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title: "Watch an 891-HP Audi Quattro S1 Rally Car Run a 10-Second Quarter-Mile"
description: "Even though it wasn't built for the drag strip, this high-powered five-cylinder is more than capable of hurting some feelings."
date: "2019-06-12"
modified: "2019-06-12"
authors:
  - name: "James Gilboy"
    job_title: "Contributing Writer"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/james-gilboy"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/28473/watch-an-891-hp-audi-quattro-s1-rally-car-run-a-10-second-quarter-mile"
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  - "Racing"
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  - "Audi"
---

# Watch an 891-HP Audi Quattro S1 Rally Car Run a 10-Second Quarter-Mile

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2019/06/quattro-ppihc-drag.jpg>)
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Race cars that specialize in their disciplines of motorsport typically perform poorly when taken out of their comfort zone, but it's not a hard and fast rule. Such is proved by a cameo of an Audi Quattro S1 built to compete at the [Pikes Peak International Hill Climb](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/22682/watch-this-documentary-about-the-2018-pikes-peak-hill-climb>) at the home of European drag racing: Santa Pod Raceway.

The car you see below isn't one of the original 214 cars that Audi built to homologate its [Sport Quattro](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/25688/behold-this-10-minute-tribute-to-audis-most-iconic-rally-car-the-sport-quattro-s1>) for the World Rally Championship; it's a faithful replica stitched together from an Audi 80 and a Coupe Quattro according to a [*Speedhunters*](<https://www.speedhunters.com/2017/04/eps-motorsport-s1e2-quattro-returns-to-pikes-peak/?fbclid=IwAR1ySeuZ1Ah0QaF5AceFHkFR2KNDaRKFZptdlDIi3efvGoEWKwpe0WcBFAU>) highlight on the car. Rather than being built completely to historic spec, however, this Quattro is a modern reinterpretation of the same formula that made the Audi Quattro so successful: five cylinders, one turbocharger, and four driven wheels.

By reinterpretation, that means using the 2.5-liter turbo engine from an [Audi TT RS](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/25047/2018-audi-tt-rs-test-drive-review-finally-a-tt-that-can-hang-with-porsches-and-corvettes>), plus almost everything downstream of it. With forged internals, oversized valves, and a giant turbocharger, this little "07K" engine as it's known to Volkswageneers whips up numbers that put to shame even the original Group B Audi. A mountainous 891 horsepower and 670 pound-feet of torque distributed to all four wheels is enough to make this Quattro capable of a damn quick quarter-mile pass—10.5 seconds—*on its low boost setting*.

https://youtube.com/embed/mxijvLMKwzs

According to the video's description, this car's peak boost of 2.4 bar (35 psi) wasn't used during this run, suggesting the car's ultimate quarter-mile time would be even quicker, possibly even under 10 seconds. Not bad for a car that's built for monster hillclimbs.

h/t: [*Jalopnik*](<https://jalopnik.com/heres-what-happens-when-a-891-hp-hillclimb-car-goes-dra-1835386689?utm_source=jalopnik_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_campaign=socialflow_jalopnik_facebook>)

## Author
James is a former staff writer for The Drive. He has changed the conversation around electrification, debunked misinformation online, and become a prominent hunter of what he calls "automotive cryptids."

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/jamesgilboy>)