Audi technology is still the best. An Audi and some
other all wheel drive vehicles drive up a ski hill. Which one gets stuck?
Segment of the official Audi Quattro Story.
This segment shows only the 80's and early 90's road racing from Trans Am Audi
200 through IMSA Audi 90's and into V8 type 44 tourign cars. All credit to Audi.
Classic vintage Quattro footage of this quattro S1
Hannu Mikkola is reunited with his very first, original Audi
quattro rally car at Goodwood Festival of Speed. The car was completely
...all »rebuilt by a specialist team, based in the
North West of the UK, including the current owner John Hanlon, main technician
Glen Nightingale who is an automotive genius that loves working with historic
Audis. James Jones worked round the clock and researched archives too! There are
many other people and companies who helped out, so thanks all of them,
especially photographer Reinhard Klein for supplying original period rally
images. The main website is
www.slowlysideways.com More information on this project can be found very
soon at
www.slowlysideways-gb.co.uk. In addition, Audi UK have the car on their
homepage at
http://www.audi.co.uk/audi/uk/en2/experience/motorsport/motorsport-news/aaaa.html
Audi press release says "Audi celebrates a landmark anniversary in style at the
Goodwood Festival of Speed next weekend (24-26 June 2005) with a fitting
reunion. One of the world’s greatest rally drivers, Hannu Mikkola, will be
reunited at the annual speed event with a car that changed the face of the sport
forever. In October 1980, the “Flying Finn” tested an Audi quattro rally
car for the very first time in public - a prelude to the remarkable 25 rally
championship titles won worldwide by Audi between 1981 and ’85. Mikkola will
drive that very same pioneering Audi quattro, which rattled the sport to
its core, at a motorsport event for the first time since the Portugal test 25
years ago. The Audi, which has been beautifully restored by Manchester-based
quattro enthusiast John Hanlon, changed the face of rallying forever.
Whether on dry or wet tarmac roads, snow and ice or indeed muddy forest stages,
four-wheel-drive rally cars became the norm the world over and to this day still
dominate the sport. Audi used the 1980 Algarve Rally as a test, Mikkola running
as a “course car”. Had he been an official competitor, he would have won by a
staggering 30-minutes. In the ensuing years, the German prestige car
manufacturer which today offers numerous quattro model derivatives to
British motorists accounting for a third of Audi’s total UK sales, claimed a
host of accolades"
vid from Audi Quattro Driving
Experience in 2006 in Norway
Audi Quattro tackles a ski jump.
This is the original ski jump advert, with the Audi 100 quattro.
Granada TV reported on the banning of Group B rally cars ;
Original Audi Sport quattro S1
Rally car Ex-Works from Audi Sport which was used by Michele Mouton to win The
Pikes Peak International Hillclimb in 1985. Michele Mouton still holds this 1985
record with this car. In this video it is being driven by current owner John
Hanlon at Oulton Park
combined rally stage, Cheshire, United Kingdom August 2006. Both car and driver
can be seen regularly participating with Slowlysideways
or Slowly Sideways group at demos in the UK and Europe too. More information
about this and other Group B. plus historic rally cars can be found here at:-
www.slowlysideways-gb.co.uk
The concept that started the whole
4WD game.
Ice racing fun with the Quattro
Audi celebrates 25 years of Quattro.
Audi Styling and Tuning
For a wide range of Audi Quattro
styling and tuning parts,
Visit
www.edworthys.co.uk.
