Famous audi rally drivers

Audi Sport has succeeded in recruiting three illustrious driver teams for the Dakar Rally: Mattias Ekström/Emil Bergkvist, Stéphane Peterhansel/Edouard Boulanger and Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz. Audi is the first car manufacturer to fight for overall victory in the famous Dakar Rally with an electrified powertrain, thus also heralding an energy revolution in cross-country rallying.  · Stig’s story with the Audi Sport team started in after Audi signed him to drive the Quattro in a few events alongside legendary drivers Michele Mouton and Hannu Mikkola. He achieved his first WRC victory by winning the Sanremo rally in , after which Audi signed him as their third regular driver for the following season.  · Famous Audi Drivers. It’s no secret that, a few years ago, Audi strove to make their cars synonymous with celebrities by sponsoring movie premieres and loaning them out in the likely outcome that celebrities would want to buy one themselves. This successful marketing campaign allowed the brand to gain immense exposure from having their cars photographed with some of the most famous .

Mikkola was crowned British Rally Champion, and a year later he lost out on the world drivers’ title to Bjorn Waldegard by just one point. He was runner-up again a year later, but won the top prize in as a works Audi man. He rounded out his career with Mazda to , but wasn’t above making the occasional comeback. After spending most of his career driving Saabs, Stig Blomqvist joined Audi in , driving Audi Quattro, the first ever four-wheel-drive rally car. The first Audi Quattro was a Group 4 rally car but after the new rules were introduced, it was converted to the car which dominated in the first years of the Group B era. The World Rally Championship (WRC) is a rallying series administrated by Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. The series currently consists of 13 three-day events driven on surfaces that range from gravel and tarmac to snow and ice.

年4月4日 Arguably the most famous rally driver of them all, McRae was also one of Peak and race victories for Audi in the DTM and IMSA series. 年5月31日 In , the Audi A4 quattro won the championship titles in seven in the famous Dakar Rally with an innovative prototype from 'I was driving for Toyota in the German Rally Championship when I had the choice a crucial role behind the wheel during this famous hat-trick of wins.