Understanding WRC Rally Cars: Rally1 vs Rally5 Comparison!

Nice video explaining the classes. As it is often not known to the public how the classes work, especially since the classes changed a few times in recent years.

I find it a bit strange that the Rally5 cars also have sequential gearboxes. So the entry level is too far remote from road cars, unlike the former groupN classes, makes it hard for newcomers to find where to start, while the Rally5 cars are too close to the Rally4 cars. But that is how it is. Hopefully the FIA will address this in future.

Fantastic video. I learned a lot!

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Is this an A.I. generated voice?

waaahhhhhh i dont like electric cars waaahhh.. who cares they are clearly so much faster your old gasoline cars you love are gonna get smoked i cant wait

eletric bullshit my ass

Why there is only ford?

Pretty good TLDR vid, but ruined with music. Even if the music really needs to be there, it was bit too loud

Quite informative and inte8. Thanks ❤

to be honest... the sound is really cool but what should be really appreciated is the insane driving skill... no matter how the car sounds

great video.

This doesn't sound like a real person, is it an AI or TTS system?

Technically, kg/hp is a "Weight-to-Power" ratio, not "Power-to-Weight"... Great video! 🤓

Hope they bring back the aero, that was sweet

still gonna call rally 1, WRC

Are there no rules and setups for electric cars joining the battle?
It is a shame especially full vector systems as well as liPo Batteries would make the whole sport far more extreme easily outpacing the old Group B era.

When the hybrid rules were introduced, they also changed from paddle shift back to a stick again.

this is top, maybe appart of this obsessive shity music, but the rest is top, thanks

Love FIA's take on hybrid cars for making more power and really nice sounds in Rally 1.
Also, if more divisions make it easier to dream of competing some day, I'll take it! Nice explanation, bro. Thanks!

can someone explain to me why most of the cars in the video are registered in poland? is there some kind of loophole that requires polish registration?

Why would they remove the center diff? Wont that make the cars less safe?

AI voiceover

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Who's driving the violet WRC Ford? That is extremely beautiful !

If I wanted to become a rally driver am I forced to use a hatchback car?

I think what fans are unhappy with is the end of "production chassis" in favor of a silhouette car.

Rally 1:
3,1kg/hp
Group B:
less than 2kg/hp
the sky was the limit in group B

Rally 1 give me a sensation of past (group B horsepower into group A cars platform)... a tasty mixture

500bhp for a WRC car? That's insane guys.

I prefur older awd rallycars and older rwd and fwd rallycars

A small correction on the formula ladder, there is Formula Regional between F3 and F4

The new tubular chasis of the rally1 cars is a complete travesty, might aswel start being like nascar.

Gr yaris❤

Group B : 😈

Not to be un tasteful here but when he mentioned the lack of central differential causing more understeer gotta wonder if it had something to do with the crash in Croatia

I'm amazed by anmount of polish numberplates on this video

They should make a "Rally 0" with basically no restrictions.

interesting topic, well recorded voice and some good information. However there's lots of room for improvement. It sounds like the narrator is just reading un-enthusiastically off a script and sentences don't flow well into each other. Maybe edited different takes together when tone didn't match. There's a few points that get repeated over and over. a "pseudo McPhearson setup" is mentioned as if it were common knowledge what that is. Lastly, inserting a graphic that tells us the cost, weight, power and other differences alongside the pyramid will help relay the information better.

The chassis of a Rally1 car isn't the same as the safety cell. People claim wrongly that the teams just put bodywork around a spec spaceframe. That is wrong, every team builds their own chassis. Only the compact dynamics hybrid box is spec.

AI voice huh.

Rally 3 car ( Ford Fiesta) was fully designed and developed by M-sport Poland, Polish facility of M- Sport.

I swear the Rally4 class is a spec class with only Ford Fiestas.

Rally 1

Wow, an unexpectedly good rally video from North America! Keep em coming

This misses a fundamental and salient point that the vast majority of rally drivers start in clubman's sport where anyone can purchase a top flight WRC clone and compete at national level with often the opportunity to compete overseas, i.e. WRC without the status. For many rally drivers progressing through the sport using a Rally 3, 4, or 5 car it will be a downgrade especially as they will be run by independent teams that will be no better than what the clubman may be already competing with. In Formula circuit racing the clubman can't really experience the higher echelon cars without moving into the defined category and being on the Formula ladder.
It seems to me that FIA are fixing a problem that doesn't exist with the big risk that international rallying will lose more interest through dilution. Who will sponsor a Rally 5 car on international events with little or no coverage? The international sponsors will see the class as not having a high enough profile and the national sponsors will see that it is irrelevant to sponsor a car internationally when they have no presence there.
If the system was for progression then the likes of Kalle Rovanpera would not have been the WRC champion in 2022 because he would still be competing in Rally 2 or 3. Oliver Solberg would not have gone straight into a WRC 1 car after competing in national rallycross.

Well, full-electric rally cars are already a thing. Opel has one and runs a championship in Germany if I'm not mistaken. However, I don't see that as the way to go for the WRC. I suspect that hydrogen powered rally cars will be the direction they go in which I believe would be the right decision.

Thanks for this video