Group B: When Rallying Got TOO FAST
The Audi Quattro, Lancia 037 and the Peugeot 205 T16 - some of the most iconic names in rallying. Cars that pushed the limits of what was possible in a way that we haven’t seen since. It was called Group B and is still held as the Golden Era of Rallying.
Group B was a class where manufacturers were allowed to go all out, with almost unlimited power, crazy aerodynamics and new exotic materials. It brought about new technologies like 4WD, Semi-Automatic Gearboxes and clever turbocharging systems.
However, it was only for the bravest of drivers. The hugely powerful cars needed a lot of manhandling to thread them through the tight-twisty stages, away from huge drops and dodging a sea of spectators.
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Rallying went wild in the 80s. The FIA wanted to attract more manufacturers and so created a class that would give the designers pretty much free reign, no power limits, no regulations on boost, and whatever exotic materials you liked.
Rally cars over the years have been largely based on road cars, with rules tightening and loosening on how close the relationship has to be, between the stock car, and the ones that actually race the stage.
For example, in the Group A class - the manufacturers have to produce 5000 road-going versions of the car before it is allowed to compete. In Group B, to lower costs and interest manufacturers, they ruled that only 200 needed to be produced. Group B also allowed almost endless modifications to be made - meaning the race cars were nothing like the road cars at all.
This approach really worked, attracting many manufacturers to Group B - names like Lancia, Porsche, Peugeot, Audi, Toyota, Ford - as well as so many more.
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Driver61
Uukausi sitten
Is this the greatest era of racing? These drivers are a different breed! Subscribe for more incredible motorsport!
JayJay Golden
2 päivää sitten
Manufacturers: There's very little rules so we're going to put all our money on speed and none on safety and handling Drivers: Crash burn and die Manufacturers: Well this is just dangerous and bad marketing, we're pulling out!
B Enis
26 päivää sitten
Yes.
Roberth Salazar wolf
28 päivää sitten
Oohh yes!
Crazy Fox
Uukausi sitten
@57thorns Grown men choosing to race. No one put a gun to their head and forced them to race. More likely the organisers didnt want to spend the money enforcing crowd safety. So you want to ban the Isle of Mann TT racing based on your logic ?
57thorns
Uukausi sitten
@JoBBuS Markku Alen, Juha Kankkunen, Timo Salonen, Hannu Mikkola, Ari Vatanen and Henri Toivonen The first five are alive today, at least according to a quick googling. Henri Toivonen died in the crash shown at 9:46. No guard rails, an unprotected aluminium fuel tank (the skid plate was only used on gravel roads) and driving while sick killed him (and his codriver). There were just so many things wrong with class B, not only the spectators and the zero margin for error, but also the practically complete lack of safety features in both cars and by the roads.
Calvin L Deakins
20 tuntia sitten
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Stevie Jo
Päivä sitten
All Group B cars were amazing! Metro 205 Delta Quattro Manta. RS stuff!!
Nautdead
Päivä sitten
Other motorsports spectators sit in the stands where it's safe Rally spectators: I think I'll stand right in the middle of the road
darkySp
Päivä sitten
9:07 Am i seeing it right ? His co-driver is completely knocked out (hopefully not dead) and the driver kept going ?
Dan Simmons
Päivä sitten
Renault R5 turbo was a rendition of the 205.
Dan Simmons
Päivä sitten
Great production and precisely articulated . thank you!
Naya Jack
Päivä sitten
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Shawn YRS
Päivä sitten
the sound of tht Audi Quattro tho
Naya Jack
2 päivää sitten
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Ju ha
2 päivää sitten
Note: The semi-auto "PDK" gear box in the S1E2 was only used temporarily: 1985 Semperit Rally and RAC rally.
Grumpy
4 päivää sitten
group b very fast even in dr 2.0 xd :D i drove r5 fabia and had time like 3:01 and then drive peugeot 306 maxi and got 2:49 on same stage xd :D
22fret
4 päivää sitten
Ford Escort was not part of Group B...
Alex Vmen
6 päivää sitten
best era of rally sport
Mad Max
6 päivää sitten
annoying voice, sorry mate
Real Talker 101
6 päivää sitten
I just don't understand why though....why was 000 road going versions ok over 4000 or 6000????
Davidian 77
6 päivää sitten
Did the Samaritans call everyone who was suicidal and tell them that watching rally cars would cheer them up?
BenRen KyloSolo
6 päivää sitten
That wreckage looks like the remains of some sort of kit car a amurture built in his shed whilst getting stoned over the course of a few years on and off.
Dick McCarthy
7 päivää sitten
Never figured out the stupidness of spectators. They really don't care of their own safety OR driver's or anyones..
NorthernZeus
7 päivää sitten
And then there’s F1. No crowds. So many rules you can’t even look sternly at another driver without being sued or penalized. This is the tale of 2 Europe’s... Rally - exciting, edge of your seat greatness. F1- boring, beta male, dirty money driven. Corporate socialism.
B. Gone
7 päivää sitten
'...still held as the greatest era...' - the term is 'HAILED' not 'held'! Come on - you're English - a native of the country which spawned the language. FYI: This is an Australian correcting you - you know, the nation created by England expelling it's riff-raff to the far reaches of the globe.
Taska Nawa
7 päivää sitten
yolo days
Worm Execute
7 päivää sitten
Let people do what they want.
Jacob Del Bene
7 päivää sitten
A time when the world wasn’t so damn soft
Ryan Urquhart
8 päivää sitten
The Germans and there Turbo’ systems
Malick 2014
8 päivää sitten
Too fast and too dangerous.
Driver 61
8 päivää sitten
These guys are crazy!
Steven Tapper
8 päivää sitten
3:40 rip the guys camera on the left.
部首
9 päivää sitten
so nice peugeot 205
Unidentified User
9 päivää sitten
Killer B DRIVER 👍👏👏👏 & Then there's Ken block D-Bag's wana B'S🤮🤮🤮
menzi mabuza
10 päivää sitten
🙆♀️🙆♀️Jesus on a bicycle..that Lancia Delta engineering
Christon Garin
10 päivää sitten
why the f are people standing too close??
Neil Barker
11 päivää sitten
And the secret automatic spectator deflector was the actual key to victory.
Kyle Gray
11 päivää sitten
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Adrian Gutierrez
12 päivää sitten
min 7:12 left side of screen... 2020 time travellers watching group B xD
Punished Candy
12 päivää sitten
3 dead spectators, 30 injured: "Not great, but not terrible." 2 dead racers: "SHUT IT DOWN!!!"
Punished Candy
3 päivää sitten
@Edim I agree with everything you said. My comment was all for levity. I ment no disrespect to anyone who was injured or killed, idiots or not.
Edim
4 päivää sitten
The difference is no one told these people to get this close, but the drivers were on paid contracts and had to drive these horribly shoddy machines or loose their job. Spectators died because they were dumb. Drivers died bc the manufacturers were dumb. That's a big difference.
Scott L.
12 päivää sitten
Turbocharging a supercharged engine? What kind of godless witchcraft is this? I think I'll top this by making my Ford run on petrol AND Diesel fuel...
Kongebil J
13 päivää sitten
Audi drivers was doing left foot breaking to.
Chris Fleming
13 päivää sitten
In the 80’s there was no health and safety. Great fun times way better than today that’s for sure. Life is about facing dangers deal with it.
Roderick Jones
13 päivää sitten
Good video...I didn't want it to end!
Sludge
13 päivää sitten
I think the first quattros were 4wd. Subsequent quattros were awd. If I am wrong, be gentle. 🤪
Justin Dougherty
13 päivää sitten
Bring back group B
heywood yabuzzoff
13 päivää sitten
NASCAR can suck it. This is racing
Ryan Kluke
14 päivää sitten
Crazy to think that if lancia would have changed its turbine on the turbo for the delta it would of spooled up the turbo a lot faster and probably would have made smoother and more power also allowing in my mind for more torque in mid range
Victor
14 päivää sitten
increasing the weight limit would've not really been beneficial to the drivers, like in other races the engineers would've just added lead sheets to the bottom of the car instead of better protecting the driver
Victor
14 päivää sitten
We say that these cars were ended by the regulations, but the ulterior regulations on tabaco advertising would've killed them anyways, this was the era of big tabaco money, when they were swapping f1 engines every race to get close to 1000hp per litter
george
14 päivää sitten
Quattro is AWD f350 is 4×4 cool vid
BMW E34
15 päivää sitten
This is an amazing vid
The Guns N Glory Show
15 päivää sitten
bring back group b. build a fence
G Allan
15 päivää sitten
How on earth can you not mention the Ford RS200
Brady Prince
15 päivää sitten
Are you french, because the Peugeot wasn't fast, it didn't win for a reason.
Neil Pieterse
15 päivää sitten
I grew up with this type of racing and it was incredible to watch, unfortunately it takes the death of a driver to change the rules.....racing is incredible fast and dangerous. RIP all the drivers who have died racing.🙏🏻
Noel Kavanagh
16 päivää sitten
Just come across this video very well explained well done .Just subbed too.
Jaryd Jackson
16 päivää sitten
Ahhh, you’ve got to love the 1980’s... cocaine, the Cold War, AIDS epidemic, and Group B LMFAO!
Sludge
13 päivää sitten
And transitioning into the nineties...Vanilla Ice!!!
Mzyxplx
16 päivää sitten
The people in the way need to die for them to realize a car needs room to maneuver
Johnnie Walker
16 päivää sitten
Nothing like the sound of Group B
Shawn Kirk
17 päivää sitten
you got good commentator skillz !!
OneHairyGuy
17 päivää sitten
For the life of me I cannot understand why Rally Races allow fans to be on the track ?? You don't see any fan on an F1 race track ?? Why are the allowed on a Rally Course ?? Idiots !!
Darth Plagus
17 päivää sitten
DID I SEE A SPECTATOR HOLDING A BABY?!?!
Grubnar
17 päivää sitten
I am not a rally fan, or a car person in general ... but this video was very informative and entertaining, holding my attention the entire time!
Ahmedo929
18 päivää sitten
Group B: exists Car makers: *its free real estate*
Shawn Elliott
18 päivää sitten
You would have to be an absolute nutter to get behind the wheel of one of those rocket ships. Smooth pavement in relatively straight lines is one thing, taking one on a rally track is a whole other ballgame. Mad respect to those drivers.
Trevor Mathews
18 päivää sitten
You DIDNT mention, arguably to most recognizable, and essentially the name sake of the Group B monsters because of its appearance in the beginning of this video?! The god damn Ford RS200!!!
Goodnight Sweet Prints
18 päivää sitten
1. No Spectators 2. Record with drones BRING IT BACK
extremedrivr
19 päivää sitten
This is why there should always be limits on Race classes. Open class rulebooks end up either driving up the costs of racing or leading to tragedies like this. But.. Crazy cool cars for the era which we will probably never see again.
RapedByRepublicansII
19 päivää sitten
I peed and poopshoot.
Flowmasta Flam
19 päivää sitten
when people ask about what it was like to live in the 80's and 90's without smartphones and cameras on every street corner - show them group B
skippys vr4
20 päivää sitten
I drive a group B everyday. Turns out a galant vr4 makes a great drag car. Traction and horsepower.
BobTheHorse, Professional Idiot
21 päivä sitten
Nyoom
Paul Nutter
21 päivä sitten
Too fast????? don't talk rubbish. Terrible foreign crowd control ruined rallying nt the cars
Kitchen Jail
21 päivä sitten
Group B was just the FIA's Super Modified division Change my mind
Xavier Earnst
21 päivä sitten
3:38 that guy dropped his camera XD
Argy Pan
21 päivä sitten
Mention Lancia Delta Integrale to any rally fan and you will see a spark in their eyes
Manuel Kumli
22 päivää sitten
This is the kind of footage we should show aliens on first contact.
Matteo Mori
23 päivää sitten
If you want to pronounce LANCIA correctly : "-cia" sounds "cha", so it's like a lunch-uh or lun-cha. LANCIA in italian means Spear
Matteo Mori
19 päivää sitten
@extremedrivr it's not grammar. It's just pronunciation. And also a little bit of culture ;)
extremedrivr
19 päivää sitten
Ok there Mr grammar 🚔. 😆
1978garfield
23 päivää sitten
Bring it back, put the kind of bumper guards that trucks in the Outback use on the cars and award points Death Race 2000 style if people wont keep off of the road. Have medical crews near by to harvest transplant organs so some good comes from their stupidity.
J.C. Denton
23 päivää sitten
Bring back Group B - Death is the spice of it
Ricky Castro
23 päivää sitten
When Henri and Sergio crashed, their lead made it so no one knew they crashed. The following racing team only stopped after seeing the flames and could still hear the screams. The technology that was created in light of their deaths have saved countless racers going forward.
Endurance Makahamadze
23 päivää sitten
kenney from the block
ChrisGR93 _TxS
24 päivää sitten
the last part of the video....... no words
ChrisGR93 _TxS
24 päivää sitten
everybody leftfoot brake!
ChrisGR93 _TxS
24 päivää sitten
5cylinder 20v sound is pure magic
Toni Rantala
24 päivää sitten
I don't get it why they stand in the middle of the road. It's not like its a surprise there's car coming FAST at some point. Guess its just part of the fun to run for your life and slow down drivers while at it
KoreBoredom
25 päivää sitten
Group B is like the raw power from Midnight Club cars on the wangan combined with the skill and precision of touge drifting. What more can you want?
meme dream
25 päivää sitten
Rallying wouldn't be so dangerous if these brain defunct tourists and spectators weren't always in the way.
josef salon
25 päivää sitten
Remember this era, also remember that horrible deadly crash...
TrevSkee Cannon
26 päivää sitten
Just admit it.. you clicked on this video to listen to group b made engines.. but turn's out you'll listening to some dumb A55 chat crap everybody knows from the past 40 years!
Snakerooni
26 päivää sitten
just to say I got unsubscribed by FItop. Just subbed again.
Maxwell Edison
26 päivää sitten
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ANGELOS CHRYSSA
26 päivää sitten
Actually modern WRC cars are a lot faster than any old GrB car in any kind of special stage. Old GrB cars are way too slow compared to modern WRC. Even modern WRC2 are faster than old GrB. The point is that old GrB cars did not have the long suspension travel that modern cars have, so they demanded more caution from the driver.
Christophe
26 päivää sitten
Great video thank you😀
lauraiss
26 päivää sitten
There are two themes in whole youtube nobody should ever touch again because those are not just over abused, they are over deep anally overfucked. In cars - Rally Group B In videogames - why Sega failed. Please for god sake do not touch these themes again. It is the most miserable topic to take. It's when you have nothing to talk about at all. Have a self respect.
Dylan Yeomans
26 päivää sitten
Pretty sure the audi was a H pattern 5 speed manual not semi auto??
Uula Hursti
26 päivää sitten
In the last Finnish interview before the fatal crash Toivonen said he thinks the race is ludicrous and not meant for humans to drive. He also said his brains are not enough for a task. It was way too long and dangerous - and we all saw what happened.
Montikore Productions
26 päivää sitten
Aw man what about the RS200??
Arne Servatius
26 päivää sitten
Your wrong again. Where were you when they gave out IQ’s. What a waste of a sports reporter you are.🤪
Chris Mullin
27 päivää sitten
It was insane times...
Chris Mullin
27 päivää sitten
Insane, something happend, and they decided no more HP over a certain limit!
Gary Storey
27 päivää sitten
Maddest of them all ? Easily the Metro 6R4 !
Emmanuel Herbert
27 päivää sitten
Group B. The best.