Group B Era

Stradale

Stradale

Group B required manufacturers to build two hundred road-legal examples of any car they intended to race. The rule existed to maintain a connection between competition machinery and production vehicles....

Stradale

Group B required manufacturers to build two hundred road-legal examples of any car they intended to race. The rule existed to maintain a connection between competition machinery and production vehicles....

Henri Toivonen

Henri Toivonen

Rallying ran through the family. His father Pauli had won the Monte Carlo, the 1000 Lakes, and the Acropolis. He became European Rally Champion in 1968. Henri grew up inside...

Henri Toivonen

Rallying ran through the family. His father Pauli had won the Monte Carlo, the 1000 Lakes, and the Acropolis. He became European Rally Champion in 1968. Henri grew up inside...

Michèle Mouton

Michèle Mouton

She was not supposed to be there. Not because she lacked talent. But because rallying in the late 1970s operated on assumptions that had never been seriously questioned. The drivers...

Michèle Mouton

She was not supposed to be there. Not because she lacked talent. But because rallying in the late 1970s operated on assumptions that had never been seriously questioned. The drivers...

Peugeot 205 T-16

Peugeot 205 T-16

When Peugeot entered Group B in 1984, they did not begin with an existing rally car. They began with the rulebook. Group B required manufacturers to build only two hundred...

Peugeot 205 T-16

When Peugeot entered Group B in 1984, they did not begin with an existing rally car. They began with the rulebook. Group B required manufacturers to build only two hundred...

Audi quattro

Audi quattro

When Audi arrived in rallying at the start of the 1980s, most teams still believed rally cars should be light, rear driven, and simple. Audi brought something else. The quattro...

Audi quattro

When Audi arrived in rallying at the start of the 1980s, most teams still believed rally cars should be light, rear driven, and simple. Audi brought something else. The quattro...

Lancia 037

Lancia 037

When Group B regulations were confirmed in 1980, Lancia did not begin with reinvention. They began with conviction. The Stratos had demonstrated that a purpose-built, mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive rally car could...

Lancia 037

When Group B regulations were confirmed in 1980, Lancia did not begin with reinvention. They began with conviction. The Stratos had demonstrated that a purpose-built, mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive rally car could...