HOMOLOGATION
To qualify for FIA Group B, Talbot would have needed to produce 200 road going cars based on their core 4x4 specification.
Having done so, they would have been entitled to produce 20 more extreme "Evolution" vehicles for use in the WRC
more to follow . . . . stay tuned
The livery is just for fun - deliberately robbing key design elements from the Audi Sport colours of the time - and also a few key Audi sponsors.
The roots of Audi's idea for a high-performance four-wheel-drive car go back to a meeting in February 1977 - a proposal made by Audi's chassis engineer, Jörg Bensinger to Ferdinand Piëch, The car received the backing from the board of management of Audi in September 1977 - and Audi introduced the original Quattro to European customers in late 1980..
So for fun - in my story, I've imagined the '77 Audi meeting ended badly. Piëch rejected the idea . .Bensinger knew that 4WD was the future, so took his thinking (and contacts) to Talbot instead.
"Real life" big things are usually the result of small circumstantial changes and serendipitous encounters - it often doesn't take much to change a course of events significantly once a thought gathers momentum.
WRC - Monte Carlo Rally
WRC - Acropolis Rally
WRC - RAC Rally
Note: backplate images were sourced online - a mixture of rallying photographs (no credit attributed), and also from DIRT Rally game by Codemasters
I don't claim any artistic credit for authoring them, but appreciate the talent involved to produce the original content.
NURBS to vRED final output - roughly 40 hours.
