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    AUTOart 1985 Audi Sport Quattro S1

    Dec 29, 2020 4 minutes
    BY MATT BOYD
    PHOTOS BY JULIE MCNEIL

    is one of breaking stereotypes, blazing trails, embracing innovation over tradition, and ultimately, revolutionizing the sport. The 1985 Sanremo Rally winner shown here is the final chapter in that tale. The story begins more than four years earlier, in 1981. Audi Sport brought a brand new factory race effort featuring its Quattro all-wheel-drive (AWD) system to compete for the World Rally Championship (WRC). The conventional wisdom of the day said that AWD systems were too heavy and too fragile to use in rally racing, but the team had run a development program in some regional events the year before and now they were ready for the big time. Audi scored its first win in just the second race

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