"Alfa Romeo was concentrating on the touring car side of things – not that touring cars is a bad sport. Although in the 1970s the Giulietta saloon car was a successful rally car, rally programs stayed small scale and usually circled around private teams with some works support. Involvement was including Zagato and Jolly Club, who both had their fingers in Lancia projects as well. Most notable however is the French Gema team and the Italian tuner Autodelta. While in around 1980 Autodelta created an Alfetta Turbodelta that had a tendency to catch fire, it seemed to be the French that took the 'Alfa in rallying' theme further. They ran a group A GTV6 in the group B days and with the introduction of group A as the main category the same Gema team turned out an Alfa 75, that interestingly was rallied in two different versions: a 2.5 V6 and a 1.8 Turbo, both RWD.
Gema as well had the biggest successes of the Alfa teams from the 1980s, especially with their drivers Yves Loubet and Pierre-Cesar Baroni. Another driver connected to Gema is Bertrand Balas. He deserves a mention as a big Alfa Romeo fan who would rally a big, if not strange collection of Alfa Romeo cars, including an Alfasud TI, a car that turned the first group N winner at WRC level ever, and a 4 wheel drive Alfa 33!"
Fiat Cinquecento 1.1 Sporting Мобільний: нуль67 5нуль6 3п'ятьп'ять3 Owning an Alfa is a portal through which all petrolheads must pass. J.Clarkson