Audi in rallying

[colin cohen]

Audi did return to Group A almost as soon as they retired with the A1 and A2
cars and the E1 SQ was used in a couple of factory supported efforts like
SA.  In 1997 they won a couple of big ones including the Safari with 200s in
1st and 2nd, and Walter Roehl trashed the Pikes Peak record that year.

After that there were no more hills to conquer except the Paris/Dakar which
after the Porsche 959 effort was considered too expensive for the PR return.

Who knows, we could see an A3 there if they could come up with something
that would beat the Evos and the WRX which seems doubtful without a killer
application.

Colin

Message: 12
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 15:47:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Martin Suryadarma <msuryadarma at mail.wesleyan.edu>
To: Matt Van Bogart <mvanbogart at hotmail.com>
cc: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: RE:  Why Audi stopped rallying

Okay, group B was banned. But all the other manufacturers switched to WRC,
why not Audi?

Martin

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Matt Van Bogart wrote:

> Group B was nixed as was the Audi rally program.
>
>
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 13:09:27 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Martin Suryadarma <msuryadarma at mail.wesleyan.edu>
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Why Audi stopped rallying
>
> Ok with all these topics on Audi rally, and some people at Impreza forum
> asking the same question, why did Audi quit rallying?
>
> Does anybody know? Any good reference on this?
>
> I stumbled into this pretty good article, but it still doesn't really
> explain.
>
> http://www.stormloader.com/groupb/audi.html
>
> Martin