This Car Changed American Sports Car Racing Forever
2022 ж. 23 Қыр.
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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 ’83 and ’85, but by 1986 it had become clear that the Sport Quattro, great as it was, just wasn’t as competitive as it once had been, and even if it was, Group B was dead, so they sought new competition. This is the story of the Audi 90 Quattro IMSA GTO.
#audi #history #racing
I love how the Germans show up in a sedan only to get laughed at until they started winning 😄
When they showed up in rally with a 4 wheel drive car they got asked why they want to race with ww2 jeep technology
@@mightress yep 😅
Never ever underestimate the engineering of germans
I love how Germans show up in tanks only to get laughed at until they start winning
I don’t think the American experts of the time were laughing. They knew something was up.😂
I just love the American sportive spirit. Their cars are a piece of sh.t, so they change the rules to stop others to win
And they call themselves world champion in everything they do.
@@d34d10ck we all have a worlds best, technically no one is ever the worlds best, as long as not everybody in the whole world is in the competition the worlds best isnt found! 😄 And in usa if someone wins a top title they just create a new association or League so everyone can be the best🤷🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️ cunts is what they are..
@@d34d10ck Like this game of Handegg, which they call "Football"...
skill issue lol
Nah, they just didn't have an awd car available. American sports cars have some great racing pedigree, though they aren't great road cars. For example, the c4 corvette
American Way of life. If you can´t compare, restrict the others to death.
American manufacturers don’t know how to make cars
@@a1phamalestud *capable of going through unbanked corners.
@@a1phamalestud I guess they are not capable to do anything. It's happening again with Huawei, if it's to good, ban it.
@@a1phamalestud That´s right, I own one... 🤣🤣
At least american cars can turn left in perfection, or at least they cam turn left pretty good. Acceptable good. At leadt they are kinda capable of turning left...
"They're beating us, change the rules!"
What's absolutely mind blowing is that a small 4 door saloon car was right up there running with Corvettes and Mustangs. I can't even imagine what the American audience would've felt like watching all of this live.
Well its much lighter basically
The Trans Am car was insane. I saw it at Long Beach, the chirping turbo, awd grip, and exhaust flames from the turbos were something I had never seen, heard (the turbo was nothing like the 1.5 ltr F1 turbos, but still unique to the series).Oddly it was Hurley Haywood that taught Hans Stuck to left foot brake, once mastered the car could not be caught. Everything about the car was atypical to Trans-Am, and amazing. Even the paint scheme! Glad to see these cars running at Historic events again, but wish the owners would invite a professional driver to put it through its paces.
If you don't already may I suggest watching Goodwood and that big Ford slide around corners while passing cars it shouldn't be able to on the outside.
@@tihspidtherekciltilc5469 What Ford are you talking about? The Falcon race car?
@@longtailgt It's a mid or full size so not a Falcon. I'm drawing a blank but I'll find it after work and update.
After finishing runner-up in IMSA, Audi won the DTM two years in a row, with Hans-Joachim Stuck and Frank Biela winning the championship once each. Walter Röhrl was also recruited, marking the first time he ever went circuit racing.
Röhrl won the 1981 24hr of Le Mans in his class.
Cecotto was points leader in the championship for 1990?(one of the years Audi won) but Mercedes Jr driver Michael Schumacher made an appearance on the championship race, and during the first lap cut through the grass and crashed into cecotto M3, thus giving the title to Stuck........
@@aydankhaliq2967 he also drove the 200 Trans Am
@MR PTRS you can Google his race results. He drove a BMW 2002 Turbo in 1977 DRM.
@MR PTRS Walter drove the Trans Am Quattro, in his first circuit race at Road America. I was in attendance.
I consider myself extremely fortunate to have seen both the TransAm and the IMSA Audi's live (not to mention the F40s limited IMSA appearances) and will never forget them. They will forever be linked with what a Race Car should sound like to me.
Same here. I watched a lot of the mid-70s and on TransAm at PIR. I thought Audi made some of the best-looking saloon race cars ever, with the 90 being my favorite. I saw many great drivers, but I never got a chance to see StrietzelStuck. IMO, Hans is the most fantastic racing storyteller.
Same here. Seeing them pass on the outside was a mind rattling sight..
Saw them at Sears Point. Up the first hill, The most beautiful turbo sound in the world.
TransAm is still going on, just as a more amateur racing series.
engine knocking? i own an audi and its fucking junk
racing committees be like: we stretched the rules so far with our own cars, and got rolled by some guys actually playing by the rules. time to change the rules!
The answer: bann the foreigners who follow the rules or let them take on so much balast our rearwheel drive v8's will win again.
Audi: Dominates European racing. Audi: Goes to U.S. Audi: Starts to dominate U.S. U.S. be like: Our ego is being destroyed, our in-house built big ass fuel hungry 3-6l V8's are being outmatched by a more economical inline engine!! (Don't get me wrong, I like American muscle cars, but there is no denying their futureless designs of the time). U.S.: Lets restrict European made engines and other stuff. Audi: Joins elsewhere, still dominates U.S.
The way governments are pushing things at the moment, all ICE powered cars have a futureless design.
That Audi was not economical at all! probably quite similar to the American V8s it was up against. To squeeze that much power out of a small displacement you will need to chuck a lot of fuel into it!
@@slartibartfast2649 lol deal with it at the time murican production v8's only made about 140 hp or something
@@spazjackrabbit61 lol 1) I am not from North America. 2) In a land with very long distances, straight and wide roads, and very cheap fuel the designs that make most sense are low revving and torquey. You only care about hp/litre when you care about size and weight, neither of which mattered in the US for production cars. Obviously the Audi was the far superior racing machine, but, as I said, it probably was pretty similar in terms of fuel economy :)
@spazjackrabbit61 that was because of emission regulations
Got to love how racing competitions always boil down to banning whenever something better comes around. Nice to see the IMSA 90 getting some attention, probably one of the most iconic Audi designs despite its short career. Great video!
They didn't ban the DFV, or the Porsche 956/962 to name a couple, there are plenty of other dominant cars/drivers that have dominated by being better that weren't banned...
If I was the governing body, instead of banning the dominant one, I'll just say "then make a better car" or just simply "git gud skrub"
@@James-May wow what an amazing game plan. thats why F1 has been boring as shit since 2009
@@James-May probably every american brand would have left the sport, thats the problem.
This is basically the same thing that happened in Australia when the Nissan GTR "Godzilla" started cleaning up everything. Ford and Holden whinged like a bunch of sissies, not only was 4WD and turbocharging banned but they also got the governing bodies to cowtow to their whims and create a series where it was ONLY Ford and Holden. What made that particularly galling was Ford had been extremely dominant with the Cosworth Sierras for several years, and Holden had had their golden age some years earlier basically winning everything there was to win multiple times with their V8 Commodores but suddenly when it wasn't Ford or Holden winning the whole category had to be thrown out. Nowadays it's just a silhouette series, the racing is good but something was definitely lost along the way. GT and production car racing has far more variety and is more entertaining by far, and they are continually trying to attract new brands to the categories instead of throwing them out when they win.
I suggested this Audi 9 days ago and this dude cranked it out like a professional. Again, incredible work, dude, you're absolutely killing it and I'm loving the videos. Hilarious that the Trans Am sent the Americans into a panic, like trying to get a spider off you lmao.
Really glad you're enjoying! The Audi 90 IMSA was a great suggestion!
That IMSA car must've been insane if it was driven at the 900kg weight
"and the winner with a 3 lap lead is Audi"!!!!!
720hp, 900kg with AWD and 375mm/14inch wide tires on all four corners. Yeah, those are some pretty absurd numbers regardless of timeframe.
Audi's success was based partly on the fact that generally speaking, the US is terribly insular. It's not interested in what the rest of the world is doing because it thinks it IS the world. That means that even though the Yanks love to chest-beat (and I don't mean that unkindly), they really have no idea of just how far ahead motorsport is in Europe. I was based in Lauderdale and Myrtle Beach for a year or so and met some great people - but they thought I was utterly nuts telling them about my little Integrale back in England. They thought it was only good for shopping!
Reminds me a lot of the history of soccer. Constantly we can be in one location in the world, let's say the Brittish Isles. A lack of communication suddenly means that either they or a foreign team wins. And people adapt. And this happened all the time. Balkan teams or Germanic teams or Brazilian teams or Brittish teams played. Game. Lose. Adapt. As you said, the lack of foreign competition and such basically means they never need to adapt and therefore get left behind. Digging into what they assume is the best without an outside look that might have figured out something better.
One evidence to back this up that I can give is, almost every time I see an American diehard NASCAR fan who grew up only watching that one motorsport or maybe drag racing, has their mind completely blown to bits after watching WRC or Le Mans. Now I'm not talking about just the manufacturers - American brands did make some amazing world-beating race cars - but I'm talking more about the American audience in general.
It doesn't help that Trans Am was intended primarily as a privateer series and so having a factory team come in and smash everybody's faces in was a bit against the spirit of the series. Something that is often conveniently forgotten whenever this dtory is retold.
@@heirofaniu Something that one also forgets is that at the time, IMSA was commonly referred to as the "International Marijuana Smugglers Association" due to the ABSURD amount of money the backers of a few of those teams were pumping into it and how rich they actually were. The edge that Audi had, was the engineers and skilled individuals behind development, I wouldn't say that they had a monetary advantage at all. Audi brought innovation, something that anyone else could've done but chose to not do. Besides the teams running the turbo 4-banger Merkur XR4ti's, those were also wicked fast.
The only thing the americans excel at is making weapons
My dad sold Audi's in the 80's. I remember when his demo car he drove home was a Quattro. That thing could climb a telephone pole.
Those cars then came to South Africa and dominated the local racing for many years. I've seen Sarel vd Merwe starting from the back of the grid only to lead the race after one lap. He later said it became boring to race because it was just way faster than anything else.
Not to forget being bought by a Finnish guy (if I remember correctly) and raced in European championships, even at Spa, dominating for years on end.
@@Vazin Pertti Kuismanen, other cars he used during his racing career (1996-2016) were Viper GTS-R, Corvette C6R and Ford GT.
@@ElTio.45-70 Thank you! Yes, what an absolute legend he was!
This reminds me of that period where BMW and Audi came and utterly dunked on all the sports car racing in Australia. They destroyed the local Fords and Holdens and the race organisers/lobbyists spent years making up absurd rules in attempt to prevent this dominance. Same thing happened again when the Japanese annihilated everyone with their Nissan Skylines. When being better than the other guy gets you punished instead of rewarded and forcing the loser to get better.
Always nice to hear Gran Turismo music in the background of these commentary videos 🙂
Its nice to be the first just ask audi
Meaning what? The first 4wd car was 80 odd years before, Ferguson had a 4wd F1 car in the 60's?
@@marks7197 first 4wd to win WRC?
@@xwarped83 I suppose so.
willys made awd cars before audis and they were reliable
@@retrocompaq5212 i like turtles
As far as i heard the americans first were like "2.1l awd? LMAO!" and then got humiliated by that thing. xD
Reminds me of touring car racing in Australia. The “local” Holden and Ford V8 teams were slowly being left behind by firstly the 4 cylinder Ford Cosworth then later the Nissan GTR. To prevent this V8 Supercars Series was created to give relevance to the old V8 Holdens and Fords, since no other brand could enter. Years later a few did like Nissan but the racing was so irrelevant to what you could actually buy off the showroom floor it was comical. Today Holden isn’t even a brand anymore yet the Commodore is still raced, in the body style of the last model, a FWD V6🤦🏼♂️ Last of the old school petrolheads grasping onto distance memories of V8 domination.
hahaha, you beat me to it, I remember those days.
The IMSA 90 has to be one of my favorites. It looks and sounds so aggressive
I bought an Audi 200 20v in the 90ies. When I picked up the car in Germany the seller told med that the first owner was HJ Stuck. Being an enthusiast, I thought that was pretty cool.
I know the audi is the centre of attention here but am I the only that's absolutely mesmerised by the Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo Imsa GTO race car in the archive footage! Looks beautiful! 🤤😍
I believe that is the car they used as the basis for what Nissan thought could be an outright win at Le Mans. They were wrong.
Yeah, I noticed those. Lovely cars.
Not comparable, the Nissan 300sx is a brilliant car, but those audi are in fact insane fast family saloons which the 300sx isn't
The livery always makes me think of Grant Turismo
@@jenshoefer7944 300ZX!
Wow amazing sporting spirit america!!! love it that USA change your own rules to hinder successful competitors. Love that you guys kept this up and spread your sporting spirit to business and freedom everywhere on planet earth! well done american values hahahah
They had the IMSA GTO at a vintage car event here in Germany a few years back. When they fired it up for a "demo run" it absolutely screamed the whole area into submission.
Those TransAM/IMSA Audis are one of my favourite cars in history. Especially of course the IMSA Audi 90. That Turbo whistle just get me all the time, and on top that ridicolous bodywork. 😀😍🥰 Thx for that review! 😘 As always great quality content. Btw, i love that American TransAm attitude. "Hey those germs are beating us, what can we do?" - "Make them heavier, make them use smaller tyres!" - "They are still beating us, wtf!" - "Lets just flatout ban them next season!" - "Sounds good to me!" 🤣 To be fair most entries in TransAM and IMSA were no works team. Just to defend the americans a bit. 😉
It seems to be the US attitude in general, especially back then. They wanted to be the best at everything and would happily cheat to achieve that.
And that after the Americans almost had a hemorrhage laughing when Audi announced they would compete in IMSA. "Those silly Germans with their dinky 5 cylinder turbo think they can take on our mighty V-8's? Let them compete and we'll show them how the big boys do racing." After just a few races the Americans bitched and howled about how "dinky 5 cylinder turbo" Audi had "an unfair advantage"........... Americans, what can you say about them? LOL
@@tjroelsma Like i said we shouldnt be to harsh. Since most of the opponents were no full out works teams.
@@hanswurst6712 Well, they were factory backed teams, so let's call them semi-factory teams. It did show that arrogantly assuming the old American adage of "there's no substitution for cubic inches" would still be valid against a turbo specialist company like Audi.
@@hanswurst6712 no but they were factory backed...............
The Audi 90 IMSA GTO... one of the most insane race cars. Even after blocking the 6th gear the opponents still was chanceless. Audi was saying the car have 620 HP. In some posters or reviews they was writing 720 HP. In real the car haded at least between 920 - 980 HP. Depending to the race track and the envirement temperature. So the IMSA 90 was able to close 1.000 HP. If you want to see the original car in real... go to germany. Audi drive it every year at the Donau Ring Audi Event.
Gotta love those IMSA exhausts. Just slap a 7-inch dump on the side. Something more akin to what you’d see in an unlimited class tractor pull.
I'm a simple man. I see Audi+quattro - I hit like
Getting banned in race is proof enough that you made the best car. Same goes for the r32 gtr
Imagine a 2.2ltr 5 in line beating a good ol v8 and rear wheel drive. Bann that shit, makes our modern day oldtimers look bad. 😁
I had a tuned 200 turbo in the 90's, probably not as fast as I remember it was by today's standards, but I still miss that car and its ridiculous turbo lag and amazing 5 cylinder sound to this day.
If it was turned properly it would still be fast, how many Kgs per bhp is a big factor and new cars suffer from way to much weight from safety equipment and Electrics...old cars are lightweight and still fast... I have had an rs Turbo with a chip from Birmingham computer mangement and tuned in by the Danish Rally Champion Jan "motor" Mortensen 195bhp at 0,9bar and and overboost at 1,8bar @318hp i have taken bmw M3's and the Ferrari 348 and Porsche carrera2 back in the days....less than a 1000kgs with that much power is better than a heavy car driven by a computer and not the driver himself...
@@palledrengens I was working for a VAG dealer back then and one time they loaned out my company car to a customer. The only thing that was available to use for a couple of days was a series 1 RS Turbo, white with tiger stripes (a part exchange car). That was tuned and it was absolutely mental, it would light the tyres in third gear easily and sometimes going into fourth. It needed some suspension work though because it would *violently* pull left and right as it was scrabbling for grip, I nearly wiped out in it!
@@IanDarley same with the series 2, 80% lsd My father was driving it home for me when he dropped me of at a party, he ran the car of the road🤣🤣 he said, suddenly it went crazy and pulled of the road?!!? I laughed because i had forgotten to turn the boost down 😂
@@palledrengens😂
I saw these race at Watkins Glen in the late 80's. I'll never forget what Hans Stuck said before the race when they broadcast an interview over the PA at the circuit. He was asked what his hopes were for his team today and he simply said "rain". Rain did come in during the early stages of the race and nothing could begin to stay with the viciously quick 90 Quattro GTO. It almost seemed unfair :)
Audi always has and always will be my #1 choice in European cars. I owned a 4000s Quattro back in the late 80's and wish I still had it.
In Florida my neighbor has a S1 UrQuattro, 2001 S4 Avant, 2002 S8 and a imported 1994 RS2 Avant. He used to race for Audi in the 1980’s in Europe
I absolutely hate how in motorsports, the solution to levelling the playing field always means punishing the winner, instead of motivating other teams to produce better machines. It's the only sport that does it... How would the world react if Usain Bolt had to lug an extra 20 Lbs of ballast to "level the playing field?"
It's the only sport with multinational manufacturers spending billions across multiple levels of competition on a global scale. Usain should have stayed off the drugs. Oh, right, he was leveling up the playing field.
Because runners don't need to spend millions on R and D for a niche event.
Fantastic video. On that Netflix documentary level. I had no idea this car even existed it has been fantastic to learn about. They have the 80's movie far future vibe hard to believe that they're real. Looking forward to the next video. Keep up the good work.
I did not know any of this up to watching this video. Thank you for the time you put in hitting all main points that matter and still covering a lot of details in between. Cheers mate!!
Really glad you enjoyed!
@@automobilistic I always do. Some I know some I don't. Being an American its hard to find content on TV covering any of this. New or old. Even my son subbed this morning. Keep up the great work. Hope the channel continues to grow for you and us as consumers. Cheers!!
Sure - beeing advanced by excellence in engineering is always fair! But it is unfair to change the rules in order to hinder foreign teams to win!
The times when "Vorsprung durch Technik" wasn't just an empty marketing claim.
Oh, so this is where many of the cars from Gran Turismo 2 came from? I wish I could play that again. Great story telling and informative, and the music was a nice touch, you have a new sub. Thanks!
Another great video! Love these racing stories and the channel quality keeps improving! The winners of the IMSA championship that year were the Roush team in a Mercury Cougar XR-7 btw.
Mercury, now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while.
Never owned an Audi. However, I owned a Toyota 4Runner that had an Audi transmission, and good god almighty do I miss it. Power at the ready, no matter if I was cruising at 40 mph or 90. Didn’t have the highest speed, but that acceleration was amazing.
Missed opportunity to describe the car as IMSAne. Great video as always. You've got a great voice for this.
I was ecstatic when they added this to Forza. Looking at that footage of cars racing on ****ing ice with nothing separating the cars from the spectators.
Unexpected Audi video, nice. Keep up the amazing content, luv your channel.
Great video, just a few minor things. Audi did never win any championship with the quattro sport, only with the rally quattro A1&A2. Also Audi was already since 1983 present at Pikes Peak where they set records in class and famously won in 87 against Peugeot :)
imsa gto was an amazing era. i love the specific mix of technologies of that time
Great to see video of the 200 Rally Quattro; Rare indeed! The father of my beloved Urs4 and Urs6's. If I could drive as well at the video on my winter ice driving school days I'd be very happy with my performance.
Man I love your content! Thank you for the hard work ❤
Love your work, I’ve been binging your videos this past week
1:45 such a beautiful car. Such beautiful proportions. How did we end up with RS5, M4 and even new M2 as such humongous cars :(
Safety regulations I would assume made them bigger, and maybe a bit to deal with the size of the average person being larger than it was 30 years ago
The Audi 200 trans am. One of the best looking racecars ever made.
Gran Turismo OST in the back? Much nostalgia love for that ❤ A little History lesson presented in a calm yet interesting way on top of it? well-made video! thank you.
I love seeing all the vintage footage of Summit Point...fun track
Fantastic video, kept me glued to my screen!
You have a habit of doing cars I've been watching or thinking about haha. It's like the ultimate Euro touring car even though it's a full GT.
This is my favourite race car ever. It just has everything I love.
I love American cars but goddamn are the manufacturers stubborn lmao, instead of improving anything we just limited Audi and still lost lol
It’s hilarious how openly xenophobic regulators in the U.S. racing scene were. Sportsmanship-wise an unparalleled FAIL.
They still are :)
My all time favorite race car. It's why I've got the UrS6 in the garage now since it's the closest I'll realistically get to owning one.
Cool! Gotta love the GT soundtrack in the background too! That 200 Trans-Am, wow!
Would love a video on another 4WD dominating car, the Nissan Skyline GTR BNR32 group A racer that destroyed in the Australian and Japanese Touring Car series
Great suggestion! I'll add it to the list
thank you for finally doing justice to this amazing piece of machinery. fantastic work as always!
Oh my this GT music in every video of cars is so good
Great video however you left out valuable information pertaining the trans am cars and the imsa program. See you touched on the telemetry aspect of GTO however transam and the GTO both Audi used telemetry feeding via phone line I think it was real time data to Stuttgart and they made adjustments on the fly during the race. That ultimately is what came out in true advantage . I've talked at Great lengths with team members drivers from the late 80s early 90s that witnessed firsthand what Audi was doing
Neat seeing the Road America coverage.
*Excellent video 😃 and great commentary.*
I just stumbled upon your content. Bloody awesome work man keep it up. Liked....commented....now subscribing. Chur cuzzy
90 imsa front end is one of the meanest race cars of all time. Plus the greatest engine note know to mankind, the good ol 5 cylinder with a spooly boi
That's the only car I love to drive in Forza. The sound in real life is just brutal.
The 200 was brought to South Africa, raced in the (fantastic) Modified Saloom series by Sarel van der Merve. I saw it at Kyalami, still vividly remember the loud flutterimg sound of the turbo blow off
TransAm- It's not fair that this Audi is winning. Lets place restrictions to try to make it win less. IMSA- Does your vehicle have 4 wheels and can drive forward? Audi Um...yes. IMSA- Welcome aboard!
Love the Gran Turismo 4 menu music in the background.
*GT 2 🙂
Love to see a video of the 300zx IMSA
Another awesome video here. Love the gran 5ourismo music!
Great video. Nice job on the sound track from Gran Turismo game😉
Fantastic!🙌🏻
I love how so many people are hating on American cars and saying they can’t make good cars. It’s hilarious to me- Ford made the Gt40, The Viper series(rip), The Corvette C5-7, The Saleen S7, and of course the recent ZL1.
I really love the old gran turismo music in the background... nice job
I'd love a video on tom walkinshaw's life/career, theres not much about him on the internet and he seems like one of the big players of 80/90s motorsport
06:11 is such an impressive scene.
You thought we wouldn't notice the Gran Turismo music in the background? Lol love it, brings back memories
oh no, I knew people would notice lol, it just fits so well!
Audi going 2 Yankee Doodle land is like godzilla going 2 Bathurst 😊
I think first only american cars were allowed to do IMSA, and Audi was quite a "joke" not considered a threat along the selfoccupied lines of "nothing beats cubic inches" and such... - Doh, let them in for some humiliation 😂 Ahh danke mein herren! - Np... 😵💫 wtfudge
Suggestions: Super Silhouette Series, Fox Body Mustang GTP, Lotus Elise GT1, Toyota Celica IMSA GTO. But one of the most interesting car is the Dome Zero RL. An open/closed cockpit LeMans car from 1979
thank you for the video
i appreciate the use of the gran turismo 2 music in the background.
Nice to hear GT2 music in the background!
Love the grand turismo music , take me back a lot of years
love the music choice reminds me vividly of gran turismo
The Gran Turismo 1 and 2 soundtracks sprinkled into this video make it just perfect ;)
Any plans on the r92cp?:) BTW your videos are really great, keep it up
amazing footage and amazing documentary! although might i inquire about where you get all this footage from? as i'd very much love to watch them one by one (maybe a link in the description?).
1:55 showing some great footage with gran turismo 3 dealership track in the background, amazing
i wondered hearing it was a a 2.1 Liter engine in the beginning.. the series road car version was 5 cylinder 2.3 liter, turbo and NA engines available (i think from about 1985) There were all kind of engines used in the same body frame (Typ44), from 1.6 liter 4 cylinder over 2.0 to 2.3, usually 10 valves. even a non turbo diesel version.. Thene there was the 20V versions (Audi 200 20V Quattro) , so 4 valves per cylinder .. and even one mystical head created with dark magic having 25 valves. And if i remember correctly breaking some speed records. That "main frame" for the car was used for multiple versions of the audi 100, audi 200 and for the us market the Audi 5000 .. i dont know which James Bond it was, but they were in one.. and to top it, audi used the same base frame with some structural enhancements for the weight to build their first "luxury" model, the Audi A8 V8 .. even available as longer version for more leg room in the back seat.
The fans killed off the rally side, it was lethal how they were allowed to be that close to the track, these cars could have continued racing for years, but I suppose rally is the fans aswell as the cars.
Liked and subscribed 👍🏻🍻
Love the gran turismo music in the background!
These 5 cylinder engines are born to raise hell! I drive old Audi 's now for almost 18 years. The most awsome cars ever! I can't say that from the new ones!
The SCCA has a rule book that is opposite of something like F1. In F1, if the rule book doesn't restrict you from doing something, you can explore it until they do. In the SCCA, if the rule book doesn't say you can do it, you can't. There is no room for exploration. The idea being that all cars are built to be safe first , and as close to being equally competitive as possible w/o being identical. When Audi showed up with AWD and a boosted 5cyl, there was nothing in the TransAm series that was competitive with their car, so SCCA tightened up rules to make new types of cars "fit" the current competition. It had nothing to do with the US going out of their way to hinder a single team. Even today, SCCA still has heavy restrictions on the use of forced induction, and will add ballast to cars with a power/weight advantage over others.
Is this the Gran Turismo 2 menus soundtrack in the back or am I dreaming ? Superb video, as always.