Group B Rallying - Tribute 

I have a similar video, that I watched 12 years ago on my bigger brothers nokia. I will never forget it. It’s called „DC‘s it“, a snowboarding edit for all DC Snowboarding pros at that time. It’s a whole vibe and it’s physically impossible to be sad while watching it. There are truly some childhood gems on RU-vid

This and Marvdoggers ‘Groupe B Crazy Fans’.

True

I watch this video since 2008....

@@ivangioring126 never gets old for petrol heads

To this day. I saw it about when it was made too..

Perfectly put !

I agree

default1976 : I think Hannu is referring to the test that Lancia did at Estoril a week before the Portuguese F1 GP. The story goes that Henri Toivonen took out Tyrell F1 driver Jonathan Palmer for a quick lap in his Delta S4, and in doing so set a time that would have seen him 10th in the grid for the following weeks F1 race.

Absolutely !

Decade earlier group 5 and CAM-AM

And I’d add Group A in Aussie Touring Cars to that list as well. Those of us in our 40’s & 50’s were so very lucky to have lived through this period.

Motorsports in general were at their best in the 80s. F1, rally, endurance racing, touring car and oval racing all had their craziest up to that point, and even though the speeds and lap times are just as if not better then back in 80s...you can't really "feel" it (as a spectator at least).

Hard to disagree with you, but for me all these Group B rally cars were equally epic.

Raptowny Its gotta be the quattro S1, revolutionary piece of kit, that was the beginning of the end for two wheel drives in WRC, and ultimately even though their car was so much further advanced in comparison to the likes of the 205 and the RS200, audi ultimately took the blame for the death of Group B, because the other teams were playing catch up in regards to the vehicles so much they kept taking risks, also combined with the lack of proper safety regulations (crowd control mainly). if simple changes such as making sure the crowd were out of the way of the car, like they do today, the big RS200 crash would never have happened, that was purely the crowds fault for getting in the way of a 500bhp ford doing roughly 85/90mph on dirt right before a tight corner, if proper crowd control measures were involved, the collateral damage would have been minimal.. but it was sadly too late to save these beautiful works of art from the crusher, and saved from being banished from rally

@@lambokid20 lol, lancia 037 showed what S1 Quattro wasn't so revolutionary. But Lancia S4 or 205 GTI were

@@1999Almaz lancia had a good car in both the 037 and the delta S4, BUT they relied on underhand tactics to try and gain an advantage over competitors, like on the rallies where dust was a big issue, they would distract the Marshall pretending there was an issue with the car for just long enough to let the dust settle a bit, thus having a clearer run to try and get a faster time, admitted the 037 was a magnificent machine with it being the first car implementing both a turbo and a supercharger (twincharged) but the quattro system marked the beginning of the end for top end WRC cars being 2wd, now 2wd have separate categories and the main group A is always AWD cars. But there is no disagreements that these drivers were truly skilled people, no electronic aids in a 500+bhp car relying on a purely mechanical machine, granted there are some talented drivers today but in comparison I don't think the drivers who compete today would be able to match a time in a group B car that the drivers of the time set, maybe time will tell if the FIA will Bring back these weapons in some form or another that isn't restricted to rallyX or time attack up pikes peak.

@@lambokid20 I agree. None of the current pilots will not be able to repeat the success of Röhrl or Mouton (for example). The current rally is just a circus without animals. And yet I think that the Quattro S1 was a great car, but it still lost the rear-wheel drive 037 (yes Lancia used a trick, but after all, Audi did not honestly enter the all-wheel drive in the rally). And this is the first and only victory in history.

This 100%. Greatest Group B video clip of them all IMO. That spectator reaction says it all... hands on the head.

Pguin because he is.. he’s a good driver just not a rally driver

😁😁😁😁😁

hordesoflocust : Yep. That for me sums up Group B perfectly.

eamh2002 imagine these cars with today’s technology.. fuck me, they’d probably be faster then F1

And 80's brakes :v

They are faster now. Group B will always be cooler though.

@@boomyoulookingforthis1362 Yeah its the same with Formula 1, they advance in different things and get quicker despite weight. When you look at audis s1 it looks hard to turn into corners. If you'd drop a modern chassis into its body and tweak the aero, give the group b engine fresh turbos and variable valve timing and other things it would blow away new cars but thats a new car altogether too :)

@@eamh2002 Could you imagine seeing that? Not the chassis, but how fast the car could be.

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