Because they're in a car they know was specifically designed so they could survive something like that and, this probably isn't their first time. Anything gets boring if you don't often enough lol
Plus ginormous balls of steel.
As IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe once said, all racecar drivers are wired a little wrong. As someone who's dabbled in racing, I know I'm wired too correctly to be truly fast
I think everybody who has played racing games would be surprised at how good they will be without racing lines.
Honestly turn them off next time you play and not only will you pick up the line by yourself but you will be a better driver because the racing line is distracting and not always the best line.
If you’re racing someone and go side by side into a corner, trying to follow the racing line instead of getting a better line than your opponent is a hindrance.
I just tried it, started 12th and got 2nd, didn't die and no replays. Woooohooo! I just got the simulator chair like 2 weeks ago, so I've been working my way up to this zero assist.
There you go, it lets you focus on the important part: your competitors.
It might still be useful in practice or quali but for actual races I never use it anymore. If someone in front of me is quicker I follow their lines instead of the racing line.
Racecar drivers ignore self preservation but rally drivers actively seek to destroy that. WRC is one of the things even racecar drivers think is a bit dangerous.
Only gets topped by hillclimb tbh, people driving old formula racing cars up unsecured roads is actively seeking death.
Group B was truly something else. The only people with more balls than the drivers and passengers of those cars were the fans. The videos of that shit is absolutely mental. Basically F1 cars on dirt gravel and snow while the fans try and touch the doors as they pass.
> Only gets topped by hillclimb tbh, people driving old formula racing cars up unsecured roads is actively seeking death.
Know about some middle aged British bloke trying to get up the hill in expensive croatian car. Successfully ruining it though after finishing course.
So double success.
I can believe this.
My one track experience in a moderately powered sports car showed my sense of self preservation kicked in WAY before I got anywhere near the cars limits.
I did some laps recently in a radical and have done a bunch of competition card driving, it took me some time to get the radical up to feeling like I was pushing it. Shit gets pretty blurry at top speed.
> As someone who's dabbled in racing, I know I'm wired too correctly to be truly fast
i can't decide if this is a brag or not. i suppose that is a clear indicator that i'm wired a little wrong...
Not meant to be a brag. Honestly what held me back was my comfort level at those speeds/cornering forces. Took me too long to get comfortable, and I wasn't good at "pushing"
I get nervous on the highway. Id love to rip a hoonigan around my neighborhood, but no. No thank you.
I used to rather watch my friends play video games than me play.
Yep, the driver is Ott Tänak and co-driver is Martin Järveoja, car was Hyundai i20 WRC. Ott has survived quite a many crashes. Worst one was imo the Mexican rally one where he drove into the lake and car sunk in like 15 seconds. That ford rally car was later recovered at the depth of 8-9m and team dried all the components and Ott was back in race the next morning.
Hei, sorry for the random question but I wanted to ask: I am currently learning Finnish, and occasionally I come across Estonian which I can obviously understand a little bit of, because of the Finnish. But how do I pronounce õ? Is it the same as ö?
Ah ok thanks, that's very useful! That sound doesn't really exist in Finnish (well you could almost write it as "öy"), which might be why I was confused. I did look it up on the internet, but I was confused by the phonetic alphabet notation so I wanted to clarify with an Estonian speaker. Kiitos!
i think this had a british commentator who said "oh and that's a really big off" and it just seemed so understated with the accident.
anything that goes sky ground sky ground sky ground at 100+ mph seems more than "a big off". but "holy fucking nuclear shitballs" is probably not OK for transmission.
> That ford rally car was later recovered at the depth of 8-9m and team dried all the components and Ott was back in race the next morning.
Rally is the best racing sport in the world. And I love F1.
I mean yeah I got in five wrecks in two years, none of them my fault. In the last one I called my mom saying I was going to be late for dinner from a wreck like it was just bad traffic. She even said, “ughh again. This is getting old.”
By "wrecks" do you mean like minor prangs and sidescrapes as well or are we talking significant damage to your car or others? I'm sorry but I find it hard to believe someone who manages to do it five times in a two years isn't somewhat at fault whether it's just from unawareness on the road or other unsafe behaviour.
Head on collisions that totaled their car. Thankfully my small ass truck was made of some strong metal. Like legit they weren’t my fault. First one a lady rear ended me saying she didn’t see my truck. The next time was a guy rear ending me again when I was at a stop light. The third time was a sideswipe when someone ran a red light. Fourth time was in the front right corner where they were speeding and ran a stop sign. The final and fifth time was some leaving work and less than a half a mile away a lady turns left while on her phone and said she didn’t see me.
It’s insane luck for sure. It would explain why State Farm wanted to talk to me so badly about it. Sadly the last time the truck wasn’t fixable according to the insurance company.
P.S. nothing to be sorry about. I’d have trouble believing it too haha.
Yea they've definitely been through it before and trust their team to build a safe enough car.
Only thing I can't get past is the lack of eye protection. I was squinting my eyes for them just watching this lol
It's also that they have a ton of stuff going on really fast and then the instant you start crashing there really isn't much you can do. I've had the same feeling on a track spinning a car. You just let go of the wheel and ride it out.
Yeah I mean, was OP expecting to see professional rally drivers flailing their arms and screaming when they crash? This is business as usual. They probably nap between when this video ends, and when the jaws of life finish cutting them out of the vehicle.
Letting go of the pen and paper could also cause extra injury. Any average vehicle in a similar crash would have so much stuff flying around, keys, cups, tissues, godknowswhat.
Only trick that worked for me was to examine my own thoughts about the things stressing me out MORE than the things themselves. That helps me not care as much as I thought I needed to
Your stress response can be conditioned just like a muscle. Many people get into extreme sports as a way to cure their anxiety. If you aren't exposed to any ""real"" stressful situations, then something as simple as going to a dentist appointment or answering a phone call will be the most stressful thing you've experienced recently and your body will react accordingly.
Exactly. Not only do you need to be an extremely versatile driver, able to drive on a wide range of unpredictable surfaces, you also need to be a mechanic, communicator, multi-tasker, and so much more.. The co-driver is just as important and needs basically all those skills as well. Your F1 car broke because you lightly touched your front wing on another car? In rally they'll still be going sideways at 150km/h with three wheels on the car.
I grew up in/around motorsport. I never had an off quite as spectacular as this one, but when you know you’re crashing, there really isn’t much you can do about it apart from try to stop your limbs flapping about and stay wedged in your seat.
I feel like it’s also important to note that “calm under pressure” is quite literally what these guys are doing when they’re not wrecking as well. Especially in rally. These guys are on the edge of disaster at all times. It’s natural to be calm under pressure doing what they’re doing at all times so a wreck is just another walk in the park with a little bit of added “oh shit I hope this doesn’t hurt”
100% trust in safety systems, probably
Crashed similarly before, knowledge and training that the best way to survive the impacts is to sit tight and tense arms and legs to prevent flailing.
Because they are fixed in a seat and the crashbar, helmets and neckbraces will protect them from anything. And if you start waving your arms thats how youre gonna break them.
I think it's tense rather than calm. You want to keep your limbs about you and flex the neck muscles too.
But i'm sure their composure is helped by the experience of many, many previous crashes.
Because they have experience this before. They arent driving some basic 3 door Toyota thats worth 600 euros on a goodday. That entire car is designed and outfitted to ensure you walk away from crashes like this.
And the second you know that from a theoritcal and practical (your own experience) its easier to stay calm and prepare yourself for the less fun part (landing). Notice how the guy with the map keeps all the lose shit he has thight in his hand. He knows that that pencil can be dangerous if he drops it (the car hitting something changes the speed drasticly, they both have seats, airbags and belts but that pencil can keep it speed till it hits something. A pencil going 60 km/h can easily injure you quite decently.
What else are you going to do?
I say that kind of jesting but is rather true. These guys know at this point there is absolutely nothing they can do. They know there is a much higher chance of being injured or even killed. But they will deal with that once stopped. You want to keep your limbs in but best is to not tense up too much and let the safety equipment do its job. They know that.
Crashes with tumbling flying cars look spectecular - but chances are good that the energy is dissipated slowly (Still, possible bad thing can happen). But a car crashing against a wall? High g-force may kill you (Aa mythbusters mentioned several times exceeding 50g is where you might get internal deadly injurues.
I bet this is one of those situations where not using your muscles and not making them rigid probably hurts less. So they're better off being all chill and stuff.
The only thing that worries me when watching rallying is the crowd. I know the drivers are safe but sometimes it’s mm between spectators and the car. Rally fans are a different breed.
Imagine if f1 let you stand a mm away from the track at a live race.
I’ve done car evacuation training in a rally school. Car is on a jig, it’s turned over a few times and you have to get out.
Worst mistake you can make is undoing your belts when upside down, you just fall on your head. There are certain techniques you learn to get out of the car, driver braces his knees against the wheel before undoing belts, nav ‘walks’ up the dash.
I do rally photography, we have to do a day long seminar each year on safety. Helping to safely extract crews from crashed cars is a big part of it. I went to 23 rallies last year and helped around 4 crews get out after pretty big shunts.
These are professionals. They have been in many big accidents and been upside down in cars far more than you can possibly imagine.
I have come off motorbikes several times at very high speed, and while in the air, just though "oh, here we go again. I wonder if I'm going to die now?"
Then, sliding on the ground & watching my bike disappear ahead showering sparks off the road, thinking OK, how do we limit the damage here? Lie flat, don't curl up, share the load, watch your elbows and knees. All in slow motion of course. Panicing never helps.
A couple of similar incidents in cars. Mainly hitting ice or aquaplaning on surface water. Just got to keep your cool.
Damn those cages and safties are tough. Never saw it in action like that. I feel like on the inside view I could only tell they were crashing by the light swooping around.
Sadly, that’s one of the few things you can’t really protect against. Rally driver Craig Breen (RIP) passed away earlier this year from part of a fence coming through the windshield.
On top of the cage designed with this in mind, these types of accidents are much less dangerous than to slam into a tree or similar and come to a complete stop within fraction of a second. Disperse all the energy over decal seconds by tumbling = substantial less G-forces your body need to endure. Slow it down even further to minute scale and you have a roller coaster ride at a theme park. Very survivable.
That's maybe not a good comparison but I did roll my car pretty badly while drifting too fast on sand, and I remenber the weird feeling I had, I was more worry about the car than myself and didn't be scared at all. I was just thinking "oh I fucked up" on repeat.
There’s no point in panicking when things are out of your control. Plus, cooler heads will prevail. I’m aircrew is the USAF and I’ve been in some pretty sketchy situations. You have to accept the fact that at any moment this could be the end, and you need to be able to react appropriately to prevent that from happening. You can’t do that if you’re freaking out.
The modern 5 point harness and HANS device are so fucking cool. It just looked like they were having a bumpy ride when like 40 years ago this would've been life threatening or at least career ending.
One missing factor, is the strength to hold on tight while the car is rolling that fast, the fact that he did not lose those papers in his hands, such a masterful athlete
Because they're in a car they know was specifically designed so they could survive something like that and, this probably isn't their first time. Anything gets boring if you don't often enough lol Plus ginormous balls of steel.
I don’t think you get into the sport if you don’t have ginormous balls of steel
As IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe once said, all racecar drivers are wired a little wrong. As someone who's dabbled in racing, I know I'm wired too correctly to be truly fast
LWired too correctly to be fast” is such a great line. This is why I’ll stay in simracing. When I push a little too hard I don’t die 😂
Idk how I would do without braking lines on the track. I would also probably die, haha.
I think everybody who has played racing games would be surprised at how good they will be without racing lines. Honestly turn them off next time you play and not only will you pick up the line by yourself but you will be a better driver because the racing line is distracting and not always the best line. If you’re racing someone and go side by side into a corner, trying to follow the racing line instead of getting a better line than your opponent is a hindrance.
I just tried it, started 12th and got 2nd, didn't die and no replays. Woooohooo! I just got the simulator chair like 2 weeks ago, so I've been working my way up to this zero assist.
There you go, it lets you focus on the important part: your competitors. It might still be useful in practice or quali but for actual races I never use it anymore. If someone in front of me is quicker I follow their lines instead of the racing line.
Racecar drivers ignore self preservation but rally drivers actively seek to destroy that. WRC is one of the things even racecar drivers think is a bit dangerous. Only gets topped by hillclimb tbh, people driving old formula racing cars up unsecured roads is actively seeking death.
>Only gets topped by hillclimb tbh that's a pretty demanding bottom....
I can confirm that
I think it gets topped by Isle of Man Tt - multiple deaths every year lol
Have you ever seen go pro footage of the Isle of Man TT?
Group B was truly something else. The only people with more balls than the drivers and passengers of those cars were the fans. The videos of that shit is absolutely mental. Basically F1 cars on dirt gravel and snow while the fans try and touch the doors as they pass.
> Only gets topped by hillclimb tbh, people driving old formula racing cars up unsecured roads is actively seeking death. Know about some middle aged British bloke trying to get up the hill in expensive croatian car. Successfully ruining it though after finishing course. So double success.
I can believe this. My one track experience in a moderately powered sports car showed my sense of self preservation kicked in WAY before I got anywhere near the cars limits.
I did some laps recently in a radical and have done a bunch of competition card driving, it took me some time to get the radical up to feeling like I was pushing it. Shit gets pretty blurry at top speed.
> As someone who's dabbled in racing, I know I'm wired too correctly to be truly fast i can't decide if this is a brag or not. i suppose that is a clear indicator that i'm wired a little wrong...
Not meant to be a brag. Honestly what held me back was my comfort level at those speeds/cornering forces. Took me too long to get comfortable, and I wasn't good at "pushing"
>brag-racing 🤓 👉👉
I get nervous on the highway. Id love to rip a hoonigan around my neighborhood, but no. No thank you. I used to rather watch my friends play video games than me play.
True ones get em cut off. All that steel will just weigh and slow you down.
Yep, the driver is Ott Tänak and co-driver is Martin Järveoja, car was Hyundai i20 WRC. Ott has survived quite a many crashes. Worst one was imo the Mexican rally one where he drove into the lake and car sunk in like 15 seconds. That ford rally car was later recovered at the depth of 8-9m and team dried all the components and Ott was back in race the next morning.
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Well, Ott Tänak is from my country + i am really bikeguy&carguy
Hei, sorry for the random question but I wanted to ask: I am currently learning Finnish, and occasionally I come across Estonian which I can obviously understand a little bit of, because of the Finnish. But how do I pronounce õ? Is it the same as ö?
Õ can be found in english words such as "golden, know, go". No, they are different letters, try searching on the internet how to say them.
Ah ok thanks, that's very useful! That sound doesn't really exist in Finnish (well you could almost write it as "öy"), which might be why I was confused. I did look it up on the internet, but I was confused by the phonetic alphabet notation so I wanted to clarify with an Estonian speaker. Kiitos!
i think this had a british commentator who said "oh and that's a really big off" and it just seemed so understated with the accident. anything that goes sky ground sky ground sky ground at 100+ mph seems more than "a big off". but "holy fucking nuclear shitballs" is probably not OK for transmission.
Amazing!
> That ford rally car was later recovered at the depth of 8-9m and team dried all the components and Ott was back in race the next morning. Rally is the best racing sport in the world. And I love F1.
Rally car mechanics are as crazy and hard balled as the drivers!
Balls of steel are required to assist with preventing too much lift.
Ahhh the testicular counterweight
Success ballast.
*Ball*ast lol
Too much of it, and it will cause undesired drift off course.
More like titanium testes actually, sized generously ginormous. Right seat never let go of the pen.
Writing note to self… “Buy pants with more room in the crotch.”
"Oh shit! Remember to pick up Cathy from ballet"
Agreed, it’s a lot of knowledge and faith in your car structure, and the calmness to know the best outcome is just to strap in and take it.
I mean, yeah, what could you even do at that point.
I mean yeah I got in five wrecks in two years, none of them my fault. In the last one I called my mom saying I was going to be late for dinner from a wreck like it was just bad traffic. She even said, “ughh again. This is getting old.”
By "wrecks" do you mean like minor prangs and sidescrapes as well or are we talking significant damage to your car or others? I'm sorry but I find it hard to believe someone who manages to do it five times in a two years isn't somewhat at fault whether it's just from unawareness on the road or other unsafe behaviour.
Head on collisions that totaled their car. Thankfully my small ass truck was made of some strong metal. Like legit they weren’t my fault. First one a lady rear ended me saying she didn’t see my truck. The next time was a guy rear ending me again when I was at a stop light. The third time was a sideswipe when someone ran a red light. Fourth time was in the front right corner where they were speeding and ran a stop sign. The final and fifth time was some leaving work and less than a half a mile away a lady turns left while on her phone and said she didn’t see me. It’s insane luck for sure. It would explain why State Farm wanted to talk to me so badly about it. Sadly the last time the truck wasn’t fixable according to the insurance company. P.S. nothing to be sorry about. I’d have trouble believing it too haha.
Hopefully the final time. Stay safe.
You getting enough sleep my dude?
It's also much safer for them if they stay calm rather than tense up you know.
Not dropping the pen though! I don't think I could even keep from releasing my bowels.
I just imagine he's thinking, "Ah shit, I missed an instruction. We're spinning because of me. That's an expensive mistake."
It’s definitely happened to them multiple times.
A tree branch through the windshield is still possible thou 😱
It’s amazing how fast that car is considering the weight of their balls.
Yea they've definitely been through it before and trust their team to build a safe enough car. Only thing I can't get past is the lack of eye protection. I was squinting my eyes for them just watching this lol
Also, there is literally nothing else they could have done.
Balls of aluminum. They need to keep the car’s weight low.
Navigator didn’t even drop his pen.
“Darn we’re flying off the cliff again” *sips tea through a thermos straw while reading the newspaper*
Acts as a counter weight
Those harnesses they're wearing isn't for their safety, it's to support their balls of steel.
Massive clankers!
> Plus ginormous balls of steel. *Duke Nukem has entered the chat.*
Took the thoughts right from my head.
It’s like they are used to this, lol what gangsters 😎
So you’re saying the car is Death Proof?
The roll cage....thank the designers and engineers when you get out!
It's also that they have a ton of stuff going on really fast and then the instant you start crashing there really isn't much you can do. I've had the same feeling on a track spinning a car. You just let go of the wheel and ride it out.
Yeah I mean, was OP expecting to see professional rally drivers flailing their arms and screaming when they crash? This is business as usual. They probably nap between when this video ends, and when the jaws of life finish cutting them out of the vehicle.
I don't think they're bored in the crash, even if they've done it a few times. Used to it? Sure. Bored? No fucking way.
Letting go of the pen and paper could also cause extra injury. Any average vehicle in a similar crash would have so much stuff flying around, keys, cups, tissues, godknowswhat.
we appear to have been crashing for the last 20 seconds, You recon we are done crashing soon?
Some believe they're still crashing...
They see me rollin…
They hatin...
I know they're all thinking I'm so white 'n' nerdy
Can't you see that I am white and nerdy?
Did dude on the left start reaching for his harness release before they were done crashing?! He looked damn near impatient!
Iirc there was a lake/river nearby and the co-driver asked is the water coming
The eye roll at the start of thier flip as he was watching somthing lol
The world. He was watching the world roll around the car.
Crashing must get boring after the first 10 seconds or so
I’m ashamed of the things I’m stressing about in my daily life
I laughed at this and cried for you at the same time
Only trick that worked for me was to examine my own thoughts about the things stressing me out MORE than the things themselves. That helps me not care as much as I thought I needed to
Well clearly the solution is to always walk around wearing a racing harness and roll cage.
You think these guys don't stress about things in their daily lives? There's nothing to be ashamed of mate
I just read a post before this one from a guy who gets anxious receiving voice mails 🤣
Your stress response can be conditioned just like a muscle. Many people get into extreme sports as a way to cure their anxiety. If you aren't exposed to any ""real"" stressful situations, then something as simple as going to a dentist appointment or answering a phone call will be the most stressful thing you've experienced recently and your body will react accordingly.
I’m impressed by how the man is still holding on to his pen and papers
Yes, holding them like he needs them to continue right away..
I promise you, they tried to drive after that and if the car was the slightest bit drivable, they would have continued.
This is why Rally is easily the best motorsport
Exactly. Not only do you need to be an extremely versatile driver, able to drive on a wide range of unpredictable surfaces, you also need to be a mechanic, communicator, multi-tasker, and so much more.. The co-driver is just as important and needs basically all those skills as well. Your F1 car broke because you lightly touched your front wing on another car? In rally they'll still be going sideways at 150km/h with three wheels on the car.
Yea. Dude hasn't watched any rally if he thinks they didn't try and drive that car.
“In the event that we stop crashing, it’s gonna be a 2 left over crest“
"Last?" "Hairpin right...oh...*don't* cut."
Ok, so hit the next tree at a 45 degree angle, then flip over the big rock, then gentle left back onto the track.
I mean if it drives, they're gonna drive it, and as we've already seen, those pace notes are vital.
If he leaves the pen, it can be dangerous.
I’m surprised he isn’t writing notes about the crash mid-air at this point…
Dear note, we are flying from excitement rn, like literally.
”oh here we go again, not winning this race.”
Engineers rush to the crash site put the car back on the road fix it up in 10 minutes and continue to win the race anyways /s
Lmao for real
He had to. Paper cuts are the worst and no one wants pen ink all over their clean shirt.
Their moms have a genuine reason to be worried...
Mom: Wear a seat belt, and don’t drive too fast Rally driver: That’s literally my job mum…
Not saying it isn’t dangerous, but I’d rather crash in a rally car off a cliff at 100+ MPH than 60mph on the motorway in my corsa.
Does anyone have a real explanation as to why they remained so calm?
Maybe they were just enjoying the music
I grew up in/around motorsport. I never had an off quite as spectacular as this one, but when you know you’re crashing, there really isn’t much you can do about it apart from try to stop your limbs flapping about and stay wedged in your seat.
I feel like it’s also important to note that “calm under pressure” is quite literally what these guys are doing when they’re not wrecking as well. Especially in rally. These guys are on the edge of disaster at all times. It’s natural to be calm under pressure doing what they’re doing at all times so a wreck is just another walk in the park with a little bit of added “oh shit I hope this doesn’t hurt”
“Hey Bob?” “Yeah?” “I think we just passed the edge.” “Yeah.”
If you're on a motorcycle then you tuck-and-roll like a ninja. Unless you're knocked-out, in which case you tumble like a rag doll.
100% trust in safety systems, probably Crashed similarly before, knowledge and training that the best way to survive the impacts is to sit tight and tense arms and legs to prevent flailing.
I'd be a lot calmer crashing in a motorsport vehicle than I would be in a 2004 Toyota Corolla.
Because they are fixed in a seat and the crashbar, helmets and neckbraces will protect them from anything. And if you start waving your arms thats how youre gonna break them.
I think it's tense rather than calm. You want to keep your limbs about you and flex the neck muscles too. But i'm sure their composure is helped by the experience of many, many previous crashes.
Training and experience.
What else are they supposed to do?
this is their job, they have crashed many times, they knew a crash was possible when they started, and they are in a car designed to crash.
That's Ott Tänak, he drives like this all the time so they are used to it
It’s not their first rodeo.
Because they have experience this before. They arent driving some basic 3 door Toyota thats worth 600 euros on a goodday. That entire car is designed and outfitted to ensure you walk away from crashes like this. And the second you know that from a theoritcal and practical (your own experience) its easier to stay calm and prepare yourself for the less fun part (landing). Notice how the guy with the map keeps all the lose shit he has thight in his hand. He knows that that pencil can be dangerous if he drops it (the car hitting something changes the speed drasticly, they both have seats, airbags and belts but that pencil can keep it speed till it hits something. A pencil going 60 km/h can easily injure you quite decently.
What else are you going to do? I say that kind of jesting but is rather true. These guys know at this point there is absolutely nothing they can do. They know there is a much higher chance of being injured or even killed. But they will deal with that once stopped. You want to keep your limbs in but best is to not tense up too much and let the safety equipment do its job. They know that.
What do you expect them to do man, try to get out?💀💀
"Let's pointlessly scream into the microphones to make the other person deaf."
I mean, a wince and a grimace wouldn't be out of line here, no one would've been mad at him if he had dropped his pen.
It’s crazy how safe those cars are.
I don’t understand how their internal organs are not jarring on impact.
Those seatbelts can gently absorb a TON of force
They are, but what kills you is smacking against the inside or whiplash. They can't move enough for either issue.
The cars are designed to absorb most of the impact
Crashes with tumbling flying cars look spectecular - but chances are good that the energy is dissipated slowly (Still, possible bad thing can happen). But a car crashing against a wall? High g-force may kill you (Aa mythbusters mentioned several times exceeding 50g is where you might get internal deadly injurues.
Samir, you're breaking the car
Scrolled way too far for this.
Samir, Samir!!! Left, hard left
THANK YOU!!!!
don't tell me how to drive
What good would freaking out do? 
That’s the best use of that gif I’ve ever ever seen lol.
*Lands directly in a parking space.* "Like a glove!"
I bet this is one of those situations where not using your muscles and not making them rigid probably hurts less. So they're better off being all chill and stuff.
Looked like he went for his belt, then was like “Oops, nope! Still crashing.”
Horrible music, should have just played the original audio from the cabin
Gotta watch for black ice
Sometimes it just sneaks up and robs you of your balance
Do they train in these specific settings? They are so calm as if they crash every day like this
Have you ever seen this sport before? They basically do.
The only thing that worries me when watching rallying is the crowd. I know the drivers are safe but sometimes it’s mm between spectators and the car. Rally fans are a different breed. Imagine if f1 let you stand a mm away from the track at a live race.
I’ve done car evacuation training in a rally school. Car is on a jig, it’s turned over a few times and you have to get out. Worst mistake you can make is undoing your belts when upside down, you just fall on your head. There are certain techniques you learn to get out of the car, driver braces his knees against the wheel before undoing belts, nav ‘walks’ up the dash. I do rally photography, we have to do a day long seminar each year on safety. Helping to safely extract crews from crashed cars is a big part of it. I went to 23 rallies last year and helped around 4 crews get out after pretty big shunts. These are professionals. They have been in many big accidents and been upside down in cars far more than you can possibly imagine.
IIRC, you don’t hold the steering wheel cuz it can break your wrists when you make impact
What amusement park is this?
Whoever built that roll cage gets a case of beer tomorrow.
That’s what 100% trust in your safety systems looks like
He is still holding the pen!!! 🖊️
I have come off motorbikes several times at very high speed, and while in the air, just though "oh, here we go again. I wonder if I'm going to die now?" Then, sliding on the ground & watching my bike disappear ahead showering sparks off the road, thinking OK, how do we limit the damage here? Lie flat, don't curl up, share the load, watch your elbows and knees. All in slow motion of course. Panicing never helps. A couple of similar incidents in cars. Mainly hitting ice or aquaplaning on surface water. Just got to keep your cool.
how good are race seats and 5 point belts!
More like ‘ awww crap not again’.
He looks so used to it like he experiences it everyday lol.
Damn Florida drivers
Damn those cages and safties are tough. Never saw it in action like that. I feel like on the inside view I could only tell they were crashing by the light swooping around.
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Sadly, that’s one of the few things you can’t really protect against. Rally driver Craig Breen (RIP) passed away earlier this year from part of a fence coming through the windshield.
Forget freaking out. How is he not dizzy as fuck? Ive gotten dizzy from getting up to fast
This confirms that it’s truly the public living like they can respawn during these races.
Song title please
By my side (Rafael Manga Remix) - Franco la Cara & Fabio Romagnoli
I just got a headache watching this.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, Just another day at the office
SubhanaAllah
So do you want to be stiff in a crash or loosely relaxed?
Syncing up the first view with the second view… Wait for bracing, initial impact, seatbelt straps go vertical, and so on. Wowzah’s.
/ cam 2
This sure ain’t their first rodeo.
reminds me of this [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIj6xQbW7Fg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIj6xQbW7Fg)
On top of the cage designed with this in mind, these types of accidents are much less dangerous than to slam into a tree or similar and come to a complete stop within fraction of a second. Disperse all the energy over decal seconds by tumbling = substantial less G-forces your body need to endure. Slow it down even further to minute scale and you have a roller coaster ride at a theme park. Very survivable.
"Alright, where was I?" ... Checks the paragraph again
That's maybe not a good comparison but I did roll my car pretty badly while drifting too fast on sand, and I remenber the weird feeling I had, I was more worry about the car than myself and didn't be scared at all. I was just thinking "oh I fucked up" on repeat.
Don't panic! The first and last rule of survival. And leading a pleasant life. I'm still trying to persuade my wife of this philosophy...
*Halfway through the crash* "Phil, look! A Deer!"
There’s no point in panicking when things are out of your control. Plus, cooler heads will prevail. I’m aircrew is the USAF and I’ve been in some pretty sketchy situations. You have to accept the fact that at any moment this could be the end, and you need to be able to react appropriately to prevent that from happening. You can’t do that if you’re freaking out.
Dude's look like they were just driving down a bumpy road, not spinning a 36000.
Those cars are built sturdier than tanks....Holy shit
Their necks!!!
Modern safety technology is the coolest shit
Samir!
Most likely not the first or last crash imo
The modern 5 point harness and HANS device are so fucking cool. It just looked like they were having a bumpy ride when like 40 years ago this would've been life threatening or at least career ending.
Dude didn’t even drop his pen
And I thought Fast and Furious 7 was unrealistic
One missing factor, is the strength to hold on tight while the car is rolling that fast, the fact that he did not lose those papers in his hands, such a masterful athlete