In the mid-80s, Audi was already making waves in motorsport, particularly with the iconic Sport Quattro rally car. However, ...

Audi took the power unit from the Sport Quattro S1 rally car, and they were ready for racing with the suitable modification. The vehicle initially weighed just 900 kg (1,984 lbs) but carried 300 ...

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 ...

Only diehard Audi fans know about the Quattro RS001, a mid-engine prototype rally car that was built in secret and destroyed by then-Audi boss Ferdinand Piech. Only one was made, and a mid-engine ...

Audi throws down a 700-hp coupe at the Frankfurt auto ... who frequently evoke the imagery of rally racing’s exhilaratingly deranged Group B era. Case in point: Audi’s Sport Quattro concept, ...

Audi also brought in 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Hans-Joachim Stuck as a driver for its initial single-car effort in 1990—and won the championship that year. 1991 Audi V8 Quattro DTM race car ...

Audi's all-wheel-drive Quattro rally car was a game-changer at the World Rally Championship decades ago; more recently, the automaker was the first to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a hybrid ...

Proving the capabilities of permanent AWD, the first Quattro race car went on to finish first in the 1981 Algarve rally by 30 minutes—but couldn’t officially be declared the winner, as it hadn ...

The Audi Quattro didn’t just rewrite the high-performance road car rulebook – it also changed the rallying landscape forever. At the end of the Seventies, rear-wheel-drive cars dominated most ...

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The Audi Sport TT Cup race car joins the Audi R8 LMS ultra, Audi RS 5 DTM, Audi R18 e-tron quattro Le Mans prototype in Audi’s racing arm, and will hit the track in 2015.

One of the coolest-looking race cars of all time is the 1989 Audi 90 Quattro IMSA GTO, a widebody tube-frame monster that put out around 720 horsepower from a small turbocharged five-cylinder ...