@@RagtownJunctionActually, it kept going a year after it happened. It happened it 1985 and disbanded in '86. It was a crash, not just the idiocy of the people.
Group B was insane. Everything about it, the crowds, the cars, the drivers... And this remix is the perfect representation. Really well done, music, pacing, sounds.. I´d love to see more from you. I hope this channels blows up the way it deserves
Can't believe my dad use to make us stand right in the firing line as a kid, but wow... Being that close to that much power was amazing. Rip to the ones that didnt make it.
The drivers knew the dangers back then just imagine the thrill/adrenaline you feel when going 400+ hp car that weights almost nothing...no credit is given to the drivers...the skill & focus is needed...I can't even begin to imagine
I'm lucky, I lived that era to the full.. An era where electronics only served to turn on the headlights, where cars easily reached more than 800hp without assistance and were dirty, hard to drive, dangerous.. An era where safety it was just a suggestion and we were speeding at more than 200km per hour on narrow, dirt roads, with non-existent grip, in the middle of two rows of crowds in the center of the track... An era where the drivers, before getting into the car, calmly a shot of whiskey, a cigarette and a few passionate kisses to the girl on duty.. A time where death was seen as a traveling companion.. A time of great clashes between car manufacturers with blows of power, turbos and everything needed to make driving the car faster and faster.. The golden era of Group B was something magical, unreal, dangerous and wonderful.. And it will never come back... What a shame...
I remember watching this races when I was a kid and I always wanted to become a Rally Racer. I just become an engineer but I'm not mad at all because I still love to watch all the rally races.
20 valve 5 cylinder, 2.1 litre SOHC, a very unusual spec but as distinctive as they come, they said it developed around 600bhp by 1986, not far off 300bhp per litre, F1 only achieved more than that by fitting truck turbos to engines that would fry itself to bits in a fraction of the time the rally cars engines would.
The clips have sound that doesn't correspond. I guess it's very difficult to get great shots of the era that are appropiate (good sound, good video quality...). It's one of my favourite videos about Group B though.
Imagino o nível de adrenalina dos pilotos, muito insano. Momentos incríveis. Já os espectadores... que povo maluco 😶😶, como tinham coragem de ficar na frente de uma máquina voando!? A chance de morrer é quase certa, como aconteceu pra os 4 no acidente.
@@shamancredible8632 i get to, my city is just too crowded to park one so i use ridesharing services or rentals if i end up needing one. Bicycle is just more convenient for distances where metro or bus services are not nessessary
Definitely from all stages my country Portugal was the best, most vibrant crowd was us portugueses. Country almost stopped during WRC national stages. In my town owner of peugeot always closed doors to his clients just for peugeot sport work theme cars without any interruptions After DIABOLIQUE fr200 crash driver never recovered from the psico trauma. During tests they passed in the same spot with more than 200kmh.
I don't think there was anything wrong with Group B, the problem was the spectators. Trying to fix that by slowing the cars down is like doing no-parachute sky diving from 8,000ft instead of 10,000ft. It doesn't really matter if it's Group B or the Indy 500 it a traffic jam on the 405 - don't stand in the road.
Yep, the risk of killing the spectators could've been easily mitigated by moving the spectators, but the late Group B cars had a not so slight tendency to kill the racers as well, and were truly exhausting to drive. Progress in engines performance hadn't been matched yet by advancements in suspensions, tires and brakes, and safety measures were still in their infancy. Just two months after the deaths in the crowd at the Portugal rally, Henri Toivonen and co-driver Sergio Cresto perished in the Tour de Corse rally, exactly one year after another Lancia driver, Attilio Bettega, had died there.
I hated the spectators behavior at those events, so stupid. But let's admit it the category was doomed. The fact that engines was turbocharged was the main factor. For example the peugeot 205 started with a little more than 300 hp and ended up with about 500 hp in 1986 which was insane for such light weight cars and the roads used. What they could have done is forbidding super/turbo charged engines and/or RWD, think lancia stratos, metro 6R4 (with a smaller engine). Instead we had those lardy, super efficient, bad sounding turbocharged 4 cylinders cars.
the cars were dangerous since they were barely made of thin sheets of metal but the ploughing through people was a mistake on both the spectators and the marshalls part instead of the cars
@@stacymirba1433 You implied the peoples' lives are less important than animals'. You don't think that was a cruel thing to say about every person in the video? Maybe a lesson there.
@@RunstarHomer They are less important than the animals. They choose to stand in the way of danger. Then you showed up to pretend you were more important as well despite being a complete asshole. So let me clear, every single animal on earth is more important than you.
hmmm 🤔. when you put yourself in harms way, harm might just collect. maybe we are coming to the realization that no one should or has to die in motorsports, specially spectators. the spectators who died while watching group-b rally inches from the course could have watched from somehow else other than the outer portion of a fast corner. I don't think drivers want to be responsible for the deaths of spectators or their navigator. Governing racing bodies don't want to be responsible for the deaths of spectators either (regardless of legal waivers). Safer motorsports are best for all. so, in the end, we aren't raising wimps, just smarter, wiser ppl. There are still plenty of ppl who would stand in front of moving cars...just look at the pedestrians with their nose in their phone while crossing the street not paying attention to the cars driving by because what's on their phone is more important than their life....
While group b was awesome, I am frankly tired of the myth around it. By the end of group a, cars were as fast, if not faster, than group b cars while costing about 10 times less to develop. Not to mention today's rally cars which are absoute monsters and easily make around 600 bhp, more than the group b cars. Nostalgia is good, but in short doses.
They don't make 600 bhp full time, plus one wonders what's the fuss with the rally1 hybrids when Ogier was doing fastest splits without the electric motors. Not to mention Group B cars weighted nothing and had an absurdly monstruos deploying of that power. Who cares about being fast. Group A cars looked boring in comparison, Alen said he could drive the Integrale with one hand after the S4. Group B cars were pure drama. I prefer them even upon modern WRC cars, as these offer GREAT spectacle (jump way higher and corner way faster), but don't have nowhere near the charisma of the Quattro or the 037.
Mate it's like F1, today F1 are faster, safer and easier to control than the ones of the past. But that's what make those old machines a myth, they were crazy fast even for today standard, without electronic controls or assist, without an automatic gearbox, without that million of sensors that will say the condition of every inch of the car, without even abs or power steering, racing on tracks that had less than half of today safety standard. The man and women who drove those analogic speed demon machines were crazy and insane, and every race they were one inch from death. They were like modern time gladiators. The myth it's not about the machines, but with the whole time, more crude, harder and harsher where being a pilot was nearly a death sentence. Yet those drivers went into this hell for the stake of their passion of going fast. Even the spectator risked their whole life for just being near those pilots and machines. The whole nostalgia it's about those times that had no safe filters or limitations, everything was left up to people to decide. Meanwhile today rules are insane, like having limited set of tires or gas emission requirement on damn racecars. Just an example is smoking cigarettes in the car or in the box, it may sound stupid but today even that thing it's not permitted anymore. It was a time where people, pilot and car engineers had no boundaries with the freedom of doing everything for full expressing their potential, even if that made your life at risk. The only close thing today it's the motorbike race in the isle of man
500hp or more on gravel with an H shifter, almost stock suspension, immense torque and pathetic downforce handled by not so healthy drivers being extremely tested on stages with guard rails made of humans. Yeah, myth. You probably also think that footage of Senna driving a V10 Mclaren in Monaco with only one hand while changing gears with the other, acting like it's an everyday Corolla, is kind of overrated.
actually, most rally car drivers do what alot of atv riders call "power shifting" meaning, not touching the clutch. also many transmissions had semi automatic conversions, and up down shifting like a dirt bike or atv. im not saying all, and not saying everyone, but most do power shifting. figured id throw this in here. im sure not ALL engines are happy with "power shifting" its usually, getting into high RPM and then just jamming it to next gear without touching the clutch as to not waste time. . .. use to do it on my 2-strokes constantly without fail. itll groove up your clutch sure. but is there any other actual way ? chime in, if someone ever road or drove something race worthy.
![Group B - Golden Age [EUROBEAT] (remake)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fuEjRcTh_V8/mqdefault.jpg)
Ah... grainy 80's image quality, 80's music, 80's crazy rally cars, 80's awesome drivers, 80's brave spectators... what a nostalgia trip.
This music in contemporary(ish). Welcome to synthwave, if you're not already familiar with the genre.
Stupid spectators.
"The car sometimes goes faster than my mind can think“ is got to be my favorite quote from group b
"with this car your basically to slow with thinking" -Walter Röhrl driving the Audi S1
The Legend, The Myth, The Woman - Michèle Mouton.
and she's was kinda hot too
That's got to be nerve-wracking for the drivers, with those people practically begging to get hit.
the drivers were told to just approach the people because they would then move to the side of their own accord. Has always worked! until 1986...
After the races were over, they would do the post race inspection and pull fingers off the front of the cars
@@RagtownJunctionActually, it kept going a year after it happened. It happened it 1985 and disbanded in '86. It was a crash, not just the idiocy of the people.
@@A-A-RonDavis2470 okay sorry
Some drivers actually described them as "moving trees" because they blocked their vision ahead and were not supposed to be hit.
Group B was insane. Everything about it, the crowds, the cars, the drivers...
And this remix is the perfect representation. Really well done, music, pacing, sounds..
I´d love to see more from you. I hope this channels blows up the way it deserves
Thank you, appreciate it!
So sad i got born too late...
@@Tau-5-weebnever too late to get a adrenaline rush from a mx 2 stroke dirt bike.
The most insane thing on Group B were the fans... Like wtf they had no fear its actually crazy
Go to Finnish rallys today, same vibe
@@tramlink8544not in any way portugal is probably the closest in modern day
This is edited so well. It's such a good vibe
Thank you!
This should have a million views. Best video on group B I've ever seen.
the abrupt stop to the music and then the crash really matches the end of that era.
Can't believe my dad use to make us stand right in the firing line as a kid, but wow... Being that close to that much power was amazing. Rip to the ones that didnt make it.
This should literally have a million views. It’s art
Thanks for watching.
I wish Lazer still made music. Redline is a masterpiece of an album
I havent seen such a cool group B edit for years! Truly a masterpiece great job mate!
The drivers knew the dangers back then just imagine the thrill/adrenaline you feel when going 400+ hp car that weights almost nothing...no credit is given to the drivers...the skill & focus is needed...I can't even begin to imagine
The edit is so goood... Why isn't it deserving a million views?
My guy only has 400 subscribers and drops a banger like this , this is by far one of the best edits I've seen
Insane era.
Group B...The best.
I'm lucky, I lived that era to the full.. An era where electronics only served to turn on the headlights, where cars easily reached more than 800hp without assistance and were dirty, hard to drive, dangerous.. An era where safety it was just a suggestion and we were speeding at more than 200km per hour on narrow, dirt roads, with non-existent grip, in the middle of two rows of crowds in the center of the track... An era where the drivers, before getting into the car, calmly a shot of whiskey, a cigarette and a few passionate kisses to the girl on duty.. A time where death was seen as a traveling companion.. A time of great clashes between car manufacturers with blows of power, turbos and everything needed to make driving the car faster and faster.. The golden era of Group B was something magical, unreal, dangerous and wonderful.. And it will never come back... What a shame...
don't forget about the manual transmission as well that add enormous burden for the hands and legs coordination.
I took a role as marshall in some local rallies but This is insane, i cant imagine being as marshal in those years
Marshalls what marshalls . You were in charge of your life then .
This is the best compilation group b I have ever seen in years
I remember watching this races when I was a kid and I always wanted to become a Rally Racer. I just become an engineer but I'm not mad at all because I still love to watch all the rally races.
Very nice video! Great music selection!
This video is a work of art!! Great great video, it gave me shivers!
this gotta be the coolest group B edit out there. the song choice and editing is perfect. you feel like you’re in the 80s with the video 🙏
i just can't stop watching it
That's the best thing in the 80s.
Nonono... thew 80s had everything best
Probably the best rally video I've ever seen
Pure adrenaline insanity, Just like DAKAR with no speed restrictions we will never see this again. Ever. :/
Group B. This is where even fighter pilots or astronauts would say: "holy fn sh*t!, that's sick!".
Great video! Absolute insanity!
This is one of the better edits out there that does the era justice. Good job 😊 and thank you
Great job buddy, please more like this
Oh, that's brilliant, outstanding job!
When the documentary comes up??
Thank you. It's coming out hopefully next year. I'll be posting more sequences here on the channel so stay tuned.
Those crazy Europeans know how to have fun
Oh, man!
Great video!
Odličan video brate
Hvala puno
This was amazing
This is amazing video!!
Excelent video and music!
Great video!
Awesome video 😎
Lazerhawk is the Sh*t !
You got Lazerhawk to write the music for this?! I am incredibly impressed.
Nah, Lazerhawk had that awesome track out for a while before I made this.
Then what is the name of said track?@arministrator
@@thatonecarguy_bg2701king of the streets
best video on youtube
1:13 You don't know how I love that sound, what is the name of the model of the car and what is that sound called?
It's Audi Quattro S1.
20 valve 5 cylinder, 2.1 litre SOHC, a very unusual spec but as distinctive as they come, they said it developed around 600bhp by 1986, not far off 300bhp per litre, F1 only achieved more than that by fitting truck turbos to engines that would fry itself to bits in a fraction of the time the rally cars engines would.
The sound comes from the anti-lag turbo and exhaust system.
0:45 my only complaint is that this is the Audi Quattro (A1 maybe?) and the dubbed sound effects is of the Lancia Delta S4 D:
After many viewing i can assure that it is actually a Lancia Delta S4 explaining his engine Sound
Wow look at that crowds
The Killer B’s
Now we have more people in the world but less audience than those years
The clips have sound that doesn't correspond. I guess it's very difficult to get great shots of the era that are appropiate (good sound, good video quality...). It's one of my favourite videos about Group B though.
superb
amazing vid
We used to be more alive back then
Walter Röhrl mal wieder einzigartig. :-D
Imagino o nível de adrenalina dos pilotos, muito insano. Momentos incríveis. Já os espectadores... que povo maluco 😶😶, como tinham coragem de ficar na frente de uma máquina voando!? A chance de morrer é quase certa, como aconteceu pra os 4 no acidente.
wow, awesome
Bring Group B back please.
Awesome
just going full send into crowds of people is very relatable to me as an urban cyclist
that's why you dont get to drive cars
@@shamancredible8632 i get to, my city is just too crowded to park one so i use ridesharing services or rentals if i end up needing one. Bicycle is just more convenient for distances where metro or bus services are not nessessary
Bien fait.
4:25 Portugal rally 1986
Interesting to see. But I'm glad that they finally introduced spectator safety.
magnificent
Group B .. unlimited power and unrestricted speed..i was only a kid back than
as they say, the only people more crazy than rally drivers are rally fans
Definitely from all stages my country Portugal was the best, most vibrant crowd was us portugueses.
Country almost stopped during WRC national stages.
In my town owner of peugeot always closed doors to his clients just for peugeot sport work theme cars without any interruptions
After DIABOLIQUE fr200 crash driver never recovered from the psico trauma.
During tests they passed in the same spot with more than 200kmh.
where i can find the last video of the lancia at 4:48?
th-cam.com/video/hrlhepfy9-I/w-d-xo.htmlsi=y6IplSqmmDKjU3cU 5:45
Man vs car!
I wish I had a time machine
Fuck the future I'm going back 😂
En el grupo B los pilotos no corrían sino que disparaban con esos autos.eran misiles en el camino y manejaban de verdad.
At 00:43 I stopped breathing for a couple of seconds.
WHAT is the name of the song playing in the background???
Welcome to Group B:
Heres your aluminum soup can
It produces 400 HP
You blink and it kills you
Good luck
I don't think there was anything wrong with Group B, the problem was the spectators. Trying to fix that by slowing the cars down is like doing no-parachute sky diving from 8,000ft instead of 10,000ft. It doesn't really matter if it's Group B or the Indy 500 it a traffic jam on the 405 - don't stand in the road.
Yep, the risk of killing the spectators could've been easily mitigated by moving the spectators, but the late Group B cars had a not so slight tendency to kill the racers as well, and were truly exhausting to drive.
Progress in engines performance hadn't been matched yet by advancements in suspensions, tires and brakes, and safety measures were still in their infancy.
Just two months after the deaths in the crowd at the Portugal rally, Henri Toivonen and co-driver Sergio Cresto perished in the Tour de Corse rally, exactly one year after another Lancia driver, Attilio Bettega, had died there.
I hated the spectators behavior at those events, so stupid. But let's admit it the category was doomed. The fact that engines was turbocharged was the main factor. For example the peugeot 205 started with a little more than 300 hp and ended up with about 500 hp in 1986 which was insane for such light weight cars and the roads used.
What they could have done is forbidding super/turbo charged engines and/or RWD, think lancia stratos, metro 6R4 (with a smaller engine).
Instead we had those lardy, super efficient, bad sounding turbocharged 4 cylinders cars.
Song?
After i watch this, why my pants feel creamy?
you dident mension the tragic death of henri toivonen
Rally car ploughs through people
People 40 years later safe in own backyards: wHy wE dOn'T rEinStaTe gRoUb B mOnStErS?
Clown
the cars were dangerous since they were barely made of thin sheets of metal but the ploughing through people was a mistake on both the spectators and the marshalls part instead of the cars
The only ones I gasped and got concerned about were the animals crossing the road.
Right. Animals are more important than humans. Psycho.
@@RunstarHomer Correct. Animals have never been cruel to me unlike yourself. Maybe a lesson there.
@@stacymirba1433 You implied the peoples' lives are less important than animals'. You don't think that was a cruel thing to say about every person in the video? Maybe a lesson there.
@@RunstarHomer They are less important than the animals. They choose to stand in the way of danger. Then you showed up to pretend you were more important as well despite being a complete asshole. So let me clear, every single animal on earth is more important than you.
Vegan brain rot
You mean spectators don't do this nowadays?
Rational thought would state that fast, fire breathing, village leveling dragons don’t exist…then again, Group B DID happen.
no one today with money knowsm how to drive with a stick.
Killer Bees instead of lunch, anybody…….?🙏🙏
NO bull... need a cig?
- Go on Light that Mother up
Insane for todays People, The brutality, The "distance" (10cm), loss of safety etc..
Dinasour era
Crazy Europeans 😂😂
Yes we are :)
Haha Im quoting my old Maltese flatmate when we were watching Group B highlights, must of been so much fun in its heydey @@arministrator 👍
Provado or hindering disrespect?? The rally spectators in truth are closer to the latter?? TRUTH or TRANCE
They crashed and finished in 3rd place
Vhere Is czech rallye car
Group B(ased).
Forza Lancia!!!!
Lancia Musa? 😅
@@ouralphe Lancia 037
Lancia nowadays it’s not Lancia anymore
Germany, France and all Europe bought all our car companies.
the spectators were just dumb
so were the marshalls for not stopping them
@@britishgaming6 they can't stop them
mechanical bullfight it was
Different times. Nowadays, we are raising a generation of wimps.
hmmm 🤔. when you put yourself in harms way, harm might just collect. maybe we are coming to the realization that no one should or has to die in motorsports, specially spectators. the spectators who died while watching group-b rally inches from the course could have watched from somehow else other than the outer portion of a fast corner. I don't think drivers want to be responsible for the deaths of spectators or their navigator. Governing racing bodies don't want to be responsible for the deaths of spectators either (regardless of legal waivers). Safer motorsports are best for all. so, in the end, we aren't raising wimps, just smarter, wiser ppl. There are still plenty of ppl who would stand in front of moving cars...just look at the pedestrians with their nose in their phone while crossing the street not paying attention to the cars driving by because what's on their phone is more important than their life....
pls don't show the crash it's really disrespectfull great video though
Are you trolling or you really are so much soft?
While group b was awesome, I am frankly tired of the myth around it. By the end of group a, cars were as fast, if not faster, than group b cars while costing about 10 times less to develop. Not to mention today's rally cars which are absoute monsters and easily make around 600 bhp, more than the group b cars. Nostalgia is good, but in short doses.
They don't make 600 bhp full time, plus one wonders what's the fuss with the rally1 hybrids when Ogier was doing fastest splits without the electric motors. Not to mention Group B cars weighted nothing and had an absurdly monstruos deploying of that power.
Who cares about being fast. Group A cars looked boring in comparison, Alen said he could drive the Integrale with one hand after the S4. Group B cars were pure drama. I prefer them even upon modern WRC cars, as these offer GREAT spectacle (jump way higher and corner way faster), but don't have nowhere near the charisma of the Quattro or the 037.
Mate it's like F1, today F1 are faster, safer and easier to control than the ones of the past.
But that's what make those old machines a myth, they were crazy fast even for today standard, without electronic controls or assist, without an automatic gearbox, without that million of sensors that will say the condition of every inch of the car, without even abs or power steering, racing on tracks that had less than half of today safety standard.
The man and women who drove those analogic speed demon machines were crazy and insane, and every race they were one inch from death. They were like modern time gladiators.
The myth it's not about the machines, but with the whole time, more crude, harder and harsher where being a pilot was nearly a death sentence. Yet those drivers went into this hell for the stake of their passion of going fast.
Even the spectator risked their whole life for just being near those pilots and machines. The whole nostalgia it's about those times that had no safe filters or limitations, everything was left up to people to decide. Meanwhile today rules are insane, like having limited set of tires or gas emission requirement on damn racecars.
Just an example is smoking cigarettes in the car or in the box, it may sound stupid but today even that thing it's not permitted anymore.
It was a time where people, pilot and car engineers had no boundaries with the freedom of doing everything for full expressing their potential, even if that made your life at risk.
The only close thing today it's the motorbike race in the isle of man
500hp or more on gravel with an H shifter, almost stock suspension, immense torque and pathetic downforce handled by not so healthy drivers being extremely tested on stages with guard rails made of humans. Yeah, myth. You probably also think that footage of Senna driving a V10 Mclaren in Monaco with only one hand while changing gears with the other, acting like it's an everyday Corolla, is kind of overrated.
This is fantastic! Reminds me of the old WRC x SEGA RALLY videos, but even better.
what a coward way to fight
Huh ?
actually, most rally car drivers do what alot of atv riders call "power shifting" meaning, not touching the clutch. also many transmissions had semi automatic conversions, and up down shifting like a dirt bike or atv. im not saying all, and not saying everyone, but most do power shifting. figured id throw this in here. im sure not ALL engines are happy with "power shifting" its usually, getting into high RPM and then just jamming it to next gear without touching the clutch as to not waste time. . .. use to do it on my 2-strokes constantly without fail. itll groove up your clutch sure. but is there any other actual way ? chime in, if someone ever road or drove something race worthy.
Brilliant vid