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I really like it specially with this Quattro liverie.
It would've been raced in Group S, and it was dumb and foolish that the WRC didn't adopt Group S because the choice has still killed the WRC to this day. But it may have also been the next in the line of Group B cars had the class continued. Audi's racing department had long wanted a mid-engine Quattro to keep up with the Peugeot 205 T16 and the Lancia Delta S4. However, corporate wouldn't allow it because they were selling front engine, 4WD cars for the road, not mid-engine. Therefore a mid-engine Quattro was developed in secret and this was that Quattro. Word was that they had cooked a 1000bhp engine that could've raced in hill climbs, however, and I'm quoting Jalopnik here, driver's deemed it too "bat **** insane". When corporate found out about the mid-engine Quattro, thanks to one journalist with a camera, they ordered the project be killed.This suggestion forum is great, I didn't even know that this existed until today. Was this left over from the abandoned Group S?
They killed off the Group B cars because they were just too dangerous, a lot of people died because of them. Piloting a 1000bhp car on a racetrack is dangerous even with modern safety systems, marshalling and track design, trying to do the same while travelling through a forest over uneven terrain after covering 500 miles is a death sentence.It would've been raced in Group S, and it was dumb and foolish that the WRC didn't adopt Group S because the choice has still killed the WRC to this day. But it may have also been the next in the line of Group B cars had the class continued. Audi's racing department had long wanted a mid-engine Quattro to keep up with the Peugeot 205 T16 and the Lancia Delta S4. However, corporate wouldn't allow it because they were selling front engine, 4WD cars for the road, not mid-engine. Therefore a mid-engine Quattro was developed in secret and this was that Quattro. Word was that they had cooked a 1000bhp engine that could've raced in hill climbs, however, and I'm quoting Jalopnik here, driver's deemed it too "bat **** insane". When corporate found out about the mid-engine Quattro, thanks to one journalist with a camera, they ordered the project be killed.
I didn't even say anything about canceling Group B other than Group S being the better solution. And Audi's rumoured 1000 HP engine, as I said, was tested but deemed to be too powerful for the drivers, but incarnations of the engine were still used for hillclimb. After Group B went away a lot of the cars were used in hillclimb and pushed 900 HP and it was fine.They killed off the Group B cars because they were just too dangerous, a lot of people died because of them. Piloting a 1000bhp car on a racetrack is dangerous even with modern safety systems, marshalling and track design, trying to do the same while travelling through a forest over uneven terrain after covering 500 miles is a death sentence.
While these cars seem exciting on paper its just not fair to ask a driver to put their life on the line every time they get into the car
There were many Group S cars that were shelved after the FIA decided to ban them:
This Audi
A brand new Ford prototype based on the RS200 (no pictures found sorry)
Lada Samara S-Proto
Lancia ECV
Toyota 222D (based on the MR2, but with over 950 HP)
And the Opel Kadett Rallye 4x4 (was used in rallycross championships in Europe during the 1990s)
Crowd control is also easily solvable.
There were 2 versions of the Lancia ECV, I think. This one, the first (?) looked faab!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancia_ECV
There were 2 versions of the Lancia ECV, I think. This one, the first (?) looked faab!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancia_ECV
The cars weren't required to use racing fuel cells. They had street fuel cells which easily ruptured in a crash.
I can't say the same for the ECV2 , where it can be?