Audi Quattro Rally Car Part 2

Minichamps 1/43 Audi Quattro Sport S1
Rallye San remo 1985 Winner
Rohrl/Geistdorfer

A relatively new release by Minichamps. The detail on this car is excellent (as usual). This is the same Audi as Stig Blomqvist's Akropolis Rally Audi Quattro, except of course, the foglights and minor modifications in the car.
Most of the Minichamps Audi Short wheelbase models are already sold out everywhere. Some stores still carry them but they command a premium on the price.




Walter Röhrl (born March 7, 1947 in Regensburg) is a German rally and racing driver, with famous victories for Fiat, Opel, Lancia and Audi as well as Porsche, Ford and BMW. At age 16, he started to serve at the former archbishopric of Regensburg, and soon became a driver who covered about 120,000 km annually with a cleric onboard. Being also active in sports like skiing, he was invited to drive his first rally in 1968.

Röhrl was a World Rally Championship favourite during the 1970s and 1980s, winning the Monte Carlo Rally four times on four different brands. His Fiat 131 Abarth carried him to the 1980 title, but it was arguably his equivalent success in 1982 that impressed most of all, with Röhrl fending off audacious four-wheel drive opposition to take the title, by virtue of consistency, in his increasingly outmoded Opel Ascona 400.

In 1983, he almost won again with a 2WD Lancia Rally, before finally moving to the 4WD Audi Quattro which were made in his home state of Bavaria. He did compete only in selected events, though, and scored only 14 WRC victories in his career.
Röhrl was also successful in road racing events, and called "Genius on Wheels" by Niki Lauda. In a early 1990s 24 Hours Nürburgring race which saw fog and heavy rain in the night, he did hardly slow down, anticipating the corners by timing. The race was interrupted for hours, though.

Several magazines and other drives pronounced him "best rallye driver ever" or similar. In recent years, he is the senior test driver for Porsche road cars, notably setting quick laptimes for them testing round the famous Nürburgring Nordschleife.