The Audi Quattro name could soon return to the World Rally Championship thanks to racing driver Mattias Ekström. Ekström’s newly-formed EKS JC racing ream has revealed it is developing a Rally2-specification car based on the road-going Audi A1 and suitable to compete in the WRC2 and WRC3 support categories. The car has been built with the help of South African company Rally Technic.
Powering the rally car is a 1.6-liter
turbocharged four-cylinder that is good for 263 hp and coupled to a five-speed
sequential transmission. As you’d expect, this power is sent to all four wheels
through a Quattro system.
Ekström raced an Audi S1 in the FIA World
Rallycross Championship from 2014 and 2019, ultimately winning the title in
2016 and finishing runner-up in 2017 and 2018. He recently made a return to WRC
at February’s Arctic Rally Finland Powered by CapitalBox and raced a Skoda
Fabia in the WRC3 category.
While the car isn’t an official effort
from Audi itself, it does have a white, yellow, and red livery reminiscent of
the original S1 Quattro.
