Not sure what everyone’s up to this weekend. Maybe you’re a fan of light jazz and are going to go bore yourself into pretending you can feel something at a little place only you know about. Maybe, like me, you’ll be watching Bentley-addicted Chav millionaires trying to hump each others wives when they’re not playing football.
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Perhaps a quiet weekend in with the girlfriend watching DVDs about highly unlikely love between affected New Yorkers who look like Jennifer Aniston but can’t get laid?
Unfortunately, none of us will be doing what this lot are up to in this wonderous clip from our pals at You Tube. Of the vast excess of the 80s, Group B rallying was the most brazenly f***ed up. Cars projectile vomited flames through gnomish Swedish forests, crackling and rasping through the wintery snowdrifts and Mediterranean gravel while blackline dancing on tarmac to the backbeat of a coked-up boost gauge.
The cars were remarkable: The Audi Quattro S1, The MG Metro 6R4 (with development work from Williams F1), The Peugeot 205 T16, The Lancia Delta S4 and The Ford Rs200 were all insane, and on the same level as the fans it seems. Of course it all ended in tears in 1987 with cars flying into trees and spectators usually on fire while Audi and Ford withdrew before Group B was forever deemed too dangerous a thing to ever try again. Much like the 80s themselves. Enjoy the sounds, but don’t go back there. Enjoy your weekend everyone!
Gavin Williams
Tags: 6r4, 80s, forest, group b, insanity, quattro, rallying, s1, s4 delta, spectators, turbo boost
