History lesson: When Group B came to rallycross - Red Bull

Check out the final of the 1989 Estering European Rallycross Championship round in the video above. Fast forward 13 years to May 2, 1986. The European Rallycross drivers had just arrived at the Nordring, close to the village of Horn in Austria, for the first round of their season, as 1300 kilometres away on the island of Corsica, a fluey Henri... The end of Group B With Toivonen’s tragic accident, Group B, the WRC’s set of rules which had, since 1982, allowed cars to compete in the championship with unlimited levels of turbo boost and often pumping out upwards of 500bhp, was banned. tests later showed that the Group B cars were so fast that the drivers were getting tunnel vision). Watch the legendary Walter Röhrl in WRC action in the Audi Quattro S1 in the video below. In practical terms, for the WRC’s teams it meant that the extraordinary beasts they’d spent millions developing – cars like the Audi Quattro S1 , the Ford RS200 and the Austin Metro 6R4 – were rendered practically worthless to them overnight. Rallycross inherits some monsters The WRC’s homeless Group B cars were welcomed into the European Rallycross Championship with open arms in. Source: www.redbull.com