NASCAR Fan Reacts to WRC Rally Cars Racing with Traffic in Japan! 

The plates with the red line across it are actually temporary plates. They’re usually issued for a car hasn’t had the time to be fully registered (they’ll usually be officially registered later) or has been imported for a short period and needs to be driven on the road for some reason.

When Toyota came back to wrc i was in rally Finland and that is the only time I have seen wrc live. And it's really something different. When they just exlodes from forest and they are gone. You can't describe it you must go and feel and see it yourself. Been watching live rally with my brother all the time when i was kid and still was suprised.

7:58 The sound of a WRC car off throttle with the anti-lag building so much boost that the turbo is at the edge of surging is just so sick.

"Safety" cars 0 and 00 travel the special stage first to check everything is OK. They have to be able to go fairly fast so they don't hold up the competitors. Travelling between special stages (as seen here) is called a transport stage, in my area anyway.

The safety cars are the GR Yaris the rally car is based on. In their base form, they are really good rally cars already. Lance David Arnold (race driver) took an unmodified one with summer tires and raced it in winter on a rally track that had been closed due to covid (and thus unprepared). That time would have positioned him in 4th place for the last championship race driven there with actual rally cars, while the track was prepared for a race…

I have a friend who did amateur rallying as a co-driver. he loved the fact of being able to drive on normal roads at full throttle legally... He was a very calm person. RIP Nico.

The 0 cars/safety cars (numbered 000, 00 and 0) drive the track at a slighly slower pace before the actual racing cars are allowed through. They make sure everything around the track is safe just before the race, and also work as a sort of countdown for the audience that the racing is about to start. (there's also inspection cars that drive significantly slower that come before these)

That little silver car was possibly a Honda Beat. These tiny cars are a specific car category in Japan where there are strict restrictions on vehicle size, Engine cc and horsepower output. They are referred to as 'Kei' cars, (pronounced Kay). Engines no bigger than 660cc and a max of 64 horsepower. They are little, light and great fun to drive.

That last part where they were doing burnouts, is most likely the ladt couple of hundreds of meters before a stage, where there's no other traffic, and they are allowed to heat up the tyres.

Google claims the "Kari" number - the white plate with the red stripe - allows vehicles on Japanese roads temporarily. Including cars, that you normally wouldn't be able to register for Japanese traffic legally, e.g. technically special rally cars, that are in the country only for a couple of days to compete.

They are not really racing, just driving from one stage to another.

I think it's time for another "best of rally" compilation! It's been a while since you watched WRC cars actually haul ass!

number 0 in Rally are the openning cars, it's nearly like a safety car in others categories but not to slow down the race but to open the road to the race cars (so to annonce to everybody that the road is closed to trafic). They're also here to seek for problems on the track, they're not timed but they often drive fast. After them, the pack is released

2:38 no way that Skoda had an Initial D reference sticker on the back xD

It blows my mind that rally used to be the biggest televised sport in the world in the mid-80's when Group B was a thing. It was even bigger than soccer which is the biggest sport in the world. They need to bring that stuff back because rally has never been so good!

@9:30 that's a Honda Beat, fun little tiny convertible, high revving 660cc 3cyl.

At 10.36 is what is called a Special Stage usually done in the evening before the cars are parked up for the night. It allows the fans to see the cars in action. We used to have a round of the WRC in Perth West Australia and the Special Stage was held on Langley Park by the Swan River.

They were the Yaris GR4 version, road car. 4 wheel drive, 1600cc turbo, 260bhp. Fun to drive. I drive the GRMN version, front wheel drive 1800 super charger, 206 bhp. A firm in Hampshire England have played around with the GR4 and increased to bhp to iro480.

You definitely have to see a rally live. You will be impressed for life.

15 Februari 2024 its time for rally sweden here in my hometown in Umeå. Bought tickets last night for the event, its the 3rd year now here in Umeå.

Nice to see Hyundai still has the Tri colour for Craig at the back

4:12 That´s the current and the last year's World Champion!

I was able to put my car next to the Fabia R5 Evo/Rally2 of a friend of mine, who was competing at the Ypres Rally, at the traffic lights. We drag raced up to 90kph (legal limit) and he completely obliterated me which wasn't a surprise. Nonetheless, it was a pretty cool thing to do. :D haha

6:59 - In the US, we don't have the Impreza WRX STI. The car in question here is a WRX. No, it is not an impreza. It is simply a WRX. Which is Subaru's new sedan. It is a tad bit bigger than the Impreza but it is basically the same car. In other countries there is an STI version of the WRX but not in the US.

9:30 - The 'cool little car" was a Honda Beat, I'm pretty sure.

STI is Subaru's rally department, Subaru Tecnica International, just like Rallyart is for Mitsubishi and Gazoo is for Toyota. And Subaru does not sell the Impreza anymore in Europe, they only sell crossovers here

I like the sound of cars so much. Especially those heavily modified for racing and rallying. Something beautiful. 02:32 - Take a look at this skoda. There are even two compatriots sitting inside! I wish them good luck. Poland!

The clips where they are weaving, braking, accelerating,and doing practice starts are the approach roads to the stages. It's just getting heat into the brakes and tyres !!

So, this video is not the rally, it's only the cars in normal traffic, which always connects the different rally stages. In the different stages, the race happens against the clock on closed roads. For this connecting open traffic roads, the race cars are normally registered to the common traffic laws and have therefore to have registration and number plates and insurance and so on. And they have to follow local traffic laws.The racing stages normally have length of maybe 10 to 20 or more miles of real action. They are learned and visited in advance, and the co driver writes a road book , noting speeds, gears to use and curves and bends , surfaces and obstacles, compressions and jumps and read that to the driver always some seconds in advance during the race. Thats how it works.

Impreza is just a small wagon/hatchback in Europe with mostly one not to sporty engine option. No more STI or WRX. Someone correct me if they have something different on their market. And they need to traverse through traffic between stages. That's why they have licence plates. It's cool to see them, and hear them on the road.

The 'safety' cars are 0, 00, and 000 cars. Triple 000 goes down the route about an hour to half an hour before the first car, to make sure all the road closers etc. are in place. It goes at a slow pace. Car 00 goes faster, but can still stop if need be, and checks that everything is safe. Car 0 goes at almost completive pace, about five minutes in front of the first car. They make sure everything is completely safe for the first car; they can still stop the stage if need be. After the last car, there is the 'fast sweep' which follows along, so if the last car crashes help is near by (for the other cars, the other competitors do the same job) and then slow sweep which stops at any cars the have stopped, and takes their time cards and details. After that, recovery vehicles come though.

My first video of watching rally cars mingle with traffic was Walter Rohrl pre-driving stages in an old 1971 911S in a 2004. It's an ancient video on RU-vid, but holy hell did he fling that old car around like an old dance partner.

The cars with the lights on top are called 'zero cars' were I'm from. They run the stage before the competitors to make sure it's safe and to let spectators and marshalls know the competitors are about to come through so make sure the spectators are behaving

Years ago was driving outside Karlstad in a white out storm and could see some blinding lights passing cars behind me at a crazy speed, first though it was a emergency vehicle then it passed me just flying, it was a rally competitor from the Sweden Rally that week in the area. He must have been lost, he was hauling ass.

Hello from Australia. I haven't rallied for many years (bought a house instead), but there used to be a trick of booking in late after a transport stage, to use if the forest roads were very dusty and you needed a bigger gap between cars for the dust to settle.

Re: Yaris. This goes for all of the Rally1s, but its not actually based on a Yaris, its the spec roll cage and the teams get to make the car look like a regular road car. So the safety car you noticed and the other one is a Rally2 which do have to be based on road-going cars. That's why they look so different despite both being allegedly Yaris's, Yarises? Yarii? Also re:Subaru, no there is no STI, its kind of now just STI parts, its more of a trim level than anything, so the name is still there sometimes but its not so much uptuned as it used to be.

This is not the Rally yet. There are a few regular cars, probably related to the organization. The speed, the driving featured there are rather "urbane," , well-behaved. In sum, we are watching a Pre-Rally segment.

As I'm in South Wales, I've actually had the experience of driving in with Rally Cars competing in what was "Wales Rally GB" it's a surreal experience. On a side note you should check out "International Rally day" at Castle Combe in Wiltshire England I went many years ago and met some legends of British and world rallying down the years

WRC cars usually drive in public roads to make connections between stages. That race inside a stadium it's called a super special and it is usually the zero day of the rally where two pilots compete against each other to determine the starting order at first stage , and also to present the cars to the public.

2022 was last year for WRX STI, which was the top model, but in 2028 both electric and a hybrid model is comin back. Also, maybe i missed, but you didnt ask a question why they keep speeding up and braking all the time on streets, so i guess you know the reason.

Wrc maybe coming to the USA next year or year after

Due to most rally stages use public roads at least on some parts, they are legally beholden to wear number plates,at least in Europe and the British isles

Imagine the cool WRC events you could have in USA. Tons of states with epic roads.

Fun fact: Yellow plates in Japan are for "Kei Cars" (Kei-Jidosha = "Light cars") The plate means it is a car that has an engine *_under 660 cc (40.3 cubic inches)_* , no matter the bodystyle, no matter the use. And yes, that includes some really light sports cars and somehow even some light weight work trucks. (The car at 9:29, it is a "Honda Beat".)

Yes, the WRC cars are quite loud especially when you stand right behind the bumper of the car when launching... At "tire's test" you can have the possibility to stand quite close to the cars, and it's even better if you know the drivers of course.

Just fire🔥😄 could look at it all day

For your information, this is a video from the drives betwean the race stages. This is not a video from the race. Thats why there are civil cars. The actuall racing course is closed for traffic.

10:30 - most WRC Super Special [ SS ] stages are in stadiums.

Was the first WRC Toyota # 18, my nice friend Takamoto "Taka" Katsuta, then I think # 33 appeared, Elfin Evans, # 8 Ott Tänak, and then after the police motorcycles, the twofold world champion, Kalle Rovanperä. The cars need permissions for driving on the public roads, and then they need traffic insurances. If a car is permitted for road traffic in one country in EU, they are permitted in all EU countries that's whay they can use the same register plates in the whole EU. In many countries the race cars have separate register plates.

The car at 9:31 is a Suzuki Cappuccino.

i believe it was perth West Aus who first came up with the day one special stage in the 90s due to its unique city design. between the city and the swan river is a large area of grass. so when they had the WRC they set up a spectator stage on that area. two lanes with an over and under then the drivers would compete against each other. due to ease of public transport and good seats/viewing it proved really REALLY popular, especially for families for whom going out for 2 hours to another special stage was a bit much. they could come into the city, have a meal then down to the venue. watch the cars racing then afterwards off home. at the same time WRC could sell merchandise, the pits had barriers so that fans could watch the cars being prepped etc. this caught only quickly now its part of the sport. Our just ex pm who was the sports minister in the early 20's pissed a lot of perth people off when he cancelled the WRC australia (Perth) citing to expensive when everyone knew that was bull and he still to this day hasn't been forgiven by the rally fans. (my mum is one and is still bitter about him).

3:08 or so - the number #00 is traditionally used by the pre-stage (whether transit or special) "sweep" car. Usually has a course safety steward in it. Not a full-tilt race car, think of it as the rally version of a 'pace car'. EDIT: wrong timestamp. I think I fixed it.. EDIT #2: I think 9:29 is a Honda Beat. "Kei" (less than 1000cc for tax purposes - Japan taxes by displacement & weight) sportscar. I'm sure you've seen the little delivery trucks/vans from over there. Yellow license plate is a giveaway, that's definitely a Kei. I just think it's a Beat because the tail-lights look familiar to your old Honda fanboy over here.

The little cars you mentioned are Kei cars. You you like them. And why they exist

You should check out a red bull video between a Volkswagen Polo WRC car and a Kama Dakar Truck. It was made back in 2016 I believe.

You should whatch these WRC rally flat out videos from Finland. It's something different 😅

notice how they all used their turning signal

Western Australia should never of let WRC go, they need to bring it back. 😎👍

4:05 It was reigning WRC champion Kalle Rovanperä who had a police escort through the city. This, which was the final WRC event for 2023, Kalle had already secured the title in the previous rally the Central European Rally just under a month ago. No pressure but can just enjoy and get through. By the way, TOYOTA took care of all three podiums in this Japanese WRC rally. 🏁 🥈🏆🚘🥇🏆🚘🥉🏆🚘🗾🏯 6:38 Dirtfish rally in the USA they run with SUBARU WRX-STI I think, in the American rally championships. There has been quite a lot of talk about having a sub-competition in the WRC in the USA 😎👍

Rally is really the peopel's motosport. I can only talk about Europe, but there's always some race near you, and you can start with just an almost plain car and minimal changes... It is very popular in the full sense of the word.

You have F1 !!! Next is Rally WRC in America.... More success than F1 surely

You should make a react video on Abarth in the near future!

it is yaris gr it is dif to the nomal yaris or yaris hybrid! also mazda got the same car as mazda2

2:45 you are awesome..you actually said Škoda and not Skoda.

On the road stages they switch to less brutal engine software with no ALS and so on.

sorry man i thought id already subscribed been watching your vids for a little bit now love them and the work you put in to making them.... loved your dirt 2.0 video the other day as for saying about getting EA sports wrc well worth a purchase yes there are a few flaws in it stuttering been the major one but if you turn car reflections off it ups your fps and doesnt seem to do it as much but im pretty sure EA will work on new updates already put in over 20 hours of gameplay its so much fun and would love to see it on your channel.... Thank you for making some awesome content 👍👍🙂

top video again thank you

We have no STIs in Germany anymore as well.

you should probably be able to find a rally event around were you are and honestly it will probably be more fun than watching an WRC event. (atleast it is in Europe/scandinavia) Sure WRC is faster but pretty "on rails" so usually much less eventful. The non-professional drivers and cheaper RWD series tends to be the most fun to watch with wilder slides etc and lets face it, most go to rallies for the crashes (as long as everyone is OK ofc) Local rallies often have multiple classes ranging from old calssic cars to modern WRC (or close to it atleast maybe ex-WRC cars) dont remember where you live, i guess rally is more common in the northern half of USA?

Hey Ian, fellow American here. Have you watched rallycross from Europe? (I'm actually kind of jealous of the courses in Europe for rallycross.)

Heard them all IRL. It does not compare. Toyota 😍👌

Drivers of those must be so bored while travelling from one SS to another among public traffic :D

Hi you have a look at video about the different between fast cars and gt car and f1 I think it was Mercedes

Hi Ian, i believe you like nice cars allot, dit you ever dit a video over the GUMBALL 3000 race throug Europe (even Usa)

3:30 those rally cars are #0 cars they usally are slower cars that says the marshals at the post need to get ready since after a minute the first real rally cars are coming. basicly a safety car but rally version. they still go like 80 procent of possible so still mighty fast. The cars (toyotas in this case ) itself are full on rally cars. and some smaller teams use them in smaller rally championships

Nice video as always, but are you sure that F1 cars are not driving on public road/amongst the traffic? 🤨

If you really want to play Dirt rally 2, really, go get a quest2, its really cheap, and the experience is on completely different level

@10:23 ... wait a sec ... please tell me you've never seen "race of champions" .?

The videos dont do it justice,the sound these cars make irl is something else,maybe theres a small event or big enough to have the r4 cars around you that way you can see on irl for yourself.

Hi, i,m sorry, i don't know what brand this little cabrio car was. At first i think it was an Toyota MR2 maybe, but in Slo mo i saw it's not it's maybe an Daihatsu Copen, but it would have anoter backside.

Hey blue eyes!

They're not racing, just transitioning between stages

here is another for you the road i take my doughter practisedriving ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MeOWCaAV4ZM.html the year this was filmed the fastest cars had an average speed of 140 kmh / kph on that lap

Stick with Dirt 2.0. ea wrc runs and drives like crap. But there was a free five hour trial. Not sure if it's still available.

In Europe we even do not have the WRX. Only normal Impreza, thats it. Reason: thanks to Greta Thunberg and all this CO2-climate-change discussion-rubbish they are constantly talking about. This extremists want to abbandon cars and suggest bycicles instead.

Here we don't even have WRX's anymore due to ecologists, which is kind of a shame ngl EA WRC is pretty good btw, I really love DR 2.0 for historic cars but WRC nailed the newer gen of Rally 1 cars and also all the different stages and rally

Very uncomfortable to drive...

Way Too much Pausing and skipping