I was there, in the Yellow Page box. Still remember the audi wastegate whistle. And sitting amongst the pitgirls at lunchtime was quite the eyeopener for an 8 year old.
Why on Earth??!! It sure looks like the first car I draw as a 4 year old kid. 💩 What happened to Viana's BMW? He was then kicking that ugly duckly Audi's ass!
Remember my parents sneaking us into Kyalami under the blankets in the combi so they didn’t have to pay for three kids and two adults, couldn’t that these days..a great track to watch motor racing at...
I was in the boot , my brother, his wife and one of my friends in the car and ticket guy says how many adults. My brother says "three in the car and one in the boot haha. Ticket guy laughs, pay for 3 and go in"
This was an awesome season! If I remember rightly, Supervan's Audi had started to dominate, but then Tony Viana ditched the massive 7-series and wedged the M1 engine into this much more nimble 3-series body... and shook everything up... but I always rooted for Morgenrood in the screaming Mazda RX7!
Amazingly a 1300 mazda rotary engine still putting a fight with a V5 audi and bmw inline engine, unhear stuff. Jst that sarel and tony were eating da laps up
Im super curious, the Audi behaves as if its a RWD car not a quattro. Could it have been modified for this class? From US so not familiar with this formula. Was this a converted works chassis? anyone know what #?
It's a Trans-Am Audi 200, chassis #TA4 first raced in America by Walter Röhrl and Hans-Joachim Stuck and then sent to South Africa at the end of 1988 where it was raced by Sarel van der Merwe and later by Terry Moss.
Sarel was always a Ford man but jumped ship to Audi when he realised how dominant those cars were. Maybe that's why the didn't like him. Back then each driver had their "brand"
I remember once he was in the Kolbensmidt escort lying 3rd and all we heard was Sarel Vder Merwe!. Thought he was in front . He was legend needless to say. Probably the most experienced SA driver ever.
This was a formula where technical development still counted, not one of those hundreds of artificial competition series everybody forgets about after a year.
