The most successful WRC manufacturer: Lancia

Manufacturers' week - Part five: Lancia

Take your pick from Lancia’s beautiful rally cars. There really hasn’t been a bad one among them. And all except the Beta has won at the highest level. The story has to start with the Fulvia, which dominated Italian rallying in the mid to late 1960s and transferred that into wins in what would soon be known as the WRC events in Sanremo, Portugal and the Tour de Corse.

Despite Sandro Munari’s 1972 Monte win in a Fulvia, the writing was on the wall for the car. And there was some radical new thinking going on in the Lancia factory under the watchful eye of legendary team boss Cesare Fiorio. That radical new thinking came in the shape of a door-stop. A door-stop with the engine from a Ferrari Dino in the back. This was the Stratos, one of the most attractive and effective rally cars ever born.

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