Audi Group S Mid Engine Rally Concept - 1986
The 1985 & 1986 World Rally Championship led to an unprecedented level of technical competition between vehicle manufacturers participating.
Audi's rivals such as Peugeot, Lancia & Ford entered vehicles with largely the character of out-and-out racing cars, whereas Audi relied on the shot-wheelbase Rally Quattro S1, a model relatively close to series production specification.
In 1985 Audi's Motor Sport department began to develop a special mid-engine rally car with a lattice tube frame, a plastic body and a 4-valve turbocharged power unit.
The plan was to enter this car in the Group S category scheduled to be introduced for the 1987 season.
Two Group S rally cars were in fact completed, but it transpired did not take part in any events.
A severe accident occurred during the 1986 Portugal Rally - though without any Audi car being involved - and led to the governing body of international motor sport (the FIA) banning the current Group B category for safety reasons, and also the Group S which it had intended to introduce in 1987.
Audi decided, for the same considerations of safety, to withdraw from the World Rally Championship, doing so even before the 1986 season came to an end.
2.144 cc
5 Cylinder
500 hp
Vmax : ca. 280 km/h
1 ex.
Techno Classica 2016
Essen
Deutschland - Germany
April 2016
Audi Group S Mid Engine Rally Concept - 1986
The 1985 & 1986 World Rally Championship led to an unprecedented level of technical competition between vehicle manufacturers participating.
Audi's rivals such as Peugeot, Lancia & Ford entered vehicles with largely the character of out-and-out racing cars, whereas Audi relied on the shot-wheelbase Rally Quattro S1, a model relatively close to series production specification.
In 1985 Audi's Motor Sport department began to develop a special mid-engine rally car with a lattice tube frame, a plastic body and a 4-valve turbocharged power unit.
The plan was to enter this car in the Group S category scheduled to be introduced for the 1987 season.
Two Group S rally cars were in fact completed, but it transpired did not take part in any events.
A severe accident occurred during the 1986 Portugal Rally - though without any Audi car being involved - and led to the governing body of international motor sport (the FIA) banning the current Group B category for safety reasons, and also the Group S which it had intended to introduce in 1987.
Audi decided, for the same considerations of safety, to withdraw from the World Rally Championship, doing so even before the 1986 season came to an end.
2.144 cc
5 Cylinder
500 hp
Vmax : ca. 280 km/h
1 ex.
Techno Classica 2016
Essen
Deutschland - Germany
April 2016