Group B documentary...

[TDE30]

Found this on Vortex.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4093397

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Enjoy.

[Nic01101011]

Thank you!

[E30_pilot]

**grabs a beer**

cheers.!

[clavinZERO]

saw that shit on VHS a while back. Good stuff.

[Jand3rson]

Duke is the king of motorsport videos. Period.

[ethirtydavid]

I remember these, love video 5 they mention the RS200 - fords only cool car in my mind.
(yes, I said it.. a sentence with the words Ford, Cool and Car..)

Very japanese, very likable.
wonder why they left the rally competitions rather than evolving the 200..?

[Jon325i]

Just watched them all - nice find! Great post :-D


Jon

[Aptyp]

thank you trey, this made my evening

[mtechnik]

thnx! :up:

[eric (^__^)]

my friend walked a few stages back when group B was coming through the states

he says that you'd walk forty feet here and there where you couldn't trace the Lancia 032 through the trails... the thing wasn't even touching the ground. And the Delta was even faster than that! And you couldn't be on the stages when Steve Millen's RX7 was out, because the thing would be on you before you could hear it coming through. He drove in the ditch the whole time.

[kronus]

that was superb.

thanks

[Lance Racing]

wonder why they left the rally competitions rather than evolving the 200..?

The FIA pulled the plug on the Group B formula and went to a Group A formula. Rather than having to produce 200 road cars for Group B, For Group A homologation the factory would have to produce 5,000 road cars in order to enter the car in rally competition. So Ford (and others like Peugot, Audi and Lancia) pulled the plug on their Group B cars.

I was lucky enough to see the Group B cars visit the US in the mid-80s when they ran the Olympus Rally in Washington State. They were complete monsters out on the forest roads. In terms of bravery, I think they put Formula 1 drivers to shame. Audi, Peugot and Lancia all brought their Grp B cars.

[Mfever]

renault 5 turbo ftmfw!!! one of my dream cars.

[Tchao]

Awesome doc!

[bignate948]

thats one of the best vids i have ever seen