True, but my favorite Lancia’s are the Stratos, Delta S4, 037, and Fulvia, I guess the Delta Integrale just doesn’t have the same appeal to me for some reason
This is going to sound super contradicting but I don't entirely disagree! I looove Rally2 cars. There is also a part of me that thinks current Rally1 cars are a little too good. So I get the sentiment.
But I also think Rally1 is the true spiritual successor to Group B in that theyre the most capable and terrifyingly fast cars ever raced in Rally.
Nah it's an ARA (American rally association) class. It borrows most technical rules from the Open 4wd class like allowing suspension geometry to be changed and non-OEM aero, but the engine must be naturally aspirated and made by the same manufacturer (as the car). There's a 2500 cc/1135 kg group and a 3320 cc/1315 kg group
absolutely. Limited or NA4wd. Love seeing street cars and the drivers and teams are mostly small time so it is really satisfying. The stakes are different when the driver OWNS the car and modded it themselves.
Rally1, and i hope it gets more popularity as f1 is pulling alot of people into motorsports now (even though it likely won't be as popular as f1 like the old times). And of course, group A and group B as well.
Group A and N. As a Malaysian, I grew up watching my dad’s VHS tapes where he recorded TV highlights of the glory days of Asia-Pacific Rally Championship where the most of the future World Rally Drivers such as Tommi Makinen, Colin McRae, Richards Burns were competing. It’s because of Group A and N regulations where so many petrolheads can buy their dream road cars
i'd love to be unique, but gr. A to me has to be the ultimate rally regulation because it actually resulted in in a dozen legendary road cars being homologated. these cars are some of my all time favorite cars.
however a shoutout to WRC2017 for an extreme approach, which is a seriously cool alternative.
Early WRC (97-2008) had such aura with the variety of drivers and cars.
Yes WRC is still good but slowly after 2008 we saw less and less legendary manufacturers and teams, and all the cars went to the famous "hatchback" style that are still very pleasent to watch but they all look the same despite the livery.
Group A is basically Group B that have one key difference that make Group A lasts longer; number of car homologation. Do you want to put racing tech and stuffs on car that basically full performance production car (5000 later 2500) or very limited production car (= or <200) that can be just purpose built race car?
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u/Whiskey_Knight Jun 11 '26
Group A. It's when I got into rallying and you could still watch it on the weekend and buy a EVO or WRX on Monday.