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when The Alfetta GTV8 " la bomba" rally car was developed by Autodelta, it was deemed to fast and the head of Fiat/Lancia rally asked Chiti to withdraw the car fearing it would would "dominate rallying as it was faster then the Lancia stratos which dominated at the time , they alos feared that the car was too powerful as happened during the later Group B era. The engne was not based on a Montreal engine but was a version of the tipo 33 with a flat plane crank running up to 10,000 rpm
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