why in rally races there is a guy on a passenger seat explaining where to drive?
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Rally racing is very different from circuit racing. Instead of short laps around a fixed track, they are longer point-to-point stages, with routes that can vary season to season.
Track racers can get several hours in which to make practice laps, not to mention time on a simulator with an accurate track model, and they may even have raced the same track with minimal or no changes many times before. They can therefore become very familiar with the layout.
In rally, on the other hand, the driver gets maybe one or two reconnaissance runs where they can drive the course at road legal speeds – this is the time during which the co-driver makes the notes they’ll then read from during the flying run.
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