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MODEL DETAILS
What: Audi Sport quattro S1 Pike’s Peak
Series: Pike’s Peak International Hillclimb (PPIHC)
Class: Open Rally (PPIHC), Group B (WRC)
Era: Audi Postwar , Audi Sport R Era
Model Family: Coupé
Market / Zone: EU
Season: 1984
Model / Generation Code(s): type 85 / R2
Chassis / Matrix: B2
Registration: IN-NH 73
Chassis Number:
Driver: Michèle Mouton
Co-Driver: Fabrizia Pons
Engine: Turbocharged inline five-cylinder, DOHC, 20-valve
Displacement: 2,133 cc
Induction: KKK turbocharger*
Drive System: Permanent quattro all-wheel drive
Transmission: 6-speed manual*
Wheelbase: 2,204 mm (86.8 in)
Power: Approximately 450 hp (331 kW)*
Weight: Approximately 1,090 kg (2,403 lb)*
Result: 1st Open Rally Division, 2nd Overall
Time: 12:10.38
*Estimated from contemporary 1984 Audi Sport quattro Group B specifications. The exact technical specification of the Pikes Peak entry has not been confirmed and may have differed from contemporary World Rally Championship cars through altitude-specific engine calibration, turbocharger settings, gearing, cooling systems, suspension setup, weight reduction measures, and other modifications developed specifically for competition at Pikes Peak.
Following success at Pike’s Peak with the quattro driven by John Buffum, Audi Sport brought its new Group B-homologated Sport quattro S1 to contest the 1984 Pike’s Peak International Hillclimb with French rally driver Michèle Mouton.
New to the mountain and unsure she’d be able to memorize the entire course in time, Michèle insisted on bringing her WRC co-driver Fabrizia Pons. Driving with a co-driver isn’t common practice at Pike’s Peak.
After its class victory in Colorado, the car went on to see use by Audi Sport in two more rounds of hte World Rally Championship during that 1984 season.
KNOWN COMPETITION HISTORY
1984 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb
July 8, 1984
Michèle Mouton / Fabrizia Pons (#7)
1st Open Rally Division, 2nd Overall
1984 Rallye Deutschland
September 6-9, 1984
Hannu Mikkola / Christian Geistdörfer (#1)
1st
1984 3-Städte Rallye
October 19-21, 1984
Walter Röhrl / Christian Geistdörfer (#1)
1st
IDENTIFICATION
Typically registration plates do not change cars. This would suggest that the same race chassis continued to be used and log two more wins in the 1984 World Rally Championship season. Period photographs indicate the car with registration IN-NH 73 registration tags also carried a distinctive variation of Audi Sport’s factory livery. While employing the familiar red, gray, and black Audi Sport striping, the graphics appear arranged in a more pronounced forward-pointing pattern than seen on most contemporary works Sport quattros. Evidence suggests the same basic painted livery may have been retained through its subsequent appearances on Rallye Deutschland and the 3-Städte Rallye later in 1984. It placed first in both races.
PHOTO GALLERIES
Studio images are renderings and not the actual car.
