NASCAR Fan Reacts to 2023 Rally De Portugal 

Im from southern spain near portugal and we are suffering one of the toughest dry seasons ever, so i suppose Portugal is sufferimg the same.

Portugal always had an insane rally culture. Especially in the golden age of rally, IT WAS MAD. Edit: You should defo do a react video to one of those old school Portugal ones.

I’m From Portugal You have to see it live to really have the perfect knowledge of the speed the car and the noise from the shifting is something of an other world.... the fans are absolutely crazy and the friendship.... come to Portugal Your will be very welcome were and to enjoy the stages like we do, you need to be on the terrain the day before and “sleeping on open air” party all night long that’s the spirit. Look for videos off rally stage - ( Fafe/Lameirinhas ) , (Amarante) , (Góis) and many more INSANE 👍💪🏻😀 WELCOME TO PORTUGAL 🇵🇹 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹 WE ARE THE BEST

Portugal rally was considered to be the best rally in the world many times

You absolutely need to watch the Fafe special stage from Rally Portugal, best crowds hands down! Literally tens of thousands

I visit WRC Portugal and it was amazing, the environment, the people, the party's absolutely nice! but I think this are videos from the test area's before Rally de Portugal. Also because the antenne on the bonnet of the Ford Puma. That's to get data from I guess the aerodynamic. The video's below are the in stage footages; Dirtfish: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QtbuqnF5uxI.html , Rally-ES: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TmN0nuVPkAE.html , JR-Rallye: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pXV5t7RPsIs.html

Rally Portugal is a gravel rally, drivers know what they're going to be up against when they come here. That's why many of them consider it to be one of the toughest rallies in the calendar. Oh, and about your pronunciation of Matosinhos: it was very close but not quite. I saw you struggled with the "nh" sound but since you know a bit of Spanish, it has the same sound as the "ñ" in Spanish. 🙂

Fafe,Sines and the good old Sintra circuits are the best! Im Portuguese and I used to go on all circuits with some teams(the latest one team VW when was Andreas Mikkelsen the champ),since my 14! I did this on every motorsport circuit the entire year long! Im one of the guys that paintted the drivers helmets!

I just watched Swedish rally on tv. This year the average speed was 137 kmh and the highest speed measured was 187 kmh. And this on very narrow forest roads.... Insane !!! But wow the beautiful landscape.... Take care / J

I'm from Fafe, and since I can confirm, we love the rallye. The night before the race we camp there and it's really really amazing. You should check Fafe-Salto da Pedra Sentada, and Fafe-Confurco.

this was the 1st wrc rally i go to and it was awesome(i was at vieira do minho). Going next year too.

I'm Portuguese I really love rally in my country but if you want to watch fast rally stages you need to check the rally of Finland. And the jumps are crazy in Finland.

Hi there first time watching your channel and what a surprise to see the Portugal ralli😀every year I go and see it love It’s freaking amazing. This year I was in Amarante stage pretty cool, but as always Fafe is the best . And yes the cats go fast as we like ☺️

I miss A LOT my best rallyes with Lancia and Audi back the 80's here in Sintra It was maaad!!

My favorite kind of motorsports. Thanks for watching together ; )

If you want to go crazy, watch 1980's Group B Rally de Portugal. You will go crazy from the fans, the sounds, the 600hp cars... Magic!!

Hey brother, im from Portugal too I see you got alot of people watching it from here, i just want to say one thing. You as a NASCAR driver here in Portugal we kinda follow the same thought "Hit the gas" ahah portuguese rally, portuguese drift contests, motorcycles we all go redline 🤣❤️

At the moment theres events of WRC in portugal hapening. The "stage" is so dustry because the country its with 75% dry/drought scenario due to the lack of rain. You should check the "Fafe Rally course" and the "Oporto Stage" that happens in the middle of the city. I have see personally the Fafe and Oporto rally and its so awesome, its unbelievable the speed they drive...

The only problem i think the actual wrc category have is that they have only 3 manufacturer brands this sport deserve better if it have at least 2 more manufacturer brands it will be perfect.

Portugal is fast but Finland has the fastest speeds on dirt/gravel.

R.I.P Craig breen

These are just tests from WRC1 cars... during th Rally it turns much worse, the dust and the best is the audience... AWESOME!!!! Very tecnhical and hard Special stages during 3 days!

Yeeeee! I live very close from the place where they stop at the end of the races everyday. So cool to watch them on the real roads going to the tracks 💪 all the best from Porto, Portugal

The Swedish part of the WRC is arranged in my hometown, Karlstad. I’ve seen many of these amazing cars in traffic. I was sitting on the bus once when the French rally driver Senastien Loeb pulled up next to the bus in his Citroen

Check out WRCs tribute to Craig Breen.. A brilliant Irish driver killed in a crash a few weeks ago. It's a great video.. Sad but worth a look at

I'm here for the rally. Rally just hits different. Amazing to see them carving through the dirt and dust at those speeds. WRC today must be matching Group B performance of yesteryear.

I remember when I was a kid and went to see Michelle Mouton on the Audi .. Loved the Group B by that time, but my dad always took me to secure locations because it was too much crazy ... I remember the night stage... going through the forest with so many people and lights and suddenly .. thunder blistering noises and explosions from those pipes lol I was around 8 ... I was ... wtf? is this war?

I actually was there, i live like 10 miles from the spott and it's always nice to see Rally de Portugal. There is some other stuff near by... like Rampa da Falperra its a Hill Climb event

You need to see the golden years of rally especially Group B

good choice headphones, a friendly hug from Portugal 🇵🇹

In Portugal. Have them in the months of February to May. Much less rain than usual. That's why everything is so dusty. And is there already a forest fire warning! Greetings from Spakenburg, the Netherlands.

1:40 Most of the late Spring/early Summer in Portugal is sunny and dry. In the early Summer there are ofc some days (even weeks) of rain, but most of the Summer is just sunny and hot in all the country (more in the south and center than in the north, but overall great Summer).

You need to search specifically for the Fafe stage, which has one of the most iconic jumps in the WRC history, named "Salto da Pedra Sentada". There are some outstanding jumps

That's close to my house... And they can make a curve on 90km per hour... Super fast... Hugs from Portugal... ✌️

Been to a few wrc rallyes and I can defently tell you that those guys driving is from another planet and as a spectator you can't get more close to the action than this!!!

Man you have to see Live in Portugal, the tracks are insane.

Being a gamer and lover of rally. I play the game WRC Legacy, and they have some great rally courses there. Rally Kenya is super wide open and FAST. Rally Argentina is tight and rocky with severe cliffs

No Toyota shots? That's curious.

I watched a lot of rally, in my young days. It was around the time of Group B. Unfortunately I list the option to watch along. I think it was because Eurosport stopped transmitting rally, as they skipped transmitting Formula Offroad from Iceland, GP500, and other motorsports I liked. Very recently I got a subscription to WRC, via their app, and watches highlights of the first races of the year. Rally Portugal was the first event I watched fully, from Friday to Sunday. It was so cool to see, after all these years. One of the reasons I really got the interest back, was because of all the reaction channels, who reacted to rally, and knew nothing about it. Your channel was on the front of those channels, so I guess I have to thank you, for lightning an old flame. It was so cool to "be back", and I totally disagree with people, who says Group B was better. It wasn't. I find the current WRC at least as exiting. I don't mind the lack of crowds blocking the road. I don't miss seeing live in TV, that a spectator got his legs crushed, because he stood in front of a house, where a rally car list control, and drove right into him. I can't wait for the next event, to take place!

In Rally Portugal there's almost always issues with dust. It's common in the early stages that drivers have issues with dust clouds from the drivers in front. The organizers eventually have to change the gaps to 4 minutes between the cars. I have a suspicion that the dust is very fine so it hangs in the air for longer than usual.

Check out Fafe's jump and old Portuguese footage on Group B racing. Also, Portuguese Baja racing is also nice.

To run 125 mph in these conditions, you have to have extraordinary reflexes!

I legit thought it was one of my phone speakers that didn't work until he said the sound was coming only from one side 😂😂

Yup, audio coming through just the left side....

A rather difficult segment of the Rally. Narrow, dirt roads don't forgive any mistakes. The spectators truly take some chances. Neverthless, accidents related to spectators are extremely rate. People really trust the skills of the drivers. However, around 20 years ago, in the Rally of Portugal, a Famous Driver lost control, plowing into the Fans. Thirty people passed away and dozens were injured. A few weeks later, in the Rally of Italy, the then Champion driving a Lancia 4×4, Turbo and also Supercharged, missed a turn and went downhill. The Driver and the Navigator, or co-driver, passed away. Both accidents caused a huge impact, leading to the end of the Class B cars -- there were no limitations, and the vehicles were far too powerful and dangerous.

There are parts of the circuit where they go over 150km/h! It's so cool :)

Answering your question about it being high speed on some sections, actually it is always max speed at all times,the drivers try to keep the car on the edge of maximum speed,grip and accelaration thru all the corners and sectors, to make it short, it's max atack all the time.

It's probably in the middle in terms of speed during a rally. But FINLAND, ESTONIA KENYA is where the speeds are just unreal.

Best advice at these dry gravel events ? Check were the wind is comming from. If there are no people standing on one side of the road, that’s the first warning.

You got to react to Rally group B stage in Portugal. Those were some wild days back in the day, people near the track used to play with the rally cars like if they were Bulls XD super danger and thats one of the reasons gruop B was canceled (in part due to us, Portuguese fans)

velocidades de 160 a 180 kmh em alguns troços ,..é realmente assustador ,..é incrivel ,...

You need to see Fafe jump,só many fans

50 percent of the landscape will be burned and gone probably by August. The area where they were racing is hit by bush fires every year, being it all ready this dry in May.... trouble is ahead. (BTW; I'm living on a lonesome hill in central Portugal, and rarely have a week where I can not see big clouds of smoke in the area). It only keeps a little spark... from a glass bottle that was left in nature or the tiniest spark from hitting a rock with a metal object (like the exhaust of a car). So just to say that the dust looks spectacular, but at the same time is a big warning for us living in this area... PS. Like your comments on the videos, I watch a lot of them, all the best from Portugal. OH, BTW: You like trucks and 4x4's and such, you should look into the Portuguese build UMM 4x4's !!!

I’ve always wondered with rally, what is the difference between the distance travelled on the in car odometer compared to the actual road distance? Since the wheels are spinning getting traction, on a 20klm track do they drive 40klms from the car point of view?

The weight if their nuts must be hard to lug around. 😂 rally deivers really are a completely different breed

THIS IS CRAZY BUT IN THE 80´S WAS INSANE..

In rally you can camp with your friends during the night and day. You just make funny stories for life. Its the vibe, we live it fully.

Inboard cameras were suburb, Dirtfish is one of the best Tube channels in rally, and off course official WRC.

Great portuguese accent reading locations, amazing video

Really nice ;) love from Portugal

Rally is very broad when it comes to cars, their setup and types of tracks. From mountainy technical tracks to speedier flat courses, while changing from mud, to dirt, to tarmac or even snow and ice all in the same course. Just the complexity of pilot/co-pilot communication throughout the course so they dont die against a tree or off a cliff is amazing. I've driven in a lot of race tracks but nothing scared me more than seeing a huuuge drop to your left on a tight right corner and your ass feels like it's sliding to you death

In the 80s was a lot more insane. People in the middle of the road which took off when the cars came in at the very last second. 🤣 Portugal is getting even more dry right now, I live in the south Algarve and if we get a good week of rain once a year it’s like a surprise. Where I live is blue skies 95% of the year.

This was last week nice that you are totally updated with wrc

Hey Ian the rally is on this weekend just 60 km from where I live. Usually go watch every year but have a fractured hip so can't this year

Always drive as it was stollen... Ostras Hermano por aqui lo mismo mucho calor.... E por suerte mucha birra!! Abc... Lisbon..

You have to watch “fafe” one of the most iconic stages in rally history and one of the oldest

All the Rally of Portugal, happens in the north, this is center around Viseu

We had a drought this winter the usual rain didn't fall at all...

This rally is crazy when its the atual race and not training, people stand next to the road and some dudes even touch the car some of them even lose their fingers doing that.

Thanks or Covering Portugal, Its very beautiful...

Watch rally videos from Portugal in the 80’s. Crazy shiznit!

The actual Rallye-cars are near the same 'Monsters' of Group B in the '80's. But they are tecnically way better now.

Testing for the event here... That's why you see people near the road. On the event, lot more speed... and people are only allowed on "FanZone´s", for security reasons. If you look, no event stickers and numbers on the cars. =)

There is going to be a test event in the usa in september 2023 near Tennessee, organized by the WRC

Hi ... from 🇵🇹 The rally is on the road of fire departm or break line ... and they drive all the rally .. hi rpm ...

Im from Portugal. Thanks for all of your work.

You need to see some video from the stage of fafe. Been there this weekend

Show Portugal 🇵🇹🇪🇺🇵🇹 belíssimo

You must have to see the 90’s races of group B rally in portugal.

If you think this is crazy you need to see some videos from the 80’s old Group B championship. Search for Walter Röhrl Portugal with Audi Quattro S1. You have at least one video inside the car with cameras showing foot work and some exterior ones where you can see how crazy it was by then with crowded stages…

You must watch “group b” from the 80’s in Portugal 🇵🇹

Fafe, best stage um the world

Cheers from Portugal.

GT World Challenge is free streamed on YT, it's not rally, but GT3 and GT4.

the grooves are like slot car tracks watching these masters

éDUde you have to seek RALLY DE FAFE and youl see some crazy stuff, airs etc. Greetings from Portugal

Damn, gonna need a dust mask for these in case the dust comes through my screen! WOW, this was EPIC!

1 last coment i notice that you were intriged by portugal just yesterday i saw a really weel produced vid about Madeira with is an iland in portugal i think that you would reaally love it this is the name of the video btw. The 600-Year Battle to Settle Madeira, Portugal

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Melhor rally do mundo!

Search for "Fafe jump" 👍

since you’ve watched rally from the 80s and 2020s, you should watch some from the 90s tbh.

Michele Mouton, Markku Alen, Henry Toivonen, Carlos Bica.... Just check it out 🙂

We are in moderate to severe draught. Didn't rain in April and temperatures are around 85-90F which is not normal for this time of the year. That explains why the soil is so dry and raise so much dust.

In that day, Portugal suffered some intense dry climate

Easiest way to watch these is a subscription on WRC site. I think it's about 10 Eur per month. I usually subscribe and cancel renewal right before the rally and often get two events within that one month sub. With the subscription you get all the stages throughout the weekend transmited live with commentary, otherwise the site also has the live timings, stage itinerary and other usual stuff for free.

as a portuguese i say thanks man

Thanks for sharing this video 👍 Come to Sintra stages ahahahah

Sometime in the past, those cars would do 200 km/h down the Serra da Lousã on gravel roads that you would travel at 30 km/h....😂😂😂🙈

North of Portugal, Fafe is The Meca of WRC.