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A month later at the August 1986 meeting, the Metro 6R4 once driven by Tony Pond made an appearance and driven by Roy Lane, set a time of 33.14 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Classic Nostalgia will pay tribute to these mighty cars and organisers report that the Audi Quattro once driven by Hannu Mikkola at Shelsley Walsh will return for the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Also confirmed is the Ford RS200 driven by Stig Blomqvist. He drove this car on the Acropolis and RAC rallies of 1986, running in the top four on both occasions but twice failed to make the finish due to mechanical failures. This car will be in action on the hill. The first Lancia Delta S4 will also be making an appearance on the hill as part of the Tribute Class of 6 iconic Group B cars.<\/p>\n<p>There will be demonstration runs and competitive runs from other Group B cars on the 1000-yard tarmac course of the famous Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb as well as static displays from Group B clubs and owners.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelsley-walsh.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shelsley-Walsh.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: Shelley Walsh; photo: Gunter Biener]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The works Audi Quattro returns to Shelsley Walsh after 30 years as the 2016 Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb will celebrate the mighty Group B rally cars of the 1980s at Classic Nostalgia on the 16-17 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":92127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,13063],"tags":[11468,432,17768,15234,17774,17686],"class_list":["post-371088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-events","category-vintage-car-racing","tag-vscc","tag-events","tag-event-shelsley-walsh-classic-nostalgia","tag-events-vintage-racing","tag-racetrack-shelsley-walsh","tag-vintage-race-vscc-shelsley-walsh-hill-climb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Group B Tribute at 2016 Shelsley Walsh<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The 2016 Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb will celebrate the Group B rally cars of the 1980s at Classic Nostalgia on the 16-17 July.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/group-b-tribute-at-2016-shelsley-walsh-hill-climb\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Group B Tribute at 2016 Shelsley Walsh\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 2016 Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb will celebrate the Group B rally cars of the 1980s at Classic Nostalgia on the 16-17 July.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/group-b-tribute-at-2016-shelsley-walsh-hill-climb\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-04-19T13:00:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-12T22:29:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sports Car Digest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/scardigest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sports-Car-Digest-2014-03-29-um-13-05-59.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sports Car Digest\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/group-b-tribute-at-2016-shelsley-walsh-hill-climb\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/group-b-tribute-at-2016-shelsley-walsh-hill-climb\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sports Car Digest\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/188bd99a52d1e69543c54566c30e906b\"},\"headline\":\"Classic Nostalgia (2016) &#8211; 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