Group B is so over-rated in my view. Apart from the fact that I can't get comfortable with celebrating an era where a load of people were killed through negligence, it wasn't even that competitive. Rallies were decided by gaps of minutes, and it was Audi domination, followed by Peugeot domination really. I always find it quite funny how so many of the die-hard bobble hat folk complain how modern rallying is crap because the cars are nothing like what you can buy, but then say how amazing Group B was, even though the cars were nothing like what you could buy, aside from a handful of super-expensive prototypes that sold in tiny numbers and were largely irrelevant to most people.
We're all influenced by when we grew up though. Thankfully, I grew up during the Group A and early WRC era, which probably was the best time in reality, as there were loads of teams, relatively close battles, and probably the largest number of top level drivers. You also had F2 and Group N in there to mix it up too.
My first thought was triggers broom also. But according to reports it was a rebuild based on orginal chassis so possibly more original than that.
That wasa couple of years later (2003).
Surprised if they rebuilt the shell, as I thought it would have been toast after that off!
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