Perhaps it wasn't Röhrl's most brilliant rally at the wheel of the Audi, losing what looked like his fifth victory in Monte Carlo, but a second place was still a good result. Reji's decal sheet allows us to make any of the
two official units of the Quattro S1 that participated in that rally, based on the
Nunu kit.
Additional details for the
Audi Quattro Sport marking / livery:
After winning the World Rally Championship for both Drivers and Manufacturers in 1984, Audi made the decision that the Audi Quattro A2 would no longer be used as a factory car. The driver line-up would focus on Blomqvist and Röhrl, with Mikkola as reserve driver, while Mouton would feature in some European Championship events.
If it hadn't been for Peugeot's 205 T16, Audi could easily have won another Monte Carlo Rally in 1985, but the season started the same way the last rally ended in 1984, with victory for Vatanen and Peugeot. Röhrl was second in an S1, Salonen's 205 T16 was third and Blomqvist fourth in the other S1.
At one point, midway through the rally, it seemed that Vatanen's co-driver had gifted Röhrl a fifth win on the Monte when he clocked in four minutes early at a time control. That equates to an eight-minute time penalty, so if the Peugeot team wanted to win the rally they needed to get their act together. It helped that Röhrl opted to use slick tires on stage 27, with eight kilometers uphill on snow and ice, but followed by twenty-six kilometers on wet tarmac. Most drivers would think the Audi was the right choice, but when Vatanen, driving on sparsely studded snow tyres, passed Röhrl after just a few kilometres, it was clear that the tire choice was wrong.
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