine with 250- 300HP Output 😄
and soon will hit Pikes Peak!
5:04 - Peugeot 208 Rally4
7:20 - Alpine A110 Rally RGT
This is from WRC Croatia 2023. Greets from Croatia 😊
Hyundai cars are in colors of the Irish flag. This was tribute to Craig Breen who passed away one week prior to the event also in Croatia during testing for the rally.
Greets back from Germany ❤
Omg yes, I completely forgot that..
They're certainly meant to be but it looks more like the Italian flag to me. Hopefully that's just the camera.
RIP Craig.
RIP Breeny ..
You wondered what the car was at 7:17
This is an Alpine A110,
A french sports/rally car designed to be lightweight and fun,
It is a modern take on the old A110 from the 60s
Yeah, one can tell by the round headlights.
Renault
@@neiltitmus9744 yes, Renault owns Alpine
I live in Croatia and this year was the third time we had WRC championship so it's all new to us. The sound they make while going past you flat out can only be experienced live. No video, no sound equipment can show you the feeling of being there. It just can't. Today on Vinwiki some guy was talking about bringing WRC to USA so I really hope you get it there!
In 2011 Petter Solberg got his drivinglisence suspended for speeding between stages and his co-driver Chris Patterson drove the last super stage of Rally Sweden.
You can see from the number plate where the car is officially registered.
Small letters on a blue background is the country in Europe:
PL: Poland
D: Germany
In Germany, the next 1-3 letters designate mostly the Landkreis (~ county)
D ALZ: Aschaffenburg (ALZ stands for ALZenau)
D AW: Ahrweiler
AW also includes Adenau and the Nürburgring, home of many race teams.
Its the same in Poland but Ford in 4:56 has custom plates. First letter is voivodeship ( state ) then second and third letter is County and City where car is registered
funny that you guys metioning the Poland because we have fuck*d up this thing in our country. For short: Rally car need to have full rollcage, and valid MOT (public road inspection) to take a part in rally event.
But car with rollcage cannot pass polish MOT, because its "heavily modified chassis structure"
MOT inspector as to risk their neck to "stamp" rally cars...
there were huge buzz last year, when police came to the rally and catch up rally cars on public road between special stages (we call it "dojazdówka")
and impouded the papers of some cars.
Situation is so weird that rally teams started to register cars in Czech Republic to avoid problems.
Goverment dont really bother, because its couple of cars compared to amount of cars on civic roads, and they had to change whole resgistration laws because of this...
"my country, so beautiful..."
Toyota rally car has finnish plates as the Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT team is run in Jyväskylä, Finland. They have a workshop in Estonia too.
@@SuperMatizthat’s not right, fix those laws!
This is the part of a rally you don't often see, as 99% of the attention is on the Special Stages. Pay attention to that nomenclature, as the Special Stages are roads that are closed specifically for the rally to run on. The normal stages are the drives between the special stages, to and from the service park, and all that, and they are timed. The organizers of a rally will do a drive between the locations a week or so before the rally, at the speed limit and following all the rules of the road, and then the competitors must match that time +/- a few minutes, as part of the rally. If they are early, they get penalized. If they are late, they are penalized. It is all part of the timekeeping of a rally, and that absolutely golden piece of paper that the co-driver handles, the time sheet. Each stage, special or normal, must have the start and end time recorded and signed off by a timekeeping marshal.
The penalties are also significant. For example, if you have to be at a place within 5 minutes of the nominal time, and you show up at 5 minutes and 10 seconds, you can incur a penalty of 30 seconds to your overall rally time, which for the leaders can drop you from first place to the mid-teens in one fell swoop. It's also why the co-driver is called a "co-driver" and not a navigator, as they are allowed to drive the normal sections while the driver rests in the co-driver's seat.
If you lose your time sheet, that's game over, no matter who you are. If you run a stage without a time sheet, knowingly or not, you can incur fines and even disqualification from subsequent events. I think it happened to Thierry Neuville recently, when they lost their time sheet, did a stage, and as they couldn't produce it to get the special stage signed off, were fined 10,000 Euros.
the distance between stages isnt timed as they cant control the traffic or lights or anything
@@cameronliddell9533 The transit time is absolutely measured before an event in normal conditions and generally slightly overestimated to give time for traffic etc. But in WRC, you absolutely get penalties for arriving too late or early. It's literally in the WRC rules (44.2.10 and some other sections).
Here's a simplified version
"Target Time
The official time allowed for a WRC car to complete a non-competitive road section. Time penalties are applied if competitors check-in earlier or later than their target time.
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"Time Penalty
Rally crews are penalised 10 seconds for every minute the car is late to a time control - for instance a stage start, service-in control, service-out control. Checking-in early to a time control carries a stiffer penalty of one minute for every minute early.
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@@Trespas so what if they are late due to a massive accident that was beyond their control?
@@cameronliddell9533Tough luck, still penalized.
Back in the days when Wales Rally GB finished in the centre of Cardiff it was always surreal seeing all the cars making their way to the finish stage in the same traffic as people going to do their weekly shop. On one particularly filthy year one of the drivers even nipped into the local car wash and got his car clean before the final run in front of the cameras! There was an investigation as it was thought that they had received unauthorised outside assistance form the team but no, there was footage on social media of them at the local Tesco with the driver and co-driver cleaning it themselves. Worth it for the sponsors as they were the only car that you could see the livery on!
I remember when Loeb broke a wheel during a commute between two stages, so his copilot had to sit on the side of the car to lift the damage side. Wild.
Rally Mexico 2005.
I remember years ago at the Kielder Forest Rally (UK) one of the rally cars had a crash and completely lost one of their wheels. They carried on anyway, on public roads. The police said it took them miles to catch up with it and pull it over 😀
If I remember it was Tommi Makinen
Loeb did a similar thing in the Xsara. I think his co-driver Daniel Elena was hanging out from the passenger window to try and balance the car on 3 wheels.
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@@richardhargrave6082 yeah i remember this too.......
@@sebastianandersson8093 yes at rally acropolis
The origins of rally.
They're street legal and drive on roads to and from special stages.
In Australia the ones that aren't street legal can get a special permit which allows them to be driven on the road for a specific time.
Yes, you are correct, and this is why, in the 90's, I used my rally car as a day-by-day car, it was road legal... and a lot of fun to drive to work, or the shops.
@@paulomarinho1963 So did my dad in the 80ies. Him and his buddy used to rally a vauxhall stationcar and when not racing they used it for moonlighting as electricians... LOL
This is Croatia, mostly around Zagreb. Most of these roads are pretty new and well maintained, perfect for me getting a fair share of speeding tickets
To get from one stage to another they use public roads, meaning they have to stick to the rules 😎
yes, it's true that they have to respect the rules, but I know that there were accidents and that the drivers were also fined on the spot
@@alensmic6100 shit happens 🤣
Yes. And they have to get to the start of the next special stage within a certain time. So, of course, if they get stuck in traffic or something, it's tempting to speed a little bit to catch up some time. But they do get pulled over and fined, like any other driver would, if they are caught by the police speeding, running a red light or something.
@@HGSolberg Yes. I know because I'm from Croatia .and there was already a problem with the accidents and underage really drivers. In past. Although on a worse was crash Pagani Zonda HP Barchetta During Croatian Supercar Meet. When it comes to financial view
Like here 9:24 wasn't the case: total traffic ticket qualified.
Somewhere in 5.30 you said something about trouble.
Sometimes guys just stop to take a piss😃
But they also change wheels many times in bus stops etc.
Like front left to back right and so on…
I’m a rally co-driver in Australia and this one is always fun seeing peoples reactions when they don’t know a rally is on… even funnier as an all girl team and seeing heads turn when it’s a long liaison and we take our helmets off hehe
To answer your question, no, no cool suits, no air conditioning, just a roof scoop to push some air through if your lucky so rally in the Australian summer can be a punish!
They are more comfortable then you’d think tho!!
1st weird car is a peugeot 208 and the 2nd is an Alpine a110
4:20 they have a flap or a roof scoop that they open and let air from outside flow in
Regarding AC, rally cars don't have AC installed exactly for the same reasons you mentioned. They have some air vents that they can open up and then push some air into the car. But in some rallies it can get to 60-70 degrees celsius (around 150f) inside the cockpit. Especially with the latest gen cars there were problems with the heat. For example the exhaust pipes were installed right next to the codrivers seat and were so badly insulated that they even melted some codrivers boots. So the manufacturers jumped through all sorts of hoops to get the temp down, e.g. Hyundai installed a golden roof in order to reflect more sunlight etc.
Fingers crossed that US will have a WRC event in Tennessee next year. I'll definitely hop on a plane and come visit then :)
This is very common. WRC cars are road legal because they often have to drive on public roads between races. They have to drive on road to reach the next special race. So if you’re close to a race, you might see them driving in the road like you see here on the video. They don’t use trucks or other trailer to bring the car to the race, they simply drive it. Also, I believe the only thing that isn’t road legal on those cars are the loud exhaust.
3:20 If you want something special (more than just a missing fender), look for the video of Sebastian Loeb that was missing a wheel and train, and got arrested by cops for driving in those conditions with his copilot out of the window to counter the missing wheel with his body weight, etc… it’s absolutely crazy, but it happened between two specials of a race, and if they couldn’t convinced the cops to continue to drive, they couldn’t reach the next race point and would be disqualified.
When its rally season in Portugal, they are a common sighting on the roads, as well tons of police checking that they dont exceed the speed limite since they use highways to get to rally stages.
In the sixties it happened that F1 cars left the circuit to drive on public road to parc fermé. I saw it back then as a small boy in Zandvoort. It was only a mile or so, but still, public road and they drove by themselves straight through the public that was leaving the circuit. A Lotus actually almost drove over my toes.
That was rally Croatia you were asking about. Hyundai had there car in that Irish flag livery as a mark of respect for their driver Craig Breen who died the week before in a testing accident.
Also, air comes in through a roof vent that can be opened and closed and has directional vents inside so the driver/ Co driver can direct the air towards them, but yeah, no Air Con.
I grew up in perth Australia back when there still was a rally Australia, it was awesome seeing the race spec. WRXs and EVOs driving between stages in the hills then back into the city!
@Australian Dave - I was in Perth back in 2000-'01. I really wanted to go and watch the WRC while I was there but no one else was up for it. I really regret not just going by myself.
Much nicer watching the rally in beautiful weather rather than back here in the UK were it can get pretty cold stood out in the forest all day.
I absolutely loved my time in WA.
Unfortunately it ended with a 5 month stay in Perth Royal Hospital after my tent caught fire up in Coral Bay.
I hope to make it back out to WA some time and finish my trip.
I'm in Perth as well. 1989-1996 was the pinnacle with the Group As, IMHO. I worked in the old Sheraton Building which was Rally HQ. Good times indeed
@@Davo_enchilada You dude's have some great racing over in Oz.
I really got into V8 Supercars (Supercars, as its now known as) while I was there. Still love watching it.
Such a great race series.
@@paulfletcher3998wow I’m sorry to hear about your 5month stay at RPH I’ve spent more time there that I would have liked but nothing like that! I take it you were over here to do the lap?
And having lived i the uk I can imagine what it would be like watching rallies over there!
@@Davo_enchiladanice, where you one of the lucky ones who’s office looked out over Langley park? That would have been so good
In Nov 1993 i was co-driving on UK’s WRC round in a Group N Sierra Cosworth 4x4. On the freeway between stages another competitor was in the slow lane with a front wheel missing following an incident on previous stage with their chase car hiding misding wheel in midfle lane from police patrol cars!
@Iwrocker_ hello
These cars have a a race mode and a street mode setting (with a switch on the steering wheel). When they cross the finish line, the pilot enables street mode. Quite recognizable is the sound. Street mode is more quite than race mode.
And no: no ac, no stereo radio …
Last year I went to see rally in person for the first time ever. It was WRC rally Finland 2022. Already when I was driving to my targeted stage and spectating area I saw few of the Toyota WRC crews just casually parked at the side of the road doing some maintance and stuff way before the spot where I was heading to. I slowed down and did a unusually smooth downshift on my normal manual car and Janne Fern (co-driver of Esa-Pekka Lappi) looked at me and I was like (omg omg he looked at me). Later I realised that I should have waved at him, still regret that. But man, just seeing them there on the side of a everyday normal road was awesome. Also the whole experience just going to see the rally and seeing the rally cars race was one of the best things in my life. And I feel like one of the best things is the sound, you can't hear even half of it in videos I can tell you that. Those things, especially the rally1 cars sound absolutely out of this world when they echo through the forests from miles away.
Saw this in person when rally cars were moving from one stage to the next when it was nearby in parts during the Wales Rally. Was nice to see the cars drive by, followed by usual support vehicles and all.
as a kid i saw group B...you feel the car before you ear the car because the ground vibrates (it was the case in the 80's because group B cars were louder than nowadays)
7:10 Alpine A110
in Australia, they come past my house every year to go to a stage that is about 20klm away. last year i was in a convoy of 5 of them driving through the mountains, it was pretty cool.
From 2009 to 2019 The Dakar Rally was held in South America, there are a lot of online videos of Rally cars and Trucks on regular roads between stages.
Modern rally cars have basically two modes ; a "stage" mode with every bit of performance turned to the max and a "travel" mode more chill and rideable on trafic conditions :)
if i'm not mistaken, rally cars are in most countries street legal even ouside of events
They have to be street legal to go between stages
You are mistaken. Only streetlegal when competing.
They have to be cause you can't carry them on a flatbed in between stages which in most cases are in different locations
@@sebastianandersson8093 lol naah chief they are street legal, they even have a mode for driving in between stages where they don't rev as much, engine power is limited and they have everything a normal car has, turn signals rear view mirrors.
@@mwat22 No, they are aloud during an event.
The competitors do this in the dakar rally on their transit stages too.
Few years ago in world sports cars they often drove little sections on the public roads between their service and workshops and the track (or occasionally some late night high speed testing of certain components and repairs like peter brock and larry perkins did with a group c porsche 965 back in the early 80s). Theres a pic of the 80s porsche lemans racers driving in peak hour traffic on melbourne from their workshop to the track that ive seen.
Cool, I was one of the people who suggested this video. I'm waiting for a reaction from a video about speedway, I come from Poland. Well, Croatia is one of my favorite holiday destinations
in italy, for transferts between "special stages" you can drive your car in the street (of course special papers needed from autorities)
for the "1000 miles" is always full of spectacular cars on the streets ^^
I believe these cars are street legal,as they have regular car plates like any car in Europe. Im from Serbia, (next to Croatia) and here, racing cars cant be driven on streets, iif they dont have car plates and car insurance. Without plates, they carry them on trailers. I believe, cars on videos are being driven also on streets and is possible they came down to that place on their own.Polish,German car plates, and Subaru wearing regular Croatian car plate ZG which means Zagreb.
When I was in high school they used to park up next to my school between stages, this was in the days of Mcrae and Sainz.
It happens a lot when there are special street stages in some countries, the cars are not moved by truck or anything they just on to the road and drive to the stage. You see that a lot in Portugal.
They can also be stopped by police and even get fines, because they have to be fully road legal and they're subject to the same safety rules as anyone else. There is a famous video where Marcus Gronholm is stopped by police driving a busted up car (he might've been even missing a wheel or something if I remember correctly) and is arguing with them whether or not he can safely reach the service area.
Did that happen in the Mexico rally years ago? I remember some rally car being detained by mexican police because of a lost rear wheel.
@@amaizeing.dumbass5123 Possibly? I kinda stopped actively following rally when all of my favorite drivers either died or stopped driving *and* the cars changed too much.
First time I went to rally, few of them were just arriving to the start of the stage and man were they loud, it was amazing. And best thing is their brakes, you could hear the breaks squeal and scream even when they were driving slowly in traffic. It sounded like metal to metal rubbing and for some reason it really made strong impression, and kinda tells you how hard these cars are driven.
1:23 That white Alfa Romeo Giulia QV in the outer lane is a pretty fast car too (510hp) ;)
It's a Giulia Quadrifoglio, right? QV stands for quattrovalvole. 😉
@ Ya its a QV but it stands for QuadriFoglio Verde (Green 4 leaf clover) not quattrovalvole. Quattrovalvole is a Ferrari thing.
PS: I drive a Giulietta QV myself :)
I had to do this all the time in the UK when I use to rally. At the Bournemouth rally we drove for 10 miles to get to next stage from beach to forest.
AC it's banned in the WRC, but in early 2000's, Peugeot 206 WRC, and the Citroën Xsara got AC, the cars have to comply with a minimal weight and AC was added to help reach that weight requirements
Later on was banned, even as VO, or Variant Option
That weird thing was a Peugeot. You can compare the 'striped' rearlights to lion nails ( lion being the sign of Peugeot ). The front lights you can compare to the lions teeth. Now you know how to recognize modern Peugeots.
My girl friend and I went to Corsica for the WRC, we were travelling between stages on our rental Fiat Panda, going down a hill towards a hairpin right when Colin McRea came past on the left and chucked it sideways right infront of us and hung the tail out right round the bend.
7:00 fav moment 🤣🤣🤣, actually driving to this year's rally Portugal Dani Sordo caught up to me in the toll booth neat Amarante 🤣. Got me all fired up to see the stage.
When I was a kid I met a Dakar car on the French autobahn(autoroute)because in the past this was really Paris to Dakar! And it is insane to meet a such car in open road! It is just a souvenir I was like 6 or 7 years old!
Once a year this is common to me but it's freaking awesome! I let them through where I can! Usually happens when we go from one special to the next. Look up Rally of Ypres. Finally got WRC last couple of years but this rally is Historic. And an insane asfalt rally! Feel free to look up. I'm 42 and have been attending this rally since i was 8 (that i can remember 😉)
Great video!
Just last weekend there was a Ford Escort and a Hyundai i20 full race liveries on the road near Eindhoven. I think they were going to an event? but damn, stripped down to the bone, noisy as hell! Loved it!
Man you should look into rally in Finland and Norway they are legends!
In the early 2000's I used to live in Spain. So, on one January morning, as I was commuting to work and I took the highway for some 30 km as per usual, I was overtaken by a huge convoy of racing cars, buggies, 4x4's, racing trucks and bikes. It turned out that they were from the Paris - Dakar rally bombing down the highway. That was something surreal to me. Once in a lifetime experience. Hard to forget.
I live in an area with several stages used by WRC and the British Rally so often see the cars driving around, it's crazy how loud they are
We had a park ferme close to where we live the other week. The noise of the cars arriving over a period of 3-4 hours was immense.
It's always exciting to drive in a convoy in the early morning to the first stage with the WRC cars.
I remember doing that in New Zealand
Fun fact: the rally cars have a switch that instructs the motor management system to switch from a 'normal' road legal engine mapping to the engine mapping used during the rally stints, this mapping also enables the anti-lag systems. This would change the engine from a 200 bhp car to a 450bhp car. Thr anti-lag system has the most impact because that is a system that is pumping gasoline in the turbo to keep it running off throttle (this is also the reason why fire is coming from the exhaust).
Another fun fact is that no rally driver dares to speed when driving from stint to sting because speeding can cause you to be kicked out of the event or lose points.
When i was about 11 my father took me to an rally event and when we went from the one stage to the next we were driving behind one of the cars. It was so freaking amazing
Hey thanx man for reacting to my suggestion!!!! 😅😅😅
I've seen a few cars during Wales Rally GB on the road sections, such loud beasts
Something that is quite special about these WRC cars is that they have a mode that they use on the single stages, they also have a mode for road driving, this to save both electricity and fuel.
Danish guy here. I've seen rally cars driving in transit between stages, and it is indeed a spectacular sight.
In most regards WRC spec cars really is the top tier race type build, not just in terms of performance, but because they are actually street legal under special conditions. Plus they also have that recognisable one to one physical appearance (add body mods and decals).
There, the similarities end though. Everything inside the chassis is of pure racing breed. Maybe a few smaller bolts and some light bulbs are the same, but that's it.
im a navigator in queensland rally sometimes, we only use rotaries and get a huge thumbs up from everyone when we are on the way to stages and also when we do display at night
Usually,they have small lids on the plastic windows that they can slide open, i think some also have small vents on the roof that can be opened as well but most likely no AC.
5:34 BTW, that's Kalle Rovanperä in the Toyota, the current reigning WRC Champ. You've featured him in that older video where he was just a little kid.
As a co-driver at club, maybe heading to state level, going thru towns, and seeing people getting excited about it, is a big highlight for me
Yeah my city receives the HQ of Rally of Portugal ... and between stages they come to the hq everyday.... sometimes is a mess because everything stops to give them priority on the road, but is sweet going on the highway and listen those sounds :) ... although they are limited in this roads.. they cannot send it... :D
It is in Croatia, i live in Croatia and I was on rally live. They are awesome!
Cheers from Croatia from motorsport fan!
Rally cars need to be street legal and taxed and insured to take part. That is why they all have licence plates.
And if you break down between stages and you can't fix the car you are out of the rally.
This is how rallying started and it has stuck troughout to years.
Here in Ireland in days gone by when pure tarmac events were running, completely 'bald' slicks were used on dry stages, and left on the cars between stages.
Actually against the law, but the cops turned a blind eye knowing the story behind why the cars were on the roads this way.
And there was a time when race cars were driven to and from circuits - including in the US....
during the rally, the cars are only allowed to move without the help of a trailer or something... from track to track they drive on public roads. last year at the rally of ypres there was a ride on the circuit of Spa-Francorchamps, a distance of 250km
Many years ago went to rally GB, in Wales. Remember around 5am following 3 WRC cars out of Cardiff... one did gun it at a set of traffic lights when they went to amber, apart from a epic noise from the Lancer Evo the other bit i remember is the traffic light/speed camera flash 😂.
I dont rememver much else as i was in the back of the car and around 10 at the time.
OK so they actually have a switch with different modes so you get street spec. race spec so when they are driving to the nxt stage it's not so rich and responsive
02:34 License plate ALZ Today, the license plate ALZ stands for the district of Aschaffenburg in the state of Bavaria. Originally, the distinctive sign was assigned to the district of Alzenau in Lower Franconia in 1956 and issued there until 1973. In the course of license plate liberalization, the license plate has been available in the district of Aschaffenburg since 2013.
Back in the 90s, racing Colin Mcrea and Juha Kankkunen in my rs turbo escort on the motorway. They drove like madmen, good time.
7:19 This is Renault Alpine A110 it racing in the same category as the Porsche 718, Fiat 124 Abarth, or Lotus Exige. (Rally-GT modified GT4 cars)
This reminded me of when I was in Prague and the rally cars were passing through the historic center of the city.
What really amazes me about this video is that the Hyundai i20 had a Irish crew, but a German license plate. 2:18
And another Hyundai had a French crew and also a German license plate. 3:19
And Finnish Hyundai too. 6:30
In Zagreb, Croatia is common to see them when there is a Zagreb street rally. Few years ago I saw bunch of them going from work while they were going to the gathering and starting area for race...they come from all over Europe.bunch of those footages are from Zagreb actually, ZG plates...... Street rally in Zagreb is brought by rally driver, one of my friend's cousin...
Dear friend, I just discovered your excelent channel and became a fan. I´m from Portugal and Rallying is a religion here (just like soccer is a bit smaller scale) but Rally de Portugal takes hundreds of thousands people (Portuguese and Spanish) to book vacation to follow the rally through the country. Just let me explain something, a Rally is a sports event of generally three days in public roads, just the timed stages are closed to car circulation. You get out of the motor parking un the morning (ex. 8.12h) and you have to be in the start of the timed stage at ex. 8.44h, you go there for normal road and in respect for driving normal rules. You are only cleared for speedind in time estages. When you finish the time stage you go to the next one, and you have to start exactly on time or you are penalised (most teams use this intermediate relocation to perform tire changes and small repairs. This process continues until lunch and restarts after lunch until the end of day, starting all over the next day. Every car knows exactly the hour and minute he has to be be in every start of a stage and has to know how to get there, on public road. Forgive me for the poor English. Keep up with the magnificent work/fun....
Just a gift for you
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4:13 they dont have AC but they do have a vent on the roof which is connected to the cockpit so between the stages they can cool down a bit
5:04 That is a Peugeot 208
7:09 This one is an Alpine A110, the modern remake of the legendary Renault Alpine A110 (1962-1977). It’s a coupe that won many races back in the day, didn’t know that they raced the modern remake as well though.
I swear every car guy/girl saw that tunnel and thought exactly what Ian was thinking!🤣🤣🤘🔥
It is a Touring stage and they are not allowed to break the local road rules. If the service vehicles get caught speeding the completion car gets a time penalty in addition to any fines. Some touring stages also have service points on them and it was fun to invade the one horse towns and borrow the workshop of the local service station or truck stop when doing Rally of New Zealand.
hi from Croatia, not only driving on public roads, sometimes people "chalange" WRC drivers 4 small race
You americans might get a WRC round next year in Tennessee.
The local organizer are trying to make this happen.
But next years calendar is under works so nothing is certain at this point.
The rally 1 cars no longer have a split center differential this means the cars understeer ALOT we have a roundabout about 50 meters from my house which they really struggle to go around they usually end up plowing through a snow barrier to get around
This is what I think to have recognized.
2:26 Hyundai D ALZ-R 238. The white D stands for Germany. It is licensed in ALZ which is the city of Alzenau Bavaria Germany.
3:06 Skoda D AW-TS 441. It is licensed in AW which is the city of Ahrweiler Rhineland-Palatinate Germany.
3:18 Hyundai D ALZ-WR 38. It is licensed in ALZ which is the city of Alzenau Bavaria Germany.
3:46 Hyundai D ALZ-WR 903. It is licensed in ALZ which is the city of Alzenau Bavaria Germany.
4:36 Subaru HR ZG 6706HP is from Zagreb Croatia.
4:51 Ford PL K6 MSRT8 is from Poland
5:05 Peugeot HR GM-836 ZN is from Croatia.
5:54 Toyota FIN A-6765 is from Finland
6:34 Hyundai D ALZ-WR 912. It is licensed in ALZ which is the city of Alzenau Bavaria Germany.
7:10 Renault Alpine F FV-513-HX is from France
7:28 Skoda H SP 11-48 is from Hungary
7:46 Skoda L SK 2223 is from Luxembourg
It is no longer called WRC for the class of cars from the 2022 season. But the top class is Rally1 (Ford Puma Rally1, Hyundai i20 N Rally1, Toyota GR Yaris Rally1), Rally2 (Skoda Fabia RS Rally2, etc.), etc. etc.
about 16 years ago me and my friend were cruising down the autobahn in his lightly modified (and delimited) 2002 M5 about100 mph when a heavily modified Subaru STI covered in sponsors rolled up next to us and after a nod and 3 honks we were of, we were neck and neck until I think he was running out of gear at 170 mph while we got to 177mph. dumb but crazy fun.
Yup, I've seen a rally car on a public road, a Group B Audi Quattro S1. It was long after Group B was banned though, and I don't think there was any rally in my country at the moment, so it could have been a replica or something. It looked a lot like the real thing though!
I had the pleasure of going with my uncle in Cordoba, Argentina and driving next to a Lancia S4 and a Audi Quattro Group B cars while they will travel between stages back in the early 80s.
Hey, just saw you in a news outlet here in Portugal 🤯😎👍
2:50 But there is something very strange. This licence plate should be a german one (because on the left side is the letter “D” for Deutschland), but the plates are absolutly no regular german plates, not even near the regular one 🤷♂️ On 3:10 you see the regular german plates with the stickers from the admission office.
I remember Tommi Makinen blowing past me when I was heading home from Raglan, NZ, after watching a WRC rally in the '90s. It was still on a dirt road and I nearly crashed trying to get out of his way, in my very non-rally spec. Mark V Ford Cortina !!
The one that looks like a porsche is the modern version of the legendary Renault Alpine A110 (a beauty of a car in my opinion) that was built in the 60's wich started with a 1,1l engine with 65 hp and a total weight of 550 kilo, latest version was upgraded with a 1.8 l engine with 185hp and a weight of 730 kilo, it was a successfull rally car in the 70's, that now has been remade with the classic look but that i find very expensive for what it is, starting at 60 thousand € and having up to 300 hp and 1200 kg of weight.
Having driven a Seat Ibiza WRC F2 I can tell you they are loud, thirsty and crazy fast on the road, I have seen quite a few or the Subarus on the roadand a few Mitzubishi's they are not a rare car in the UK but they are expensive. To be allowed to race in the Rallys they have to produce quite a few for use on the road, the only difference is they may not have the roll cage and have rear seats
no AC, just the wind from the roof is cooling the interior, and exhaust is going under the car, the codriver side which is fraking hot and warms up the interior
The sound you're probably hearing in the low speed clips, is the whirring of the straight cut gears.. Not saying they're not hybrids, but I've heard a similar sound coming from other cars that were not hybrid
I was watching the WRC in Wales in 2009. I was heading to the next stage when a rally car (zebra colours) appeared behind me. There was no where for them to overtake and I didn't want to slow them down so I put the pedal to the metal! They have to (kinda) stick to the speed limit, so I saw them disappear in my rear view mirror!! I was in a 1.3 litre Proton!!
Of course they could've beat me! But I may have broken the speed limit!! Tiny Welsh roads, but I didn't want to hold them up! 😁
We once were at the wrc rally de france. One of the tires on the rear axle from a wrc car was broken off. They had to drive on the street with all the other cars and had to reach the garage. The driver and co driver leaned to one side in the car so they got weight of the broken axle 😂
in 2003, marcus gronholm was stopped by the police for a damaged wheel in wales, UK
he argued with the police to no avail, public roads demand 4 good tyres, his race was over...