Group B Rally Cars

[MasterDon]

another one courtesy of gummy...this it's the greatest WRC drivers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDJYJW5MKYY...player_embedded

i gotta say that the carmina burana fortuna goes very well with the stratos of sandro munari... ...it's about 25secs in to the video

[Devinda_Z]

ahh the good ol' days...i thought the groban song was cheesy in the begining....but all in all it made sense....almost made me cry,and that's not easy.

very true... hence the mixed feelings..

it gets rather emotional for some reason that is beyond my logical comprehension

i think its the sad fact that Group B was so abruptly shut down - it really took some skill for those blads (&lass) to even attempt to keep those things on the road!

[Devinda_Z]

another one courtesy of gummy...this it's the greatest WRC drivers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDJYJW5MKYY...player_embedded

i gotta say that the carmina burana fortuna goes very well with the stratos of sandro munari... ...it's about 25secs in to the video

ditto that!

O Fortuna is epic , much like the car!

..the Bens choir once did a solid rentition..

[KLM]

i think its the sad fact that Group B was so abruptly shut down - it really took some skill for those blads (&lass) to even attempt to keep those things on the road!

It really was too dangerous. Attilio Bettega may have been a journeyman but Henri Toivonen was the Colin McRae of his day and for a driver of his stature to crash and burn really meant that these were death-traps on wheels.

I've read several times that the WRC-class cars are much quicker than the Group B cars ever were, thanks to advances in aero, rubber, engine management etc. I'm inclined to believe this, but Henri Toivonen did a lap at Estoril that would have put him in 6th on the grid for that year's Portugese Grand Prix. This was during the turbo car era in F1 too mind you.

I wonder how Seb Loeb would do at a middling track like Barcelona in his C4 in comparison to the current F1 grid. I think that since the F1 cars have made even greater gains over the last 25 years, he'll be far slower than even the Force Indias.

[MasterDon]

It really was too dangerous. Attilio Bettega may have been a journeyman but Henri Toivonen was the Colin McRae of his day and for a driver of his stature to crash and burn really meant that these were death-traps on wheels.

I've read several times that the WRC-class cars are much quicker than the Group B cars ever were, thanks to advances in aero, rubber, engine management etc. I'm inclined to believe this, but Henri Toivonen did a lap at Estoril that would have put him in 6th on the grid for that year's Portugese Grand Prix. This was during the turbo car era in F1 too mind you.

I wonder how Seb Loeb would do at a middling track like Barcelona in his C4 in comparison to the current F1 grid. I think that since the F1 cars have made even greater gains over the last 25 years, he'll be far slower than even the Force Indias.

possibly...but it would have been exciting to see the modern day equalent of the metro's and rs200 coping with those tracks and rules...would certainly be much better tv.

[KLM]

possibly...but it would have been exciting to see the modern day equalent of the metro's and rs200 coping with those tracks and rules...would certainly be much better tv.

Provided they looked better. The Metro 6R4 or whatever that contraption was called was easily the ugliest race/rally car ever!

[Devinda_Z]

I'm inclined to believe this, but Henri Toivonen did a lap at Estoril that would have put him in 6th on the grid for that year's Portugese Grand Prix. This was during the turbo car era in F1 too mind you.

Ref post #17

http://forum.autolanka.com/index.php?s...ost&p=71026

[Devinda_Z]

Lancia might resurect the STRATOS in 2011!

...that is the good news...

the bad news is however the likely hood that it will be based on some exisiting Fiat or Alfa chassis. This means its highly unlikely to be too similiar to the original, in that it will quite possibly be devoid of the mid engined layout

The above concept is said to have been desgined by Fenomenon

Its coming back... the Stratos is coming back!

[Devinda_Z]

New Lancia Stratos - it's official

New Lancia Stratos supercar, based on the Ferrari 430 Scuderia, is officially revealed. Pics and details

By Harry Metcalfe 16th August 2010

Details of a new Lancia Stratos started to leak out a few weeks ago after one was spotted testing at Fiat’s Balocco test track back in July. This car turned out to be a one-off special, which a wealthy entrepreneur involved in the Automotive supply industry had commissioned Pininfarina to build, requesting them to design a modern recreation of his favourite car of all time, the legendary Lancia Stratos.

This is a dream he (Michael Stoschek) had been pursuing since 2003, first by participating financially in the unsuccessful Fenomenon Stratos project, which presented a concept Stratos for the first time at the 2005 Geneva Motor Show. When this project eventually came to nothing, Stoschek decided to commission Pininfarina to build a one-off vehicle just for himself and his son, Maximilian, to use instead, using a shortened Ferrari 430 Scuderia chassis as the basis for the project.

Doing the dynamic testing on the almost finished car is ex-Formula One driver, Tiago Monterio, and the feedback he gave after the test at the Balocco test track was that the car had fully lived up to the high expectations Stoshek had originally set the team back in 2008.

The car is built entirely from carbonfibre and only weighs 1240kg (around 108 kilos lighter than the donor Ferrari Scuderia), with the weight being equally distributed front and rear. With the 430 Scuderia's 4.3-litre V8 engine pushing out 503bhp, this gives the car a power-to-weight ratio of 413bhp/ton.

For comparison, the original Lancia Stratos produced 190bhp from its 2.4-litre Ferrari V6 engine and had a kerb weight of 980kg, meaning 197bhp/ton, so this new Stratos should prove massively quicker than the original road car ever was.

Stoschek has given Pininfarina the go-ahead to explore the opportunity of building up to 25 examples of this new Stratos, so if you fancy one too, then you’ll need very deep pockets as we hear the expected price will run well into hundreds of thousands of pounds. It’s very pretty though...

Source : http://www.evo.co.uk/news/evonews/255988/n...be071e40617aa96

[Devinda_Z]

[Devinda_Z]

[Devinda_Z]

& some video!

[Pericles]

 

[matroska]

In case you haven't already watched (it's from 2016 ) - the full documentary of this is quite interesting 

 

[Devinda_Z]

@Pericles first, @madmax now you?! ?

[Pericles]

On 5/11/2020 at 1:09 PM, Devinda_Z said:

@Pericles first, @madmax now you?! ?

You mean return to posting?

 

Just reliving some of the old stupid things ... 

 

?

Read on the CF bonnet convo...

Edited May 13, 2020 by Pericles

[Devinda_Z]

On 5/13/2020 at 5:31 PM, Pericles said:

You mean return to posting?

 

Just reliving some of the old stupid things ... 

 

?

Read on the CF bonnet convo...

Yes the good old days @Pericles

 

Whatever happened to @sharkster @MRM @ash @Elvis_Pil 

I can't even find Dilesh to tag?‍♂️

[Hyaenidae]

2 hours ago, Devinda_Z said:

 

I can't even find Dilesh to tag?‍♂️

Dilesh = @Watchman

[Devinda_Z]

On 5/14/2020 at 11:25 PM, Hyaenidae said:

Dilesh = @Watchman

Thanks @Hyaenidae!

 @Watchman is this a new handle??

[Pericles]

10 hours ago, Devinda_Z said:

Thanks @Hyaenidae!

 @Watchman is this a new handle??

Hell no, it's ancient. But then, you were probably the first of the postwhores to drop out. I'm sure Supra and MasterDon knows that handle.

[MasterDon]

@Pericles

Periiii!!! Looks like the old gang is back together...almost.

How how?

[Supra_Natural]

20 hours ago, Devinda_Z said:

Thanks @Hyaenidae!

 @Watchman is this a new handle??

It was new about 5 years ago

[Devinda_Z]

13 hours ago, Pericles said:

Hell no, it's ancient. But then, you were probably the first of the postwhores to drop out. I'm sure Supra and MasterDon knows that handle.

@Periclesi lurked about ?

More likely my memory failing me ?

[Watchman]

hello!?️

[MasterDon]

1 hour ago, Watchman said:

hello!?️