S1 Ep216: Group B's Greatest Rivalry: Audi and Lancia (Replay)
Past Gas
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🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Catch our episode on the historic rivalry between Audi and Lancia on this exclusive episode revisit! Group B. The Golden Age of Rally Racing. It’s safe to say that auto racing will never again be this fast, thrilling, and dangerous. The most iconic battle of Group B was in 1983, when the beefy 4WD Audi Quattro faced off against the stylin’ Italian rear-wheel drive Lancia 037. Who prevailed in what many consider to be the greatest rally battle of all time? You gotta listen to today’s Past Gas to find out.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey what's up everybody no new podcast this week. We're giving everybody some well-deserved time off but it's a rerun from our Zoom era episode 86 |
| 0:09.5 | it's group B Lancia verse outie we decided to rerun this one because one it's a great story but two there's a movie coming out about this very story very soon I'm excited to see it but we thought hey if you saw those trailers on YouTube you might be interested in the real story |
| 0:24.0 | behind that movie so without further ado it's group B. |
| 0:28.3 | Lancia verse outi. |
| 0:42.0 | Greece Greece, the home of myths and legends, also the setting of one of the most intense races of all time. |
| 0:42.8 | The Acropolis Rally, 1983. |
| 0:45.9 | Cars gunned around perilous mountain roads, kicking up waves of ancient dust, tearing |
| 0:50.7 | past groves of olive trees and stone ruins like a lightning bolt thrown by Zeus himself. |
| 0:56.0 | Reckless Greeks, perhaps confusing themselves for immortals, crowded the circuit, cheering on rally gods, living demigods like Hena Mikkala, Walter |
| 1:06.1 | Roll, Jimmy McCrae, and Athena herself, Michelle McDonne. |
| 1:11.2 | Greece was hot and dry that summer. Temps in the cockpit of the cars reached 160 |
| 1:16.6 | degrees. The team to beat was Audi in their powerful all-wheel drive quatros that |
| 1:21.2 | muscled through the course like Leonidas and his Spartans. |
| 1:25.2 | On the other side were the rear wheel drive Lanciao 37s, prepared to battle with |
| 1:29.8 | Audi like the deep voice guy with the nose ring. But suddenly it started to rain. The gods were in a |
| 1:37.4 | mischievous mood. Dust turned to mud and suddenly the Quatros have a huge leg up on their competition with their four powered wheels. |
| 1:46.0 | But who would end up taking home the trophy? |
| 1:48.5 | The event was part of the 1983 World Rally Championship, a now legendary year of Group B. the or whose philosophy of racing was the greatest. |
| 2:02.8 | What's more important? |
| 2:04.2 | Power or handling. |
| 2:05.9 | Muscle or style. |
| 2:07.9 | German reliability or Italian pizzazz. |
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