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From tomorrow, the Ihle Motorsport team will be represented with several special rally cars in Heidelberg at the "Heidelberg Historic".

First of all, Ihle Motorsport will be competing in the Slowly Sideways with the Opel Manta 400 Vatanen. This Opel is the 16th of only 38 vehicles built and finished in the top places in various European rallies in the mid-1980s.

In addition to the Slowly Sideways rally cars, the team will also be exhibiting two Audi Sport quattro cars and the VW LT service car from Audi Sport.

Friends of rallying can therefore look forward to three days full of historic motorsport experiences.

Further information can be found at https://www.heidelberg-historic.de

Just over a month ago, Ihle Motorsport will be back on the Austrian roads tomorrow. The team will be represented with the Audi Sport Quattro "Michèle" in St. Gilgen at the quattrolegende.
Before the rally cars hit the roads at the weekend, the many historic vehicles can be marvelled at on Thursday at the "quattrolegende - exhibition".
On Friday and Saturday, spectators can look forward to a total of two regularity tests and two acceleration races.
Further information can be found at https://www.quattrolegende.com/quattrolegende/

After a few quiet weeks, things will finally get going again next weekend. Ihle Motorsport will be represented at the Rally Spirit 2024 from 30 May to 1 June as part of Slowly Sideways. The team will be travelling with the Audi 200 Quattro ex Mikkola. This vehicle made its rally debut at the 1987 Acropolis Rally and finished third with two fastest times. The driver was Hannu Mikkola.
On the same weekend, Ihle Motorsport will also be exhibiting the Audi Sport quattro Michele at the Motor Day at the Salzburgring on 1 and 2 June
Further information can be found at https://motortag.at/
An eventful weekend awaits us!

In two and a half weeks, Ihle Motorsport will already be starting the third race of the season. On April 19th and 20th, the 45th Critérium Jurassien will take place in Switzerland, marking the official opening of the Swiss Rally Championship. Teams will compete over 140 km with 8 special stages in the breathtaking landscape of the Swiss district Franches Montagnes.

Ihle Motorsport is participating for the second time, following their participation in 2023. The team will compete with the Opel Manta 400 Vatanen. This Opel was previously driven by the Finn Ari Vatanen to 4th place in the 1983 Greece Rally.

For further information, please visit: https://criterium-jurassien.ch/index.php

For Team Ihle Motorsport, it's off to Spain next week. From October 20 to 23, 2022, the Rally RACC Catalunya will take place on the beautiful Costa Daurada.

The Rally Spain was first held in 1957 and has been part of the WRC calendar since 1991. Many connoisseurs know that a special feature of the rally was its mixed surface. Until 2021, drivers had to drive the first day on gravel - the second and third days on asphalt. This year, the participants will drive exclusively on solid ground. The fast and smooth asphalt in the mountains of the Costa Daurada allows the drivers to set fast times, but it also requires excellent driving skills, especially in the corners.

Ihle Motorsport will be driving the VW Golf 16V Kleint.
You can follow the rally live on wrc.com or on RedBull TV.

The year is not over yet!
Ihle Motorsport will also be on site at the following events and rallies in the fall:
October 20 - 23, 2022: WRC Rally Catalunya
October 27 - 29 2022: Rally Madeira Legend
Detailed reports will follow here on ihle-motorsport.de and on our social media channels.

Reports and photos from past rallies can be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ihlemotorsportde.

A rally without timekeeping and scoring? That may sound strange at first, but that is precisely one of the many special features of the Alsace Rally Festival. At this rally, the focus is not on the competition, but on the legendary cars and their stories. These are originals, replicas and other vehicles that have written national and international rally history.
Except for small details and components concerning the safety of the drivers, modifications to the vehicles are not allowed.
Spectators can marvel at the cars on various demo tracks from 25 to 27 August 2022. There will also be an autograph session.
Team Ihle Motorsport will travel to the event with an Audi 200 and a VW Golf Bimotor.

More information about the Alsace Rally Festival can be found at http://www.alsace-rallye-festival.com/index.php/de/.

Ihle Motorsport will again be on site at numerous rallies in July and August.
Here you will find an overview of the upcoming events:

1 July 2022: DRM Rally Mittelrhein in Wittlich
7-9 July 2022: quattrolegende with Stig Blomqvist in St. Gilgen, Austria
21-23 July 2022: Eifel Rally Festival
7-12 August 2022: Olympia Rallye
25-27 August 2022: Alsace Rally Festival in Molsheim, France

Detailed reports will follow on our Facebook account and here on ihle-motorsport.de.

In May, Ihle Motorsport will again be on site at two rallies.

From 12-14 May, the team and driver Achim Mörtl will compete in the 13th Karawanken Classic. The 3-time Austrian national champion will be driving an Opel Manta 400 RM 16.

Just one week later, Ihle Motorsport is invited to the official celebration of "50 years of World Rally Championship" at the WRC Rally Portugal from 18-22 May. The driver will be Walter Röhrl in the Opel Ascona 400 RA 48. As a reminder, Röhrl already drove this car in the 1982 San Remo Rally and finished 3rd at that time. Later that year he became world champion for the second time - also thanks to his third place in the Opel Ascona 400.

Just under 3 weeks after the Rally Costa Brava, Ihle Motorsport is on site in Austria live at the Lavanttal Rallye. The team will be driving a VW Golf 16V Torph.
There is something very special about this rally besides the sporting decisions. As three years ago, the Kiwanis Club Unterkärnten organizes the charity event "Wir geben Gas für Lavanttaler Kinder in Not". Spectators have the opportunity to experience a ride in one of the historic rally cars as a passenger. The money for participation goes to charitable causes.

Ihle Motorsport is now also represented on Facebook (@ihlemotorsportde) and Instagram (@ihle.motorsport).

There you will find posts about rallying, current news, events and much more.

After some quiet weeks and months, Ihle Motorsport will be on site at the oldest Spanish rally - the 70th Rally Motul Costa Brava. The team will drive in a historic Opel Ascona 400 and provide nostalgia. Walter Röhrl achieved another important step on the way to his second world championship title in 1982 by finishing third in this car at the Rally San Remo.

The 70th Rally Motul Costa Brava will take place from 17-20 March 2022.

Ihle Motorsport will be part of the WRC Rally Spain from October 14th to 17th, 2021. The VW Golf G60 will be presented, with which the works team Erwin Weber / Matthias Feltz competed in the World Cup rally Australia in 1990, but unfortunately retired.

For only the second event this year, Ihle Motorsport will be at the Austrian rally this coming weekend Legends with the Opel Manta 200, which is one of only 2 vehicles built by the factory in 1983.

The first event for Ihle Motorsport after the pandemic-related interruption will be the RallySpirit in Portugal from June 3rd to 5th, 2021. The team competes with the Audi sport quattro with which Michèle Mouton drove the Acropolis and Finland rallies in 1984.

Unfortunately, the event was conditionally canceled!
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The last event in this short rally season for Ihle Motorsport to Portugal. At the RallySpirit from October 22nd to 25th, 2020, the Audi Sport quattro ex Michèle Mouton from the Acropolis and Finland Rallye 1984 will once again be released.

After the compulsory Corona break, Ihle Motorsport will be the first event this year to take part at www.quattrolegende.eu from October 1 to 4, 2020 with the Audi Coupé quattro. This is the Audi Sport UK works car, with which David Llewellin took 6th place in the 1987 RAC rally.

Because of the Corona crisis, these 3 events have been canceled.

From May 8 to 9, 2020, the Valles Pasiegos Rally Festival instead. Ihle Motorsport will be competing for the 45th anniversary of Walter Röhrl’s first World Cup victory at the 1975 Rally Acropolis with his Opel Ascona A.

The second event of the year leads Ihle Motorsport to Carinthia in Austria for the Lavanttal Rally. There everyone has the chance (while stocks last) to take part in the two-time German rally champion Harald Demuth with the "long" Audi quattro A2 on Saturday April 18, 2020 to book a ride on the Eitweg circuit.

The first assignment for Ihle Motorsport is the Rally Costa Brava in Spain from March 13 to 14, 2020, which is part of the Historic European Rally Championship. The Audi quattro Coupé will be used.

At the www.rallyspirit.pt in Porto from the 8th to the 10th of November 2019, Stig Blomqvist will be driving "his" Audi Sport quattro S1 with which he drove the Rally Argentina in 1985.

At the Rally Estoril, which will be held as part of the Rally de Portugal Histórico from 8 to 12 October 2019, Ari Vatanen rides the Manta 400, with which he finished 4th in the 1983 Rally Acropolis.

The East Belgian Rally (www.eastbelgianrally.eu) on 28.9.2019 will be the first race for the Audi quattro Coupé, with Davil Llewellin finishing sixth at the 1987 RAC Rally.

At the autocross in Sielenbach (www.mc-sielenbach.de) near Augsburg on 1 September 2019, Ihle Motorsport will do a few demo laps with the Audi Sport quattro S1.

At the www.vosges-rallye-festival.com, Stig Blomqvist celebrates the 30th anniversary of his only assignment for Volkswagen Motorsport, which he finished with class victory and third place overall in the 1989 Safari Rally in 1989 together with co-driver Björn Cederberg. For this he will drive with the VW Golf, with which 1988 Lars-Erik Torph and Björn Cederberg started for Volkswagen Motorsport.

The big spectacle of the historic rally cars is just around the corner. Ihle Motorsport will be represented with 2 vehicles. On the one hand, Harald Demuth drives the Audi 80, with which he clinched the first World Championship points for Audi Sport exactly 40 years ago in 1979. On the other hand drives Jochi Kleint his car from the German Rally Championship in 1987; a VW Golf GTI 16V. With both vehicles and the respective drivers can be bought a ride on Shakedown. Further information at https://www.eifel-rallye-festival.de/de/news-de.html

On 14 July 2019, journeys to the Audi Sport quattro will be sold in favor of the Familienherberge Lebensweg and the Förderverein für krebskranke Kinder Tübingen e.V. The journeys take place in the industrial area Sonnenbühl between 13.45 and 17.30 o'clock.

During the great Audi meeting from  3rd  to 7nd Juli 2019 at Wolfgangsee in Austria, Ihle Motorsport will be represented by the Audi Coupe quattro, which David Llewellin got the overall 6th place with at the RAC-Rallye in 1987.

Ihle Motorsport provides the Opel Ascona 400 for the rides organized by the Kiwanis Club Unterkärnten www.kc-unterkaernten.at at the www.lavanttal-rallye.at, with Walter Röhrl 3rd place in the Rally San Remo and Henri in 1982 Toivonen achieved the 6th place in the Rallye Monte-Carlo in 1983. The rider is Sepp Haider, the winner of the 1988 New Zealand WRC and German Rally Champion in 1989.

Ihle Motorsport begins the new season on March 15, 2019 with a deployment of the Opel Manta 400 at the Rally Costa Brava.

After the use of the long Audi quattro at www.lesgrandesheuresautomobiles.com last weekend, the team is on its way again. At the Rally Estoril in Portugal from 5 to 6 October, Stig Blomqvist will drive the Audi S1. And the week after that, Ihle Motorsport is racing at the www.rallylegend.com in San Marino with the Opel Ascona A from 1975, in which Walter Röhrl clinched his first World Championship victory for himself and for Opel in 1975. 

The VW Golf Bimotor (1986 4th place) and the Audi quattro ex John Buffum (1983 place 1) are for Ihle Motorsport the motto "Pikes Peak" of this year's www.eifel-rallye-festival.de from 18 to 21 July good represented. At Shakedown on July 19th, the auctioned ride in the Bimotor Golf will be held for charitable purposes with driver Jochi Kleint. 

At www.gr-b-rallyelegenden.com from 6.-7. July 2018, Ihle Motorsport will compete with the Opel Manta 400 ex Vatanen. 

On the occasion of Volkswagen Motorsport's participation in the Pikes Peak Hill Climb on 24 June, Ihle Motorsport will be exhibiting the 1985 and 1986 car in the Volkswagen Pa07villon in the "Automobile City".