Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
One historical thing that has been brought up many times in Tomi Tuominen's excellent podcast series, is that the Group A Mitsubishi Lancer around 1998-2001 was difficult to drive for most drivers other than Tommi Mäkinen. Mäkinen himself reportedly said "the car needs to be taken to its limits" and left-foot braking didn't work with it. So basically very aggressive movements on the wheel and Scandinavian flicks were needed, quite different to modern driving styles.
Was there not something about the diff set up that made them tricky? Others will remember better than me I’m sure…