Audi Quattro

Recently revised and reprinted (April 2017) this 128-page English language title in the popular Rally Giants series, published by Veloce, delves into the technology and history of Audi’s successes in the Ur quattro… Featuring authoritative text and a large number of colour and monochrome pictures, for its modest size this book provides a very detailed account of what happened and when, and will make a most welcome present for anyone interest in the story of the rally quattros.- Audi Driver; The book delves into the first ideas for the Audi right through to its successes at World Rally. As well as the star drivers over the years and the second half of the book details its competition years. Another good book from the ‘Rally Giants’ series.- Track & Race Cars; … Robson’s compact and informative series or Veloce provides an ideal reference. - Speedscene.

After a varied career in the automotive industry, Graham Robson has gained a worldwide reputation as a motoring historian and has more than 160 books to his credit.

Born in 1936 and educated at Ermysteds Grammar School in Yorkshire, Graham then went on to study Engineering at Oxford University. He joined Jaguar Cars as a graduate trainee, becoming involved in design work on the Mk II, E-Type, and Mark X. Beginning as a hobby, he became a rally co-driver, eventually joining the Sunbeam ‘works’ team in 1961, and took part in rallies up to International level (once with Roger Clark) but stopped rallying by 1968.

During this time, he joined Standard-Triumph in Coventry, in 1961, as a Development Engineer, mainly on sports car projects. He then ran the re-opened ‘works’ motorsport department from 1962 to 1965, this being the period of the birth of Spitfire Le Mans cars, TR4, Vitesse, Spitfire, and 2000 rally car developments.

Graham Robson’s writing began with rally reports for magazines, which evolved into a job with Autocar from 1965-1969. He was recruited back to the industry at Rootes to run the Product Proving department, then, after a brief period in 1972 as technical director of a safety belt company, became an independent motoring writer. Graham has lived ‘by the pen’ and ‘by the voice’, not only writing but commentating, presenting, and organizing events of all types.