PURE ENGINE SOUND: Lancia Rally 037 Evo.2 Group B

This is a unique piece of video, part of “Pure Engine Sound Collection”, made by several clips of Beppe Volta’s Lancia Rally 037 Evo.2 during historic rally exhibitions. This movie, produced by Nickland.org, has been edited by Nicolò Caneparo. The entire footage is property of Nickland.org, and any improper or unauthorized use will be punished according the current terms of law. The Lancia Rally 037 (also known as the Lancia Abarth #037) was a mid-engine rally car built by Lancia in the early 1980s purely for the FIA Group B World Rally Championship. Driven by Markku Alén, Attilio Bettega, and Walter Röhrl, the car won Lancia the manufacturers’ world championship in the 1983 season. HISTORY: In 1981 Lancia began designing the 037 to comply with the then new FIA Group B regulations that allowed cars to race with relatively few homologation models being built. As the project was number 037, this eventually became the name by which the car was known. Abarth, now a part of the Lancia-Fiat family, did most of the design work, even incorporating styling cues from some of its famous race cars of the 1950s and 1960s such as a double bubble roof line. Prior to its first participation in the 1982 World Rally Championship season, 200 road-going models were built to comply with Group B regulations. The car made its competition debut at the 1982 Rally Costa Smeralda in Italy, where two cars were entered but both retired due to gearbox issues. The 1982 season was plagued with …
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