How One Engineer's Idea Built The Perfect Rally Car

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I remember an interview with Stig where they asked him about all the spectators standing on the roads. He said they had to consider them like trees, otherwise it would be impossible to race.

Group B was actually the easiest class to enter since only 200 homologation models were required. Entering was easy, winning was another story. The 86 Portuguese rally was not suspended, it continued, only without the main works teams who withdrew as a mark of respect of those who were killed. Rally Portugal was also Audi's last show in group B, not Corsica where Toivonen died. It also needs mentioning that before Audi ever entered a competitive rally, it was used as a course opening vehicle, that car with lights and siren that warns spectators that the stage will be hot soon; that car was driven by Hannu Mikkola, and at the end of the rally his time was some 24 minutes faster than the rally winner's. It has to be the only time in history when a course opening car would've won the rally had it entered it.

Amazing documentary! RIP to the drivers at the end :(

Yes, Group B was out of this world, and also out of control! Remember what happened to Henri Toiveren, mind you, that was partially due to the lack of Marshals. Those guys are the for the most part, volunteers, I know, because I was one once on the RAC Rally, back in the day.

some corrections: 0:50 There was a minimum Weight dependent on the dsiplacement(as it was comon knowledge that lighter is better(so lighter/smaller weigt/displacement classes were preverable)) 1:10 not that sophispicated. they where fast because they where light and powerfull and had large Teams around to adapt the cars to conditions but they where not technically sophisticated(f1 of the time was in a different league) 9:55 The Body was Steel, The Roll Cage is Aluminium, Some Body parts are aluminium more where Composite 11:20 it was not the pinnacle (The pinnacle was what Peugeot, Lancia and Ford did) it was a try to make a fundamental uncompetitive Car competitive again 13:40 Audi Used Rear wheel Drive at Le Mans(no quattro) 14:00. its not a system its a marketing term (there are many different systems sold under the Quattro umbrella with almost nothing in common)

Damn how is the channel so small but the quality so high 🤔

This chanel needs more followers this is such high quality content. Hope for you to be one of the biggest car content channel 💪🏻

I really wish they would bring a group b style group back where manufactures would be able to do almost anything they want, but more restrictions on safety and preventing people from being so close to the track

Damn I watched the full video and saw afterwards how small your channel is! Awesome video!🤝🏽 Keep up the good work!🔥

Roland Gumpert is still active trying to promote methanol fuel cell cars as an option for high range electrical vehicles. Just look for Gumpert Nathalie. Or look for the TopGear review of Hammond of the Gumpert Apollo landing on the top of the leader board. Gumpert still has his spirit 😊😊

In terms of e-quattro you didn't even mention the Hoonitron that was made specialy for Ken Block. A very impressive piece of engineering.

Amazing video man. Similiar to the channel called the squidd only shorter episodes which is not bad. Looking forward to seeing this channel grow and seeing more quality videos like this. Just don't quit.

Quattro in Le Mans? Permanent awd is not permitted in the endurance racing. Btw it’s Blomqvist not Blooomqvist, and Piëch not Peach and many more. Google can help with pronounciation either. These guys deserves it, they’re just legends in motorsport history.

Another fantastic documentary, with a most exemplary narrative. Friends! I used to add Friends, 19:00 to the Tuesday listing of my uni' timetable in 1997. (Courteney Cox I admit). Then it got better with the FIA trick and all that. I wil guess without looking it up that a 5-cyl inline crankshaft would be 1-4-2-5-3 ??? It's an odd number so the firing order would have to be one-at-a-time, right? Seizure in two weeks.

A car can be as good as it can be, it still needs a skilled driver to win with it. I just watched Jeremy Clarcksons video about audi vs lancia (1982 or so), 4wheel drive vs 2 wheel drive. With drivers like walter rorl, lancia beat audi. Rorl said the Lancia fit like a glove and responded right to his wishes. Did the Audi do that too?

The touring car was not the quattro, that was just the nickname because of the AWD, it is actually the audi v8

Magnificent. You just messed up all the pronounciation of all of the namesin the video :D

very good story!

Rally racing is the best car racing there is, ( in my eyes )😊😊