No unfair advantage - only clever engineering

Not only dominant, but man those Audi's just looked great!

I want to note that the record set by Walter Röhrl on Pikes peak was unbeaten until they paved some parts of the Road

Audi: Makes an eye-wateringly well engineered and just flat out stunning race car The american motorsports industry: Hang on that's unfair!

Wow, that pedal work in the rally clip. It's like he's playing piano with his feet!

WATCHING HIS FOOTWORK IS JUST AS ENTERTAINING AS WATCHING THE CAR ITSELF !!!

"Oh those Germans are smart... Unfair Advantage!"

More flies on the door than the windscreen. Nice.

I did not expect to willingly sit through and enjoy an entire documentary today, holy shit.

The IMSA GTO car is still one of the best looking saloon racecars of all time

That left-foot braking is an absolute work of art. His footwork, now that is the unfair advantage.. lol

I bet that rally driver kicks ass at Dance Dance Revolution.

"At GMC Truck we make fuel economy a priority." 16 mpg. XD XD XD

That's the problem with racing, being the best engineer is considered the "Unfair Advantage" Whether it's the AWD on Quattros, The twin turbos and AWD on the R32 GT-R, aerodynamics on the Superbird or the rotary in the 787B instead of making something that can compete with these new technologies and push racing and the auto industry forward many race organisations instead choose to stagnate never innovating on their own calling the technologies unfair and ban them. Imagine where Australia's car industry might be if Ford and Holden were forced to make something to rival the Skyline? Where we LMP cars be if Mazda were allowed to keep and perfect their rotary and other companies were forced to innovate to keep up? Were would NASCAR be if the other manufacturers had to make something to rival the superbird?

I remember when Audi first made 5 cylinder engines, the "experts" said that this would never work properly.

Excellent engineering isn't an unfair advantage. This is why the audi and Nissan's r32. Dominated racing thru out the world. Both Perfectly engineered in my opinion .

got to love the quattro"s flutter bwaaaaaapflutututututu

The German Popometer was the unfair Advantage

I watched Hans Stuck and Hurley Haywood race at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, California in the IMSA GTO series. Hans Stuck spun out about mid-race and was down a half of a lap. Hurley Hawood was then the leader. By the finish of the race Hans had not only regained that half a lap he had spread out his lead over Haywood and took the win. He also won Summit Point, Mid-Ohio, Heartland Park, Watkins Glen, Lime Rock and Laguna Seca Rousch Racing won 6 to his 7.

This is the best 23 min on car porn for gasoline heads on youtube , Very smart to cut this from the orginal film ! :)

This video makes me miss the Audi's I've been lucky enough to drive. 1983 Quattro Turbo Coupe 1987 5000CS Quattro 1988 90CS Quattro 1993 S4.

Holy shit. That US Army ad was the worst ad I've seen in my whole entire fucking life.

"With these cars, if your thinking. Your too slow." An amazing quote for group B as a whole...

7:35 I had a 1990 Audi Quattro 90 20v that this car was based on. I lived in Seattle at the time (rainy) and raced SCCA autocross with a couple of friends. (1998-2001) I put a set of Yokohama's, I believe the wear rating was around 60, street legal but very sticky tires and proceeded to destroy anyone and everyone in the indexed competition. (PAX) the Z06's and Boxter's didn't have a chance if there was any precip. Good times.

what a genius, the best foot work on this planet

i will never forget hearing one of those audis at goodwood festival a few years ago, the turbo fluttering sounded incredible

I got in trouble with the Finnish customs officer who did not believe that a car could have 5 cylinders!

I remember vividly watching all this transpire in Trans Am and IMSA GTO. I was super interested at the time because my father's daily driver was a 5000 Quatro. The two seasons outlined in the later half of this video was some of the most dominating winning I've ever seen in any class of racing. Absolutely a blast to watch.

Love the part when they talk about Rohrl road racing. Just a rally legend showing up to show the kids how a quattro car works.

Quattro all wheeled drive wasn’t an unfair advantage it was pure genius.

That overtake straight out of a right-hander at 11:20 godlike!

11:20, that has to be one of the most epic overtakes I have ever seen! Just brilliant!

Wow, goosebumps at the childhood memories! One of the greatest things about the Safari Rally was that it negated the speed advantage to a great extent due to the unforgiving terrain. It became about skill and endurance rather than plain speed which kept other makes competitive to the Quattro, which was consequently by no means guaranteed of winning. The Americans and their much touted Dodge Ram Chargers found this out the hard way, lol. Some of the best times of my life, watching these machines fly past on Kenya's back roads as a kid.

Well... They all laughed at hans until he brought the flammenwerfer.

I never get tired of Hans Stuck explaining the concept of flying by the seat of the pants:). I finally got an A6. Quattro is a beautiful thing. :)

I love this video. I must have seen it a hundred times. Racing in the 70's/80's/early 90's was fantastic! Vrrrooouuuummm...tutututututu! 🖤

My favourite thing about racing drivers is when they are in the zone they are literally in a trans and are not focusing on anything other than what they have to focus on. Before they are men, fathers, husbands, they are racing drivers first. crazy. love it

12:50 Stuck ain't SHOOK!

I remember Audi kicking ass in the Trans Am and GTO races and it was sad that the Quattro cars were banned.

Basically America cried like a little girl when the Quattros beat them to the curb.

I saw that damn IMSA quattro at a little known race. Stuck my head in through the window just after it won and looked around. There was no one around. Wow that thing was blazing fast and you wouldn't believe the construction details. Group 44 was legendary. The cars are still in existence in a collection somewhere.

'Literally blow the doors off the competition' It's called 'figuratively'.

I have an Audi Quattro. V8. S4. Drives like a dream.

Lol'd at that GMC commercial.

So far ahead of their time. Audi won so much, quattro was banned. Then Audi took out full page magazine ads to flaunt it, lol

Man, those 5cyl engines sound gorgeous

It always amazes me to see the spectators at the rally races barely avoiding being roadkill.

F1: mercedes dominated 2014 because of their inventive turbo system reaction: well they had the better idea and were smarter than us, I guess we need to better our systems to win. (basically same thing with LeMans but for prosche or audi) Us:Audi dominates racing series with intelligent engeneering, awd and small light and highly effective turbo engines that actually need drivers involvment with more than either gas or brake. reaction: THATS UNFAIR. they are using systems more advanced than our banal "nothing can displace displacement" v8's THEY MUST BE CHEATING, BAN IT

Thanks for sharing. Such a quality piece on the early years of the Quattro.

Seldom have I smile so much through a racing documentary (and boy I like them when they are good!) but this one is really good!!! Thanks for sharing :)

Left foot braking while on power... The brakes must have been glowing at the end of the race!

Great video. I especially enjoyed the comments made by Hans Stuck about changing his driving style (left foot braking) to maximize the advantage of AWD.

mimimiii, he's better, so we have to change the rules.. ridiculous! audi did NOT break any rules! just because the competitors were not able to invent something like audi did.

One of my favorite parts in this video is at 2:55 and 3:40

“Our Germans are smarter than their Germans” -Winston Churchill 😉

The five-cylinder was just a great engine. Der Fünf Zylinder war einfach ein geiler Motor.

great video thanks for posting it

when you lose, let's change the rule! Just like WRC, when Mitsubishi employed electronically control transmission system and kept winning. WRC just banned them for the sake of the losing teams!!!

Thanks for posting this. I used to have this VHS, but I loaned it out and it never came back. Wonderful to see it again.

Those cars were an absolute joy to watch. Just dominant. Head and shoulders above the competition.

All that “Vorsprung Durch Technik” helped of course.. 🤓

I was at the rain race at mid-ohio. It was amazing to watch Stuck in the Audi. More than once I could see him wiping the fog off the inside of the windscreen with a rag with one hand and driving with the other. It didn't slow him down a bit. FYI - read the book (The Unfair Advantage) by Donohue. He defines it as finding an advantage by parsing the rules for little tweeks that others miss. Like using the brake hydraulics to pull the caliper pistons in when changing pads on a pit stop. Ingenious not really unfair. As far as the Audis being banned from Trans-am, while it would have been great for them to continue, they were radically different from the rest of the field. Most production based racing series (Europe too) are intended to race like against like, the all wheel drive was truly radical at the time and not at all like anything else. In that sense they seemed correct to exclude the cars. It's not like a Lotus Elan beating a V8 Camaro where the engineering is similar but executed differently, I.E. heavier with big power VS. light and quick. If Trans-am were a prototype class then no, they should not have banned them.

That turbo noise and the best thing I've ever heard holy hell

Recently picked up a B5 S4 and MAN the Quattro system is amazing! You feel really confident in turns.

The Balls on those Group B Drivers back in the day . To go so fasr with huge crowds parting like Moses parting Ghe Red Sea . The Female driver of the Quattro up Old Pikes Peak was Awesome too !!!

Ferdinant piech was one of the most memorable and highly influential men in german automaking history

loved the last commercial, I remembered Dave Winfield playing for the Angels in 1990-91 after watching him play live in the Bronx for ten years. Cecil Fielder winning a World Series with Jeter and the Yanx in 95... But don't get me wrong, the Quattro was just AWESOME!

I remember seeing these car racing as a kid!!! The sound!! The chirping and turbo sounds!!! It was awesome!!!!! I wish they could race again........... in the weather tech series GTLM class!!!!!

LOL, and I wondered why is the north american racing so crap. Because apparently they think that the autosport is a gentlemen's circlejerk, where being beaten to a pulp can never be fair.

How very american. The Chevys and GM crap isn`t winning,change the rules. And when that doesn`t work,pretend they don`t exist and don`t invite them back.

So happy to see this pop up in my list. I remember watching this episode when it first aired and it has always stuck in my mind...

Why does just one more cylinder Create the most amazing soundtrack 😩👊™️

And then you had Nissan 10 years later doing the exact same thing with their AWD system in Japan and everywhere else they went. Even getting close to being thrown off the oval in the US too where they babied a R32 around the track, but the officials still noticed the car's capabilities. (That video is on UKposts of that run, some home video recorded footage of the R32 GT-R. search for Rolex Daytona to find it) But it is these machines that makes excellent road cars later, and which is why I believe it is important to demand road car production of the race machines. Otherwise all you get is like Peugeot and Citroens today, boring FF machines that doesn't have much in common with their WRC counterparts.

"Unfair Advantage",more like bad engeneering by american car manufacturers :D

Wow this is racing at it's best!😍 Thank you for this clip, much appreciated.

Thank you so much for preserving this gem.

Thats like Skyline dominated in Australian car championship

"unfair" must come from a bad looser! XD

Many thanks for uploading this AMAZING piece of SCCA Trans Am Racing History, as well as racing history!

That “Specialty prepared Quattro” is BAD 🔥 🔥

Genius Engineers: Design and build from scratch machines faster than everyone else Racers who lost: You can't do that it's not fair Racing rules: You can't do that

Hans Stuck: "At the end of my carrier.... " good on. He drove till 2011.....

This is the best ad for Audi ever.

We have learned nothing about making dokumentaries. This is really great stuff.

"In 1981 Audi found the secret at last, a center differential", something Jeep was using in the 1970's and AMC put in the first mass produced AWD car, the AMC Eagle, in 1979.

Really?!? With authentic period commercials, too?

this is amazing thanks for the upload, the fact that its an old retro video makes more badass

I remember that time, but I could only read about the race in the magazine... That's why I have watched this video more than 10 times and enjoy watching it every single time . I enjoy listening to every word they are saying in this video, every word about the race and that Audi and it's technology. How Audi could crucify every other car in their total disbelief..😂

Left foot breaking was not a new technique. It was used on FWD cars before this. In particular the SAAB Rally drivers perfected it.

so they cant win so they say its unfair?

it’s a tradition to watch this at least once a year 😂

What awesome memories this video brought back. Always an Audi fan!

Too bad audi doesn't make iconic cars anymore.

Ah the glory days of group B

Thank You so much for sharing that video. I really enjoyed it and learned some new things I never knew about Audi history.

What a great video! Thank you for sharing this with us. ❤❤

how did they find gopros in 1984?

I knew there was something special about the quattro ever since i hit the first corner everything they are saying about it is 100% true the quattro really is the best for the power it has and it's never about how the road is it's how ever the driver wants to attack

Thanks for the upload. Thoroughly enjoyed that.

Thought about taking my Audi TT Quattro to Summit Point next year. Now I have to go, knowing it was one of the tracks that Audi used to build the hype around the Quattro system!