Quattro lives! Group B rally weapons return to UK

No this isn't a story from the mid-eighties that got mislaid. The "too fast to race" rally cars that were banned in 1986 are going to compete in a multi-stage rally in Cheshire in August 2012.

Group B cars were fire-breathing monsters (literally spewing flames from the exhaust on nearly every gearchange), with up to 500 bhp. They were banned after two fatal crashes in 1986 in which three spectators and two competitors were killed. It was felt that the cars were simply too fast for narrow forest tracks with open access for spectators.