NASCAR Fan Reacts to European Hill Climb Ilirska bistrica 2023 - Slovenia 

4:35. Yes, I run out of gears, limiter is at 186 km/h. And yes, we have a performance factor where a calculation puts us in different classes. This what you're watching is six classes, plus historic cars and single-seaters. Respect for the RU-vid channel... 💪🏽

Our whole country could be a race track since its so small😂. Greetings from Slovenia!

That white Lancia you saw that spits flames and has a side exhaust has over 750 HP, so these things are fast!

The smooth looking car at 6:50min is a SEAT Leon.

In 2017 i rented a car from venice airport, and drove through Slovenia into Austria to go snowboarding, the roads were incredible to drive. This competition looks amazing. ❤

6:38 that is a yugo driven by a lady with lancia delta drivetrain (4x4) and engine about 390bhp

hillclimb just hit different. so many insane cars. and they all sound so brutal. like 6-700 hp. some have more. btw the black and green car at 6:50 you didnt know what was, thats a Seat Leon Cupra ( Seat is spanish car manufactorer)

I am Slovenian and I was at the event. Cars are absolute beasts and venue is absolute blast. Watch those guys racing uphill is absolute magic. I just have huge respect for all drivers in hill climb racing. One particular star in hill climb is Christian Merli who races in prototype class with Osella FA30. He is an absolute hill climb superstar racer. Prototypes do reach speed of 250km/h on these narrow roads what is absolutely insane.

Even F1 guys have HUGE respect for these guys, they're just on a different level! 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁

That's why hill climb is so insane and nice to watch, there are not many restrictions like Nascar, F1 etc have to keep the field as close together as possible. In hill climb you can go as far as you want to go with engine tuning, aero, suspension and tyres, you are put in a class depending on what size engine you have, how heavily modified your car is and the weight or your car is. This means you can be a class winner in a pretty standard car with minor tweaks, but you can also build a wild prototype like the little Steyr with the rear wheels sticking out so far in this video. Many of the turbo cars in this video do have engines between 2 and 2,5 liters but do have between 500 and 900hp. I believe the Mitshubishi EVO which makes the great power slide has 860hp. It would be nice if more hill climb racers could also race across the pond, having great American drivers race at the championship races in Europe and the other way around.

There has been a fantastic live stream this weekend from "Goodwood Road & Racing" Channel. It's an Historic racing event, where actual period race cars are driven against each other, It's quite mad watching a grid of Le Mans spec Ferrari's go full bore into the 1st corner after a standing start. My personal favourites are the 1960s Touring cars. Especially when a Mini is tussling with a Big Ford Falcon or Thunderbird

The level of commitment in hillclimb, both from the engineers and drivers, is insane!

Open hillclimb is amazing, we can see a lot of different type of car, old/new etc..

ive been to this race. Hill climb in my opinion is the coolest motorsport out there. so many insane builds and people who drive them, are absolute gods. i was spectating from the section where that Evo lost its control. it was preety scary. Last year i attended this race aswell and at the same section i saw this Renault crash pretty badly. dude did the entire barrel roll

if you see HillClimb Monsters channel videos, they always put several information about the cars (drivers, power, weight, engine type, transmition, etc)! Amazing video by the way! congrats! :D

Ian, the one "that took off a lot faster than you would have imagined"... WAS A YUGO 45!!!!😁😂 and the road the race takes place is not really in a mountains, it's on a Karstic ridge in southwest Slovenia on a local road with aprox 14 turns of which 6 or 7 are practically serpentine... I drive on this road when traveling to the Adriatic coast and the track is a 5km long part over really beautiful Karstic landscape. there is another large hill climb in Slovenia on Gorjanci which is on the road to my hometown.. and a few other, wild hill climb raceses on public roads.... may be that's why Slovenians drive like "they just stole the car" 😁😋

Hill Climb is pretty much the bonkers nature of Group B in terms of how far they can go in tuning the cars, but done a tad safer overall. Some of the prototypes in recent years, especially the hybrid and EV cars, are on a new level of scary fast.

there are severel restrictions, based on homologations, engine volume, aero, drivetrain, etc., never direct power restriction. And the price, huge range from few tens of thousands to hundreds and hundreds. and yes, all is custom with hillclimbs specially to low restrictions classes, like the big evos, Lancias and Skodas you saw there

I've been to a hill climb once and my reaction was the exact same as when I went to a rally stage. Lunatics, the whole lot of them. It's practically the same thing, on different surfaces.

@7:44 Fiat 500 "hayabusa". And @ 7:47, there is a "small" peugeot 106 (or citroen saxo, they are identical) too ! Fun indeed !

Greetings from Slovenija :) Nice videos, keep them coming :D

7:36 when you said "What the hell is this?!" It looks like a Fiat 850 with some monster engine grafted on the back!

The white blue Golf with the big aero kit is the fastest Golf in the world. More than 830hp, less than 970kg (2138lbs). Karl Schagerl has been a clear dominator in recent years of the International HillClimb Cup, the Central European Championships and especially the Austrian Championship, hitting more than 5 seconds difference between him and the 2nd fastest car in his category. The driver is crazy like the car is crazy. 😄👍

Slovenija :) Nice to see you reacting to race from home country

2:40 1 answer: Open exhausts. Went to a hill climbing race near Rouen (France), ended up having trouble earing for 2 days. Turned out, they were open exhaust cars. Like always, wear protection!

I think that first Škoda Fabia has RS3 5 cylinder Smooth looking car is Mk2 Seat Leon. That one has VR6 Turbo engine from with over 700hp ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EEN_Mf0NeGw.html 7:40 I think that's Fiat 850

You really need to watch Ari Vatanen hillclimb from pikes peak! That run is pure Art!

6:48 that is the Seat Leon, very cool car! Also came with a fairly big engine back in the days

I would like to add that while some of these are million dollar cars, many are million hour cars (a lot of effort). Especially the older ones often have 20-30 years hillclimbing behind them with endless rebuilds. Not to mention even modern cars are sometimes crashed several times in ten years because they run so close to the edge, so they've gotten complete rebuilds where the owner often takes modifications a step further each crash.

In hillclimb event you have cars since 250hp/800kg to +900hp/1300kg, all racing for the same purpose: time attack. In some events, they have classes, like 1300cc, 1600cc, protos, etc

watch some german hillclimbs .. personally i really love the sound of the opel kadett c coupes. just sounds soo brutal.

6:47 it's an Seat

Lot of the cars come from the european rally an touring championships. Cars like the Porsches and the Lambos are often ex GT3, modified for hill climb. You can see cars like the Alfa Romeo 155 DTM or small prototypes like the old Fiats with superbike engines. There is every kind of thing and it's always been like that in Europe, but the prototypes rule the show: the fastest cars are the "barchettas" like the Osella. Search for an onboard camera of Christian Merli or Simone Faggioli, they got the lap record in lot of tracks of the championship. They go crazy fast.

Both in hill running and in rally there are several classes! These are divided according to engine volume, weight, and operation, for example 4x4 or back wheel drive or front wheel drive. It can also be model year. There are races where there are more than 14 classes.

You have to watch Ari Vatanen at Pikes Peak. A driving legend, coming back from injury, at times no visibility and still he's flat out! Mental. I don't think the front wheels ever face forward!

in Newcastle NSW Australia there was The Mattara Hill Climb now a thing of the past mattara by the way was a festival held each year in october

@iwrocker, the smooth looking one at 6:51 is Seat Leon MK2

Vintage hill climb is even more diverse, cars and bikes. Some have a cut off year or date but they can be any engine size and style. Worth checking out the Goodwood festival of speed too

Hillclimb racing, the only racing series where you can find people full send a modified family hatchback.

6:53 that car is SEAT and the model is Leon MK2, Spanish brand currently under the name CUPRA

The chicane made with hay bales or tire stacks are supposed to lower the average speed on the road, some little old villages have average speed limits to comply by hill climb/rally events.

i must say the amount of horsepowers you see in this video are insanely high and its ranging between 300hp and hiughly nearly 900hp so yeah its insane

6.54 its a Seat Leon. spanish brand owned by VW, that generation of Seat Leon was WTCC champion several times. And Seat has also been World Rally champion.

I just wanna say that I usually love watching reaction videos generally, but after watching you for few months already Ive been watching your videos alot and I do enjoy it really. Videos you are choosing are really great and great reactions!

Fantastic video as usual 👍

6:50 that is a SEAT León, a car made in my country Spain. They're pretty popular around here and they were used to race in it's own cup.

I was in this race Ghd Ilirska Bistrica 2023 i visit thees race regulariy since 2016 and ewery year i loved be part off thes race becas he hase ewrething. Tradion, drama, competion, and i loved becose its pure racing and passion. I have som videos and photos off thes race.

I really respect this guy! Deserves a minimum of 1 million subsribers

Almost at the end with the race bike engine was a old fiat 500 maxed out boddy build and tuned . Verry fun toy to race with

6:53 > That was a seat cupra is the sports model of Seat Ibiza, diesel most probably by that black pop of smoke after shifting :D

7:46 peugeot 106, i had the same car as my first one (mine was a 1996 XN spec, it had air-con and electric windows as optionals), it had a 1.1l engine, 8 valves. it wasn't fast but peppy enough, the stock suspensions were garbage, when one day i drove my mom to work she noticed how the car handled like a boat and prompted me and my dad to fix the issue. We ordered a kit of adjustable suspensions, slammed that thing to the ground and it handled like a goddamn go kart. I had to send it to scrap because it had way too many issues, but i miss that lil' car.

Thank you :D We glad you like it

I used to hillclimb but my class was pretty much for standard cars with a few modifications. It was still a hell of a lot of fun though. The unlimited classes were absolutely mental. There was one always stuck in my mind though. An ex-rallycross Escort Cosworth, as light as the regulations would allow, 650bhp and RWD. A crazy machine. The big single seaters are just mind bogglingly quick though. 650bhp and 400kg approx

Lo cierto es que cuando el Peugeot 405 participó a la subida a Pikes Peak, a muchos europeos les entró la curiosidad por conocer y comprender la cultura de la competición automovilística americana....Nascar, Indi, etc. . Algo a lo que ayudó mucho el cine de EEUU con tantas películas sobre el tema. No es dificil encontrar aficionados en Europa que aman el Mustang, el GTO, el Camaro, el Viper....sin embargo es dificil encontrar aficionados americanos que conozcan tan profundamente las formulas de competición europeas, más allá de la Fórmula Uno....la mundial de turismos, el de resistencia, la subidas como esta (que por cierto, correctamente deduces que están diferenciadas por categorias, igual que los rallyes), y muchas otras divertidísimas y que personalmente me apena que no sigan. Como persona enamorada de la competición, me entristece que muchos europeos no entiendan la Nascar o la Indi, o incluso las carreras offroad como la Baja, igualmente que muchos americanos se pierdan cosas tan divertidas como estos eventos de velocidad pura y adrenalina.

Hill climing is insane, there are some little cars tuned with motorbike engines sounding soooo wild, what makes it soo beautyful for an automobil enthousiast as me loving the 80's 90's era of cars, it's a racing category where you can find all types of race cars from any era, there are no restriction on car models only some rules about safety, I was from europe Luxembourg country back then, there is a Hillclimb event happening once per year and i participated once with a Nissan 180 engine tuned the body was almost basic but the car was soo lightweight, it was the best moment of my life.

7:41 This is a Fiat 850 from 70is, with a motorcycle engine inside, probably from Hayabusa …. Pure madness mate .

The smooth car just before the porche at +-6 minute 50 is a Seat Leon also vw group

You are very welcomed in Slovenia. If you ever come to Europe, pay us a visit.

Fun fact, Walter Brun started his career in European hillclimb. Later on he went to win Le Mans. He is also founder of Brun motorsport and EuroBrun F1 team, though his F1 team was a backmarker on few occasions it managed to actually pass pre-qualify and qualify ....

I always listen to something on my way to work in the morning, my workplace is only 40 minutes away, I go by public transport. When I got to work on Friday, one of my subordinates asked me what I was listening to, I showed her. She heard the sound of a similar video. She didn't understand what it was, she had a freeze... :)

Some of those turbos sound unreal😍

Hello from Slovenia The mistery car on 6:50min is a Seat Leon Cupra R32T. 740HP We grow up with this, racing is almost a national sport 😂

This isn’t a hill climb event. This is just a typical Sunday afternoon in Europe 😂

1:43 this dude in that golf changed my timing chain in my 3.0 tdi

"Wooow, you saw that flames on that one ?" 😃 At 7:20 🙂

Nascar dude reacts, I'm an English guy who absolutely loves 90s Cart Indycar. I've been getting loads of stuff shipped from the U.S, Target chip ganassi baseball cap, forsythe racing baseball cap (Greg Moore) era, Quaker state baseball cap. Forsythe Players hoodie and T shirt, Pacwest hollywood Gugelmin T shirt and a kool team green t shirt. Cool as it gets, love it 👌👍👊

06:35 Hey, that cars ranking number! NICE!

7:40 that right there is an old Fiat 500/Zastava which is kind of a legendary car in this part of the world, mostly because they were cheap and everyone could afford one. Now, what people like to do with those is put motorcycle engines in the back of them (mostly Suzuki Hayabusa or Kawasaki ZX10R engines) and basically turning them into tiny, loud and super lightweight race cars. 220hp doesn't sound like a whole lot, but when the whole car weighs like 500kg it really flies. Some guys like to make them even crazier by turbocharging them and getting over 400hp from those little bumblebees.

Regarding hillclimb car builds, there is an amazing one hour documentary on RU-vid about how Swedish rally driver Per Eklund built an 800hp twin turbo 4wd Saab 9-3 for Pikes Peak. And I really mean built, the only thing that was Saab was the body, the chassis was tube frame, the drive train came from Subaru, and I've totally forgotten what engine block it used. Basically, everyone in his home town who knew anything about cars turned up and helped build the car, so saying that Per built the car as I did is almost completely a lie! The car went on to set a Pikes peak record that I believe stood for as long as Pikes Peak was a gravel road! Also, the guy responsible for the design of the car had cancer and underwent chemotherapy several times while overseeing the build, and IIRC survived just long enough to see the car win its first Pikes Peak. Unfortunately it's in Swedish, but I noticed that there is now at least a subtitled version if you're interested, a few years ago that wasn't the case. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Wl0pbNRWUrQ.html

6:50 it´s a Seat Leon mk2. Spanish manufacturer but in fact is base on VW group car. For example you can get an Audi A3, a VW Golf and a Seat Ibiza and if you compare them from below you´ll find out those 3 are in fact the same car with diferent body panels.

Here's an interesting question... which would be scarier for you to drive at speed up a hill; a Lambo/supercar that cost $350k with modifications, or say a Skoda Fabia with a hundred or more hours of work gone in to making it as fast as that Lambo?

6:37 OMG is that a YUGO ! ! ! ! ! :D Love it. :D

I like your channel, coz i can feel your fascination for motorsports and car mechanics! 😎

have to see hill climb onboard cams, specially prototypes and formulas... those fast cars on little roads are stunning, some even more impresive than Indy or f1 :)

Hey Ian, I don't know if you've noticed, but someone named Bruce Wilson on RU-vid has a Scania in the USA, maybe you can meet up with him and test drive a Scania? Would love to see a video about it. Also great Video thumps up!

i go to 1 rally on catalonia i see one crazy russian guy with a hyunday flying the curvs at full trothel it was amazing bruuu

I love me some hill climb! I got every year at Anzère in the Swiss Alps since it's pretty close to where I live and it's always a good time. There was an F1 (or F4 maybe?) there and the average speed of it during the climb was something like 200km/h iirc. AVERAGE speed, while uphill, that's insane! After watching this video it seems that Rally and Hill Climb in Switzerland and Slovenia are very alike, both the views and types of cars :D (with maybe a bit more mountains here haha)

also the one that had flames is Lancia Delta Intergrale from my friend Milan Bubnič, its an awesome car to drive

They are starting in different classes depending on engine displacement, n.a, turbo, formular cars and prototype class

If you liked this, you should definitely check out the Hrušica DriftClimb 2023. It's hill climb... but with drifting! I bet you'd love it!

6:50 thats a Seat León 2010/2012, spanish car, also my grandma have one!! XDD but obviously this one is a super modified version

You see some old Ford Escort (Mk.I,II..) - the best American car ever build! I know you guys love big V8’s, but there’s nothing like a lightweight car with a frantic 4C N/A engine to take you on an adrenaline rampage! Try and drive one, you’ll see why we love the lightweight, small displacement combination.

El coche del minuto 10:25 es un Seat Leon, fabricado en España, segúramente un FR personalizado. Usan motores del VW Golf así que te puedes imaginar lo que puede salir de ahí.

7:40 The 'what the hell is this' is an old Mini with what sounds like a Hayabusa engine, hence the grotesque widening at the back as the new engine was much bigger than the glorified hair-dryer motor of the original car.

allways love watching hillclimb lap times

06:54 That's the chassis of a Seat Leon 1P, as with all VAG group products, just a VW, in this case a Golf, with different clothing. However, considering its sound, I wouldn't be waging any bets that had any of the 2.0T engines. Most probably it's some kind of frankenstein car.

EVOs should be up to 800hp. There is a PFE (performance factor). Basing on the power output of the engine, the weight has to be between certain limits. The more power, the more the car should weight.

The car from 6:48 is a Seat Leon. A brand from Spain it is a VW group

6:51 looks like Seat Leon. I may be wrong...

The car @ 7:39 looks like a Fiat 850 heavily modified.

Thats in my country. We also have a race called GHD Godjanci, like 30mins from my house.

nice that you also present motorsport in our little Slovenia

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The mysterious little car should be a Fiat 600D from late 70s prepared by Abarth. The original had a small air cooled motor in the back like the VW beetle. Very useful for Italian medieval/romans city lanes. They had it in all forms in every delivery service,like the italian scooters 😊 take care

2:06 that integrale was flying

It looks like a classic rally on Italian mountain roads.

These asphalt hill climb races are awesome, but do the same thing on a dirt road. Finnish rallisprint races for example... pure madness.

You need to check out Top 15 hillclimb monsters. Shows the build spec and horsepower for each vehicle. It’s awesome.

04:31 "dirt rally 2.0 .exe" has stopped working

NASCAR: "Oh look, a left turn, and another left turn, and another left turn and another..."