1974 Lancia Stratos Group 4: Sliding The Rally Queen

[Applause] [Music] [Music] many of my friends are asking me but Araki you drove Formula One you do over a lot more you do ability cars and what's so special with the Stratus and I used to answer it's a bit of everything of this this is the only halika which has been built a twosie as a racing car and 40 years after you still feel it on the DNA of the car the French used to call the Lancia Stratos Labette Agana but I prefer the English version the Harlequin I am érik comas and I am driving this car a lon chest heart was go for from 1974 as far as I can remember my earliest memory of a car is also a white car and I think it's a 1967 and it was a mattress poor five-30 as my father was a car dealer my first contact with motorsport Chile was thanks to one of the two mechanics of my dad which was a rising go-kart and I had a chance to discover this water so this contact with the go-kart made me sure that this is really what I wanted to do and I was only 13 years old when I said to my father that this is what I wanted to do he said let's do it for fun and once in a while but forget about doing anything I'm not ready to bring you to the racing track on weekends then I had to wait until I was 18 the student and the decided okay this is what I want to do about to use the go-kart and the year after I became my champion [Music] then to move to racing car it was to option doing the rallies but I had to buy a car or going to the track direction because it was a famous racing school called the wind field the Racing's cold and this victory at the wind field racing school is really what has opened the doors to me and this is the reason why I became a professional racing car driver the feeling's when you start your racing car way of emotion control of the car you really enjoy it then your first feeling is I remember for the go-kart is the speed and obviously the point doing this job is always being a grip limit of what you have to drive either on a rally on a special stage on the track this is what makes you being a nice car driver [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] I had four different status in in my life to straddle and to vote for but this is the only 1x maoli made in viola then I wanted to come back to the origin of this car so I came to be aligned 2014 unfortunately Claudia Molly had passed away two years before so I never had a chance to met him in person however I met with many people that have been working with him and understood more about philosophy of steam so once I had identified the people able to walk on this car I was lucky to meet Aldo Magadha in Switzerland the CEO of Zenit watches and he wanted me to be the advisor on the marketing strategy linked to classical for the Swiss bond which obviously I accepted but beside I have asked him to be also the sponsor of my three-year icing program because I wanted to bring back the which I the one I considered the Harlequin the Stratos I wanted to bring back that car to victory not only to the Italian championship but to the European Championship and Aldo Magatha told me ok but I give you a three target in three years immediately to win the Italian championship in 2015 which we did to win the European Championship in two years 16 or 17 which we did last year in 17 and to organise Zenit event I had the idea to organize the wall status meeting which became the Zenit a criminal wall status meeting in Vienna in 2016 so I would say that the story of this car made in Bali in 79 came back to Vienna what the European Championship thanks to although you have into a formula and thanks to the partnership with [Music] one of the key point of the luncheon status is the engine is a Ferrari engine coming from the Dino Ferrari v6 2.4 liter about 250 horsepower the early project of the status by Burton was designed with the four-cylinder of the Fulvia obviously chazerai Furio said no we can't go ahead with a 4-cylinder we need a six-cylinder he saw the Porsche with the six-cylinder at the thought that to beat the help in then he did a six cylinder and he managed to find an agreement with Enzo Ferrari for the supply of the 500 the engines for the for the Stratos the strata story is completely amazing because this is the only car which has been a design a-to-z from for racing purpose it never happened after without having the obligation of selling mini cars actually they they produce 500 cars because to be a group for obligated car you need it to 500 cars which oddly were solved the time because the card many default meanwhile they want many many many rallies three World Rally Championship which was more than the target and finally by the early 80s they managed to solve all the cars but very late all the racing cars I've been driven in my life the launcher status is the one who gave me the highest emotions the reason is that the unlink is perfect on the hold on the track you can adjust everything you can really play with the setup as you like and I can say that the last three years I've been able to really make the setup as I wanted and the car is so responsive the inside cockpit is like to be on the airplane you don't have any dead engine the dog ship gearbox is what I love on a driving racing car you need a perfect to a nil execution in order to really shift down at the right moment the v6 perineum and the shoulders is we're doing a lovely music all the time so the the first excitement is starting when you really press the button to start with the engine and then you can play on the hood like you could play or on the track and the car once you have the perfect set that give you the trust that allow you to drive to the limits on order like you will do on the rushing [Music] you

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Length: 10min 3sec (603 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 25 2018