Clarkson drives my Stratos
Jeremy Clarkson Drives Stratos Replica at Top Gear Film Shoot and declares "This is the most Heterosexual car i've ever been in"
Lancia Stratos Rally Car "THE BEST SOUND"
KrisMotorSportVideos present the Lancia Stratos Wrc with pure engine sounds drived by Sandro Munari & Piero Liatti. His first race came in 1972 Tour de Corse, which was entrusted to the best driver available then, the "Dragon" Sandro Munari, and where he had to retire for the rear suspension failure. He got his first win the September 8, 1973 Firestone Rally of Spain in 1973 with Sandro Munari and Mario Mannucci. To date, only lacking in the world rally honors are the Stratos Safari Rally and the RAC Rally, where Munari in 1975 came only second. In all other races, only successes.
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Lancia Stratos - The best Rally car with rear drive
The first purpose-built rally car in the world was developed purely to win the world championship. Created in a limited production run of specialist cars, it also happens to be the best-looking rally car of all time.
The Stratos was a very successful rally car during the 1970s and early 1980s. It started a new era in rallying as it was the first car designed from scratch for this kind of competition. The three leading men behind the entire rallying project were Lancia team manager Cesare Fiorio, British racer/engineer Mike Parkes and factory rally driver Sandro Munari.
n 1971 Lancia presented the Lancia Stratos HF prototype. The prototype (Chassis 1240) was fluorescent red in colour and featured a distinctive crescent-shaped-wrap-around windshield providing maximum forward visibility with almost no rear visibility (which was unnecessary for rallying anyway). The prototype had three different engines in its early development life: the Lancia Fulvia engine, the Lancia Beta engine and finally the mid-mounted 190 bhp (140 kW) 2418 cc Dino Ferrari V6.
Lancia did extensive testing with the Stratos and raced the car in several racing events where Group 5 prototypes were allowed during the 1972 and 1973 seasons. Production of the 400 cars required for homologation in Group 4 were launched in 1973 and the Stratos was homologated for the 1974 World Rally Championship. [3] The Dino V6 was phased out in 1974, but 500 engines among the last built were delivered to Lancia.
For racing, the engine was tuned up to 280 hp (209 kW) and even to 560 hp (418 kW) with a single KKK turbocharger. However, turbocharged versions were only allowed to compete in Group 5 and were never as reliable as their naturally aspirated counterparts.
The car won the 1974, 1975 and 1976 championship titles in the hands of Sandro Munari and Björn Waldegård, and might have gone on to win more had not internal politics within the Fiat group placed rallying responsibility on the Fiat 131 Abarths. As well as victories on the 1975, 1976 and 1977 Monte Carlo Rally, all courtesy of Munari, the Stratos won the event with the private Chardonnet Team as late as 1979.
Without support from Fiat, and despite new regulations that restricted engine power, the car would remain a serious competitor and proved able to beat works cars in several occasions when entered by an experienced private team with a talented driver. The final chapter of the Stratos' racing career at international level took place as late as 1981, at the Tour de Corse Automobile, another World Rally Championship event, with a victory by longtime Stratos privateer Bernard Darniche.
When the Fiat group favored the Fiat 131 for rallying Lancia also built two Group 5 turbocharged 'silhouette' Stratos for closed-track endurance racing. These cars failed against the Porsche 935s on closed tracks but proved successful in hybrid events. While they failed in the Tour de France Automobile, one of these cars won the 1976 Giro d'Italia Automobilistico, an Italian counterpart of the Tour de France Automobile. Unfortunately one of the cars was destroyed in Zeltweg, when it caught fire due to overheating problems. The last surviving car would win the Giro d'Italia event again before it was shipped to Japan to compete in the Fuji Speedway based Formula Silhouette series, which was never raced. The car would then be sold and reside in the Matsuda Collection before then being sold to the renowned collector of Stratos', Christian Hrabalek, a car designer and the founder of Fenomenon Ltd.
Automobile design consultant Chris Hrabalek has the largest Lancia Stratos Collection in the world - he owns 11 unique Lancia Stratos cars, including the fluorescent red 1971 factory prototype and the 1977 Safari Rally car.
Lancia Stratos Tribute
Tributo per la vettura '' ammazza rally '' , ancora oggi una delle più belle auto da rally di tutti i tempi.
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Lancia ECV
Breve filmato sulla ECV ...
ECV era la sigla di un prototipo costruito dalla Lancia nel 1986 per partecipare al campionato del mondo rally nel nuovo Gruppo S, che si sarebbe dovuto inaugurare l'anno successivo come sostituto del Gruppo B.
La sigla stava per "Experimental Composite Vehicle (Veicolo Sperimentale in Compositi)". L'auto montava un 4 cilindri da 1759cc, alesaggio x corsa: 88,5 x 71,5mm, usava un innovativo sistema di distribuzione (triflux) ed era sovralimentato da due turbine KKK (AG Kühnle, Kopp & Kausch) tipo K-26. La prima lavorava fino a 5000rpm, quando veniva affiancata anche dalla seconda turbina, la pressione raggiungeva i 2,3bar, che scendevano a 1,8 nei cambi marcia (l'auto montava un cambio a 5 marce a innesti frontali). Per il raffreddamento venivano usati due Intercooler.
La potenza totale era di 600 cv a 8000rpm nella configurazione da sterrato, e poteva toccare gli 800 cv per le gare su fondo stradale. La velocità massima era di 230 km/h. Grazie all'ampio uso di kevlar e fibra di carbonio, strutture a nido d'ape e/o poliuretano schiumato (materiali usati tra l'altro anche per elementi come l'albero di trasmissione e i cerchioni ) il peso totale della vettura era di soli 930 kg. I freni a disco erano autoventilati all'anteriore e forati al posteriore.
Il prototipo fu abbandonato definitivamente quando nel 1986, dopo una serie di incidenti mortali culminati con la morte di Henri Toivonen e del suo co-pilota Sergio Cresto al Tour de Corse (proprio su una Lancia Delta S4, di cui l'ECV doveva essere l'erede) si decise di abbandonare il Gruppo B e il futuro Gruppo S in favore dei meno pericolosi Gruppo A e Gruppo N. La competitività della vettura sarebbe stata comunque fortemente compromessa dalla decisione, già presa prima della morte di Toivonen, di limitare le auto del Gruppo S a soli 300cv, annullando così i vantaggi derivanti dal nuovo motore
new stratos dynamic test
new stratos test drive in balocco. más info en :
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"the test confirmed that the vehicle is both extraordinarily agile and a phenomenally fun drive. The New Stratos will be fitted with harder suspension springs and a more direct steering ratio before its next test in Balocco in mid-September"
2011 Lancia Stratos Real Life Photos of One-Off Special Based on F430 and Built By Pininfarina HQ
2011 Lancia Stratos Real Life Photos of One-Off Special Based on F430 and Built By Pininfarina HQ
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Turns out that the modern-day interpretation of the iconic Lancia Stratos that took the internet by storm the past couple of weeks is in fact a real car and it will be produced.
German media, including Auto Motor und Sport magazine, reported today that the Stratos is a one off -at least for now- commissioned by Michael Stoschek, owner and CEO of the German automotive supplier, Brose KG.
It is not clear if the Lancia badge will be used on the final car since it's not an official product.
These photos showing the Stratos from various angles as well as alongside the original Lancia, are said to be sourced from Stoschek's company.
AMS reported that the car, which pays homage to the legendary Lancia Stratos HF of the 1970s, is being built and developed by famous Italian design house, Pininfarina, and it's possible that it could be produced in an extremely small number of copies if more very deep-pocketed customers are interested.
While there's nothing official yet about the wedge shaped supercar's underpinnings, it is believed that it's based on the chassis and running gear of the Ferrari F430 Scuderia, which as you may recall, sports a rev-happy 4.3-liter V8 churning out 510-Italian-studs.
That's about all we have for now on the reborn Lancia Stratos, but we wouldn't be surprised if the car makes a special appearance at the forthcoming Paris Motor Show in September.
Lancia Rallying - Tribute
Here's my tribute to the allstars Lancia team. Still, the most successful team ever in rallying history. Footage from the Stratos to the latest Delta. Enjoy!
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