Audi S1 Sport Quattro , Coupe

SOLD!!!

Competition vehicle
Unregistered
Chassis no. 85 ZGA 905 016

- Displayed at the Manoir de l'Automobile since 1989
- Sold directly to Olivier Quesnel by Audi AG
- Exceptional condition for a rally car
- Final version of the Audi Quattro, one of the most legendary Group B cars
- Ex Race of Champions 1988

In 1988, Mouton decided to organise the "Race of Champions" at Montlhéry as a tribute to Henri Toivonen, who died during the Tour de Corse in 1986. The first event was held on 4 December and combined parts of the official circuit with sections - some of them on gravel - inside the ring. The last eight world champions took part in the race, run as a timed special stage, with the drivers following one another in the same cars loaned by the manufacturers. The "Champion of Champions" received the Henri Toivonen Trophy, and for the first edition, it was awarded to Juha Kankkunen, ahead of Timo Salonen.
Let us allow Olivier Quesnel, then a director of the Hommell Group, to pick up the story: "Michèle Mouton came to see us at our offices in the rue de Lille and we gave her some help finalising the organisation of the event, particularly on the communications side." The programme, moreover, was published as a special edition of Auto Hebdo, one of the group's titles.
"I naturally went to Montlhéry on the day of the race", Quesnel continued, "and suddenly I was struck by the sight of an Audi Quattro Sport S1. I said to myself, "That car's for me!" I went to see the person in charge of the Audi, who told me that the cars were not for sale. I had another go, talking about my background at Peugeot Sport with Jean Todt, asking Michèle Mouton to support me and emphasising that the car was for a museum.
Finally, after pestering them for a long time, they agreed to sell me the car. I then went to Ingolstadt, and there in the courtyard were several competition cars under cover

We inform buyers that all the vehicles in the collection have been little used during the last years as they are part of a museum collection. They are sold as presented and therefore require recommissioning before being driven on the road.


Walter Röhrl

The drivers who competed in the Quattro Sport were members of an exclusive and impressive club. They included Hannu Mikkola, Michèle Mouton and Stig Blomqvist, but Walter Röhrl was perhaps the most iconic of them all.
The son of a stonemason, the German driver grew up in Regensburg and first took part in the WRC in 1973, driving an Opel Commodore. His tally of results includes one title as European Rally Champion in 1974 (Opel Ascona), one title in the African Rally Championship in 1982 (Opel Ascona 400) and two world titles, in 1980 (Fiat 131 Abarth) and 1982 (Opel Ascona 400). A four-time winner of the Monte-Carlo Rally, in four different cars, he moved to Lancia in 1983 to drive an 037, before turning to Audi, where he spent four seasons from 1984 to 1987, delivering some of the Quattro Sport's best results, including its final victory in rallying, on the San Remo in 1985. Among Röhrl's greatest feats with the S1 was his victory at Pikes Peak in 1987, where he was the first driver to break the 11-minute barrier.
He regularly attends historic events, sometimes taking the wheel of his former rally cars, much to the delight of his fans.

Auction estimate : €1 000 000 / 1 300 000

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