Tribute to Audi's History

[eurotrashed]

pretty cool:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...5576780&q=audi

[VDub GTI]

awesome. is there a vw one?

[Rabbit1]

watching that video makes me think why didnt audi make a new rallie car. awsome video to. great find tyler.


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steve

[Fourt1thirty]

Originally Posted by Rabbit1

watching that video makes me think why didnt audi make a new rallie car. awsome video to. great find tyler.


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steve

Crowd control. They were killing too many spectators.

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My friends 1970 100LS 2dr Sedan

[duke]

I spot an Opel GT in the background.

[Spooled1.8]

Originally Posted by Fourt1thirty

Crowd control. They were killing too many spectators.

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My friends 1970 100LS 2dr Sedan

Don't know about that one buddy. That was the early to mid 80's, that could of happened with any car, I think they stopped because they were band because of Quattro, just like many other racing series, it just comes down to audi being too good. That and I don't really think they had a suitable car for rally purposes in the early 90's, correct me if I'm wrong....FIA started fineing spectators if they went on the track, its the same as if some whacko was running across the track during the 24 Hrs. of Le Mans, would they start banning audis because they hit someone, no, its the spectators fault, most of them were photographers anyways.....

[eurotrashed]

Originally Posted by Spooled1.8

Don't know about that one buddy. That was the early to mid 80's, that could of happened with any car, I think they stopped because they were band because of Quattro, just like many other racing series, it just comes down to audi being too good. That and I don't really think they had a suitable car for rally purposes in the early 90's, correct me if I'm wrong....FIA started fineing spectators if they went on the track, its the same as if some whacko was running across the track during the 24 Hrs. of Le Mans, would they start banning audis because they hit someone, no, its the spectators fault, most of them were photographers anyways.....

My money is on that^

Audi was banned from another racing series withen the past five years too, I forget what it was. Some touring car series.

[Fourt1thirty]

No one said they were banned from rally. Ford and Audi both dropped out of rally because of crowd control issues. When they got the crowds controlled Ford went back. Audi was too busy getting kicked out of road racing and VAG had the Seat/Skoda/VW rally cars to worry about.

Being kicked out because of Quattro would be retarded. All teams (except Mitsu, who currently sucks) run fully adjustable computer controlled diffs right now. If anything, Audi doesn't have a system capable of keeping up. They were getting kicked out of other series because no one else had AWD.

Originally Posted by audomatik

I spot an Opel GT in the background.

No, you spot a '75 240Z with an RB26DET swap.

[Spooled1.8]

Originally Posted by Fourt1thirty

No one said they were banned from rally. Ford and Audi both dropped out of rally because of crowd control issues. When they got the crowds controlled Ford went back. Audi was too busy getting kicked out of road racing and VAG had the Seat/Skoda/VW rally cars to worry about.

No, you spot a '75 240Z with an RB26DET swap.

Ok, I've never heard of that but i'm not doubting you. I've been to FIA WRC rallies before (Rally of Acrolpolis, midpoint of the season) and follow it regularly on Speed/Internet, its my favorite form of racing. I just searched a little and found 2 different sources that both state that..... WRC Group B cars were banned in 1987, (Group B-No weight limitations, no power linimtaions, advaced products allowed, pretty much anything goes...), as soon as that happened, AUDI just left the whole International Rally scene because of this (Since all their cars were group B) and also the death of AUDI rally driver Bobby Unser in Portugal kind of triggered them not wanting to go back. I can PM you the links to look over if you want, its not a big deal really though haha.

[Fourt1thirty]

Yeah, Group B went away because too many people were dying outright... drivers and spectators, and much of what Audi was running was Group B, not all of it. They were using things like 5000s, 100s, 200s, UrQuattros, etc in other classes or Rally as well.

They actually let an old Group B car into an SCCA Club Rally out here in WA a couple years ago. First day, first stage, first turn, first car out... slid off a turn into a tree sideways and killed the driver and co-driver. It's pretty understandable why Group B went away.

Either way... sucks they never wanted to go back. Would have been cool to see an A3 WRC car since most of the research was already taken care of in the MK4 Golf Kit Car.

[shedpress]

awesome vid. makes me want to go out and find an audi 90 and model it around that widebody rallye car.

[eurotrashed]

Originally Posted by silverGTI

awesome vid. makes me want to go out and find an audi 90 and model it around that widebody rallye car.

you can't just get one

[DishedTurbo]

sent chills down my spine...very cool vid

[duke]

Why do I want to buy an Audi all of a sudden?

[eurotrashed]

Originally Posted by audomatik

Why do I want to buy an Audi all of a sudden?

do it or get the GLI back..