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john vanlandingham
The biggest thing is the SPEEDS. At the end of the era the GpB cars average winning speed was just about 5 km/hr higher than the last of the winning Group 4 cars like the BDG powerd Escorts or the Fiats or the Ascona 400.
On average 3.1 mph faster...
Yeah they were eye popping but only 3.1mph faster on average---and that is with the same drivers (Blomqvist-Vatanen-Toivonen-Alen-Salonen)
While I can believe this not only from suspension/chassis improvements (evolving from a known starting point is usually easier than clean-sheet, yeah?) but also just from watching the damn footage, I do have to wonder...
How much of the stage per stage speed was the car, and how much was from the drivers not being fatigued from driving 2500+km over five days? The fastest car in the world isn't going to be very fast if the driver isn't at 100%.
Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio
1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
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