They BANNED This Car Because It Was TOO FAST — Audi Sport Quattro S1 #shorts

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]This isn't a race car.

[00:00:01]>> [music] >> This is a 500 horsepower hand grenade on wheels and it nearly destroyed rally racing forever. This is the Audi Sport Quattro S1 1985 Group B rally, [music] the most dangerous motorsport era in human history. Audi built just 20 of these, [music] 2.1 L turbo charged 5 cylinder, permanent Quattro all wheel drive, 0 to 100 in 2.6 seconds, faster than a modern Ferrari. Stig Blomqvist, Walter Röhrl, Michèle Mouton, the greatest drivers alive at the time and even they said this car [music] was borderline uncontrollable. On a good day it would bite you. On a bad day it would eat you alive. It made 500 horsepower through dirt, gravel, ice [music] and it still won.

[00:00:44]Group B was so fast, so violent that the FIA banned it entirely in 1986 >> [music] >> after fatal accidents that shocked the world. The S1 was too powerful for the roads, too powerful for the crowds. Some engineers inside Audi privately called it the monster they built and couldn't tame.

[00:01:02]But here's what nobody [music] tells you. Audi voluntarily pulled out before the ban. They saw what was coming. That decision alone made the [music] S1 the most legendary car to never finish its own story. If you think Group B was [music] the greatest era in motorsport, drop S1 in the comments right now.

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