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Lancia Integrale: the Full Story [DVD]

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I have been given Lancia Integrale the full story for Christmas, due to the fact that I own one of the afore mentioned. It is a great DVD and good to see the old girl in action, but with a couple of grumbles.

1. The Lancia Delta S4 was a 1.8 not a 2ltr.

2. Most so called motor sport journalists always blame the Delta S4 for hitting a crowd of spectators and due to the death of Henry Toivonen & Sergio Cresto getting Group B banned.

Information from the book `Rallying 21 years of world championships' by David & Amanda Campbell:

In the 1986 Rally of Portugal, due to bad crowd control and before even completing the first stage, Triple Portuguese champion Joaquim Santos lost control of his Ford RS200 ploughing into a crowd of spectators. Four were killed and many others were injured.

Sadly the unfortunate death of Henry Toivonen & Sergio Cresto was an attributing factor to the ban.

3. The DVD did not show any rallying footage of 1992 - the last year that the Lancia Delta HF Integrale won the championship. The commentator insultingly and incorrectly said that it was down to shear weight of numbers!

I feel that who ever produced the DVD either run out of time or just got bored and could not be bothered to show the final championship year...

A Great Dvd about the Story of the Lancia Delta Integrale, it show us the rally sucess that this car had from 1989 to 1991, but it doesn't show any footage of the 1992 Season, which was the last year that the Integrale won the world rally championship.