{"id":56730,"date":"2020-09-30T16:48:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T15:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/?p=56730"},"modified":"2022-06-22T17:45:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:45:29","slug":"audi-rally-sport-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/audi-rally-sport-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Audi Rally Sport: The People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The game-changing Audi quattro made its UK debut in London in 1980. We caught up with former members of the Audi UK Rally Team recall how it changed the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harald Demuth \u2013 Rally driver<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/unnamed-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Two-time German Rally Champion Harald Demuth helped develop the quattro, campaigned Group B and 80 versions in the UK and drove an Audi 100 quattro up a snow-covered Finnish ski jump in the famous 1986 Audi television advert.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018I was driving for Toyota in the German Rally Championship when I had the choice to sign for Audi or Volkswagen for the 1979 season. Volkswagen had an excellent record with the Golf, but Audi had no presence in rallying. However, there was a lot of whispering behind hands that Audi had something special waiting in the bush, as we say. To gain experience of the sport, Audi began rallying a front-wheel-drive 80. We were telling everyone how good that car was, but what we couldn\u2019t say was that we were developing the quattro, which was just light years ahead of the 80. We tested an early quattro all-wheel-drive system in an 80 bodyshell. At the 1982 RAC Rally, I was lying behind Hannu Mikkola in a quattro. OK, the gap was quite big, but I was on course to finish second. Then I had an off on the last day and ended up fifth. David Sutton, who was running the Audi UK rally team, came over and asked me if I would drive for him. Over the years I drove the Group B quattro and the 80 quattro in the UK. There was a massive difference in the performance, of course. But the handling and the feeling in the corners was very similar thanks to the all-wheel-drive system. I also won the German Rally Championship twice in a Group B quattro. I called my car Christine \u2013 after the Stephen King book and film of the same name about the 1958 Plymouth Fury that just kept rebuilding itself and could never be stopped. I\u2019d spin off the track and go through a ditch, there\u2019d be a big bang, and I&#8217;d think, \u201cThis is it \u2013 I\u2019ve done it this time!\u201d But my quattro would just keep going, and later when I had a look in the service halt, there would only be a little scratch.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/05.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Ingram \u2013 Marketing and Public Relations Executive<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption>Audi&#8217;s David Ingram, centre, oversees arrival of first quattro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the Audi quattro arrived in 1980, it made a huge impression on David Ingram, who had joined the company two years earlier.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018I remember first reading about the quattro in the motoring press \u2013 this 200-horsepower, turbocharged, five-cylinder, four-wheel-drive coup\u00e9 \u2013 and I thought wow, this sounds like something else. Then I saw the pictures from Geneva \u2013 I was too junior at that time to go out to the motor show. However, I was put in charge of supervising the UK launch, which involved hoisting the car 100 feet up in the air to the top of Kensington Roof Gardens in London. The first time I got to drive the quattro was amazing. The characteristics of that five-cylinder engine as the turbocharger came in, and the burble as you came off the accelerator \u2013 it was just so exciting. And then the rally car arrived. I remember watching it on the 1981 RAC Rally \u2013 Hannu Mikkola rolling on the first night and then tearing through the forests to win by 11 minutes. Such powerful images come back to me. The following year, when we started our own Audi UK rally team with David Sutton, was like a dream. Suddenly I was working with all my heroes, like Stig Blomqvist, who won the British Rally Championship in a quattro in 1982. It makes me misty-eyed now just thinking about those days. It was a spectacular era for Audi, and it enabled the company to emerge from relative obscurity in the UK. Plus, it coincided with us starting to work with BBH, the Bartle Bogle Hegarty advertising agency, and adopting the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vorsprung durch Technik<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> slogan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The quattro was an awesome road car and an all-conquering competition car. It was a powerful statement, and there\u2019s no doubt it contributed significantly to making Audi what it is today.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phil Short \u2013 Co-driver<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1102\" \/><figcaption>David Lewellin and Phil Short\u2019s A2 quattro receives attention<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yorkshire-born co-driver Phil Short was the first Briton to compete and win in a rally quattro.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Bj\u00f6rn Waldeg\u00e5rd and I won the Welsh Rally in the Audi UK team in the first-generation Group 4 quattro in 1982. It was unbelievable to sit in that car. In those days we were used to Ford Escorts, Vauxhall Chevettes and Talbot Sunbeams with 240PS and rear-wheel drive. Suddenly we had 330PS with four-wheel drive \u2013 and the most staggering performance. By the time I co-drove Hannu Mikkola on the 1984 Scottish Rally in a Group B A2 quattro, we were up to 400PS. The car was so good. It was an incredible feeling to sit on the start line and know that, unless something went wrong, you were probably going to win. Which we did, by six minutes. I don\u2019t know how much power the short-wheelbase Sport S1 E2 had when I co-drove Walter R\u00f6hrl on the 1985 RAC. I did ask, but the engine guy wouldn\u2019t tell me. It was well over 500PS, anyway. It was Formula 1 technology in the forest. When that thing left the start line, it was like a rocket ship. It made your head spin until you got used to the way the forces were working on your body. It was frightening at times. We crashed out, 80 metres down a Welsh mountain, and I remember thinking that the cars cannot go on like this. With the switch to more production-like Group A cars in 1987, David Llewellin and I joined the Audi UK team to campaign the normally aspirated Coup\u00e9 quattro. Suddenly we were back down to 190PS. On the first test, we looked at each other and laughed because it felt so slow after Group B. But it got better. We had some great times in it, winning the Scottish and Cyprus rallies.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graham Rood \u2013 Route Co-ordinator<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every rally team needs a co-ordinator to make sure cars, mechanics and service vehicles are in the right place at the right time. In the Audi UK team during the successful 1980s, that person was Graham Rood.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018My job was to make sure that from the moment the car left the workshop until it won the rally, everything went right \u2013 that was the theory anyway. It involved creating a detailed route plan and schedule for the rally car, the chase car that would follow it, the management car and the service vans, which I would then go through with co-drivers. On a five-day event like the RAC Rally with 65 special stages, there would be 300 tyres to look after and maybe fifty service halts to arrange. There\u2019d be fierce competition from all the teams to find farmers who\u2019d let us use their yards to patch-up the cars in the middle of the night. But at the same time, there&#8217;d be great camaraderie too; we all knew each other, and we\u2019d help each other out. Chief mechanic Ron Lumley and I would follow the rally car in an Audi 100 Avant. It only had front-wheel drive at that time, but it was a great car, it soaked up a lot of punishment, and there was plenty of space for spare parts. We were all navigating on OS maps \u2013 no sat nav in those days. One of the most staggering performances was when Walter R\u00f6hrl and Christian Geistd\u00f6rfer came to do the 1984 Ulster Rally in the short-wheel-base 500PS Sport S1 quattro. All the other drivers had been there for days recceing and making pace notes. But R\u00f6hrl just wanted to go out for a couple of hours in the dark. He said \u201cOK, I know what these roads are like now,\u201d and he was good to go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That car was incredible. All the other top drivers would come down and watch it leave the start line. It just squatted down at the back, and with the turbo power and quattro grip, it flew. R\u00f6hrl was up through the gears into fifth before it was out of sight. He was 2.3 seconds per mile quicker than the others and won by four minutes.\u00a0 But as always at Audi, it was a team effort, and everyone played their part.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1207\" \/><figcaption>Walter R\u00f6hrl had good reason to smile on the 1984 Ulster Rally<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Norman Gault \u2013 Mechanic<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having worked as a mechanic with the Audi UK rally team during the 1980s, Scotsman Norman Gault helps keep the Audi<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">historic quattro road and competition cars in fine fettle today.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018The Audi UK quattro rally cars were built by Audi Sport in Ingolstadt, Germany. But when we got them, we didn\u2019t just put them on a trailer and head off to a rally. We modified them to make them easier to work on when we were stuck out in a wet forest. For example, the cars had six bolts holding each driveshaft on. We took three of the bolts off and replaced them with dowels. We modified things like the exhaust mountings, too, so we could get the prop shaft off quicker and change the gearbox faster. We could do that in 20 minutes. On a modern rally car, of course, it&#8217;s a lot quicker, but that time was quite phenomenal back then. And the German team adopted our modifications on their later cars. Our most potent car was the Sport S1 that we ran at Shelsley Walsh hill climb for Hannu Mikkola in 1986. Audi Germany told us to break the course record \u2013 whatever it took. We boosted the engine to just under 700PS. It was astonishing. I have never seen a car leave the line so fast in my life. Hannu could barely change gear quick enough.\u00a0 We broke the record in practice, broke it again during the first run, and then again during the second run. These days I help look after Audi\u2019s heritage cars. We&#8217;ve got a Group B S1 E2 quattro, and when Mich\u00e8le Mouton came to drive it up the hill at Goodwood, her eyes got so big behind the wheel \u2013 she wanted to do everything at maximum attack again, like the old days. All the drivers we worked with \u2013 Hannu Mikkola, Mich\u00e8le Mouton and Stig Blomqvist \u2013 were fantastic, and we still have good times when we get together.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" \/><figcaption>Stars of the show: a crowd gathers to glimpse the legends&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The game-changing Audi quattro made its UK debut in London in 1980. We caught up with former members of the Audi UK Rally Team recall how it changed the world. 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