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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro world record car – Same thing in black

Name: Audi 200 Turbo Quattro 1988
Brand: Audi

Created on January 3, 2022

Text:

Paul Krüger

Photos:

Bonhams

Wolfgang Wilhelm

Audi AG

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Bonhams

Wolfgang Wilhelm

Audi AG

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - No exterior mirrors for lower air resistance

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro (1986) - During test drives at the Talladega Superspeedway

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro (1986) - record-breaking car with 650 hp

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro (1988) - At world record attempts in Nardò

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - One of three world record cars

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - One of three record-breaking cars

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - Kevlar front spoiler

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - near-series rear end

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - lettering as on the production model

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - Side exhaust pipe and heat protection plate

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - Thanks for shock absorbers and tires

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - Shell provided the fuel for the record-breaking run

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - Air intake instead of headlights

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - Arg functional cockpit

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - bucket seat with five-point harness

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - rev counter and boost pressure indicator

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - Instruments for pressures and temperatures

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - Fuses and relays next to the driver's seat

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - Gear knob and cuff from the series

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - Six-kilo Halon extinguisher behind the driver's seat

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - spare parts store instead of rear seat bench

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - wishbones and turbochargers as spare parts

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - Replacement turbocharger type KKK K28

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - Lever for the extinguishing system

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - 340 liter fuel tank

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - Unpainted inside of the tailgate

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - five-valve five-cylinder with 650 hp

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Nardò (1988) - The first of three record-breaking cars

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Audi 200 Quattro (1988) - set two world records in Nardo: 326.403 km/h over 1000 kilometers and 324.509 km/h over 500 miles

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Audi 200 quattro Trans-Am (1988) - the Audi dominated the Trans-Am series in 1988

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Audi 200 quattro 20V (1989) - briefly the fastest production model from Audi AG

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Audi 200 quattro 20V (1989) - after the facelift with round rear wheel cut-out

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro (1986) - Prototype according to NASCAR regulations

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Audi 200 Turbo Quattro (1986) - bare interior with only one bucket seat

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Summary

50 years after Bernd Rosemeyer, records were to be broken again. With a five-valve five-cylinder engine and 650 hp, Audi launched an attack on Mercedes-Benz in 1988 and sent a specially prepared 200 Turbo Quattro to Italy. The Nardò project was preceded by a similar one with NASCAR ambitions, but it was equally disappointing. This article recalls Audi's record attempts in the USA and Italy and shows many photos of the 1988 car.

This article contains the following chapters

Audi in America
Five times five
Two dates in Alabama
The second attempt
Twelve men and a baby
World records:
International class records:

Estimated reading time: 10min

Preview (beginning of the article)

This is the story of two cars that are often thought to be one and the same, but had very little in common apart from color, drive type and purpose; the story of an oval, a circle and four rings; of 3609 kilometers, twelve hours and 350 kilometers per hour. After Audi had already revolutionized rallying with the Quattro, the Ingolstadt-based company wanted to prove in 1986 that all-wheel drive was not only superior on unpaved tracks, but also on asphalt race tracks. And, incidentally, they were looking for the right advertising coup to boost sales in the USA, as the Americans had little to do with rallies as the Europeans knew them. Only the hill climb at Pikes Peak, which was still run on gravel at the time and had also been won the previous year by Audi (with Michèle Mouton at the wheel), roughly went in this direction. However, the far greater number of motorsport-loving Americans were reached on the NASCAR ovals in the south. If Darrell Waltrip won on Sunday, the local Chevrolet dealer could sell his Monte Carlos at list price on Monday.

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