The first half of the 80’s had been one heck of a ride for Audi. The Sport Quattro rally car first won the World Rally Championship in 1982, and went on to win again in 1984, coming second in ’83 and ’85, but by 1986 it had become clear that the Sport Quattro, great as it was, just wasn’t as competitive as it once had been, and even if it was, Group B was dead, so they sought new competition. This is the story of the Audi 90 Quattro IMSA GTO.
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Reminds me of touring car racing in Australia. The “local” Holden and Ford V8 teams were slowly being left behind by firstly the 4 cylinder Ford Cosworth then later the Nissan GTR. To prevent this V8 Supercars Series was created to give relevance to the old V8 Holdens and Fords, since no other brand could enter. Years later a few did like Nissan but the racing was so irrelevant to what you could actually buy off the showroom floor it was comical. Today Holden isn’t even a brand anymore yet the Commodore is still raced, in the body style of the last model, a FWD V6🤦🏼♂️
Last of the old school petrolheads grasping onto distance memories of V8 domination.
Germany>USA
imsa gto was an amazing era. i love the specific mix of technologies of that time
AWD was an eventuality in rallying, with Audi simply being first. It wasn't even on the horizon in sports car racing, so of course Quattro would dominate.
Love menu music from Gran Turismo👌🏾😁
I love how the Germans show up in a sedan only to get laughed at until they started winning 😄
Good to have new People to tell the tale. All Petrol Heads and Petrol Womans should know the Story of the 4×4 Monsters from good old Germany
Getting banned in race is proof enough that you made the best car. Same goes for the r32 gtr
Fak is very fair
thats the only thing i dont like about the car world, stupid rules made up just to try and ruin a masterpiece, if they wanted to beat him so bad, they should have made a car as good as the quattro
The 200 was brought to South Africa, raced in the (fantastic) Modified Saloom series by Sarel van der Merve. I saw it at Kyalami, still vividly remember the loud flutterimg sound of the turbo blow off
Gotta love those IMSA exhausts. Just slap a 7-inch dump on the side. Something more akin to what you’d see in an unlimited class tractor pull.
How to change American racing forever… show them a right turn
Time when German engineering truly ruled the world and not being boring overdesigned endless money pits
Please make your music softer when using head phones is really loud.
It's sound overload.
Hey, don’t go soiling the name of the RS002!
…It’s basically Group C but for rally. Come on.
Itladesgin Shigera? I think I misspelled that. And Ford gt90? (Gt90 is my fav concept car)
The good old days. The establishment makes rules to stop dominating teams. Kind of like mercedes in f1. What a bunch of bitches.
As far as i heard the americans first were like "2.1l awd? LMAO!" and then got humiliated by that thing. xD
So that's why the trans am died…
"They're beating us, change the rules!"
The Americans audience came late to the party as usual.
Suggestions: Super Silhouette Series, Fox Body Mustang GTP, Lotus Elise GT1, Toyota Celica IMSA GTO. But one of the most interesting car is the Dome Zero RL. An open/closed cockpit LeMans car from 1979
Audi going 2 Yankee Doodle land is like godzilla going 2 Bathurst 😊
Great to see video of the 200 Rally Quattro; Rare indeed! The father of my beloved Urs4 and Urs6's. If I could drive as well at the video on my winter ice driving school days I'd be very happy with my performance.
Never owned an Audi.
However, I owned a Toyota 4Runner that had an Audi transmission, and good god almighty do I miss it. Power at the ready, no matter if I was cruising at 40 mph or 90. Didn’t have the highest speed, but that acceleration was amazing.
typical yankie. screams "best in world" bans the rest of the world.
Pls do a viper video
My favourite car of all time. A Quattro s1 replica will be in my garage
Absolutely love your content man. You should look into the Ford GT90 or the Ferrari F50, both insane cars that are right up your alley (although very little is known about the GT90 as it was never sold)
Any plans on the r92cp?:)
BTW your videos are really great, keep it up
Great video, just a few minor things. Audi did never win any championship with the quattro sport, only with the rally quattro A1&A2. Also Audi was already since 1983 present at Pikes Peak where they set records in class and famously won in 87 against Peugeot 🙂
Audi always has and always will be my #1 choice in European cars. I owned a 4000s Quattro back in the late 80's and wish I still had it.
90 imsa front end is one of the meanest race cars of all time. Plus the greatest engine note know to mankind, the good ol 5 cylinder with a spooly boi
Skyline A Class?
The Sport Quattro was not rallying or winning in 1982, that was the long wheel base UR-Quattro that won that was rallied then.
The SHORT wheelbase Sport Quattro was introduced in 1984, but actually the 1984 champion Stig Blomquist from preferred the handling of the older lwb A2 Quattro so he kept it untill the later part of the 1984 season, but he got the same 400 hp 20 valve 5 pot engine as the swb Sport Quattro, in the end of the season, he switched to the new swb Sport quattro.
In 1985, the Quattro everyone knows and love was introduced : The awesome S1, with it's big wings and spoilers, made it iconic.
I know that many people regulary confuse a long wheel base Quattro for a swb Sport Quattro or S1 (even road going lwb Ur-Quattros,)
The bewinged S1 monster was developed since the swb non winged Sport Quattro did not handle as well as the original lwb Quattro.
love it
Fantastic!🙌🏻
Suggesting that anything might be faster than an rwd pushrod v8 is actually criminal here in the US, they’re lucky to have only gotten banned.
Love to see a video of the 300zx IMSA
I'd love a video on tom walkinshaw's life/career, theres not much about him on the internet and he seems like one of the big players of 80/90s motorsport
Nice, subbed.
We didn't watch it because no-one broadcast it…
Would love to see a video on Mazda's domination of GTU in the 80s.
f*cking america! handicapping the competition instead of working harder to make their crap engineering work.
Never did get alot of rally coverage in the U.S. back then. Still don't for that matter.
Pretty crackin channel ngl
I suggested this Audi 9 days ago and this dude cranked it out like a professional. Again, incredible work, dude, you're absolutely killing it and I'm loving the videos. Hilarious that the Trans Am sent the Americans into a panic, like trying to get a spider off you lmao.
I absolutely hate how in motorsports, the solution to levelling the playing field always means punishing the winner, instead of motivating other teams to produce better machines. It's the only sport that does it… How would the world react if Usain Bolt had to lug an extra 20 Lbs of ballast to "level the playing field?"
I was ecstatic when they added this to Forza.
Looking at that footage of cars racing on ****ing ice with nothing separating the cars from the spectators.