Gruppe A Coupé quattro

[beermonster]

Hi,

I`ll have to apologize for my lack of linguistic skills and for not posting in German......

I have a webpage set up for the Type 85 Audi Coupe quattro Group A rally history.

http://www.kvquattro.com/groupArally.html

If anyone has any photos, details or other information that they could add to the page, then please contact me at cq@kvquattro.com.

Also, I`d appreciate it if this could be posted on any other audi quattro related forums that you may know about......

Thanks in advance,

James

"Four rings to rule them all, Four rings to find them, Four rings to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."
[Dieser Beitrag wurde am 27.05.2009 - 07:59 von beermonster aktualisiert]

[LordFritz]

Hello James,

at first, my congratulations for your unique website.
Never before I saw a collection like this on the internet.

You`re looking for Information about the group A Coupe Quattro.
I was given the lucky opportunity to examine both the cars of David Preece (ex. Llewellyn/Short) and Armin Schwarz (Schwarz/Hösch).

Schwarz` car is in absolute original condition today, and still in his ownership.
Preece`s car seems to have undergone different changes in it`s life, but is still an authentic car with all the great Audi Sport drivetrain and suspension parts.

These cars were, if you search through the history of rallying from 1985 to 1990, surprisingly often used. And if they didn`t give up by technical problems, they usually reached a good placement.

The technical details are most common, an detail you don`t find to often on internet recources is the high compression ratio of about 12:1
While the "old" 10V Engines of Gr.2 and Gr.A (Bore 79,5 mm, 2,1L displacement) did their nearly 200 Horsepower at speeds around 7500 rpm, the "new" Gr.A Engine produced its raw power around 6500 rpm.
That`s astonishing if you consider the fact that there were used the standard inlet and exhaust manifolds. They were modified of course, but they based on stock parts, as also the k-Jetronic injection system.

Some time ago I collected a (surely incomplete) number of victories and top three placements of these coupe quattro:

1987:

Barum: Ferjancz/Tandari – Audi Coupe Quattro
Bohemia: Ferjancz/Tandari – Audi Coupe Quattro
Hanki: T. Heinonen/Eirtovaara – Audi Coupe Quattro
Hebros: Ferjancz/Tandari – Audi Coupe Quattro
Hellendoorn: Gunnar Pettersson/Schneppenheim – Audi Coupe Quattro
Lavanttaler Fruhlings: Fischer/Zeltner – Audi Coupe Quattro
Polen: Ferjancz/Tandari – Audi Coupe Quattro
Semperit: Recalde/Del Buono – Audi Coupe Quattro
Deutschland: Armin Schwarz – Audi Coupe Quattro


1988
Arctic: Heinonen/Eirtovaara – Audi Coupe Quattro
Gunaydin: Yerlici/Okan – Audi Coupe Quattro
Hebros: Ferjancs/Tandari – Audi Coupe Quattro
San Marino: de martini/Gibellini – Audi Coupe Quattro
RALLY DRAMMEN: 3). Bror Danielsson/Monty karlan – Audi Coupe Quattro
Neuseeland: Nr. 3 - Malcolm Stewart/John Kennard – Audi Coupe Quattro
Olympus Rally: Nr. 3 - John Buffum/John Bellefleur – Audi Coupe Quattro
Svenska Rally: Nr. 3 - Lars-Erik Torph/Christina Thörner – Audi Coupe Quattro

I have another list, but unsortet, with Audi Coupe fwd. and awd used over the years from 1982 th 1990.
Apart from these lists, there might be many many more cars used in rallying over the years, until today (i.e. in sweden).

Here a foto brought to you by www.rally3.de
It`s from 2007, Eifelrallye in Germany, it`s the car Armin Schwarz made his first season victory in professional rallying.
Here, driven by Quirin Müller:



Fischer/Zeltner:
- 1987 4th place Waldviertelrallye
- 1987 1st place1 Lavanttal Rallye
- Österreichischer Staatsmeister 1987



A good resource for photos of these cars is the site of Oliver Steffes-Tun:
http://www.sto-rallyefotos.de/


These are amazing cars! [Dieser Beitrag wurde am 28.05.2009 - 08:04 von LordFritz aktualisiert]

[beermonster]

Thanks Christian, glad that you like the website. I have added you post to the webpage, thank you very much for the contribution. I also have another site, www.t85q.com.......
Once again, apologies for my terrible German

[LordFritz]

A little addition, if you or someone else is looking for further information:
In sweden there`s a man named Conny Roloffson driving an audi coupé quattro in national rallying - very fast.
This might be an old group a car, or at last might have some technical details of these cars.

However, it looks good!


[source: www.rsbilab.se]

There`s defnitly another Gr.A CQ in active rallying in sweden, but I`m sadly not knowing the name of its driver at the moment.
This car has even been one time in Germany to run the famous "Lausitz Rallye"

These Cars were driven at many rallyes.
When introduced, walter Röhrl got one for demonstational purposes as "Vorwagen" (Car that goes as very first through the stages for security), and declassed all the field by his speed and stage-times.


Apart from the already named drivers, other popular drivers on Gr. A CQ were, for example:
- Oliver Schmidtke
- Bernhard Munster
- Lasse Gundler
- Michael Ericsson
- Timo Heinonen
- Sebastian Lindholm
- Marc Duez
- W. Röhrl

Some video footage:

Röhrl in CQ (0:47)
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid= ... 7343565309

Rallye-Köln-Ahrweiler 1987 (1:40)
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid= ... 6709489496

no Gr. A CQ, but 80Q and very nice scene (0:47)
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid= ... 6272593410

Hunsrück Rallye 1987, Schwarz in CQ (0:16)
The second CQ, Ericsson? Gundler?
Also Bernhard Munster ran this rallye, but isn`t presented in this trailer.
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid= ... 7277771895

Circuit of ireland 1987
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX8LWEmDtSw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7NnaxFw8M0

[beermonster]

Thanks very much for that, added to the webpage

[beermonster]

I`ve updated the webpage with lots more information

[IGAudiSport]

Von dem Audi Coupe Quattro Gruppe A, findet Ihr ein Technisches Merkblatt auf unserer Homepage.

Franz[Dieser Beitrag wurde am 15.07.2009 - 16:47 von IGAudiSport aktualisiert]