IT LIVES! World premiere two/half decades too late....

[grunau_baby]

For the first time ever this car is driven on a track, developed in mid-eighties it was meant to further crush it´s group B competitors. But group B got banished and also the superior ECV1.

What a blast!
<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/omZ511tiUSk?fs=1&hl=de_DE"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/omZ511tiUSk?fs=1&hl=de_DE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>

Here´s the story:
http://www.italiaspeed.com/2010/motorsport/rally/others/rallylegend/report_ecv1/1110.html
The pics:
http://www.italiaspeed.com/2010/motorsport/rally/others/rallylegend/report_ecv1/gallery/gallery.html

And for those who cannot forget this era either here´s a nice series of ducumentations about the Group B:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4g22PjGKnE&feature=related (divided into sequels)

Regards
Alex

 

[Ferry_vO]

The 'Triflux' engine especially was an engineering masterpiece, with an intake and an exhaust valve on both sides of the engine: http://avs.spot-mate.com/triflux.html