Already Audi’s quattro was proving the value of four-wheel drive on loose-surface events and the quattro had won the World Championship in 1982, but the Germans didn’t have everything their own way. The quattros had been built for the old Group 2 regulations, and Lancia appeared in 1983 with a brand new car, the supercharged 037 Rally. Though only two-wheel drive, the 037 was purpose-built to take advantage of the freer Group B rules (notably giving the 037 a 100Kg weight advantage over the quattro) and it swept to the World Championship in 1983.
Audi was back in 1984 with the shorter, lighter and more powerful Sport quattro, but at the Tour de Corse Peugeot’s new 205 Turbo 16 arrived, Ari Vatanen astonishing everyone with the Peugeot’s speed (though it failed to finish). It looked very much like a wide-arched 205GTI, but the T16 was a very different car with a tubular spaceframe chassis and a 1.8-litre, 16-valve turbo engine developing well over 400bhp. It seemed inevitable that Peugeot would win everything in 1985 until team leader Vatanen rolled his 205T16 in Argentina and his seat mountings broke: Vatanen was lucky to survive, and was out of rallying for the rest of the year. But Peugeot’s second driver Timo Salonen stepped up, and went on to win the World Championship that year.
Source: http://allaudi-r8.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-audi-quattro-turbo-racer.html
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