Lancia Delta S4 Rally Vid&Bio
Feb 28, 2011 | 03:41 AM
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Lancia Delta S4 Rally Vid&Bio "It takes a man to drive on street courses, but it takes a precision machine-like 'thing' to be blazing through the most torturous terrain the environment has to offer. One wrong move and you'll be saying hello to the valley below." Quote published by myself, M.D.C. (no full name revealed due to security reasons)
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Lancia Delta S4
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Thanks for reading, leave your comments below and feel free to discuss your favorite past time rally teams/cars. I love World Rally Championship, and what better way then to relive those moments, absolutely awesome!
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Lancia Delta S4
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- The Lancia Delta S4 is a Group B rally car that competed in the World Rally Championship in 1985 and 1986, until Group B cars were banned from competition by the FIA. The car replaced and was an evolution of the Lancia 037 Monte Carlo. The S4 took full advantage of the Group B regulations, and featured a midship-mounted engine and all wheel drive for superior traction and handling. The car's 1759 cc four cylinder engine combined supercharging and turbocharging to reduce turbo lag at low RPM. Officially the car produced 480 horsepower (352 kW). Independent figures show the S4 could accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) on gravel in under 2.3 seconds.[citation needed] An engine capacity multiple of 1.4 was applied to forced induction engines by the FIA and the choice of 1759 cc put the S4 in the under 2500 cc class which allowed a min weight of 890 kg (1,962 lb). The combined super/turbocharger system was a development of the 037 engine that produced 350 hp (261 kW) with a supercharger only. This was competitive with the Audi Quattro in 1984 which also had 350 hp (261 kW), but by the 1985 season Audi's S1 was homologated with 600 hp (450 kW). Consequently, a turbo had to be added to the S4 engine design to remain competitive.
- Like Peugeot's earlier 205 T16, the mid-engine Lancia Delta S4 was a Delta in name and body styling only (for marketing purposes), and shared virtually nothing in terms of construction with the production front-engine Delta. The chassis was tubular space frame construction much like the 037. It featured long travel double wishbone suspension front and rear, with a single large coil over at the front and separate spring and twin shock absorber at the rear. The bodywork was made of a carbon fibre composite with front and rear bodywork fully detachable for fast replacement due to accident damage, allowing ease of access during on-event servicing. The bodywork featured several aerodynamic aids including bonnet opening behind the front mounted water radiator with Gurney flap, front splitter and winglets molded into the front bumper panel, flexible front skirt, and rear deck lid wing that featured both a full aerofoil wind section twinned with a deflection Spoiler. The door construction style was brought from the 037 with a hollow shell all-Kevlar construction that had no inner door skin, no door handle or window winder. The door was opened with a small loop and the windows were fixed perspex with small sliding panels to allow some ventilation and passing of time cards etc. For homologation purposes, Lancia built 200 road-going S4 Stradales. Like the rally car, these were mid engined with 1.8 litre engines, producing 250 PS (180 kW; 250 hp) in road tune. [1]
- The Group S Lancia ECV was to replace the Delta S4 in the 1987 season but Group S was scrapped along with Group B and Lancia used the production-derived Delta in 1987.
- In competition the car won its first event, the 1985 RAC Rally in the hands of Henri Toivonen and carried Markku Alén to second in the drivers' championship the following year. For two weeks after the end of the 1986 season Alen was champion until the FIA annulled the results of the Sanremo Rally due to irregular technical scrutineering. Alén had won that event and the loss of points handed the title to Peugeot's Juha Kankkunen. All told, in 1986 there were 3 wins for the Delta S4 (Sanremo not included The Monte Carlo Rally by Toivonen, Rally Argentina by Massimo Biasion and the Olympus Rally by Alén. The car also won the 1986 European Rally Championship with Italian driver Fabrizio Tabaton, whose car was run by Italian team HF GRIFONE in ESSO livery. The factory supported Jolly Club team also ran cars in TOTIP livery, one of which was for Dario Cerrato.
- Unfortunately, the car's legacy was tainted by the fatal crashes of Toivonen and co-driver Sergio Cresto on the 1986 Tour de Corse, where the Finnish driver inexplicably missed a tight left-hand hairpin bend and plunged into a ravine, incinerating the car and the two drivers. Simply using a racing fuel cell in place of the fuel tank could have saved them
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Feb 28, 2011 | 03:59 AM
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Most amazing Lancia, EVER in my mind...
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I was fortunate enough to attend one of these events along my stay in Österreich. Such an amazing driver he is, he's a machine. Without doubt.
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I was fortunate enough to attend one of these events along my stay in Österreich. Such an amazing driver he is, he's a machine. Without doubt.
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Mar 9, 2011 | 11:41 PM
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The S4 was a great car but then again so were all the old group B cars. The Intergrale has not a lot in common with the S4 and is a heavily modified road car. It was a very good car for it's time however an impreza or mitsi evo is a far better car. As for best Lancia not so sure, stratos?
Mar 10, 2011 | 12:37 AM
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The S4 was a great car but then again so were all the old group B cars. The Intergrale has not a lot in common with the S4 and is a heavily modified road car. It was a very good car for it's time however an impreza or mitsi evo is a far better car. As for best Lancia not so sure, stratos?
Mar 10, 2011 | 12:43 AM
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I agree to a degree, and disagree to a degree. Stratos was amazing, but I feel like they didn't have heart to them.. they looked plain. And Mitsu Evo's/Subi's have heart but no soul. But for some reason an Integrale has everything a perfect car needs. When I had the chance to drive one in Bahrain a few years back I couldn't get out.. haha. I was glued.
btw, you're forgetting the 037
YouTube - Best of Lancia in Group B - with pure engine sounds
and how can you say this has no soul?
YouTube - Supreme Subaru Impreza 555 - tribute with pure engine sounds
Mar 10, 2011 | 12:49 AM
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^ I take back what I said. I'll let the Subi slide, but I'll stick to my Stratos opinion though. lol
I did however have the opp. to meet Peter Solberg at a WRC event, very nice guy. And Colin McRae is a legend with Subaru. Those 2 made the car have ultimate soul, there is that better? Lol.
lolI did however have the opp. to meet Peter Solberg at a WRC event, very nice guy. And Colin McRae is a legend with Subaru. Those 2 made the car have ultimate soul, there is that better? Lol.
Mar 11, 2011 | 12:54 PM
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This is what a true S4 sounds like......angry killer bees......oh yeah my car sounds just like this.....
YouTube - Lancia Delta S4 Group B - Bruno Ianello - Bergrennen Hillclimb Oberhallau 2010
YouTube - Lancia Delta S4 Group B - Bruno Ianello - Bergrennen Hillclimb Oberhallau 2010