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True, I would also add that a major contributing factor to the danger of the group B era was absolutely horrendous race organization and scheduling, creating da
by prova_modena 4y ago
True, I would also add that a major contributing factor to the danger of the group B era was absolutely horrendous race organization and scheduling, creating dangerous situations for competitors and spectators. Most notably and tragically at Portugal in 1986. While Gr.B cars required great skill, the danger of the cars themselves was perhaps overemphasized by Jean Marie Balestre's FISA to direct blame away from their own organization and on to the manufacturers.
- defrost 4y agoEven today you'll see dangerous conditions in long distance desert racing due to unstructured roads and inadequate crowd barrierrs (for those that travel out to the dune whoops to see things go bad: ( Finke, not the Paris-Dakar ) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-0eTjCfVXs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-0eTjCfVXs [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJfuZdymPes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJfuZdymPes