Still Too Fast to Race

Even more from the full story behind the awesome Group B Rally cars featuring mindblowing contemporary and archive racing footage of these firebreathing rocket ships at blistering speeds Declared too fast to race at the end of the 1986 season the Group B cars changed the face of rallying The Lancia Delta S4 could accelerate from 0100kmh in 23 seconds on a gravel road and Nigel Mansell is reputed to have said that the Peugeot 205 T16 could outaccelerate his F1 car All were built to reach at least 400bhp so we pushed these supercharged beasts to their absolute limit to see what else they could do with legendary exWorld Rally champion Stig Blomqvist behind the wheel