The Motorsport That Killed Its Own Fans 

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The fact that there weren't MORE spectators hit is honestly kinda impressive.

As I saw an F1 representative say about the 1994 season, "It's business. Nothing personal." Group B was definitely using the same mindset. It's always fantastic to see drivers using their conscience and saying "no I can't do that, I will not do that'.

It's a chicken and egg story really. Group B was so popular it attracted insane amounts of people, and that same popularity eventually killed it.

World's most dangerous motorsport? Who should tell him about road racing and the Isle of Man TT races? Great video though, can't wait to see more.

The difference between Walter and other drivers was that he only hit the camera. The last world champion in a 2WD car, and THE star of Group B!

Gotta love the videos, absolutely well done man!❤

More unique content.. Well done!

yo love the variety do more of those 🔥🔥

Wow.. just wow, they need to bring this category back.

Amazing content DailyFuelUp! Now, Imagine what Group B would be like if they still existed? They would be like crazy turbo hybrid monsters with 1500hp+ with today’s technology.

If you’re interested in group b Watch the documentary Riding balls of fire

This is insane quality 😊

These home videos are what I was downloading as viral videos during the limewire/kazaa days. Lol Epic racing.

It always a good day when dfb uploads!

WRC didn't even come close to losing popularity following 86', it continued to Grow. Spectators were regularly an issue until Loeb won 9 straight titles.

ooh new stuff, I love it, anything motorsport, DuelyFuelUp is my favourite channel.

1985 RAC rally stood in Sutton Park watching Henri Toivonen and Markku Alen 1-2 great day

Group B aka: the "hold my beer" of motorsports.

I swear you're the best motorsport channel on youtube mate.

Crowd control in some events was non-existent, there were not enough Marshalls and it wasn't easy to find more trained and qualified marshalls. When the Course Car drove through the stages and saw the excessive number of spectators the Cleark of the course should have cancelled the stage. This could even mean cancelling the whole event. Group B rallying was spectacular to watch, but, the cars themselves were too fast for a driver to react to what the car was doing. I marshalled the RAC Rally for 20 years (1979-2000) sometimes, I was the only marshal on a corner at 03,00am halfway up a mountain in freezing cold 🥶weather. We had no spectators to worry about. The half bottle of anti-freeze in my pocket for the occasional sip helped. 20 years for a Plastic or Metal badge Martin. (Thailand) 🥵

"Don't want to get hit, don't stand on the track." "Where is the track?" "Anywhere you stand."

Nice vid

This really reminds me of the Isle of Man TT, its crazy that race is still permitted given its average of over one death per year

Outside of Isle of Man TT race, Group B is the most dangerous racing series of all time, no rules on materials that constructs a car, no safety barriers for both cars and fans, anything goes … and then Fonseca Island event happened in 1986 (same year that Space Shuttle Challenger, Chernobyl, and my own maternal grandmother were lost)

one of the best videos on this topic and youtube !

Nice video🔥

a video could be made on Colin McRae alone he was mental great video👍

At 16:03 those are remains of a Sierra Gr. A rally car of an exceptional Polish driver Marian Bublewicz 7 times Polish Rally Champion and 1992 ERC runner up champion who died because of the horrible accident. The emergency services hadn't had the jaws of life in 1993 (astronomicaly expensive in post communist country) so it has considerably lengthen the rescue operation.

Reminds me of the old racing footage intro to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang What are you standing there for???

Awesome vid I dont think it matters if you cover f1 dtm le mans or Group b in your video i whould watch it any day of the week

Class video👏👏

The cars were on the limit, the fans were just fuckin stupid for the most part

Rally fans have to be the most brain dead of all motor sports fans

The 1980's age of freedom, risk and personal responsibility. 2020's the age of comfort, risk assessments, safety first and litigation. What I love is those born after this era tend to sneer at it and congratulate themselves on their obsession with safety, but at the same time they'll click on 1000s of TikTok videos of dumb kids risking their lives hanging from skyscrapers etc for clicks.

My grandad used to be a group b rally marshall

Haha, my cousin is David Llewellin, A group B race in 1986!

As exciting as this may have been, it's just utterly stupid. Even after 2 kids got killed, they were like "yeah it's racing!"

I remember my dad telling me he met Walter rolh in 1983 acropolis if I remember correctly, pretty cool, I love group b especially the Audi Quattro s1 e2

It’s crazy that people are running across the track

To this day you still see people standing right at the edge of the track. I have seen cars go off and the morons by the side of the track had to run like hell to keep from being hit. This is down right stupid. I know they can not put up barriers the hole length of the circuit and what good would it do. People would find some way over, under, or thru the barriers just to get closer to the cars.

Group A wouldn't exist without Group B's fatalities

Time 11m 01 s: "Seppo Harjanne". He was the co-driver of Timo Salonen. 🇫🇮

Loved group b, growing up with group b was fucking amazing

imagine if the mid engined quattro were approved, the sport wouldve gotten so much crazier.

I remember going to see a rally during this era in Wales. We stood up on a hill but I could see the crowds lining the road and I was so sacred for them being so close to the cars. Not an enjoyable event to be at in my opinion.

i dont like rallying.. but even i get mega excited when it comes to Group B

It seems stupid and counterintuitive to banned 4DW in rally. Like, idk, having 4x2m cars trying to race in Monaco.

This reminds me of the bull runs in Spain! 😅😅😅😅😅😅

JMB was a real gangster.

I think it's majority's opinion what mattered, most of people just wanted group B to continue and after that big crash as Audi pulled out and people were sad, the opinion changed. It's called experience learning, the learning that is more monkey way than logical predicting and also simpler people then learn that it's dangerous. Enough people changed their mind and things changed. It's still the case, majority's opinion is the way things go. Average IQ in 1980 was under 80 if compared to today's test, we have improved a lot.

i think at some point humans need to be held accountable for their own actions. standing near cars driving in excess of road speeds (set for safety) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Michelle Mouton 😍

In terms of domination just looks at Citroen after 2003

Rallying is still stupidly dangerous now. Cars?? Not very safe. Crowds? Not very safe, Drivers? Having seem clips of Euro rallying with cars off the road driving through and over spectators too often. As a road racer we are subsidising all of this mayhem. Circuits have to spend a LOT forever increasing standards, the onset of nanny cars for a car OFF the circuit yet rallys happen with wrecks everywhere and cars into the crowds. And spectator points that are plain stupid

It’s a good thing they banned group B. If it were still around we’d have a bunch of gay Teslas that people brought right off the shelf tearing it up with their zero noise and zero personality cars

A better title would be, "The Motorsport with Ididots for Fans".

is miguel oliveira and miguel oliveira(motogp rider) related?

If Group B weren’t banned, would Ferrari have produced more 288 GTOs?

..like if in other sports this never happened..

It's the other way around - the fans killed the sport

it was like the isle of man, but vaying tracks, was it not?

i appriate so much broding your horizons and dont remain only on f1 , because there is something that allow me to say f1 is less exciting than wrc , also fact of group b was little slower than wrc 1 but they weren't using any of slicks and grip was rarely thing opposite to current times when grip is enormous for this chassis.

*Clarkson!!!*

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Sign, youtube these days is lame. Channels censoring everything, so boring. Why censor a car crashing and bursting into flames? What's so gruesome about that scene? No body parts can be seen, no blood

before 1k veiws:

I don't care that it's dangerous I would still go to watch it 😅

Try nascar

You put out some great videos but I have to say I really hate all the blurred sections.... especially after warning everyone that "some images may be disturbing to viewers". The segments are so blurred it just looks like nothing. Would be better just to turn the screen black. For my part, either show the video or skip it all together. The blurred images just disrupt your story. The 40 year old video is of such poor quality, the blurring is not even necessary. I'm finding more and more videos blurring everything. What's the point. If you gotta blur it, skip it! Sorry, I just had to rant. You do a great job! Just hate the blur! :)

Who cares,it was load of FUN in the 80s with group B and no safety woke bs weirdos anywhere. Thats freedom and thats why it was very popular back in the day.

Another snowflake re-hash of the same info....from 40 years ago. LOL