Io quel giorno c'ero, sono passati più di trent'anni ma ricordo tutto come se fosse stato ieri . Macchine fantastiche, l'area 48 del Motor Show ... indimenticabile. Se non sbaglio alla guida della 405 c'era Vatanen , e sulla 205 è possibile ci fosse Ivan Capelli ? Chiedo conferma
Man, that guy wanted to help so bad. Rally fans are the best, even if they can get in the way sometimes. You'll be glad they're around when you need them, though.
It's not 1988 but 1989 practices or qualifying. Vatanen has the n°1 on his car and Unser the n°2. In 1988 Vatanen had the n°2 and Kankunen the n°3. Todt talks about the rumor of Peugeot's presence at the Paris-Dakar 1990 after announcing its withdrawal following its 1989 Victory.
Very rare. The driver of the literally killer beautix Ford RS 200 (1:11) is Stig Blomqvist who was just training, I suppose, because he had retired earlier. Peugeot nr 5 (2:30) is Juha Kankkunen who finally would win the rally. Nr 9 is Saby who got the 3rd place. The very fast and evil Lancia Delta is Miki Biason`s who took the second place. Salonen lost 30 minutes and retired after that.
Misa RASETA i would probably not have been as successful as his smooth unaggressive style is not suited to cars like this, he likes his cars set up to understeer slightly. he would probably have been best suited to the quattro against teammates, or cars like the mini or fwd saab. tarmac specialists were mostly uncompetitive over a season until cars nolonger required homologation so the ridiculous adjustability has levelled the playing field hence the French dominance of the past 15 years. when they generally struggled over the season in the past. Finland was the cornerstone of the wrc driver supply, 2002 was last time, but they are still the force in club events using homologated/converted road cars.
Nutzer they had electronic fuel injection on audi quattros (most audis towards the late 80s) the lancia 037 i sat in (at race retro) had efi too. its hard for me to believe the t16 didn't too. but I've never been in or been close to a group b t16 with it's engine on show. mfi was being phased out when group a and b took over from group 1/2/3/4/5 in motorsport. my old Chevette rally car had an ecu and it used carbs, but that was a cocktail of lots of cars.
Really good cars,i would like to see also B group rally but it is history,the drivers were saying that they were going so fast,faster than brain thinking,it was simply to dangerous to drive this power with so limited help. The 405 and 205 are looking spectacular thoo,i smile every time somebody asked why 405 has that funny rear end (they dont know the power lying inside the car)
