Massimo Biasion will drive a Lancia Delta S4 in the Rally Madeira Legend

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Massimo Biasion will drive a Lancia Delta S4 in the Rally Madeira Legend

The Italian Massimo Biaion will be in the Rally Madeira Legend, on the roads on the 29th and 30th October, with a Lancia Delta S4 of the group B. “Miki” Biasion, currently at the age of 63, won the Rali Vinho da Madeira in 1983, in an ascending part of his career, representing several manufacturers and achieving four important titles, the European and Italian in 1983, year when he drove a Lancia 037, and world in 1988 and 1989, both behind the wheel of a Lancia Delta Integrale. The driver, after leaving the rallies, also did a few all terrain and Dakar.  
Lancia Delta S4 will have the colours of HF Grifone, which Fabrizio Tabaton won in the Island in 1986, and is the last model homologated in the group B for rallies and is, as such, also technically considered one of the most sophisticated vehicles of this group. The winner of several WRC competitions with Henri Toivonen and Markku Alen, this Lancia model had a four-cylinder engine in line with 1.759 cc, a roots volumetric compressor for lower rotations and a turbocharger for the power regime debited, according to non-official versions, and a power of 600 horses. With the minimum weight allowed of 960 kg, it was equipped with all- wheel drive.