Once upon a time, there was a class in the World Rally Championship that allowed automakers to use loosely homologated cars, with no restrictions on materials, power or layout. That might be hard to imagine if you cracked an FIA WRC rule book today, which has specifications for nearly every aspect of every race car in every class. However, that sweet time in racing history started in 1982, when the FIA released the Group B class on rally circuits across the world.

As Donut Media explains, automakers were slow to explore the lack of restrictions during the first year of Group B, but over time, every automaker involved was producing incredible race cars that pushed the boundaries of materials, technology and design.

Naturally, with anything that runs under the anything-goes banner of racing, it has to stop sooner or later. The class died in 1987 after a series of fatalities pushed the FIA to make a decision. The cars were, as some racers said, “too fast for brains to react.”

Group B didn’t live a long life, but in the few short years that it sat atop the WRC’s class structure, it featured some of the coolest cars ever to rally — Ford’s RS200, Peugeot’s 205 Turbo 16 and Audi’s Quattro.
Get the lowdown on one of the most dangerous racing series ever. Donut Media has done it again with another edition of its excellent “Everything you need to know | Up to Speed” series providing comprehensive histories for car enthusiasts, this time looking back at the most infamous period of the World Rally Championship: the grueling Group B era. One of the most dangerous racing series ever devised, it spawned by far the most powerful rally cars the sport had ever seen, which also led to legendary homologation road car variants like the Ford RS200 and Audi Quattro S1.
These cars were so overpowered that frequent fatalities led to the series being scrapped in the late 1980s four years after it started. As Donut Media explains, Group B started in 1982 as a class where there were practically no car regulations. Group A, by comparison, had a lot of restrictions from the power, weight and cost.
Homologation requirements meant that 5,000 models also had to be mass produced with four seats. In contrast, Group B only required 200 production models, two seats and no restrictions on boost. This of course increased the danger – watch some archive footage and prepare to gasp in awe as these fearless drivers tear through narrow sections of dirt, asphalt and snow while narrowly avoiding unprotected spectators. Sadly, Group B was shortlived and was cancelled in 1986 after fatal crashes forced it to end. As the cars became more powerful and the drivers more daring, a catastrophe was inevitable.
In 1986, driver Joaquim Santos ploughed into a group of spectators in his Ford RS200 during the Portugeese rally while trying to avoid a small group of fans on the road. 31 people were injured and three were killed in the crash. Shortly after, driver Henri Toivonen’s Lancia Delta S4 flew off the side of the road during the Tour de Corse rally and burst into flames, killing both him and his co-driver. Group B cars were outright banned in 1987, and rallying was never the same again.
So far we’ve listed race cars that have been banned to create an even playing field, but in some cases, entire classes of racing cars have been banned. Such was the fate of Group B rally cars, which weren’t banned because of a competitive advantage but because of safety issues — a ban even the most ardent thrill seeker could support.

Group B rally cars could make upwards of 500 horsepower and went well over 100 mph (160 kph). That doesn’t sound too concerning until you remember that Group B rally cars were raced on public roads, dirt roads and other trails in a thrilling test of speed, control and communication between driver and co-driver. Rally fans don’t sit in grandstands. Rather, they line the roadway, with little protection.

Sounds like a thrilling day of racing, right? The only issue with Group B rally cars is that they kept crashing, killing drivers and spectators. The FIA, which oversees rally racing, decided that the entire Group B class was simply too dangerous and shut it down.

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http://www.grayandwhitelaw.com/blog/group-b-strep-injuries-are-preventable.cfm Many women have Group B streptococcus (also called GBS or Group B strep) and don’t even know it because they have no signs or symptoms. While it isn’t that serious for adults, the tiny bacteria can severely affect newborns. Find out in this video why GBS is so harmful to babies during labor and delivery and what can be done to prevent a Group B strep infection in pregnancy. In order to prevent a baby from being exposed to the GBS bacteria, doctors should test pregnant women for Group B strep. If a person tests positive for GBS, she should be treated with antibiotics. If a doctor fails to test or treat GBS in a pregnant woman, she can pass the bacteria onto her baby during a vaginal childbirth. Sadly, newborns can come into contact with the untreated bacteria as they make their way down the birth canal. When a baby endures this type of Louisville birth injury , it can be life-threatening. If your baby suffered an illness, disorder, or death due to an untreated GBS bacteria infection, you should speak with a Kentucky birth injury attorney about your rights. Call Gray and White Law at 800-634-8767 for a free consultation or contact us on our website.

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The Killer Bees were uncompromising race cars that cut an earsplitting path through the European countryside. In 1986, after just three years of racing including several fatal accidents involving drivers and spectators, the killer bees of FISA Group B were outlawed. -WARNING- it gets loud at the very end..

As the World Rally Championship headed to Corsica for its 2019 event, David Evans and Colin Clark visited the corner where Henri Toivonen and co-driver Sergio Cresto were killed in a crash that effectively signalled the end of rallying’s spectacular but frighteningly dangerous Group B era. As well as paying their respects, they outline why there is still to this day so much mystery around the crash that happened in 1986.

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