THESE CARS ARE RIPPING! Rally Group B Tribute first time reaction!

The best video about the history of group B is 'Group B - When Rallying got too Fast'.

It would be tough to argue against saying that rally drivers are the best drivers in the world.

This was the golden era of rallying....I was once a track marshal at the RAC Rally on the Chatsworth House stage in Derbyshire UK and let me tell you....when a Group B rally car passes you just inches away....YOU FEEL IT!!

It used to be a thing to reach out and touch the cars as they went past. Michèle Mouton tells a story that when her car got o the services, there was a finger hanging off a part of the car. She is an amazing driver and well worth checking out her story, she mixed with the boys and was within a few miles of winning a World championship......The closest the woman has ever come to winning a FIA world championship in any motorsport.

Group B was for Men........ and Michelle Mouton 😊🤘❤️

Group B was finished at Tour De Corse 1986, when Henri Toivonen and Sergio Cresto crashed and died in their Lancia S 4, the car had more than 500 bhps and weighted on tarmac rally about a ton. It did 2.9 seconds from 0-60, on gravel., cars also were unassited, no power steering, no power breaks.

Group B and WRC cars both had/have a navigator aboard. The teams are allowed reconnaissance runs ("rekkies") to allow the navigator the chance to create the pace notes which are read back to the driver during the race itself. These car run on dirt, gravel, snow, ice and paved roads (tarmac) in rain or shine. These drivers are the best of the best and those that drove during the Group B era were something special.

Ok, a bit of a lesson about rallying: - Those roads are not tracks, they're public roads and each stretch that goes from point A (start) to point B (finish) is called a stage. - The spectators are allowed to be there exactly because the roads are public but in those days the FIA cared more about money and entertainment than about the safety of the spectators, hence the sea of people you saw in some clips (most of them were from Rally Portugal). - There are all gravel rallies, all tarmac rallies and some snow rallies (like the Monte Carlo Rally) but in the Group B days some rallies had both gravel and tarmac surfaces.

The Peugeot had each side these air intakes at the back for the intercooler. At a service point the mechanics found a finger on top of an intercooler. The fans were completley crazy. Someone tried to touch the car during the run.

The European remembers all this well. I am 47 years old, my father used to take me to see such matches. passion, speed was a festival. beautiful times

The one in the Audi at the pedals is bad a s s Walter Röhrl: "When accelerating, the tears of emotion must flow horizontally towards the ear." "I don't wear a helmet for anything over 8 minutes on the Nordschleife!" "You can't treat a car like a human being. A car needs love!" "Good drivers have fly residue on the side windows." "A car is only fast enough when you stand in front of it in the morning and are afraid to unlock it." "Oversteer is when the passenger is scared. Understeer is when I'm scared." "If you see the tree you're driving into, you're understeering. If you only hear it, you have oversteer" "The true art of vehicle control can be recognized in unstable driving conditions!" "I was up to 200 in 10 seconds. I've already had to change gear five times. That's why my right hand is wider than my left. It's because I'm always changing gear in this car (Audi S1). I'm a real sports cripple!" "Popometer? If you feel anything on the car, it's the note they put on your toe!"

12:15 The 5 cylinder Audi Quattro, the best sounding car of all time! FYI, there's always two people in the car even today, the driver and the copilot reading the pace notes for the driver, also, WRC=World Rally Championship. Oh, and this clip is of the only female driver in group B Michèle Mouton, undoubtedly the best female driver in history all categories, nobody else even comes close to her excellence driving.

A lot of those clips were off Michelle Mouton! She's awesome!!!!!

Group B might look faster, but modern WRC cars are actulay faster by a large margin

The drivers had nerves of steel and superhuman reflexes. I met Walter Röhrl in 2011 and he's an imposing figure, not only in height, but presence. There's a video of him giving a popular German TV host (Barbara Schöneberger) a demo ride in an Audi S3. Chill Walter driving and a freaked out Barbara trying to keep her eyes open.

I discovered Group B rally racing in the early 80's in my teens. This arena of racing was just off the charts! These were pretty much stripped-down smallish cars with high horsepower. In comparison to today's cars, it would be like taking a Toyota Corolla and throwing a 400 to 500 horsepower engine in it and a suspension that was crazy tight with all-wheel drive in some cases. These racers were the probably the best drivers in the world, bar none!! They drove on snow, mud, ice, dirt, and on small town paved surfaces. Their skills were phenomenal!! Great reaction and feel free to do more of this or Formula 1.

I was fortunate enough to do my work experience at school as a photographer at the Ulster rally (Northern Ireland) in the early 90’s. I had my mind blown by the whole experience.

Another good video to watch on YT is called ‘Climb Dance’ - when GrB was canned, Peugeot Sport reshelled their 205 T16 Evo to that of a 405 and took it to Pikes Peak to conquer- its an epic trip!

Please check out the video about why it ended

6:55 Car number 7 Henri Toivonen at RAC 1985. Debut rally for Lancia S4 and Henkka won and another legend Markku Alen was 2nd with another S4.