
Originally Posted by
doubled1978
I’ve read this article a while ago, and it’s a great story....the competition department and engineers knew what they needed to beat the Peugeot/Lancia, and despite knowing deep down they would almost certainly never be allowed to compete with the mid-engine car, they went and built them anyway, for themselves basically...I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when the Audi board found out what they had been doing!
It’s such a shame that none of those mid engine sport quattros survived....
True lower down, but a manuf couldn't homologate a World Rally Car or Rally1 without also entering the manufs championship. That got some manufs doing a season or two just for the paper stamp, Skoda,...
WRC mainclass from 2027