The Audi Quattro is a Rally Giant because it was the first to combine four-wheel-drive and a turbocharged engine - not the most sophisticated, but it was the first, and very successful. It was also the first to run with more than 300bhp. As it was re-homologated/transformed from Group 4 into Group B in 1983, it was also the first successful Group B car. The Quattro dominated rallying from the start of 1981 until late 1984 (when the Peugeot 205 T16 took over). Quattros won no fewer than 23 World rallies from 1981 to 1985, won the Makes Championship in 1982 and 1984, and drivers Hannu Mikkola (1983) and Stig Blomqvist (1984) also won the World Drivers' series in Quattros. The Quattro led the World and European rally scene in the first half of the 1980s.
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Dimensions: 210 x 185mm
Publication Date: 13 Apr 2017
Publisher: David & Charles
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781787111103
About Graham Robson
Graham Robson possesses a worldwide reputation as a motoring historian and has been close to the sport of rallying for many years as a competitor team manager organiser reporter commentator and observer; in more than forty years he has never lost touch with the sport. Not only has Graham competed in many British and European events he's also reported on marathons in South America and acted as a travelling controller in the legendary London-Mexico World Cup Rally. As a recognised authority on many aspects of classic cars and motoring of that period he is the most prolific of all authors with more than 130 published books to his credit. Over the years Graham has owned driven described and competed in many of the cars featured in the Rally Giants Series and his insight to their merits is unmatched.