1000 Lakes Rally Finland 1985 video: Group B in its pomp
New videos to YouTube of the 1985 1000 Lakes Rally Finland once again uploaded from the vast library of dgr64.
The rally that year was a perfect showcase for the Group B projectiles with the category at its peak and the Audi quattro Sport S1 stealing the show. All the big guns were competing that year like Markku Alen, Hannu Mikkola, event and championship winner Timo Salonen, Henri Toivonen, Bjorn Waldegard, Stig… Continue reading
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Press-on-Regardless (POR) SCCA Pro Rally Championship 1985 utube video: Rod Millen wins in his Mazda RX-7 4WD
The 1985 Press on Regardless Rally, based in Houghton Michigan, was won quite comfortably by Rod Millen in his rotary engined Mazda RX-7 4WD (unlike the FISA homologated Group B RX7 which was 2WD).
Millen’s main rival John Buffum suffered a myriad of problems, with his BF Goodrich Audi Sport quattro, to claim second and was over three and half minutes behind Millen at the finish. Clive Smith was 3rd in a Toyota Corolla… Continue reading
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Too Fast to Race – Documentary on the Group B Rally cars
A documentary chronicalling the history of the Group B category in rallying. The film begins in the late seventies when FISA, the governing body of world motorsport, consider a new formula and Lancia unleashes the Stratos.
Group B was implemented in 1982 with quite a bit of technological freedoms allowed for the manufacturers encouraging Formula 1 like performance. The resulting machines looking very unlike their production counterparts but catching the public… Continue reading
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