Audi Quattro: The Rally History
After more than 25 years, double World Rally Champion, Walter Röhrl, is
still fascinated by the Audi Quattro. No other car has shaped and
changed rallying more than the silver bullet with turbocharging and
four-wheel-drive coming from Ingolstadt. Already on its World Rally
Championship debut at Monte Carlo in 1981, the Quattro turned the world
of rallying upside down. After only ten snow-covered kilometres of the
first special stage, Hannu Mikkola in the Quattro had caught and passed
the helpless Lancia Stratos of Bernard Darniche, the winning combination
in 1979. Superb traction and seemingly limitless power were the keys to
its success that made the Quattro legendary and helped Audi to capture
the hearts of thousands of fans. Author John Davenport, a former rally
co-driver and team manager, experienced that era at first hand and
narrates - rally by rally - the complete history of the Audi Quattro.
How four-wheel-drive revolutionized the rally world, how Michéle Mouton
put the fear of God into manhood, and how Walter Röhrl made himself
immortal in the Sport Quattro E2. The world-famous rally photographer
Reinhard Klein followed the Quattro revolution around the globe and
captured the mood of those days in an unforgettable way. In this
high-quality book, he shows his most beautiful - some of them previously
unpublished - pictures. A presentation of all the rally cars that Audi
has launched - from the Audi 80 to the Quattros and the Coupé S2 - as
well as a comprehensive statistics section - make Audi Quattro - the
Rally History a book that everyone will want on their shelf.
