Pikes Peak Hill Climb 1987 - Walter Röhrl / Audi Sport Quattro S1 E2 Record Run 

Has to be Loeb for me .. but Walter is a rally legend indeed.

Bullshit. Delta S4 was as fast as Audi...

@@mariobotti1952 lancia delta s4 and peugeot 205 t16 were obviously one league above the audi obsolete shortwheelbase shitbox

Audi was not banned at all, in fact it was just not able to catch up with the far superior cars.. The fastest and best groupB car was the Lancia Delta S4, that was one of the major reason why the GroupB was banned, as on the very long rallies it was exhausting for a driver to catch up with that beast.. Opposite to that, S1 was such a crap (engine=mass in front of the axle, short wheelbase), Stig Blomqvist (previous year champion) and father of the 4wd driving (that taught Walter Rohrl the tricks) left the Audi team bc. he hated that thing And Audi left silently groupB knowing even the remanufactured S1E2 was uncompetitive. It scored less points the last year even than the FWD Golf 3rd category shitbox

@@francouz23 yeah but compact cars are gay and the audi had the best race car sound period.

@@vinigretzky97 no they didnt, the s4 was twincharged and sounded way angrier with a beautiful Italian rev. the audi s1 is the supra of rally cars, fanboys just wanna say its the best no matter what

Yes, but it is not a Formula 1 type of racing where you have a singular design, here they were competing by what they were selling,so of course the Peugeot had the advantage, look at rally today, you find no car types, they are all the same! Back then you had hatchbacks and sedans,today it's a singular racing prototype!

He is the best of all time. Of cause always difficult to compare but for me he is.

@@celpabedn without a doubt, you're right about this. Audi was already doing a prototype / evolution of the s1 with a mid-engine. the better weight distribution would have had helped them a lot. but besides that i'm with you. also all the different engines concepts. so many different sounds. something which is missing today a lot...

@@michaeldelaney4389 Plus the t16 was allowed to be lighter and most stages are curvy and rarely do they have long straights...Today all have the same min weight!

Which makes this performance all the more impressive! I'd like to know what he could have achieved with a Delta S4 at Pikes Peak

This is a much more accurate statement than you might know. Walther is a guy who needs to have the cars he drives perfectly under control. The car has to drift until an exactly by Walther predetermined point and not a millimeter farther!

I think this is more doing a successful brain surgery with a hammer.

So do some of us younger fans.

@@jakeaaron I have heard too many legendary stories of his skill to not seriously consider it. Don't know who else has done it quite like him.

One of, its Ari Vatanen, Henri Toivonen and Walter Röhrl that are wrestling for that honour. I like Ari Vatanen, he drove to win each rally, if he won the championship it was a bonus. He wanted to enjoy the season not just the end of it.

@@theant9821 that's also what I liked about rohrl too. He raced because he wanted to enjoy the car and the driving. "If I wanted to fly, I would be a pilot, not a racecar driver." comes to mind :P

Michele was an exceptional lady driver and one of best drivers in the world, but Rohrl was a lot more reliable and often even faster. If you watch a lot of recordings, there is a clear difference in driving styles. Rohrl's driving was precise, planned, he swung the car to always make the best of all 4 wheels grip he could and mitigate the car's weak points while being more agressive than Mikkola but not agressive to the point it would make him make mistakes. Michele on the other hand was passion unleashed but she just pushed Quattro and would just rely on what the car would do itself, often going heavy undeersteer whole corner and then a convulsion of unnecessary oversteer on the exist. I think that's why she ended up crashing a lot later on. Instead working on how to use the car better, she just tried to drive faster. Rohrl was willing to teach other drivers even from other teams, but she hated him.

Nein, der geilste Fahrer der Welt. Zur Erinnerung: bevor Rörhl für Audi fuhr, hatte er im Opel die Quattros abgehängt. Einfach so. Weil er's kann.

@@klausstock8020 Ich würde sagen: Sowohl der Fahrer als auch das Auto verdienen das Prädikat "geil in höchster Vollendung". Röhrl ist sowieso eine Nummer für sich, und der S1 ist in der Pikes-Peak-Version noch einmal um eine Spur fulminanter als die Version, die bei den Rallyes eingesetzt wurde. In Sachen Klang und Ausstrahlung völlig einzigartig. Auch wenn der Peugeot 405, den Ari Vatanen und Juha Kankkunen ein Jahr darauf eingesetzt hatten, technisch raffinierter gestaltet war. Auf der Rallyestrecke würde ich solche Geschosse aber nicht sehen wollen. Es sei denn, mit stark reduzierter Motorisierung.

@Retro Lover it's also a particularly dangerous stretch of highway. Leaving it unpaved nowadays would be nothing short of barbaric, Pike's Peak Hillclimb or no.

Why don't they do it downhill that sounds interesting

@@lillyflower9836 Kinda stupid reply. When they go downhiil, it isn't a hillclimb anymore..............

@@Joop.23-2-63 call it something else and run both events

Der Meister der Meister

Vatannen did in 88... ;)

yo if you wanna see a completely different type of ridiculously cool pikes peak car, read about Old Smokey. Also having no ABS or TC, built out of a 1949 Ford F1, with some massive turboed diesel engine pushing ~102 psi (not joking). some real insanity

kann, kann, R6 von BMW klingt ohne turbo viel besser und mit macht andere dimension.

@@xot80 BMW 6zylinder ist natürlich auch ein Traum

Ja, hier irgendwo auf YT, zumindest vor ein paar Jahren.

LOL - klingt bei Rallye irgendwie logisch.

so extrem teuer sind die doch nichtmal ;)

Ein Ur-Quattro bekommt man schon für ca. 50.000. Beim Audi Sport Quattro solltest du ein bißchen tiefer in die Tasche greifen.

600hp. auta5p.eu/lang/ger/katalog/auto.php?idf=Audi-Sport-quattro-S1-Pikes-Peak-1012

Ich... schade, dass sie nicht nochmal eins von genau dieser Version gemacht haben.

Good choice

Alex Habr the turbo begins to pump the wenn you go from the throttel. it has nothing with the wastgate to have!

Andererseits hat Mark Donohue den Porsche 917/30 sehr gut beherrscht.