Audi Tradition at the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2019

1.7.2019. At this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed (4. to 7. July) in the South of England Audi Tradition, with three historic cars on the Start. To the Mecca of historic Motorsport, the Ingolstadt-based company wants to send the Audi Rallye quattro A2, Audi 90 quattro IMSA GTO and the Audi 200 quattro TransAm.

Steered the Audi Motorsport icons of outstanding drivers of the Audi history. Rally world champion Stig Blomqvist drove the car, he was the 1984 world champion. The five-time Le Mans winner Frank Biela sits behind the wheel of the Audi 200 quattro TransAm, the three-times Le Mans winner benoît Tréluyer in the Audi 90 quattro IMSA-GTO Gas.

The rally Fans can look forward to the Audi Rallye quattro A2 Dating from 1984. The car with the long wheelbase was a further development of the previous year’s cars, with Hannu Mikkola became world champion. The 1984 season opened Audi with a Bang, as the Team of the four rings ended up at the Monte Carlo rally, a three-fold victory. The new Audi Sport thrust Walter Röhrl triumphed at his first use of the season, but should dominate another. The Swede Stig Blomqvist won the next world championship round in Sweden and finished the season as drivers champion. Audi brand world champion has been on top of that. In Goodwood Blomqvist take in the car, he wants.what in 1984 in Monte Carlo, started and finished Second

Frank Biela has won Audi the Le Mans 24 hours five times, Benoit Tréluyer, three times. Both as guests of Audi Tradition in Goodwood in two special cars of space. Both are the start of Audis in the United States. After the company withdrew from the rally, turned it around, race in North America to track. In 1988, the Ingolstadt-based company started with an Audi 200 quattro in the TransAm series and were not there to beat. Equal to the debut, it won the brand rating, Pilot Hurley Haywood, the driver’s championship.

In the following year Audi for the IMSA-GTO series reported with an Audi 90 quattro. Hans-Joachim Stuck was the outstanding driver, seven Times he stood on the podium at the very top. Because you missed the two opening races, it should not be enough for stucco, such as the brand for the overall victory. Completed the Audi-Starter-box will be witnesses in Goodwood in a two-wheel time: The reconstructed DKW UL 500 of 1937 starts in the motorcycle field.

Audi rally quattro A2 (photo: AUDI AG)

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