"Those people are way too close!" Me: **laughs in Group B**

The papers that the co-driver ("passenger") is holding have directions on them, basically telling the driver how sharply to steer. They have driven the route together multiple times ahead of the race, and the co-driver has written down how sharp the cures are and how far apart they are etc. Then during the race the co-driver is basically sitting there going "two o clock", "9 o clock" etc to tell the driver how sharply to steer and in what direction. As far as I understand it the drivers more or less blindly follow those instructions, so their lives are in each others hands.

"Oh those people are way too close". Oh you sweet summer child, what you saw there was not even slightly the worst back in the day.

The co-driver has "pace notes", a set of notes on every bend and jump on the stage which he constantly delivers to the driver.

I had a classmate, who drove rally in young driver's class. He had the safest car in the whole group and was a really talented driver - yet, it didn't save him. He drove too fast into a 90° turn, rolled the car 7 times and completely wrecked the car. He passed away in the ambulance, during the ride to the hospital. Rally ain't a joke.

If you want to see more then you might enjoy "Group B: When Rallying Got TOO FAST" It's when a variant of the sport got so crazy they had to ban it.

Road cars with better engines is the understatement of the year.

No way they could go this fast without the co-driver telling them what is coming up. Best motorsport ever.

0:40 - Welcome to WRC in Portugal. Our spectators' behaviour "killed" Group B but they didn't seem to learn anything from it and kept behaving the same way in the following years. 6:45 - The driver said "no brakes, no brakes!".

Those papers are called the “pace notes”. They have notes that the passenger, called the “navigator”, reads out just before they get to the relevant part of the road so that the driver knows what’s coming up and how to drive it. It gives things like severity of the corner, direction of the corner, any jumps, water, etc. and it reduces the risk of driving at these speeds compared to doing it totally blind.

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The "Passenger" is the "Co-Driver" or "Navigator," who has "Pace Notes" on his lap. He reads from the Pace Notes to the driver how far to the next turn, jump or obstacle, left or right, sharp or easy, what to watch out for, how fast, what gear, etc. They've driven the roads before the event, taking precise notes of every detail along the way. The Co-Driver's life is in the Driver's hands, he/she can barely glance up & knows where they are mostly by sound and feel and has to stay calm no matter what at speeds WAY over 100mph on those narrow roads you saw. They get little of the credit from the public at large, but are virtually the eyes and brain in the driver's ears and the driver is the limbs, hands & feet. 💥💢💯

The guy in the Citroen was Sebastian Loeb. Probably the greatest rally driver ever born.

One of my favourite sports, number of fatal accidents is surprisingly low considering how dangerous it looks. Cars have upgraded suspensions, engine components, wheels etc. and especially on top level, have very little in common with normal car.

They are ultra beefed up, street legal cars. They race against time. The copilot reads what is called ''pace notes''. The pilot and copilot work in almost perfect symbiosis to get from point A to B. World Rallye Championship (WRC) is very big everywhere in the world, except in the US to be honest. I think that Isle of Man is a once per year event, whereas WRC is an all year competition.

WRC or 'Rally' is a point to point race, something like 200miles broken up into 'legs' or 'stages' and it takes a few days to run them all. The driver does not know the course and ideally has never driven any of those roads before. The co-driver gets to 'scout' each stage and take notes about all the turns, using a much slower car, this is the only course information the team will have besides the weather. The cars all run the stages single file, passing another car means they are going awful slow.

Yeah, that first accent was Irish ;)

Rally is a timed event, so there is some time between one car and the next, these are production cars... sorta, heavily modified with powerful engines build by small teams and factory teams. There are many different classes in rally, usually categorized into weight or horsepower, to keep an even playing field. The codriver with the papers is basically the first navigation system used in cars ever, his directions make it possible for the driver to go down these narrow roads that quickly. The spectators are a special breed, even though these days they are located in far safer spots, most of the footage you saw was from the rally group-B class, the craziest rally class there ever was, people regularly got injured badly (or worse) and that class has been banned due to that (and other reasons, mainly the dangers). Do check out rally group B, it's insane what these cars and drivers did, and how ... "lacking in the brain department" some of the fans were.

"Use GPS" made me laugh out loud at 5am in the morning.. In a fun and playful way. Try to imagine the GPS trying to keep up.. "In 200 meters turn le... in 100 meters turn le.. in 20 meters turn le.. You know what.. I quit!"

your videos really should be getting more likes, i could just listen to you talk all day, your accent is lovely, and your reactions are pure.

I have done navigation (passenger) in a rally car race. The specifications for a well put together car include: tires of a performance brand, a roll cage, a high rev camshaft, special intake and or turbo for mass air flow, suspension upgrades for a tighter or less bumpy suspension for the turns. As navigator I tell the driver in approximation when the turn is coming and what degree it is. There is usually a course that you go round and round a few times maybe 10 to 15 depending on the length of the course and there are others to where you go around 2 or 3 times, few are long range rally races that I have seen while in Europe.

My father used to do that sport and I was 4 and sitting in the back seat. Can you imagine that? I bet today that’d be illegal. Greetings from the Netherlands!

That first clip was Frank Kelly in the escort, some real Irish rallying to start off, he's worth a watch all on his own.

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I once was a 3rd passenger on a low speed Rallye through the Central german Harz mountains, and it left a peranent mark on me. It's one of t he most permanent memories of my childhood, sitting in the back of a Rallye converted hatchback on a tour through the mountains.

Basically Rally is you driving to work when you are late 😂

Good to see you've discovered rally, the world's best drivers imo. Going down the rally rabbit hole you'll soon discover group B rally of the 80's. Better buckle up! Btw, it's safe to watch rally, you don't have to stand so close. It's just that many spectators are insane.

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The papers are called pace notes where the navigator ('passenger') calls out directions as to what is coming next since the drivers don't practice the track before hand.

Rally is huge all over Europe, but especially so in the Nordics and Poland. The location you thought was Italy is Monte Carlo in Monaco, so close, but no cigar. You were not exactly wrong about Rally being driven on tracks, this is however its own category/championship called Rally Cross, RX for short. What you saw here was WRC, or The World Rally Championship, and yes the cars they drive are very loosely based on road going cars, in fact during events they are provided license plate stickers because the cars are driven through traffic on normal roads in-between the different stages.

The larger rallies have 'recce' days prior to the main event whick allow 2 runs through a stage to make and amend the pace notes, max speed 50kph. Even then there has to be a skeleton safety radio net set up through the stage, I used to do it for Rally GB/RAC Rally.

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The accent in the first bit of clip sounds like Ulster Irish, could be County Donegal, Could be one of the 6 Northern Ireland Counties. The Rally is probably 'The Rally of the North' here in Ireland

Those papers have a list of every turn and feature on the track. There is a number (1-6 ) with 1 being the sharpest secondary to a "hairpin" turn. There also is a verbal system they use to tell the driver when and what kind of feature or turn is coming up too like which side of the track to hold after a turn or jump and things like that. Unlike other racing events with Rally you dont know the track and the only time you do the full track is during the actual race, so you have to reply on your co-driver to get you to the finish line.

I had the tame USA version of the rally Ford Sierra Cosworth 500 called the Merkur XR4ti. It was a very good car that I really enjoyed for a good 160,000 miles.

The side kick is the map reader....and constantly instruct the driver.... :-)

Love the curious excitement in your eyes xD Nice reaction

5:16 Those "Papers" are called pace notes. The driver is driving the course blind. They are actually disqualified if they see the course before the race. All of the navigators are placed on a tour bus and driven around the track. Its then up to the navigator to take notes on how sharp the turns are, any hills or bumps, any changes in road surface, etc. The Driver/Navigator team must trust each other implicitly. The winner is the navigator that took the best notes and the driver who trust his navigator enough to keep his foot on the floor until told to do otherwise. And kids today think skateboarding is an "extreme" sport. Hemmingway was right, "there are only three real sports, auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing. Anything else is a children's game played by adults."

Basically they go so fast, and it's so tough to see, that when I tried a 'realistic' rally game I really needed the call-outs to even make sense of what I was seeing and what was happening. Like, you often cannot see a turn properly and definitely not beyond a turn or a jump. But I guess rally drivers would know every bump and edge from the top of their head. For me it was like: Well I think he said I should take the jump on the right... I live! I did have a proud moment when my family wanted to try it too, because it looked easy, and they couldn't get past the first turn. ^_^ But honestly, I think the video footage from inside the car is by far the most impressive and intense. And especially when they don't crash. It goes so fast! And the paths are so narrow and unclear and uneven. I have gotten a lot of respect for rally drivers through that game.

Basically, rally driving is the art of driving so fast, there is no way to react and thus you have someone tell you what you will have to do before you get there. They are constantly on the edge of disaster and that makes for compelling viewing!

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the papers are track notes. the driver is often driving blindly while the 'passenger' is telling what is coming next.

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Rally cars are broken into classes ,mostly determined by the CC of the engine or its horsepower . You also have unlimited classes . They usually do things like pikes peak,Dakar and so on where there’s many more straightaways . Rally racing is complete anxiety ,and control of the anxiety . The navigator ,(passenger ) uses those papers because they have detailed instructions of every turn and straight and basically every nuance of the course memorized into code phrases . There’s a whole shorthand . A good reference would be when top gear did a special on rally racing with the goat crew of Clarkson,Hammond and,May . They actually had to utilize the code phrasing to give each other inputs . It failed of course as most things they do. But it gave good references to the why’s and how’s of the lingo . Also races are usually based on time, and other mitigating circumstances .

Group B was without a doubt the most impressive to watch and easily the most dangerous just the crowds around incoming cars was something you will never see again.

Love Rally. Racing on a snowy road at 160mph is insane. I think your thumbnail was perfect.

You should check out the Pike's Peak Hill Climb. So insane. The same type of driving, but at 14,000 feet with no guard rails

It's been a little while since I've dropped by this channel. Not sure when you implemented the music suggestions at the end, but that's a fun and clever idea. Rally spectators are nuts and have death wishes. But I kind of want to experience it at least once in my (possibly shortened) life :D

As far as I understand it the Navigator has and relays instructions on the papers that describe the kind of speed, direction of turn, and what gear they should be in as they are driving cars with manual gear shifting. Kind of like if your gps was trying to give you hints on the best way to drive while giving you the directions to get there.

"If you see the tree you're driving into, you're understeering. If you only hear it, you have oversteer" Walter Röhrl

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If you want a treat, look for Sebastien Loeb's rally driving. He isnlikely the best motorsport driver ever and his dominance in the World of Rallying was absolute. If there ever was a driving God, he was it.

What I've never really been able to wrap my head around is how these drivers become so skilled, given most mistakes will wreck the car. Just how many cars have some of these drivers gone through to be able to control a vehicle so precisely on very poor terrain? Not to mention the beating their body's take from the G forces and jumps! To say it's awe inspiring would be an understatement.

8:04 Yes, it is a timed race. The cars are all racing against the clock, not each other. If one car is significantly faster than another, an overtake may occure, but that dosen't normally happen. The goal is to run the course in the shortest time, making the fewest mistakes.

By far the most exciting sports event I have ever been at was a WRC race in Trier Germany, so much fun to be at in person

Those papers the co-pilot is holding. Are instructions. This ensures that the pilot can calculate/anticipate his next move before he can visualy see it. For instance : 350m straight - into - sharp left - stones inside - into bump. This tell the driver he can gun it for 320m before slowing down. While also telling him to stayaway from the inside of the turn because there are boulders he can colide with , and at the same time telling him that after the left corner there is a bump that will give the car airtime , meaning that he needs to anticipate the angle the car is in the air so he can land and correct it.

The fundamental idea in rallying is that the competitors “rally” to a destination, and whoever gets there last is a rotten egg. Or, really, whoever doesn’t get there first is a rotten egg. Originally, it was just like kids playing with souped-up cars instead of a foot race: no set course or track, and very little besides “get to this spot as fast as possible”. As it became a more organized sport you got the routes, and all the other stuff. Not closed tracks, just set routes on public roads. As others have said, the co-driver is like a fast-talking gps that the driver has to trust implicitly. The driver is essentially steering the current turn on instinct while being told about and lining up for the upcoming ones that he or she can rarely see. And yes, the cars are production cars, but obviously heavily modified (by the rules, they have to be based on a mass-produced model - which meant some manufacturers produced just enough or fudged the numbers to have a model that was great for rallying but made no sense at a car dealership, just because they wanted to win). The punishment these cars take is ridiculous. And finally, yes, the spectators are in mortal danger, though slightly less so these days. As others have said, Group B rallying was the craziest, fewest-holds-barred version. Spectators would stand on the road and jump away at the last instant, typically trying to get a head-on photo of the machine barreling at them. A mix between the running of the bulls and the Red Sea parting. One driver said he simply had to think of the people as trees, not human beings, because otherwise it’d be too scary to drive. One team found a severed finger in the radiator after a race, not sure when they’d picked it up. It’s a spectator-spectator sport IMO; I’m content watching video of others spectating in person.

So, to answer some of your questions: -Rally is really really popular on Europe, where most of the World Rally Championship stages take place! Although it's also pretty popular in South America, for what I've heard -The engines of these cars deppends on the category. Some of the cars in this video maybe have a stock engine. Some others have engines that are pretty upgraded. And others, that are purposefully built for rally, their engines are also purposefully built by the manufacturer for this type of racing! -Yes, all the cars in (official, professional) rally have a rollcage and other safety measures such as a fire extinguisher, they are mandatory and without them they wouldn't be allowed to compete at all -You're right about the drivers going against the clock. It's a race to get the best time possible, but there's multiple cars on the stage at one time, hence why in one clip there's two cars that crash into each other. And there are overtakes too, if the driver behind is a lot faster than the one in front, they usually try to overtake them -Modern rally is safe, or rather, safer, to watch, since there are many restrictions to where spectators can stand. Back in the 80's with Group B (a discipline of Rally that had to be cancelled), spectators were in touching distance of the cars, to the point where there were many fatal accidents and injuries involving spectators. Also it was common to find blood and/or straight up FINGERS in the cars when they reached the finish line because spectators tried to touch the cars as they went by Really fun video, hopefully you keep uploading more racing video reactions!

In German the driver is often called "pilot" and the passenger is the "co-pilot". Walter Röhrl is one of the legendary rally drivers accompagnied most often by Werner Geistdörfer. He drove Opel, FIAT, Audi, Lancia and Porsche. For example the Audi Quattro - the first sports car built in series with 4WD. Another one was the Lancia Delta. After driving rallys he successfully participated in touring car races like the DTM.

There's a video on KZfaq called Group B : When Rallying got TOO FAST , there was no regulations or restrictions , many cars were flying into the crowds killing spectators . Crazy times

The co-drivers make intricate notes about the route, to prepare the driver for the road ahead. Curve radiuses, surface, danger zones, jumps, best gear and so on. The "passenger" is just as important as the driver to get good results. And yes, a really fun spectator sport, but it can be dangerous. I’ve been to some winter rallies in Norway with children and do take care to pick a safe place to stay. Then we make a bonfire in the snow, cook some sausages and, burn some campfire bread. Warm chocolate for the children, maybe a cup of mulled wine for the adults. A great day out! Most tracks are on public roads and basically open for all. No tickets. There are several classes, from the F1 level elites, possibly the best drivers in the world, to local motor clubs and even family teams running a rally car just as a hobby.

The papers his holding are directions, tells the driver how sharp to turn and if their is a hill during the turn, and lets him know when the pavement turns to gravel and jumps and such. Everything happens extremely fast so you need a good passenger

8:01 "never saw a car overtake.. is a time to race?" yes. they race huge distances. the winner is whoever has the best time. a single rally race consists of multiple legs, possibly, but not necessarily in different countries and through different terrains.

most common rally car modifications are, roll cage, 5 point harness, neck stabilizer, race seats (safety items) strengthened chassis, improved suspension, 4 wheel drive, custom gearbox, more powerful engine and plenty of weight reduction, such as removing non essential items.

I remember watching a video where Lewis Hamilton went out in a rally car and he was bricking it. The rally driver was surprised and said "you travel around a track at up to 200 mph, why are you scared" and the reply was "I don't have a cliff I can drive off". Rally cars have a limit of 200bhp and have to be road legal with a certain number of commercial models sold to qualify. It is a 2 man team, the driver and the co-pilot. They are allowed to drive the track once before racing, where the co-pilot takes notes (which is the papers you asked about). The co-pilot calls out the turns as they are coming up and the drivers job is to take the track as quickly as possible to run the fastest time.

"Imagine the calculations the drivers have to make to decide when to turn the wheel" - well, No Protocol, that is hitting the nail on the head right away. They have to do everything about 15 yards in advance!

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The most violent accident regarding racing was in F1, a car juped over a fence in flames and exploded rolling over the expectators, quite an expectacular one. It was close to a century ago.

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1:43 Rally cars are highly modified versions of classic road cars such as Toyota, Peugeot, Ford, Skoda, Citroen, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, etc. They are equipped with a roll cage and are one of the safest cars on the planet. They have racing seats and a five-point seat belt. Despite this fact, serious accidents can occur. Craig Breen died in 2023 during tests for Rally Croatia. However, such serious accidents are exceptional. It just might happen. They are equipped with powerful engines and those from the WRC1 class even with a hybrid drive, which gives them more energy when accelerating. WRC1 cars (in this year it is Toyota Yaris WRC, Ford Puma WRC and Hyundai i20 WRC) each have over 500 horsepower in the sum of the outputs of both engines. And yes, amateur racing is also about someone modifying a classic civilian car. For example, my neighbor next door. But he doesn't have to ride it only in amateur races, if he gets the money for the entry fee, he can also go to the national championship.

If there's a track it's rally cross. The cars are based on production cars and how much they can be modified depends on the class they're racing in. If you want to see the really crazy spectator situations you want to look up Group B Rally in the 80s

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"The papers" are the road instructions= the term is "pace notes" which the "Co Driver" has to tell the driver in order to inform him what comes next.. that includes the actual road surface (if the track has changing road surfaces which many Ralley tracks do have) the pace for that actual section they are in, when to break or to accellerate with the gear number + end speed and how the next curve to take looks like including the info if it is an "unseen curve" or a "open seen curve" and how many degree it is bending with the info in which gear + end speed that curve has to be taken... All those infos are delivered in different ways team by team= meaning driver and co driver are a well practiced team having a personal code language for all those informations how ever that might look like ...for instance for curves some like to get the gear number + actual degree number others like to get the gear number + a clock face number instead...all what matters the info is = rightly timed + short + precise at the same time = So a good Co Driver is as much as important than the driver and can also make the difference of winning and loosing Instructions could sound like : "long straight five /two ten, asphalt" "down three /one fifty, leaning right closing" "break two /eighty, unseen nine o´clock into loose gravel" Those 3 commandos/instructions do mean = 1. "This is a long straight asphalt road to take in the 5th gear with the speed of 210 km/h" 2. "Now shift down into 3rd gear = doing a "motor break down to 150km/h" because the road is slightly bending right more and more and more" 3. Now pull the foot break and shift into 2nd gear down to 80km/h in order to take an unseen curve bending left with 45 degree into a road with loose gravel as surface

Rally racing is nuts. Those people there take their lives in their own hands and I would be no where near there. The passenger is the navigator and knows every turn ahead and how sharp it is and which direction and is constantly shouting it to the driver a turn or two ahead so the driver is always ready for whats coming. its wild.

There are different levels of organized rally championships, from national ones restricted within a single country, continental ones (e.g. European), all the way up to World Rally Championship which consists of rallies held in different countries around the globe. Rallies are run on different road surfaces, generally split in 3 main types - tarmac, gravel and snow, but some have mixed conditions. Each rally consists of several legs (or days), with multiple timed stages driven in each of those legs. Crews (driver and co-driver) start each stage a few minutes from one another, so they're basically driving on their own through the stage. Before the event begins, crews are allowed a couple of runs at regular speed through each stage to write down pace notes, which the co-driver then reads out to the driver when they're driving the stage at speed during the actual timed runs. That way the driver can judge what's coming ahead and go as fast as possible, without knowing the road by memory. In modern days the total distance of competitive stages varies between a few hundred kilometers up to nearly 1000. In the past some rallies used to be much longer than that. Cars fall into different categories, depending on how much the base production model is allowed to be modified/tuned for competition. At top level the cars have almost nothing in common with the road car of the same name, but in lower production classes only some components are replaced, in addition to safety measures (like the roll cage which you guessed). Rallying used to be huge globally back in the 80s and 90s, with Group B and Group A cars respectively. The early years of WRC cars (from 1997 onward) were also very good. It's kinda lost its appeal in recent years as the cars became too detached from their road versions and rallies too sanitized, but it's still a very skill intensive sport, probably the most challenging motorsport in existence. As for spectators, they're not supposed to sit on the outside of corners or opposing junctions, but people are stupid and still do it. There have been many tragic events involving spectators, especially in the past. There are some crazy footages from the 80s and 90s with huge crowds almost invading the road as cars are going through. I recommend watching a WRC onboard camera footage compilation, to get a better feel of how good those drivers are at top level. Here's one of the best available, from 1997, of the world famous driver Colin McRae in his Subaru - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a8dki5mfmc_Lpac.html

rally cars comes in various classes from slightly upgraded road cars with safety equipment to full on custom purpose built race cars. most rallyclasses today are based on the bodyshell of a regular production car. IIRC a world rally car makes about 350hp ish, this is restricted based on regulations, but they are a completly different animal than a roadcar with similar peak power. Rallycross cars makes about 600 horsepower, and are some of the fastest accelerating cars outside a dragstrip.

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Starting basics of Rally: So essentially, rally cars are fully built versions of road cars. Levels of improvement depend on class of rally. But generally most stuff is better. Brakes, normal brakes would quickly over heat and become useless. So bigger brakes and made of more heat resistant material is used. Suspension. Everything is stronger. The suspension have to handle the car literally jumping without breaking and the car sliding on all kinds of surfaces without the axles breaking and wheel falling off etc. Engine, usually same engine as road car but tuned up significantly. So it could be a normal production engine but built to safely deliver north of 300 horsepower. Body of the car. Chassi is usually strengthened by the roll cage and other things. Roll cages are mandatory on most motorsports. Rally in itself is a race against times. So each car is set loose at intervals so as to not interfere with each others driving. The passenger is the co-driver or map reader. Rally cars must travel in their own power between each race. So co-driver has two jobs. 1. Make notes of each stretch with the driver during scouting drives before hand. Then read them BEFORE the driver hits that corner so as to remind them of what is coming. So co-driver might go so far as read 1 or 2 corners ahead of where they are. 2. Between races, as mentioned the guys usually have to drive to the next one. This is where the co-driver rakes the wheel usually. To drive legally on public road. Then the driver gets a chance to rest and prepare for the next challenge. This is very much the basics but further explanation would have to get into different classes of rally so it's good enough, haha.

My cousin was a professional rally-driver in the late sixties, early seventies. The co-pilot gives the instructions on the road, speed, turn,.... Rally cars are 'normal' cars (with a few safety and power modifications) and must be legal to drive on the road.

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Most modern top flight WRC cars put out 500bhp+ from turbocharged 1.6 litre 4 cylinder engines with additional electric motors to provide extra power when the battery has charge. the papers are pace notes which are uber important to let the drivers know what's coming up GPS isn't really an option compared to a good co-pilot as they are describing the conditions 3-4 turns ahead and not just where to go but road conditions, jumps, water, where there are overhanging rocks which corners are safe to cut and which aren't etc. Rally racing is popular in most of Europe, Southern American countries like Mexico and Chile and in Australia and new Zealand too. I love rally, but love bikes more, its my dream to go to the TT, its way more dangerous to spectate rallying though, though its improved a lot from the 80's, The group B cars back then were next level and the fans were out of their minds. Running 500-600bhp with 80's brake, suspension and safety tech, the cars were monsters and paved the way for some of the best cars ever produced.

The co-driver's advice is not quite about how hard to steer, but what comes next. The driver listens to the notes and either memorizes or anticipates the track in his head before he can even see it. That way he has to make a quick plan on which direction to position the car in and if he has to slow down or accelerate to precisely end up at the right angle and speed in the most important corner of the section ahead. The information of the co driver includes crests, bumps, 'don't cut' (if there's a stone in the corners inside for instance), sometimes bridges and how long, usually in meters, it is to the next signifficant change in the track. Sounds something like this: Right 3 , 100 over jump, left 5, right 2 - don't cut, right 5 into right 2 - narrows, 80, rought terrain, left 3 over bridge. The exact way varies between teams. But that's about how that works. The driver paints the picture in his head basically and plans his next steps ahead.

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they are road car looking shells but can be millions-worth underneath. incredible durable (as you can see from the jumps)

A Rally Car in the amateur events can be a bone stock small FWD car with no modifications other than a roll cage and a fire extiguisher because those are mandatory. Professional Rally cars like WRC are basically "let's see what we can do" prototype machines within a set of regulations that somewhat resemble the shape of road going vehicles from the manufacturer for brand recognition.

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The passenger navigates. He's got a map and a list of the course. 100 left 3 narrows into right 5 open into crest narrows caution dont cut etc. These are the directions given to the driver. The lower the number, the tighter the corner.

In addition to the things you mentioned, they have super high end and tuned suspension. You can see it when they catch air, and when they come back down they just stick right to the road no bouncing.

The who you called passenger is also very important for the race, because he tells the driver the track with a so called roadbook. The driver listen to the anouncements from his Co-Pilot which can be for example "2 left narrow". This means a long curve which is getting narrow.

It might depend on the race, but I seem to recall that rally cars had to be (engine aside) released for the public to buy. The papers the passenger (navigator) has are pretty much a map, complete with notes about speeds, angles of turns, road conditions, etc., so he can call out what is coming up to the driver. And yes, I HAVE braked on black ice, but it was on a motor-cycle and, after the event, I was ... very happy I kept the bike upright, and amused (kind of) at the look on the face of the oncoming van driver!

A couple of songs and a story. Prayer For The Dying by Seal, and You Saved Me by The Winery Dogs. I was 50 when the last of my grandparents died, aged 93. He had collapsed and fallen at 3:00am on a Sunday morning. I got a phone call and went round, giving him CPR until the paramedics arrived. At 6:00am they gave up. I’d known he was gone since I arrived. As the sun came up on a beautiful day I was listening to Prayer For The Dying. “I’m crossing that bridge with lessons I’ve learned. I’m playing with fire and not getting burned.” Around midday I went to see a little friend. She was 15 months old at the time. I needed to see someone with life in front of them and not behind them. What I got was remarkable. She climbed onto me where I was sat, rested her head on my shoulder, and with her right hand patted me on the back. How she knew how I was feeling is beyond me but she did everything right. You Saved Me reminds me of that time. “When sunshine turned to gray You saved me in my darkest hour You stood by me and stayed You gave me all my strength and power.”

hahaha. they just kept going. Wow!

In case no one answered below yes it's basically a time trial against the clock. Cars start individually at timed intervals I think 5 minutes apart so are unlikely to encounter each other on the timed stage. Great video buddy 👍

It is not a passenger, it's a co-pilot. The teams drive the course before the race and evaluate the speeds and angles of every curve etc. and write it all down on a map.

I haven't looked into it much myself but boy, does it look fun.

Rally drivers are pretty much the pinnacle of driving abilities. Mad skills and just mad

I've spectated and road marshalled a bunch of rally events. Absolutely thrilling to witness first hand. I've seen Ken Block and Travis Pastrana wreck their cars right in front of me. One of the events I went to a driver died. His name was Matthew Marker. But I didn't see that first hand thankfully but I was a few miles down the road.

Nice reaction! You are right about them racing against the clock. The passenger reads out the pace notes that tell the driver what turns are coming up and how sharp it is etc. They do a rece (practice) beforehand to make the notes. The course is normally run over a number of stages. Each stage can vary in lenghth, and they will usually cover a whole area over a weekend depending on the type of rally. The times are added up over the course of the event -fastest person wins. Definitely check out the Group B Rallying other people have mentioned. You might also want to check out Michele Mouton, female group B rally driver.