Editing Group B (section)

== Circuit racing ==
[[File:Ferrari 288 GTO.jpg|thumb|Ferrari 288 GTO Evoluzione (1985)]]
[[File:Ferrari F40 fl.jpg|thumb|Ferrari F40 LM]]
From their introduction in 1982, Group B cars found a home in the [[1982 World Sportscar Championship|World Endurance Championship]], formerly the [[World Sportscar Championship]], though were secondary to the Group C racing prototypes. The [[1983 World Sportscar Championship|1983 season]] had the first significant entry list including [[Porsche 930]], [[BMW M1]] and [[Ferrari 308 GTB/GTS|Ferrari 308 GTB LM]] vehicles. Porsche won the FIA GT Cup in 1983, handing it over to BMW in 1984 and 1985. From 1986, the championship retired Group B in favor of [[IMSA]]-regulated cars, becoming the World Sports Prototype Championship.

The [[Porsche 961]] prototype, intended to be the basis for Group B homologation, won the GTX class at the [[1986 24 Hours of Le Mans|24 Hours of Le Mans]] in 1986 but crashed and caught fire in 1987. The Ferrari 288 GTO had the minimum requirement of cars built and sold to the public, but never saw competition in its category. The WSPC grids it was intended for were filled up by a batch of Group C cars (there would be no production sports car-based racers in European racing, including Le Mans, until [[1993 24 Hours of Le Mans|1993]]), but it saw limited use in an IMSA GTO race in 1989.