Lancia Stratos — Rally Giants

by Graham Robson

This book describes the birth, development and rallying career of the Lancia Stratos, Europe’s very first purpose-built rally car, in the mid/late 1970s. It provides a compact and authoritative history of where, when and how it became so important to the sport, as well as telling the story of the team.

Contents:

The car and the team

• Inspiration
• The Stratos’ importance in rallying
• The Stratos’ home ground
• Facing up to rival cars
• Manufacturing - meeting the rules
• Engineering features
• Setting the layout
• Launch and development
• Homologation, and running changes
• Building and maintaining the works cars
• Personalities and star drivers

Competition story

• The Stratos’ career
• Homologation achieved
• Which new cars took over, and why
• The Stratos’ successor
• Chequered Flag and Stratos - a long story
• Four cars, one colour scheme

Stratos works rally cars – World Championship rallies (and when first used)

World/major European rally wins

Buch, Softcover, 20,5 x 19,5 cm, 128 Seiten, 131 farbige Abbildungen, englischer Text