More than 40 historic Skoda vehicles with sporting genes will enrich the 46th AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix. The event will take place at the Nürburgring from August 10-12.
Skoda will be showcasing several milestones from the different eras of its 117-year motorsport history. Many of the original or faithfully reproduced racing and rally cars come from private collections, while the Skoda Museum in Mladá Boleslav will be contributing two very special rarities: the 1964 F3 formula racing car and the filigree 1100 OHC sports car prototype from 1958.
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Seven-time German rally champion Matthias Kahle will be chasing the legendary Skoda 130 RS around the Eifel Grand Prix circuit especially for this event. The highlight of the Skoda flotilla, however, will be the Skoda 200 RS. Only two of these were built in 1974 and an original replica of the flat car will be on display especially for the Grand Prix.
With its 120 kW (163 hp) two-liter engine with overhead camshaft, the 200 RS reached a top speed of up to 210 km/h. Thanks to technical highlights such as the newly developed trailing arm rear axle and a gearbox from Porsche, it was set to cause a sensation at international level. But because prototypes no longer found a place in the regulations in the mid-1970s, its career ended prematurely.
The rear-wheel drive car paved the way for the production-based Skoda 130 RS, which established the tradition of particularly sporty RS production models at Skoda in the mid-1970s. The 'Porsche of the East' was the benchmark in Eastern European motorsport for many years. With the double victory at the 1977 Monte Carlo Rally in Group 2 up to 1,300 cc, the rally version also caused a sensation in the West.
This time, the rarer circuit version of the 130 RS will start at the Nürburgring. Skoda won the manufacturers' title in the European Touring Car Championship with it in 1981. Matthias Kahle, seven-time German rally champion, will drive Skoda Auto Deutschland's lightweight coupé around the Grand Prix circuit in the race for the AvD Touring Car and GT Trophy.
Two special historic rarities will travel to the Eifel from the Skoda factory museum in Mladá Boleslav: The little-known Skoda F3 formula racing car from 1964, with which the Czech Miroslav Fousek won the Eastern European Formula 3 Championship in 1968, and the 1100 OHC, a flat red roadster with a body made of glass fiber-reinforced plastic and built in 1958.
In addition to these rare gems, around 40 other sporty Skoda models from various eras of racing and rally history will be at the start. The youngtimers Skoda 120L, S120 Rallye and the Skoda 130 LR, designed in 1984 for Group B of the World Rally Championship, show the passion and expertise with which the engineers of the traditional brand pursued their dream of motorsport.
A first-generation FABIA 4x4, the Skoda Favorit 136 L/H, which achieved WRC honors, and other rally cars represent the beginning of the brand's successful involvement in the World Rally Championship.
