At a time when Hollywood studios do not stop making sequels and remakes of classics it seemed that the great stories and originality had been exhausted. The next movie Race for Glory comes to deny it.
And in recent years, the major production companies have focused on the epic stories from the automotive world with films dedicated to lives like that of Enzo Ferrari and Ferruccio Lamborghini, in addition to blockbusters like Le Mans 66, which tells the epic battle between Ford and Ferrari.
That is why it is striking that it was not before Nobody has decided before to adapt a story about the frenetic and glorious era of Group B in rallying to the cinema, turning the eighties into a golden age for fans of this sport.
LANCIA AGAINST AUDI, A GREAT RIVALRY
With the entry into force of Group B, more lax regulations were established when it came to homologating a competition model, which unleashed the creativity of the engineering teams of each brand, giving the first models equipped with turbocharging or all-wheel drive in this discipline.
Among the many manufacturers that displayed the latest technology in the eighties, one of the most remembered and famous confrontations in the history of the automobile was born, a true fight of giants between spear y Audi.
A battle in which the Italians participated with the Lancia 037, a powerful car, but relatively conventional as it still uses rear propulsion, while Audi changed the rules of the game with the Quattro, which gave the German a clear advantage and unleashed a David versus Goliath style fight.
RACE FOR GLORY
With this title the film will be released on January 2024, XNUMX. The film will go back in time forty years until the season of 1983 World Rally Championship, passing through such iconic settings as Monte Carlo among many others.
The feature film promises great doses of emotion and reliving a story of ingenuity against engineering and all the stratagems of the Italian team to compete against the Germans. At the moment We leave the trailer to warm up our engines, although we recommend watching the wonderful hours of content about Group B that there is on YouTube, and you will be able to see that reality in some cases is stranger than fiction.