The History of the Lancia Delta S4 - The Car That Ended Group B
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Published 2019-11-17
However, it would be involved in one of the worst accidents in the history of rallying and would ultimately lead to the end of the Group B rally car series.
While the Delta S4 would only race for one full year, it would lead to the development of the Delta Integrale, one of the most successful rally cars of all time.
This video covers the full history of the Lancia Delta S4 and what made it such a special rally car.
Along with creating this video, we have also written an article on the complete history of the Delta S4 as well - garagedreams.net/history/the-complete-history-of-t…
For more on the history of Group B, check out Rally Group B Shrine - rallygroupbshrine.org/
References
Jay Auger. (2014). Lancia Delta S4 (Group B) - Lancia Delta S4 (Group B) | Rally Group B Shrine
Adam. Delta S4 - Delta S4 (lanciaworkshistory.com)
wrcresults.com. Season 1986 - Season 1986 rally - eWRC-results.com
Bruce Cox. (1997). Too Fast to Race - Too Fast To Race - YouTube - Too Fast to Race (Video 1997) - IMDb
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All Comments (21)
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"So how much boost and HP do you want?" Lancia: Yes.
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When a driver says the car is too fast, you better believe it. Even though I love things like this, there are always limits to anything.
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RiP Toivonen and Cresto
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800hp on a car that weigh little more than a ton are just EPIC.. thanks for the video.informative.
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Rallying is dangerous even with a basic car, you're going at full blast on regular roads, not circuits. I'm amazed that there are relatively few death, to be honest.
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"How and why the S4 left the road is still a mystery." Maybe it had something to do with going 100+ mph around a turn on the side of a cliff? These guys were insane!
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Correction* Lancia created a rally car like no other before, or after... this is the greatest rally car this earth will see.
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This has to be the most well made video from a channel with less than 1000 subs I've ever seen.
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Henri's complaint about car's too high performance foreshadowed his tragic death.
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That Lancia was a BEAST... Beautiful, powerful and extremely fast. Unfortunately Henri Toivonen died in a S4 but they both have become a LEGEND ...
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My father, one day, came back home after another long day in engine test room. He told me "these guys are crazy, they want to stick an F1 engine on a light chariot". They had just reached 1500HP and were aiming at 1HP x cm^3. S4 engine was 1750cc.
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Excellent video. Most amazing, it was only a few years until Group A cars with barely 300 hp were faster. Power is nice, but suspension, brakes and chassis are the important parts.
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I met fortunately Juha Kankkunen a few years ago at a Bentley gig, I asked about the 1986 F1 Estoril qualifying time 'story' and he confirmed its true, he was there. It was a tarmac spec S4 running about 550bhp not 800 as claimed here
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I've seen many videos on the Group B era but this is the best. The attention to detail is epic. Even your brief history of rallying is awesome. A credit to you. On the cars themselves - they were psychotic...but breathtaking.
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Definitely a legendary car! Great video!!
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I have a lot of books about famous makes of rally cars. Problem is that Lancia does not seem to do any such book, so having documentaries like this are so refreshing.Thank you.
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Top quality, engaging and informative. Fantastic!
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Great video, beautiful animations, very nicely done. I look forward to see more of your upcoming episodes.
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This is great content! I’m surprised by the low views and subscriber count. This is top notch stuff!
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What a great history! Thanks for sharing!
