Even F1 drivers say these guys are completely insane. Their skills are off the charts.

Audience participation. If a car flips over, the fans will rush over and turn it back over so it can keep racing.

Rally makes NASCAR look like Muppets in toy cars.

This is why we have universal healthcare in europe

"american discovers corners for the first time"

One Name… Colin McRae! Find him, see his driving (and his Video game).
RIP Colin and Son.

you should absolutely check out the  group B rally class from back in the 80's, total insanity

In my opinion the top rally drivers are the best drivers in the world. Their car control is just outstanding.

The only people crazier than rally drivers are the spectators.

Every rally spectator dreams one day to be flattened on a fast turn.

You have just discovered one of the best motorsports in the world. A lot of those clips were from a time when rallying was a bit more wild west than now, but it's still a cracking sport to watch. Manufacturer teams put a lot of money into it but they come and go. At WRC level, it's expensive and the cars are heavily modified.
There are far fewer serious accidents and fatalities than you might imagine.
Raid rallies are different again. The Paris-Dakar, for example (no longer Paris to Dakar because of security issues).

Every spectator know the risks when they attend a rally! The buzz is on another level in this sport!

I had a guy working for me who drove in Australian Rally Championship, I got my company to sponsor his car and I think he lasted 5 races before he completely destroyed the car. Absolutely insane drivers, but great fun!! ;)

Nowadays most rally events are a bit more safe like require you to take more of safety space away from the road but back then especially during Group B times it was just said that you can stand wherever you want but just gotta watch out and if something happens to you, that's on you

There actually were not too many casulties during these cuz most of the times people got out of the way fast enough or the driver crashed at a "more safe spot".
Of course there still were some thing happening which made it all a bit more safer but for what it is, it's rly surprising that it didn't get shut down.
Also the drivers in these are usually sitting in what i'd say one of the safest cars possible like they are very robust and can survive a lot aka keep the driver and passenger safe.

Rally de Portugal 🇵🇹, the best in the world, 80, 90... it's 🤯

"I would never stand next to that"
Still nothing compared to group B Rally back in the day. Fans were crazy. There were literally a a sea of people right on the track that parted just in front of the cars. When asked about it Walter Röhrl replied “They are only bushes to us—only trees; if we think these are people, we cannot drive”

imagine watching cars going in circles all time and then: THIS 😂

Being a co-driver myself, I can only say I'm having my own little party in the passenger seat, when we compete in the danish Historic Rally Championship, even if we don't win, and even in a 1967 Mini, we are competitive in our class,

I used to participate in entry-level rally events 40-odd years ago (back in the days of the first Ford Fiesta) and so followed the world-class events via magazines. One of the more memorable stories involved <some famous Scandinavian driver> with a writer/reporter acting as navigator. Something went wrong and they ended up sliding to a stop on the roof, right in the middle of a busy railway track.

After a few seconds of all the gear/pencils/papers/dirt/dust falling "up" to the roof of the car, the driver looked out the window and said something like "we go now, train is coming".

They managed to push/skid the car off the tracks just before the train came through the crossing.

For any Americans watching, those strange wiggly things are called..... corners.