
Audi Sport Quattro S1 #1 W. Rohrl Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Winner Record 1987 Minichamps 1:43

Specifications
- Brand
- Audi
- Manufacturer
- Minichamps
- Scale
- 1:43
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- New Model
- SKU
- 410871201
- Year
- 1987
- Era
- 1980s
- Body Type
- Special Models
- Vehicle Class
- Hillclimb & Special Events
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- New
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- —
About the Audi Sport Quattro S1 #1 W. Rohrl Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Winner Record 1987 Minichamps 1:43
TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 Audi Sport Quattro S1 reproduces car #1, Walter Röhrl's 1987 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb winner, which set a course record that stood for years. The sealed diecast body carries the full Audi Sport livery and the S1's distinctive wide-arch bodywork.
Pikes Peak has produced some of rallying's most spectacular one-off machines, and the Audi Sport Quattro S1 remains one of the most extreme. Minichamps' 1:43 casting captures Walter Röhrl's 1987 winning car exactly as it looked crossing the summit, complete with the S1's radically flared arches and enormous rear wing.
Minichamps Casts the Pikes Peak Record Car
Minichamps builds this Quattro S1 as a single fixed-body diecast shell, the standard approach for its 1:43 rally range, and the sealed construction suits a car defined almost entirely by its exterior silhouette. The S1's most extreme feature, the dramatically widened arches housing oversized rally tires, is captured as part of the one-piece casting rather than as a separate applied panel, which keeps the arch-to-body transition seamless where a real car would show welded seams. The rear wing, mounted high and angled aggressively for hillclimb aerodynamics, is molded with enough thinness to look correct at this scale without being so delicate that it risks damage in shipping. Audi Sport's factory livery, white with the four-ring badge and sponsor decals in period-correct placement, is tampo-printed onto the shell, holding sharp edges along the door panels and hood. Because the car never needs to show an opening door or engine bay to tell its story, the fixed body lets Minichamps put its attention entirely into stance and silhouette, the two things that made the S1 instantly recognizable even from a photograph taken from a distance. The ride height sits appropriately low and planted, and the wheel-to-arch relationship, often the detail that separates an accurate rally casting from a generic one, reads correctly here. At 1:43, that combination of correct proportion and sharp livery work is what makes a hillclimb subject like this worth collecting rather than just displaying.
Röhrl's 1987 Pikes Peak Record and the Quattro S1
Pikes Peak International Hill Climb has always rewarded raw power and fearless driving over refined handling, a mountain course climbing to over 14,000 feet with no guardrails to speak of. Audi built the Sport Quattro S1 specifically to dominate events like this, stripping weight and adding aerodynamic aids far beyond what mainstream international rally regulations of the era permitted, since Pikes Peak by 1987 operated largely outside those constraints. Walter Röhrl, already a two-time World Rally Championship title winner by that point, took the S1 to the overall win in 1987 and set a new course record in the process, a benchmark that stood as the mark to beat for years afterward. That result came during the final flowering of the short-lived Group B era, whose road-going homologation rules had produced some of the most extreme rally cars ever built before international rallying moved away from the category. Pikes Peak, unlike stage rallying, kept extreme Group B-derived machinery competitive well after the category was retired from the World Rally Championship, which is part of why the S1's Pikes Peak record carries its own distinct significance separate from the car's WRC career. For collectors of Audi's rally history, this specific livery marks a genuine high point, a record-setting result rather than simply another period entry.
A Hillclimb Icon Among Rally Diecast
At 1:43, this Quattro S1 sits naturally beside other Audi rally liveries from the Group B era without needing a dedicated hillclimb display. The scale keeps a broad Audi rally collection manageable on one shelf, letting the S1's dramatic stance stand out through proportion alone rather than through sheer size. Its sealed diecast construction keeps the price in reasonable territory relative to opening-panel alternatives, a fair trade for a subject whose appeal is almost entirely about silhouette and livery rather than interior detail. Pairing this with Audi's stage-rally Quattros from the same period builds a fuller picture of the brand's four-wheel-drive dominance across two very different disciplines. It is a record-holding result worth having correctly represented, and this casting handles that job well.















