It’s time to turn off your work computer, and your overworked brainfor several dozen interesting your hours colloquially known as the weekend. With the desire to end your capitalist work to enjoy a fleeting feeling of relaxation, Click the play button and sort out the folds of your brain IN a Lancia Delta S4 Gruppe B thick ointment. Symphony the joy of turbochargers, turbochargers, tire whine and exhaust noise here to help you ease into the all-too-brief next phase of your week. Quit what you’re doing and watched this for ten minutes of pure bliss. You deserved it.
The Delta S4, sometimes referred to by its project code Abarth SE038, is a great competition machine. Martini Racing Lancia introduced the car at the bottom of Group B regulation, and the car immediately won the final round of the 1985 World Rally Championship.
The 1986 WRC championship would have gone to Lancia after four wins, but the results of the Sanremo round (which Lancia won 1-2-3) were voided that year. There’s a lot to the story, but Italian officials disqualified the Peugeot runners for “illegal aero skirts” which were later found to be completely legal, but the Italians were Lancia’s hosts. The complete scrapping of that rally handed the final Group B title back to Peugeot’s Juha Kankkunen.
Don’t worry about any of that right now, though. Now it’s time to put this YouTube video in full screen mode, turn up the sound on your noise-canceling headphones, and watch a group of thugs drive some historic Italian gangster cars. Let’s go outside for a few minutes. You deserve it.
