Group B rally cars (with no techno music)

[quickervicar]

I've driven an '85 E2 Quattro and a T16 E2 205 Pug - yes, the proper Group B race cars.

I will say categorically that while the Quattro made more power and blows the Frenchie's doors off for aural appeal, the Pug was faster, better developed and didn't drive like a ludicrously nose-heavy, old, flexing pig.

You weren't trying hard enough. ;)

[SamE30e]

I just jizzed

[mike10562004]

sick

[Julien]

group b <3

[sector6]

bad ass! but were are the bmw's? different class?

[BützBöb]

if i had seen those s1/sport quattros in person, i would have had multiple orgasms.

amen

[Jand3rson]

If I had seen those S1/Sport quattros in person, I would have had multiple orgasms.

[dude8383]

wow thanks for sharing those pics, i love that quality you get with older photos!

[Lance Racing]

Audi didn't bother with the Audi motorsport graphics on the #1 car, but did get the basic sponsor stickers on.

They ran a stage at the State Patrol training facility in Shelton, this is an area that was wetted down with sprinklers.



This is at an ORV park, heading out to the peninsula.



This car was so fast sometimes I missed getting it in the frame properly. LOL. I was too quick on the trigger.

[Unearth078]

lol at m1

and the lancia's looked like the were just ripping through the track with ease

[SaskE30]

They would never allow cars with that kind of power back into rallying. A lot of drivers from the Group B days have said that driving those cars was terrifying, they were on the edge of control. Really watch that video, they're hardly even touching the damn ground half the time.

One driver, ( I think it was Walter Rohl) said these cars were beginning to get to fast for human thought.

Oddly enough, after a few years, through suspension and drive train development, the group A cars, which replaced group B began to break some of the stage records set by the group b cars even though they were way down on power.
The group A cars were never exciting as the B cars though.

RIP GROUP B.

[Lance Racing]

I recently scanned some photos from the 1985 Olympus Rally (pre digital camera). This was the year Audi sent one of their updated Quattros here for testing prior to debuting the car latter in the year in Europe. Hanu Mikkola drove the #1 prototype. American John Buffum was in car #2. This was the first motorsport event I ever attended and it got me hooked on cars. I was a freshman in college.

Parc Ferme in Shelton, WA.

[pbr87]

that audi at 1:17 is amazing. Thanks for putting this up here! Bookmarked.

[iwantspeed]

those drivers have BAlls

[ethree]

I love the manta b's. I know they weren't the fastest by any means but I have a soft spot for opels.