Manufacturing facility Ducati MotoGP rider Enea Bastianini is ready to swap two wheels for 4 on the Rallylegend competition this weekend.
The seven-time bike premier-class race winner is ready to pilot a Group B Audi Quattro S1 on the twenty second version of the four-day celebration of rallying previous and current held in San Marino.
Bastianini, who completed fourth in final weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix, will share the Quattro with Lamborghini analysis and growth take a look at driver Emanuele Zonzini. It’s anticipated that each will take pleasure in runs piloting the automobile by way of the rally occasion’s spectator stage.
The Audi Quattro S1 was designed to compete within the WRC’s notorious Group B period producing roughly 450 horsepower from its turbocharged 2.1 litre engine. It made its debut in the direction of the top of the 1984 season, serving to the German marque to second within the producers’ title race behind Peugeot in 1985.
Walter Rohrl, Christian Geistdorfer, Audi Sport Quattro S1
Picture by: Motorsport Pictures
Bastianini isn’t the one MotoGP star to take an curiosity in rallying. In 2020, present Pramac Ducati rider Franco Morbidelli contested the ultimate spherical of the WRC at Rally Monza driving a Rally2 Hyundai i20 N, ending thirty ninth in school.
His mentor and MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi has loved success in rallying successful the Monza Rally Present seven instances whereas making three WRC begins.
Rallylegend is ready to welcome an array of WRC stars together with present M-Sport-Ford driver Adrien Fourmaux, who will pilot the Ford Puma Rally1 automobile.
The Frenchman is ready to do battle with one-time System 1 race winner turned rally driver Heikki Kovalainen, driving a 2017-spec Citroen C3 WRC automobile alongside Janne Ferm, who introduced his retirement from WRC co-driving alongside Esapekka Lappi earlier this month.
WRC champion Stig Blomqvist will even soar again behind the wheel of an Audi Quattro because the occasion marks the fortieth anniversary of the Swede’s championship success in 1984. Double WRC champion Miki Biasion will even be in attendance driving a Lancia 037, whereas the Lancia Stratos’ fiftieth anniversary since its first world title (1974) will even be marked.
Becoming a member of Blomqvist and Biasion among the many star names on the rally shall be six-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner and 1983 Dakar Rally victor Jacky Ickx, and 1981 WRC champion and four-time Dakar winner Ari Vatanen. The pair will drive the examples of the respective Porsche 959 and Peugeot 405 T16 Dakar machines they campaigned in interval.
Former WRC manufacturing unit driver Armin Schwarz will drive an Audi Quattro Coupe Group A, whereas son Fabio Schwarz will display a Hyundai Accent WRC, an instance of the automobile that his father drove within the WRC from 2002-03.
