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Video: Group B rally cars

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    528i
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    AWESOME compilation !
    Those T-16's (did you know jean todt from ferrari acclaim was behind its development and the 205's turbo design?) and Lancia S4s just don't have the allure of the king of group B- the Quattro. That thing is so badass, particularly while drifting on smooth tarmac with dirt tyres :)

    I've driven the Ur Quattro turbo and to be honest came away alittle disappointed but would give my left testie for a chance to thrash the genuine 600bhp article from around 1983.. :eek:

    you're forgiven for posting that other manure compilation icon14.gif:D


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    IrishRover
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    Haha, you mean the one where those people thought they were giong fast?
    Didn't know that about Jean Todt.
    The Audi is badass alright though. Here's a video of it on a snow/ice stage:
    http://www.mtm-france.com/videos/audi/audi_s1_25_quattro_turini.mpg - 69.9 megs

    You got any pics of the quattro you drove?


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    saobh_ie
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    The glory days of rallying, look at the crowds, or rather where they're standing yikes... Mistakes while driving cost lives out side the car.

    Only disapointed by the lack of flying rs200's. =] Those things could jump. The Lancias were good in all.


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    IrishRover
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    528i - re Jean Todt, was just reading about the Chrysler/Talbot Sunbeam:
    The Talbot Sunbeam Lotus took part in international rallying from 1979 to 1982 and won the World Championship for Talbot in 1981. Its most famous achievement was at the 1980 Lombard-RAC rally, Britain's round of the World Rally Championship, where Henri Toivonen became the event's youngest ever winner and Sunbeam Lotus cars finished 1st, 3rd and 4th - the last time a two-wheel drive car won the RAC. Des O'Dell was presented afterwards with a Sunbeam Lotus road car bearing the registration RAC 134W!

    In fact, Talbot's Sunbeam Lotus won their class (Group 2) on the RAC for three years in succession, culminating in 1982 with the last ever win in this class before the FIA rules changed to Groups A, B, etc.

    Sunbeam Lotus works drivers included the late Henri Toivonen, Guy Fréquelin (co-driven by Jean Todt) who narrowly missed out on being the Driver's World Champion in 1981, Stig Blomqvist, Tony Pond, Andrew Cowan and Jean-Pierre Nicolas. Russell Brookes also competed in a works-built car, privately sponsored by Andrews Heat for Hire.

    At the end of the 1982 season many of the Talbot team transferred to Paris where their experience contributed to the success of Peugeot-Talbot's new rally contender, the 205 T16. A closer successor to the Sunbeam, though, would have been the mid-engined "Lotus" Horizon, of which only one example was built before attention was switched to the 205.

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