Originally Posted By: Olas
My favourite form of spectator Motorsport has always been the WRC, some of my earliest memories are of watching Grp.B competition with my dad on thre weekends.
Scenes like the ones in this link make most other forms of racing seem to be too 'sanitised'
http://motormavens.com/rally-spectators-risk-their-lives/
Yes, the ability to play 'matador' with all out race cars as they scream past does add an element of thrill/'adventure' to a given form of motorsport.
But, the spectator deaths, and the crew fatalities as a result of the Group B era's 'almost anything goes' rules, and very lax crowd controls, nearly ended the sport of rallying.
The current WRC spec cars DO set some faster stage times on the
identical stages run back in the Killer B days, given similar weather conditions, so technically, even though the sport is now a great deal 'safer' than the hard core dangerous "good old days", it is also
faster, even with a bit more than HALF the AWHP.