4:20 Audi was ahead of the rivals with the dual Port and Direct Injection System. A direct descendent from the Le Mans winner LMP1 R8 V8 FSI engine. 6:15 Regular B5 A4 road car has a 4-link damper with coil spring front suspension, not McPherson strut IFS. 9:20 The moulded Audi logo, perhaps?
Yes exact same suspension setup as the road car. Windshield clips for faster windshield changes? I think this guy hasn't been around many race cars or rulebooks.
@@mpainter22 That was the plan but they aborted development and used the ideas to build a rally car, then they did a limited run of the road legal model.
This era was truly special! My dad took me to my first ever race at Brands Hatch in 94.. the Alfa 155 that year was absolutely stunning! Nice to see the Audi up close. Loved TOCA 2 on the PS1 and this was the best car on the game. Remember the Primera being pretty handy as well 👌🏻
The a4 b5 has a multilink front axle (4link) as standard, as well as a double wishbone rear axle (only the quattros) that’s why everyone loves the driving charcteristics of a b5 quattro, the first and lightest of all round multilink suspension small audi limousines and avants
extra: The fwd versions of the A4 B5 have a torsion beam rear axle. Cheaper to maintain, but the car feels a little bit more unstable and less confident on high speed corners.
Brings back good memories being a 90s kid and playing toca on ps1, My granddad also have a brand new B5 face lift 2.8 Quattro it was a beautiful car the family loved it.
6:20 B5 A4's definitely did not have McPherson strut front suspension. They had an otherwordly, overly complex multi-linkish setup, that frankly, was not very durable. Not double wishbone, for sure, but probably closer to that in function than a strut setup.
The supertouring rules meant that the race car suspension has to follow the road car (in principle anyway) so wholesale swapping of strut for double wishbone was not allowed. Many manufacturers designed the road cars with the race cars in mind.
Mine is fine at 270k still lol... it's a very good system and allows insanely sharp turning and proper wheel placement under hard compression. Its advanced for its time
That has to be one on the sexiest looking 4cyl engines ever! Pity we couldn't hear it running :-( The car its self still looks amazingly fresh for 1995. The mid/late 90s was a real high-point for touring cars, and motorsport as a whole. So many great cars, so many great names, some sadly no longe with us.
It doesen't sound very good sadly, not compared to other super touring cars, it has a weird low pitch scraping intake sound a boring drab exhaust note sadly. Type in Audi A4 STW on youtube to hear it
woooo..i love where this tour brings us.i like to hear about the technical details. i can see this car cruising on the streets .that would be the ultimate quattro for sure.
Did a quick search as was curious as to the power output/displacement, came up with this from a similar car which sold in 2016 for £112k 305 hp, 1,995 cc DOHC four-cylinder engine with Bosch Motronic 2.8 management, six-speed sequential transmission, front and rear independent double-wishbone suspension, and four-wheel ventilated disc brakes with adjustable balance.
This guy literally sounds like they pulled him off the street and made him talk about cars. I can’t begin to explain how many things he got wrong or what he named wrong.
The camera guy is looking at the engine and he’s like “darrens getting ahead of himself, look we got a nice a4 logo behind the grill then goes and doesn’t talk anything about the engine
This car is a classic example of how the build a race car. Other BTCC cars of the era are equally interesting. Have a look at where Volvo had their engine mounted.
I first watched racing as a kid when john clelland was driving a mk2 escort like a nutter then i got the bug for touring car i loved it so much i bought and modified a primera GT to look the same but frank biela driving that fxxxxxg thing blew my mind the first time i seen him pass through duffas dip at knockhill on 4 wheels not 2 like the rest it was like an f1 car. Great videa mate takes me back to the best days of paint and body exchanging racing 👍👍
What I've seen through the years of owning different cars is that they are always better than some people claim. Never had problems with Audi's. Maybe the thing is that if you know how to take care of the car, it's usually going to work well. A total idiot can break any car quickly.
My father has been owning a few B5 S4s and RS4s and none of them have never had a major issue at all. It's only been small things such as sensors and usual wear and tear things.
The only thing that broke on my A3 8V Quattro in the past 5 years is the windshield. (Lots of gravel on the roads in the winter here in Alaska). Most reliable car I've had.
I’ve spent hours watching the touring cars from the 90s on RUclips. One thing you don’t get is close up detailed shots like in this video. Awesome car and fantastic period for the touring cars. Thanks for the video
You always bring some of the most diverse and interesting content I thought I knew a lot about stuff like this but suppose you learn something new everyday
Why the engine is not behind the front axle??? Literally all others constructors put it behind as much as possible for better weight distribution (the heaviest component is near the center of the car, lowering its moment of inertia and aids weight distribution)
It's Audis trademark and cheap as hell to build. Feels safe for the regular consumer but booring as hell. Even in the winter it's just draging it's rear around. Audis 4wd was never anything special, neither in rally or here. It's just they where first with it and thats why they won. Take a look at the 80 foor exampel, the enigne is placed beside the cooling system just so they, could mount it even more forward.
as in factory car, orientation of engine must be same. all audi and bmw had longitudinal engine setup because of awd/rwd. others where fwd only. and engine was set low as possible, it had dry sump, front driveshafts had to run through chassis legs because of 19" wheels.
Why engine is not behind the front axle? Because it was best touring car in its years with engine placed in this way. This type of awd dont need engine behind front axle, it needs more weight on front and it was best, grilling others fwd/rwd with no chances, so there is NO problem.
pxaxaxa, Your boy, Captain America, here: "The best of the best of the best, sir!" "With honours."..vags have the worst design of longitudinal engine placement possible under the bonnet that anyone can ever witness..already bad with 4pots, extremely bad with 6pots n tragic with 8pots..only Honda made their FWD cars properly with properly placed (as much as it's possible) longitudinal engines in the engine bay in the early/mid 90ties - that stuff was on another level, too bad finacially not profitable, so why go the hard way when you can make primitive n convenient shit like vag does.. @@bapr3887
An absolutely awesome video, and such an iconic car from a classic period in motorsport. I'm "slowly" trying to build a 94 Carina BTCC replica, and the research is fascinating. Thanks for doing this video, I loved it.
A 2 liter 16 valve naturally aspirated 4 cylinder engine with around 300 hp and a revlimit of 8500 rpm, since the rules in Super touring said that all cars racing must have a 2 liter n/a engine with around 300 hp, and an 8500 rpm revlimit.
That’s absolutely fantastic, such a good looking touring car. It’s great to get a good close up look at it, thanks for that video, it was very enjoyable 👍👍
This might be my second favourite video on the channel, the XJ220 being the 1st! I absolutely adored the A4 and the Laguna when I was a kid, I remember the commentary of Tiff Needell on the original Toca touring car game and was always torn between the A4 and the Laguna haha. BTCC was in it's golden years back then. Brilliant stuff Jay
lol..so the sierra,saphire and escort cossies were not proper road cars..and what about the cossie heads on the Mk2 astra 16v and the merc 190 2.3 16 ?
A regular A4 B5 is not McPherson strut. I'm pretty sure it actually is double wishbone. It actually looks to me like the exact same suspension in both.
I went to brands hatch with my father to watch this car race back in the day, awesome. Even got signed poster from Audi with Frank Biela signature still on my dads office wall.
Great to see that! I have seen a couple of super tours up close at Knock hill and brands hatch. Knock hill had Vauxhall cav, one of these, the honda accord, ford Mondeo, ( the older one, which was the only one to survive) I think there was an one of the older BMWs from the late 80s. Only four went around the circuit I remember, the Audi sadly never ran. The cav was restored from what I remember, the others were just used for shows, Bar the honda which was used as a raced. But retired, that maybe back in action again for the hscc, which a lot of these super tours came back. I do remember when me and my dad going to croft to see the BTCC in 1999, We had the chance to hear the Volvos on tick over, they were noisy! The tech was wearing ear muffs, He just had checked the wheels, and then gave the engine a blip for us! Sounded well vicious! Shame this era died, Not to keen on the NGTC regs the btcc has now. I have noticed though in the last few years the manufactures have started to go back to this with the TCR regs. Which I love the idea!
Why? That's like comparing a F1 racer with a Touring car, nor are they from the same time. The Audi Quattro race car was retired in 86 and designed for Group B. While the R32 GTR was designed for Group A and wasn't competing until 90. And as you well know the R32 destroyed Group A, which meant by the time Audi was done with their Trans am projects, Group A had been replaced by the Super touring class. It's the Nissan Primera/Pulsar and Sunny you need to look at, if you want a proper comperison.
@@Orcawhale1 Best and fastest cars were in top group A series called DTM. So R32 GTR is Audi V8 DTM territory and i give R32 0 chances to do anything. Godzilla dominated JTCC only. In JTCC there was no real hard competition for real, when DTM was just TOP OF TOP with factory teams, blood and sweat. Stw era was faster than DTM cars, so indeed bnr 32 have 0 chances against B5 quattro stw too.
Went to watch these a lot back in the day (also owned one...well the road car anyway) ....Managed to sneak into the pit garage at silverstone when they where starting them up, and they gave me a good couple of minutes before we actually got thrown out....I thought i had gone to heaven.
Really good article from EVO about this car that gives some engine specs and a history of the BTCC program. www.evo.co.uk/audi/a4/21825/the-anatomy-of-a-super-touring-car-history-and-tech-of-2-litre-touring-car-racing-in
A couple of years ago I had a 99 plate 1.8T Sport Quattro. It was a lovely contemporary classic, then the head gasket went and I stupidly binned it rather than repair. Regretted it ever since!
not really true they had to build a certain amount hence why alfa took the piss by telling you you had to make your spoiler and leaving it in the boot then the rules changed in 95 to allow aero
Correct me if I am wrong Jay but my understanding is that b4 80/90 audis were McPherson struts up front. All B5's were 5 link f double wishbone rear. The B5 was the first chassis to switch from Mcpherson F/E to a 5 link F/E w a virtual steering axis allowed by the complex mechanics of the 5 link set up
Frank Biela had a massive part to play in the success of this car. He was untouchable in 1996- he maximised opportunities, made little to no mistakes and took few risks. His teammate by comparison- John Bintcliffe- was an absolutely rubbish driver who showed how average the A4 could be without the right man behind the wheel.
At 1:39 Jay you said Escort Cosworth RS500. I presume you meant Sierra Cosworth RS500 as you're talking Group A touring cars ? Obviously the Escort Cosworth was a Group A Rally car.
And as soon as they banned the 4wd system...it went backwards...even with frank beila at the wheel...it was just another super touring car...and all those that had gone to unbelievable lengths to make the fwd cars competitive against this extremely fast car..found themselves at the front of the grid...
B5 was not Mac Strut, was 4 individual arms, same as today. Very good system indeed. Also, the "pointy up" exhaust was invented in the BTCC era... and should have died there.
Yep, race mechanics have no patience for things that are needlessly hard to service! That would just be unacceptable. Same such consideration is not given to dealer and DIY mechanics. :(
I thought this was RUclips, not pornhub
The girls never came.... THE GIRLS NEVER CAME
My brudda u kno 😅
Dennis J I did though
Well said
Ok coomer
The a4 has multilink in the front as standard.
Fun fact : I had a scale elextric model of this car and put it in the microwave and nearly burnt the house down. Wasn’t all there as a kid.
Sean Sean Hahaha 😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣 reminds of the stupid things I done as a child 😁
This cracked me up
😂😂😂
What exactly were you trying to achieve by putting a remote control car in a microwave oven?
I absolutely love these cars! They were my weapon of choice on TOCA 2 all those years ago!!
lol that was my first thought too. Brilliant games.
Lol such a good game but really bad graphics haha
@@michaelkelman9740 the game is 21 years old
@@cheesyeurotrance95 yes I know but it seems like only the other day I was playing tht game haha
@@michaelkelman9740 I still play it on a mobile phone via PS1 emulator
4:20 Audi was ahead of the rivals with the dual Port and Direct Injection System. A direct descendent from the Le Mans winner LMP1 R8 V8 FSI engine.
6:15 Regular B5 A4 road car has a 4-link damper with coil spring front suspension, not McPherson strut IFS.
9:20 The moulded Audi logo, perhaps?
Yes exact same suspension setup as the road car.
Windshield clips for faster windshield changes? I think this guy hasn't been around many race cars or rulebooks.
Still looks contemporary- hard to believe it’s almost a quarter of a century old
not really
Have the similar A6 estate until i smashed it into an HGV. It saved my life
Escort cosworth RS500? Think you will find the RS500 touring car was a Sierra
Lol I was confused and had to check when he said that 🤣
V confusing. RS500 was the Sierra, RS2000 was the escort, RS200 was neither one nor the other.
@ the RS200 was essentially an escort
@@mpainter22 That was the plan but they aborted development and used the ideas to build a rally car, then they did a limited run of the road legal model.
RS200 was more Sierra than Escort
Back when the BTCC was decent
I remember they were so good they had to weigh them down so the competition could have a chance at winning.
Yeah that's when it meant business! Now its more like club racing now sadly,
I agree
@@adrianmay2970 back when the world had the privilege to see some of the greatest touring cars.. BTCC and STW
i Went and watched not too long ago and thought it was alright!
God that car looks incredible. The best years of BTCC.
My god...that look into the read of that thing itself is incredible. I love me some neat and tidy piping
Brings me back to the early PlayStation days and the first toca touring car games. Great content, as usual!
Not just well engineered and highly functional but beautiful aswell, incredible car.
This era was truly special! My dad took me to my first ever race at Brands Hatch in 94.. the Alfa 155 that year was absolutely stunning!
Nice to see the Audi up close. Loved TOCA 2 on the PS1 and this was the best car on the game. Remember the Primera being pretty handy as well 👌🏻
They put ballast in these , the primers were really good then the Volvo t40 estate came along.
The S40 was never raced as an estate, the only estate Volvo raced in the BTCC was the 1994 850.
The a4 b5 has a multilink front axle (4link) as standard, as well as a double wishbone rear axle (only the quattros) that’s why everyone loves the driving charcteristics of a b5 quattro, the first and lightest of all round multilink suspension small audi limousines and avants
extra: The fwd versions of the A4 B5 have a torsion beam rear axle. Cheaper to maintain, but the car feels a little bit more unstable and less confident on high speed corners.
I would like to see more videos like this of all the touring cars of this era...............please !!!!
yep... getting all up-close, personal and handsy with a 190 evo ii 2.5-16 would make for a nice video
How about a road going 190E Evo I?
ruclips.net/video/XNePcMhhkTY/видео.html
Brings back good memories being a 90s kid and playing toca on ps1, My granddad also have a brand new B5 face lift 2.8 Quattro it was a beautiful car the family loved it.
6:20 B5 A4's definitely did not have McPherson strut front suspension. They had an otherwordly, overly complex multi-linkish setup, that frankly, was not very durable. Not double wishbone, for sure, but probably closer to that in function than a strut setup.
yea i caught that when he was explaining.
The supertouring rules meant that the race car suspension has to follow the road car (in principle anyway) so wholesale swapping of strut for double wishbone was not allowed. Many manufacturers designed the road cars with the race cars in mind.
Mine is fine at 270k still lol... it's a very good system and allows insanely sharp turning and proper wheel placement under hard compression. Its advanced for its time
but they drive well due to suspension
But maintanence is shitty cause the bolts will break
@@jordanjoestar8839 It really depends how you behave to the car...
I have a B5 for the last 8 years and simply cannot let it go, i love it, amazing car. Oh, and that turn signal stalk with cruise control.... ;P
That has to be one on the sexiest looking 4cyl engines ever! Pity we couldn't hear it running :-(
The car its self still looks amazingly fresh for 1995. The mid/late 90s was a real high-point for touring cars, and motorsport as a whole. So many great cars, so many great names, some sadly no longe with us.
It doesen't sound very good sadly, not compared to other super touring cars, it has a weird low pitch scraping intake sound a boring drab exhaust note sadly.
Type in Audi A4 STW on youtube to hear it
This era touring cars (and cars) were so beautiful. Whatever happened to this world. Please, more cars like this.
now please do a V6 Mondeo BTCC :) That sound is phenomenal
woooo..i love where this tour brings us.i like to hear about the technical details. i can see this car cruising on the streets .that would be the ultimate quattro for sure.
Did a quick search as was curious as to the power output/displacement, came up with this from a similar car which sold in 2016 for £112k
305 hp, 1,995 cc DOHC four-cylinder engine with Bosch Motronic 2.8 management, six-speed sequential transmission, front and rear independent double-wishbone suspension, and four-wheel ventilated disc brakes with adjustable balance.
This guy literally sounds like they pulled him off the street and made him talk about cars. I can’t begin to explain how many things he got wrong or what he named wrong.
Escort cosworth RS500......hmmm can't remember that one in the BTCC
"MacPherson struts at the front and a multilink at the back" This ain't a Subaru, B5's have 5-link front and 4-link rear.
The camera guy is looking at the engine and he’s like “darrens getting ahead of himself, look we got a nice a4 logo behind the grill then goes and doesn’t talk anything about the engine
This car is a classic example of how the build a race car. Other BTCC cars of the era are equally interesting. Have a look at where Volvo had their engine mounted.
I first watched racing as a kid when john clelland was driving a mk2 escort like a nutter then i got the bug for touring car i loved it so much i bought and modified a primera GT to look the same but frank biela driving that fxxxxxg thing blew my mind the first time i seen him pass through duffas dip at knockhill on 4 wheels not 2 like the rest it was like an f1 car. Great videa mate takes me back to the best days of paint and body exchanging racing 👍👍
See if you can get your hands on the Audi V8 DTM that car is immense!
yes please..!!!Audi..
Good call
BTCC was awesome. I watched it all the time on Eurosport when I was a kid.
that AudiSport/Momo steering wheel though... have been trying to find out the model of it and also to try and score a used one... thing of beauty
The very reason I bought one. What an amazing year
Super looks can you remember the Alfa on two wheels !!!!!!!! Wow
Love my 1.8t B5
Full bolt ons, 24psi tune and it's still going at 270,000 miles.
I have one too i love it, how much are you making?
vorsprung durch einfaches hemd
thanks J, letting the car livery be loud today and you more discrete
it looks good on two wheels with flames coming out of the exhaust
Just something special about super touring cars 😍
Just a correction, b5's are not MacPherson strut, they are double wishbone on road cars
“Audi’s don’t breaks very often” lol
Andrew Long the old ones are very reliable, the new ones with tfsi are unreliable in everything
And this one is not broken. But unfortunately we cant show it running today. lol
What I've seen through the years of owning different cars is that they are always better than some people claim. Never had problems with Audi's. Maybe the thing is that if you know how to take care of the car, it's usually going to work well. A total idiot can break any car quickly.
My father has been owning a few B5 S4s and RS4s and none of them have never had a major issue at all. It's only been small things such as sensors and usual wear and tear things.
The only thing that broke on my A3 8V Quattro in the past 5 years is the windshield. (Lots of gravel on the roads in the winter here in Alaska). Most reliable car I've had.
Love A4 B5's owned mine 16 year's its a modified v6 with a supercharger .and one of the best cars I've owned.
Pes?
@@alexjanito3404 pes g2 with a custom chargecooler
5:23 obviously has never owned an Audi in his life
You “obviously” didn’t look after your Audi properly
apachelives old Audi’s are very reliable, the newer ones are unreliable
My old Audi is better than basically any other newer car I've owned.
Written by a kid don't even hold a driver's license.
I have bmw 120d e87 and a3 8l 1.8tq, a3 is driven 130k km more than 120d. Had non problems with it, i just had to change the turbo on the bmw...
“Audi’s don’t break often” hahahaha
Mechanically they are pretty good. Other stuff not as much.
These older audis don't break that easy
@@Planetary13 B5 chassis VW and Audi is not exactly considered a reliable used car!
This car’s the reason I bought my 1st B5 in 2000.
I’ve spent hours watching the touring cars from the 90s on RUclips. One thing you don’t get is close up detailed shots like in this video. Awesome car and fantastic period for the touring cars. Thanks for the video
Man I want to do this livery for my drift Audi 😍
You always bring some of the most diverse and interesting content I thought I knew a lot about stuff like this but suppose you learn something new everyday
are the wheels on that car available for a standard b5 a4 with 5 lug and not a center lock??? If so I NEED THEM
This was my favourite car on toca
I need a B5 RS4 video, love the channel 🍺
Funny they put the engine back to the cabin, did they think at weight distribution ?
Why the engine is not behind the front axle??? Literally all others constructors put it behind as much as possible for better weight distribution (the heaviest component is near the center of the car, lowering its moment of inertia and aids weight distribution)
It's Audis trademark and cheap as hell to build. Feels safe for the regular consumer but booring as hell. Even in the winter it's just draging it's rear around. Audis 4wd was never anything special, neither in rally or here. It's just they where first with it and thats why they won.
Take a look at the 80 foor exampel, the enigne is placed beside the cooling system just so they, could mount it even more forward.
as in factory car, orientation of engine must be same. all audi and bmw had longitudinal engine setup because of awd/rwd. others where fwd only.
and engine was set low as possible, it had dry sump, front driveshafts had to run through chassis legs because of 19" wheels.
Why engine is not behind the front axle? Because it was best touring car in its years with engine placed in this way. This type of awd dont need engine behind front axle, it needs more weight on front and it was best, grilling others fwd/rwd with no chances, so there is NO problem.
pxaxaxa, Your boy, Captain America, here: "The best of the best of the best, sir!" "With honours."..vags have the worst design of longitudinal engine placement possible under the bonnet that anyone can ever witness..already bad with 4pots, extremely bad with 6pots n tragic with 8pots..only Honda made their FWD cars properly with properly placed (as much as it's possible) longitudinal engines in the engine bay in the early/mid 90ties - that stuff was on another level, too bad finacially not profitable, so why go the hard way when you can make primitive n convenient shit like vag does.. @@bapr3887
An absolutely awesome video, and such an iconic car from a classic period in motorsport. I'm "slowly" trying to build a 94 Carina BTCC replica, and the research is fascinating. Thanks for doing this video, I loved it.
it may just be my opinion, buy is there anything looks like more of a natural fit, than large OZ racing Turismo wheels on a slammed Touring car!? 😍👌🔥
back when they tucked 19in SuperTurismos and kept it clean without tacked on flares. from the outside the car essentially looks OE stock.
Used to drive this A4 in Toca Touring Car Championship on PSOne! Memories!
That game was hard!
Me too but I was really crap at it 🤦♂️😂
I have one of those 4000 CS Quattro 1986 year I absolutely love 💕 this car and the B5 also
Absolutely stunning 👌
Wish you could talk about engine specs etc...
A 2 liter 16 valve naturally aspirated 4 cylinder engine with around 300 hp and a revlimit of 8500 rpm, since the rules in Super touring said that all cars racing must have a 2 liter n/a engine with around 300 hp, and an 8500 rpm revlimit.
Audi's never break :D my A4 B8 is a real headache
That’s absolutely fantastic, such a good looking touring car. It’s great to get a good close up look at it, thanks for that video, it was very enjoyable 👍👍
Does are the best !!
Minor point; the Sierra RS500 not the Escort (Cosworth) was the Group A car of the era.
Sierra RS500 not an Escort!! How can you get two such iconic cars completely wrong!!
Wish they kept this formula alive, modern touring cars are an absolute yawn to watch.
remember me TOCA 1&2 ^^
I’m liking the segment, could you review other BTCC cars in the future ?
If anyone else has some hidden I will try
I didn't realise Izzard was such a petrolhead.
Anyone know where i can get one of them Splitters as thats the same splitter as the BTCC Volvo S40
I wanted to see it on that lift :(
I’d love to know all the work done to the motor so I could build mine into a monster 👹
This might be my second favourite video on the channel, the XJ220 being the 1st! I absolutely adored the A4 and the Laguna when I was a kid, I remember the commentary of Tiff Needell on the original Toca touring car game and was always torn between the A4 and the Laguna haha. BTCC was in it's golden years back then. Brilliant stuff Jay
The mondeo mk2 was the king of btcc.
Just a shame we never had a proper road car from cosworth. Or pro drive
lol..so the sierra,saphire and escort cossies were not proper road cars..and what about the cossie heads on the Mk2 astra 16v and the merc 190 2.3 16 ?
Still love that livery on the a4
Would be cool to see this thing from underneath. Just roll it onto that lift there!
A regular A4 B5 is not McPherson strut. I'm pretty sure it actually is double wishbone. It actually looks to me like the exact same suspension in both.
I went to brands hatch with my father to watch this car race back in the day, awesome. Even got signed poster from Audi with Frank Biela signature still on my dads office wall.
Great to see that! I have seen a couple of super tours up close at Knock hill and brands hatch. Knock hill had Vauxhall cav, one of these, the honda accord, ford Mondeo, ( the older one, which was the only one to survive) I think there was an one of the older BMWs from the late 80s. Only four went around the circuit I remember, the Audi sadly never ran. The cav was restored from what I remember, the others were just used for shows, Bar the honda which was used as a raced. But retired, that maybe back in action again for the hscc, which a lot of these super tours came back. I do remember when me and my dad going to croft to see the BTCC in 1999, We had the chance to hear the Volvos on tick over, they were noisy! The tech was wearing ear muffs, He just had checked the wheels, and then gave the engine a blip for us! Sounded well vicious! Shame this era died, Not to keen on the NGTC regs the btcc has now. I have noticed though in the last few years the manufactures have started to go back to this with the TCR regs. Which I love the idea!
That workshop is immaculately clean and so precise.😁.
Another great series btw.Its like watching a kid in a candy shop.👍👍
I would love to see audi's quattro racecars vs R32 GTR of the same time
Why? That's like comparing a F1 racer with a Touring car, nor are they from the same time.
The Audi Quattro race car was retired in 86 and designed for Group B.
While the R32 GTR was designed for Group A and wasn't competing until 90.
And as you well know the R32 destroyed Group A, which meant by the time Audi was done with their Trans am projects, Group A had been replaced by the Super touring class. It's the Nissan Primera/Pulsar and Sunny you need to look at, if you want a proper comperison.
@@Orcawhale1 Best and fastest cars were in top group A series called DTM.
So R32 GTR is Audi V8 DTM territory and i give R32 0 chances to do anything.
Godzilla dominated JTCC only. In JTCC there was no real hard competition for real, when DTM was just TOP OF TOP with factory teams, blood and sweat.
Stw era was faster than DTM cars, so indeed bnr 32 have 0 chances against B5 quattro stw too.
Went to watch these a lot back in the day (also owned one...well the road car anyway) ....Managed to sneak into the pit garage at silverstone when they where starting them up, and they gave me a good couple of minutes before we actually got thrown out....I thought i had gone to heaven.
That amount of detail in the car... it's absolutely stunning!
Really good article from EVO about this car that gives some engine specs and a history of the BTCC program.
www.evo.co.uk/audi/a4/21825/the-anatomy-of-a-super-touring-car-history-and-tech-of-2-litre-touring-car-racing-in
A couple of years ago I had a 99 plate 1.8T Sport Quattro. It was a lovely contemporary classic, then the head gasket went and I stupidly binned it rather than repair. Regretted it ever since!
Best audi of its era, and beila was a legend was a for that team at the time, absolutely miss the super touring car days.
Big wheel and lowered.....ah...this is culture
It amazes me just how low the BTCC cars were back then!
They were noisy too, I remember hearing the volvo S40 iding in the pit garage! The tech gave it a rev for us!
That is an incredibly sexy engine, really needed one more cylinder though.
not really true they had to build a certain amount hence why alfa took the piss by telling you you had to make your spoiler and leaving it in the boot then the rules changed in 95 to allow aero
the thing u came here for is at 4:14 no need to thank me
Correct me if I am wrong Jay but my understanding is that b4 80/90 audis were McPherson struts up front. All B5's were 5 link f double wishbone rear. The B5 was the first chassis to switch from Mcpherson F/E to a 5 link F/E w a virtual steering axis allowed by the complex mechanics of the 5 link set up
Frank Biela had a massive part to play in the success of this car. He was untouchable in 1996- he maximised opportunities, made little to no mistakes and took few risks. His teammate by comparison- John Bintcliffe- was an absolutely rubbish driver who showed how average the A4 could be without the right man behind the wheel.
Beautiful car and livery!
Would have been great to see underneath
I remember a lap around Bathurst (Mt panorama) with Murray Walker commenting back in the day....
Brad Jones doing the driving...an excellent moment..Murray was absolutely in awe of it....wow! Those brakes are sensational!.. 😂
At 1:39 Jay you said Escort Cosworth RS500. I presume you meant Sierra Cosworth RS500 as you're talking Group A touring cars ? Obviously the Escort Cosworth was a Group A Rally car.
And as soon as they banned the 4wd system...it went backwards...even with frank beila at the wheel...it was just another super touring car...and all those that had gone to unbelievable lengths to make the fwd cars competitive against this extremely fast car..found themselves at the front of the grid...
The greatest era of the BTCC and arguably the greatest touring car of that era!
B5 was not Mac Strut, was 4 individual arms, same as today. Very good system indeed. Also, the "pointy up" exhaust was invented in the BTCC era... and should have died there.
Looking at the engine bay, it looks much simpler to work on compared to the road going a4 lol.
Yep, race mechanics have no patience for things that are needlessly hard to service! That would just be unacceptable. Same such consideration is not given to dealer and DIY mechanics. :(
You left out the part where it got beaten by a frenchman in a Laguna, with no help from a certain British F1 team obvs ;)
Alain Menu was Swiss
Fcukin el! Thought I had tuned into a VERY old episode of top gear then! Your jezza Clarkson impression is second to none!!👏✊✊💦💦
As an early teen I used to choose this car everytime when I played toca touring cars on playstation 1, Now I'm 40 and I finally own one. ❤