1980's Group B Rally Insanity - Ultimate Remix feat. Lazerhawk 

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Stupid spectators.

Thank you, appreciate it!

So sad i got born too late...

@@Tau-5-weebnever too late to get a adrenaline rush from a mx 2 stroke dirt bike.

Thank you!

the drivers were told to just approach the people because they would then move to the side of their own accord. Has always worked! until 1986...

After the races were over, they would do the post race inspection and pull fingers off the front of the cars

​@@RagtownJunctionActually, it kept going a year after it happened. It happened it 1985 and disbanded in '86. It was a crash, not just the idiocy of the people.

@@a-a-rondavis9438 okay sorry

Some drivers actually described them as "moving trees" because they blocked their vision ahead and were not supposed to be hit.

Go to Finnish rallys today, same vibe

@@tramlink8544not in any way portugal is probably the closest in modern day

"with this car your basically to slow with thinking" -Walter Röhrl driving the Audi S1

and she's was kinda hot too

Thank you. It's coming out hopefully next year. I'll be posting more sequences here on the channel so stay tuned.

Marshalls what marshalls . You were in charge of your life then .

Yep, the risk of killing the spectators could've been easily mitigated by moving the spectators, but the late Group B cars had a not so slight tendency to kill the racers as well, and were truly exhausting to drive. Progress in engines performance hadn't been matched yet by advancements in suspensions, tires and brakes, and safety measures were still in their infancy. Just two months after the deaths in the crowd at the Portugal rally, Henri Toivonen and co-driver Sergio Cresto perished in the Tour de Corse rally, exactly one year after another Lancia driver, Attilio Bettega, had died there.

I hated the spectators behavior at those events, so stupid. But let's admit it the category was doomed. The fact that engines was turbocharged was the main factor. For example the peugeot 205 started with a little more than 300 hp and ended up with about 500 hp in 1986 which was insane for such light weight cars and the roads used. What they could have done is forbidding super/turbo charged engines and/or RWD, think lancia stratos, metro 6R4 (with a smaller engine). Instead we had those lardy, super efficient, bad sounding turbocharged 4 cylinders cars.

It's Audi Quattro S1.

20 valve 5 cylinder, 2.1 litre SOHC, a very unusual spec but as distinctive as they come, they said it developed around 600bhp by 1986, not far off 300bhp per litre, F1 only achieved more than that by fitting truck turbos to engines that would fry itself to bits in a fraction of the time the rally cars engines would.

so were the marshalls for not stopping them

@@britishgaming6 they can't stop them

Nonono... thew 80s had everything best

Thanks for watching.

Yes we are :)

Haha Im quoting my old Maltese flatmate when we were watching Group B highlights, must of been so much fun in its heydey @@arministrator 👍

don't forget about the manual transmission as well that add enormous burden for the hands and legs coordination.

Nah, Lazerhawk had that awesome track out for a while before I made this.

Then what is the name of said track?​@arministrator

⁠@@thatonecarguy_bg2701king of the streets

Clown

the cars were dangerous since they were barely made of thin sheets of metal but the ploughing through people was a mistake on both the spectators and the marshalls part instead of the cars

Hvala puno

that's why you dont get to drive cars

@@shamancredible8632 i get to, my city is just too crowded to park one so i use ridesharing services or rentals if i end up needing one. Bicycle is just more convenient for distances where metro or bus services are not nessessary

Right. Animals are more important than humans. Psycho.

@@RunstarHomer Correct. Animals have never been cruel to me unlike yourself. Maybe a lesson there.

@@stacymirba1433 You implied the peoples' lives are less important than animals'. You don't think that was a cruel thing to say about every person in the video? Maybe a lesson there.

@@RunstarHomer They are less important than the animals. They choose to stand in the way of danger. Then you showed up to pretend you were more important as well despite being a complete asshole. So let me clear, every single animal on earth is more important than you.

Vegan brain rot

Lancia Musa? 😅

@@ouralphe Lancia 037 Lancia nowadays it’s not Lancia anymore Germany, France and all Europe bought all our car companies.

hmmm 🤔. when you put yourself in harms way, harm might just collect. maybe we are coming to the realization that no one should or has to die in motorsports, specially spectators. the spectators who died while watching group-b rally inches from the course could have watched from somehow else other than the outer portion of a fast corner. I don't think drivers want to be responsible for the deaths of spectators or their navigator. Governing racing bodies don't want to be responsible for the deaths of spectators either (regardless of legal waivers). Safer motorsports are best for all. so, in the end, we aren't raising wimps, just smarter, wiser ppl. There are still plenty of ppl who would stand in front of moving cars...just look at the pedestrians with their nose in their phone while crossing the street not paying attention to the cars driving by because what's on their phone is more important than their life....

Are you trolling or you really are so much soft?

They don't make 600 bhp full time, plus one wonders what's the fuss with the rally1 hybrids when Ogier was doing fastest splits without the electric motors. Not to mention Group B cars weighted nothing and had an absurdly monstruos deploying of that power. Who cares about being fast. Group A cars looked boring in comparison, Alen said he could drive the Integrale with one hand after the S4. Group B cars were pure drama. I prefer them even upon modern WRC cars, as these offer GREAT spectacle (jump way higher and corner way faster), but don't have nowhere near the charisma of the Quattro or the 037.

Mate it's like F1, today F1 are faster, safer and easier to control than the ones of the past. But that's what make those old machines a myth, they were crazy fast even for today standard, without electronic controls or assist, without an automatic gearbox, without that million of sensors that will say the condition of every inch of the car, without even abs or power steering, racing on tracks that had less than half of today safety standard. The man and women who drove those analogic speed demon machines were crazy and insane, and every race they were one inch from death. They were like modern time gladiators. The myth it's not about the machines, but with the whole time, more crude, harder and harsher where being a pilot was nearly a death sentence. Yet those drivers went into this hell for the stake of their passion of going fast. Even the spectator risked their whole life for just being near those pilots and machines. The whole nostalgia it's about those times that had no safe filters or limitations, everything was left up to people to decide. Meanwhile today rules are insane, like having limited set of tires or gas emission requirement on damn racecars. Just an example is smoking cigarettes in the car or in the box, it may sound stupid but today even that thing it's not permitted anymore. It was a time where people, pilot and car engineers had no boundaries with the freedom of doing everything for full expressing their potential, even if that made your life at risk. The only close thing today it's the motorbike race in the isle of man

500hp or more on gravel with an H shifter, almost stock suspension, immense torque and pathetic downforce handled by not so healthy drivers being extremely tested on stages with guard rails made of humans. Yeah, myth. You probably also think that footage of Senna driving a V10 Mclaren in Monaco with only one hand while changing gears with the other, acting like it's an everyday Corolla, is kind of overrated.