GRAHAM ROBSON
Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgements
The car and the team
Inspiration
The Auto Union connection
The Quattros importance in rallying
Five-cylinder engines
The Quattros big advantage
Facing up to rival cars
Existing Group 4 competition
Homologation meeting the rules
Sport Quattro handbuilt to order
Engineering features
Sport Quattro and Sport Quattro E2 the short-wheelbase evolutions
E2 the motorsport monster
Four-wheel drive in rallying
Motorsport development and improvements
Group B takes over from Group 4
Sport Quattro changes
Was the Quattro unique?
Building and running the works cars
Personalities and star drivers
Dr Ferdinand Piech
Walter Treser
Hannu Mikkola
Michèle Mouton
Stig Blomqvist
Walter Rohrl
Competition story
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
Group B rallying
1986
Past its best? Which rivals took over?
Why was there no successor?
Sport Quattro production and homologation
World and European Championship rally victories by works or supported cars
Works rally cars (and when first used)
Index
Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgements
The car and the team
Inspiration
The Auto Union connection
The Quattros importance in rallying
Five-cylinder engines
The Quattros big advantage
Facing up to rival cars
Existing Group 4 competition
Homologation meeting the rules
Sport Quattro handbuilt to order
Engineering features
Sport Quattro and Sport Quattro E2 the short-wheelbase evolutions
E2 the motorsport monster
Four-wheel drive in rallying
Motorsport development and improvements
Group B takes over from Group 4
Sport Quattro changes
Was the Quattro unique?
Building and running the works cars
Personalities and star drivers
Dr Ferdinand Piech
Walter Treser
Hannu Mikkola
Michèle Mouton
Stig Blomqvist
Walter Rohrl
Competition story
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
Group B rallying
1986
Past its best? Which rivals took over?
Why was there no successor?
Sport Quattro production and homologation
World and European Championship rally victories by works or supported cars
Works rally cars (and when first used)
Index
The Audi Quattro is a Rally Giant because it was the first not the most sophisticated, but the first and very successful too to combine four-wheel-drive, and a turbocharged engine. It was the first to run with more than 300bhp. Because 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 unti 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 dominated the World and European rally scene in the first half of the 1980s.
