Group B rally video from autoblog

[EightySix Four]

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Best car video I've seen in awhile. No crappy music or trying to make the cars look faster than they are. Just the glorious sounds of some of the most insane rally cars to ever run a race. Drive them took huge balls, and standing in the middle of the road as they drove by took even bigger ones.

FIA expected to control the power output of Group B cars by lowering the displacement allowed, but with the use of monster turbochargers and anti-lag systems, the manufacturers could produce as much HP as the materials of the time would let them. Tragically, a string of deaths and injuries caused by Group B caused the FIA to crackdown heavily on the group.

 

[Demo24]

God I love Group B, but man they must have been terrifying to drive!

 

[drnickriviera]

Brutal. I've always loved those Rothmans 911s, good looking cars. What kind of car is that at 6:40?

 

[EightySix Four]

Brutal. I've always loved those Rothmans 911s, good looking cars. What kind of car is that at 6:40?

Ford RS200

 

[angry hampster]

Just look how twitchy they are. Totally different ball game from today's WRC vehicles.

 

[RichUK]

RS200 for the own!

 

[overst33r]

No group B thread is complete without Walter Rohrl's left foot braking. Amazing footwork.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts29KKhKXds

 

[Kaervak]

Just look how twitchy they are. Totally different ball game from today's WRC vehicles.

Very much so. The current WRC cars are so much more stable and easier to drive. When the front diff failed on Latvala's Focus during Rally Whales this year he had so much trouble controlling the car. Those Group B cars must have been insane to drive. So much power. Made for some amazing racing though.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

No group B thread is complete without Walter Rohrl's left foot braking. Amazing footwork.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts29KKhKXds

Hang on... at 40 seconds is that left foot braking, double declutching, and heel-and-toeing prettymuchallatonce?

wow!

 

[PricklyPete]

Incredible drivers!

 

[PricklyPete]

No group B thread is complete without Walter Rohrl's left foot braking. Amazing footwork.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts29KKhKXds

Rohrl is an artist.

 

[Arkaign]

I got the pleasure of seeing the last fully intact RS200 Evo B-series rally car in person. It was for sale at RUF by my work, it was truly a wicked looking vehicle. Only had a few 'hours' on the thing, no odometer of course. It was still fully kitted for rally, lights, tires, and all. At the time I saw it, I had NO_IDEA how completely batshit insane fast it was. But I do remember the turbo on it was larger than the motor on my lawnmower.

This was the listing, but sadly the pictures are no longer up : http://www.ecarlist.com/cgi-bin/showroom.cgi?mode=show&id=3183&d_id=947

 

[punjabiplaya]

Love it. 200, 300, 400+ hp in a shoe.

 

[Arkaign]

Love it. 200, 300, 400+ hp in a shoe.

The RS200 Evo was tunable to up to 800hp

"as high as 815 horsepower (608 kW); the most powerful Evolution models can accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) in just over 2 seconds, depending on gearing."

 

[punjabiplaya]

The RS200 Evo was tunable to up to 800hp

"as high as 815 horsepower (608 kW); the most powerful Evolution models can accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) in just over 2 seconds, depending on gearing."

yeah, I was just reading the specs on those cars. When you have no restriction on boost, that's what happens.

 

[LTC8K6]

Known as The Killer B's...and for good reason. Those guys were nuts!

 

[thomsbrain]

Did I catch a Ferrari GTO in the mix there for a few seconds? And I loved seeing the BMW M1.