Secrets of speed part2

Audi goes to Sport car club of America with quattro cars in 1988.
Suomeksi: Audi hehkutus jatkuu

[@JamesGadbury]

Same with the British Touring Cars in the 90's when Audi entered it's A4 quattro based cars. They were dominant and received big weight penalties.

[@webblaster2k2k2k2]

Striezel is so funny! :) he'll still race in 10 years!

[@InitialDAmine]

I know about the turbo lag due to the huge single turbine , but it is the 4WD that allow the possibility of left foot breaking , only 4WD and especiallt Front wheel drive cars that use the technique the most and it is for other purpose such as , controling the weight distibution and something related to the differentiel aswell

[@InitialDAmine]

god damn Walter he wasn't even satisfied with his 2 WRC on group B he even won other stuff on road

[@PEOPLESX]

it's nearly the same with every kind of gasoline engine's with throttle body. with the supercharger this effect will become much more intense. it's about the aerodynamics in the intake manifold, which getting disturbed by closing the throttels, if you can stay on the pedal and just use the brakes zu adjust the speed (only in a setain range of course), the engine will spool up much faster. simply try this at home :D (or with go-carts)

[@Neuwerks]

@seroyer2 IMO I believe Trans Am, had a chance to rival BTCC and DTM back in those days had the competition stepped up to take on Quattro with equal or better technology, as opposed to outlawing the "unfair advantage". I am a full patriotic citizen of the US, however, I feel our motorsport rules have crippled our auto industry, making it an uphill battle for our domestic brands against European and Asian imports. Racing (DTM, Rally, etc) give some of the best R&D you can get.

[@Amidat]

InitialDamine - yes - the DTM tracks are definitely more exciting than going around in a circle all day - lol. I was lamenting the cars - which are really just a shell - they don't relate to the street models in anyway and the rules handicap what can be done. Yes - that would be a decent change. I was unaware about the potential change.

[@ulysse21]

yeah, that's the classic way to drive a turbo ;)

[@InitialDAmine]

lol He figured out that he needed to use left breaking on a 4WD car a bit late , he could have asked walter xD

[@InitialDAmine]

@Amidat Yes the DTM is nice but unlike nascar the fact that the races are done in tracks make it fun to watch espcially with the high competition , but it is sad to watch only to carmarkes left competing , the good part is that they are thinking of making DTM and JGTC rules about the same so the car markers can go from one to the another competition. hopefully it will work

[@12valvepower4]

i have a competitor. wrx sedan. but same concept, turbo small displacement awd sedan. amazing on dirt snow whatever. i call rain subie weather. america sux sometimes. get iwth the program pal, its progress.

[@TRMxWING]

it wasn´t the 4WD, but the turbo lag of the engine ... a turbo engine without 4WD just needed left food breaking too, to keep the turbo on preasure ...

[@Amidat]

darkoneforce2 - it's because of expense. They want more teams to be able to compete. I think that is fine with the "lower rung" racing....but not in the ones factories compete in. As you said - it defeats the purpose because it cuts innovation.

[@GodsBattleAx]

Give the Americans Aimbot!

[@Amidat]

ante4wd - as companies move to electric vehicles there will be more and more AWD - because the "weight and fuel penalty" will be non existant because of how the drivetrains can be set up. Audi's E-tron concept at the auto shows elaborates.

[@2thermal]

@AnssiMarkkanen not only america bans those things that are too good, in formula one its has happened alot of times when drivers won too much, and they do it in the Le mans races too

[@InitialDAmine]

the expense excuse only applys on F1 but it is sad to see how dull FIA making every single competition....IMO 80-90 and we can say to 2000 those were the best days ....

[@deggis4]

It's funny people think this is like the first and last time ever in the history of all motorsports that handicapping has taken place... pretty much all production based series have had and has some kind of performance balancing built in the regulations. Otherwise it wouldn't be possible to have so different kind of cars on similar performance level.

[@nickernosher]

i love how every Quattro vid always ends with somone bitching bout how unfair it is to get raped on a racetrack lol.

[@therrydicule]

@MXVWMatt I know 3 year is a long time but... It is&it is not - there is another side to that story. SCCA&IMSA where in a really difficult situation already with one basic question "what are we racing?". The thing is the GTO Quattro were really different, structurally, than the "ponies" and costed a lot more. Many team where already saying "the development in the 4-turbo and in the V6 is unfair, we need change in equivalency formula or more money". Audi get caught in an old political debate ;)

[@mattieyo]

before you guys bash americans. last i checked no one else in the world allows all wheel drive.

[@volvotobbe]

americans =D HAHAHA they have to get handicap hahaha ..Audi just building better cars.. haha Like Volvo 242 Grupp-A the other teams hatet volvo just becuse they WON all the time.. We Europen are Bulding Good Cars thats it.. and we can DRIVE that we are bulding =D

[@InitialDAmine]

Indeed in F1 some teams budgets became stupdly high over 100million euros for a year , the small teams coudn't compete, but nowadays the FIA is just banning everything that could make a car faster ....I stoped watching F1 since 2005 and WRC since 2007 the only thing i still enjoy a bit are DTM and the japannese equivalent JGTC and some endurance race as lemans

[@InitialDAmine]

yes but it is still only a project hopefully the FIA will let the change happens soo at least we get a great racing championship, I might watch F1 again especially with the come back of shummacher he is 4th in the qualification great perfomance for a first race in a while

[@Amidat]

initialdamine - you like DTM? I used to - but it's almost like NASCAR in America. All the DTM cars are very similar. It makes for close racing - but as was said - it stifles innovation. I still enjoy LeMans - but I can see where it's headed the same direction. Nothing we can really do...

[@darkoneforce2]

FIA has hammered basically any new technology. Active suspensions, active differential AWD, active dampers, active anti-roll and Co. all banned. Racing improves the breed, pushing the envelope no longer applies these days.

[@Amidat]

initialdamine - I agree that it has dulled down things....I was only giving the rationale they use: too expensive and complex. In F1 it would be unnecessary though because of the aerodynamics of open wheel race cars.

[@audigod]

I love my audi 5000 turbo quattro it has 420 000 km and i still drive it every winter!!!! of course americans would ban the quattros cause they always have to be the best yet they never will be...

[@Gunhildstad]

Before they had seen the Audi on the tracks, everybody was laughing. After this season, I don't think anybody was laughing anymore. =) Quattro + 5cyl = Victory

[@MXVWMatt]

Because of Audi's dominance, SCCA banned both AWD and Non American engines in these races. It's a shame.

[@sweenykim]

4:15 is brilliant. Now I know how to properly test drive a demo! :-))

[@spokismONE]

quattro is addictive :)

[@seth0r]

owned....