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Rally Monte Carlo 1986 - The Group B monsters

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Created on January 21, 2011

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Bernhard Brägger

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Daniel Reinhard

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Lancia Delta S4 - The Lancia Delta in Group B trim drifting at the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Lancia Delta - The logbook of the Lancia crew at the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Lancia Delta S4 - Lancia Delta S4 Group B in full swing at the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Lancia Delta S4 - Toivonen races over a special stage of the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally in a Lancia Delta S4 Group B

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Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 - The Group B Peugeot 205 at the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 - The Group B Peugeot 205 at the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Mini Metro 6R4 - The Group B Mini Metro at the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Mini Metro 6R4 - The Group B Mini Metro at the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Audi Sport Quattro E2 - Walter Röhrl with co-driver Geistdörfer on Quattro Group B on a special stage of the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Audi Sport Quattro E2 - The Group B rally car at the service point at the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Audi Sport Quattro E2 - at the service point at the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Lancia Delta S4 - Henri Toivonen behind his Lancia Delta at the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Citroën BX - A Citroën BX Group 4 digs through the snow at the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Citroën BX - Andruet on Citroën BX at the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Mazda 323 - Mazda transverse at the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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VW Golf - Wittmann on his Golf at the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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VW Golf GTI - Eriksson jumps with his GTI at the 1987 Monte Carlo Rally

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Alfa-Romeo 33 4x4 - B. Balas on the 4x4 Alfa 33 in the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Fiat Uno Turbo - Del Zoppo on the Fiat Uno Turbo at the Monte Carlo Rally of 1986

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VW Golf Gti - Golay and Natale on the Golf at the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Golay on the Golf GTI in the 1987 Monte Carlo Rally

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Lancia Delta - A Lancia races through the landscape of the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 - The Group B Peugeot 205 at the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 - Peugeot with a large wing at the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally

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Summary

1986 is the last year in which the Monte Carlo Rally is held with Group B cars. The rally is won by Henri Toivonen in a Lancia Delta S4. Henry dies that same year in a Group B car. The end of Group B comes.

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Preview (beginning of the article)

When Röhrl/Geistdörfer won three years ago in a Lancia Rallye 037, nobody was able to compete with the Italian supercharged car. Three years later, not much is missing and the fastest Group A car - from near-series production - overtakes the best-placed 037. The super racing car has become scrap iron within three years . And in Group B? The regulations allow for an unprecedented, perverse arms race. Five automobile companies are involved: Peugeot 205 16, turbo approx. 450 hp, 930 kg. Lancia Delta S4, compressor and turbo, approx. 440 hp. Audi Quattro S1, turbo, approx. 520 hp, 1200 kg. MG Metro 6R4, 3-liter naturally aspirated V-6 engine, 400 hp, 980 kg. Citroen BX 4TC, turbo, 380 hp, 1100 kg. All of these horsepower pros transfer their power to the ground via all four wheels . The power-to-weight ratio is around 2 kg per hp ! This arms race will have fatal consequences. Rallies are still held on narrow, winding, sometimes unpaved roads, along precipices, covered in snow and ice. It is worrying, for example, that safety tanks are being dispensed with because of a few kilograms of extra weight.

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