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quattro A1 (1983) · 1983–1983AWD

Sport quattro S1 quattro A1, Coupe, petrol, 340 PS. The first Group B evolution of the long-wheelbase quattro, run in the early 1983 season before the lighter A2 arrived after Portugal. Hannu Mikkola and Arne Hertz won the 1983 drivers' title for Audi, the first with a four-wheel drive car.

335 hpPower
1983-1983Year
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Photo: Audi press · via auto.vercity.ru
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Specifications

Powertrain
Engineering details
Displacement2.1 L
Cylinders5
FuelPetrol
TransmissionManual
DrivetrainAWD
Power335 hp

STORY

The Sport quattro S1 was the ultimate evolution of Audi's Group B rally programme, taking the short-wheelbase Sport Quattro to the extreme with radical aerodynamics and prodigious turbocharged power. When the FIA banned Group B after 1986, Audi channelled everything it had learned into a Pikes Peak assault.

In 1987 Walter Rohrl drove the Sport quattro S1 to victory at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, becoming the first competitor to break eleven minutes with a time of 10:48.850. The car officially produced around 600 PS, though Rohrl himself estimated closer to 750 PS, and used an anti-lag circulating-air system to keep the large KKK turbocharger spinning. Michele Mouton had won Pikes Peak for Audi in 1985 in a related car, and the S1 remains an icon of the quattro rally legend.

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