Group B Rally Documentary Tonight BBC4

Kxiii · 01-04-2012 01:32PM #1

Tonight 9pm, BBC Four are showing ‘Madness on Wheels: Rallying's Craziest Years', a documentary from the producer of ‘Grand Prix: The Killer Years' that tracks the rise and rapid downfall of Group B. Link

losthorizon · 01-04-2012 07:11PM

Kxiii wrote: »

Tonight 9pm, BBC Four are showing ‘Madness on Wheels: Rallying's Craziest Years', a documentary from the producer of ‘Grand Prix: The Killer Years' that tracks the rise and rapid downfall of Group B. Link

I actually just came on to post about this documentary.

It actually looks crazy and upsetting

Autosport · 01-04-2012 08:04PM

Watching this now, love watching the older rally cars

amacachi · 01-04-2012 08:22PM

Balls, missed the start. Given that it's BBC4 if anyone spots a re-run a bump would be must appreciated.

Autosport · 01-04-2012 09:01PM

Its on again at 1:10am

losthorizon · 01-04-2012 09:14PM

I know all about Balestre in F1 but he was just as bad in Rallying! What a plonker that man was.

Walter Rohrl came across as a really nice guy. My god those crowds in Portugal were mad.

Autosport · 01-04-2012 09:22PM

losthorizon wrote: »

I know all about Balestre in F1 but he was just as bad in Rallying! What a plonker that man was.

Walter Rohrl came across as a really nice guy. My god those crowds in Portugal were mad.

They really didnt think of their safety, touching the cars as they passed :eek:
Great to see a female in rallying

P.S The Audi Quattro *insert drool smilie*

mike65 · 03-04-2012 05:58PM

Its on again at 8 pm

Jordan 199 · 03-04-2012 11:13PM

I have to say the Lancia Delta S4 is some car.

RobAMerc · 04-04-2012 12:16PM

This program brought back so many memories - I remember kids out on the street pretending to be those guy's ( my mate was always Tony Pond as he was mad about the 6r4 ) I was a Toivonen nut

I can imagine 1 in 100 kids in Ireland knows any rally driver now not involved in an X-Box game which is sad.

I think the program over sensationalised it a bit though. In reality 3 spectators, Toivonen, Bettega died and Vatanan was badly injured. Given the poor marshalling and crowd control and huge numbers I think they got off light !

EDIT : what I was trying to say was - it wasn't the cars fault !

PJTierney · 04-04-2012 01:20PM

Don't have BBC4

04-04-2012 02:33PM

Accidentally stumbled across this documentary last night just as it was starting and i'm glad I did. Enjoyed it thorougly from start to finish - such a shame RTE cannot be more like BBC and less like ITV...