WHY ELECTRIC RACING CARS SHOULD BE FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE
I’ve had the opportunity to drive many iconic cars with Audi, and getting to try the S1 Quattro recently was particularly special. That was the car I played with on my sofa as a little kid – the S1 was born the same year I was in 1984. This was a period when the Quattro four-wheel-drive system became very famous on road cars, having been proven with great success on the rally stages.
It was an interesting opportunity to compare against the new electric RS e-Tron GT to demonstrate the differences between a combustion engine and an electric motor with Quattro capacity.
In the S1, I had several runs up the hill in San Romolo with the 1984 WRC champion Stig Blomqvist sitting next to me. He told me that he used to drive front-wheel-drive cars in his early
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