It was a busy weekend for nearly 200 vintage vehicles on the most beautiful alpine roads in Tyrol, Bavaria and in the province of Salzburg. About a third of them came from the Volkswagen Group brands Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, Skoda and Volkswagen, 22 of which rolled directly from the factory and museums were driven by celebrities.
The 28th Kitzbühel Alpine Rally was held in beautiful weather, on a spectacular route of roughly 500km. Beginning with the prologue “Hohe Salve” on Reith, Itter and Windautal followed for the “Watzmann-Round” which crossed the Hochkönig- and the Rossfeld mountain route to Berchtesgaden. Then Saturday’s “Tatzelwurm Round” on the Chiemgau, Sudelfeld and Kufstein ended at a folk festival in downtown Kitzbühel with hundreds of enthusiastic spectators.
From the Audi Museum an original quattro, a sport came quattro, a 100 Coupé S and a 80 GTE all participated in the event, the latter driven by skiing ace Romed Baumann. Porsche was represented by multiple vehicles as well, including a 356 B piloted by Hans-Joachim “Strietzel” Stuck, and a 911 S. Škoda also participated in the event, bringing a Felicia and a 1000 MB Rally to participate in the Kitzbühel Alpine Rally.
The Classic departments of Volkswagen and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brought several vintage car with air-cooled engines from their headquarters- ranging from a Beetle and Bulli to the VW-Porsche 914. A special focus however,was the Polo, which is celebrating its fortieth anniversary this year. Polo participation came in the form of an original 1975 model and a racy G40 second generation car. Volkswagen also brought the current rally winning Polo R WRC of Sebastian Ogier to the Alps, as well as the reigning world champion himself, who came to Kitzbühel along with TV presenter and wife Andrea Kaiser. Overall winner of Alpine Rally were Harald Jung / Klaus Erbstösser in an Austin-Healey (Classic Trophy) and Helmut Lorenzoni / Mike Angermann in an early Porsche 911 (Sports Trophy).
Also on display were Volkswagen’s XL1, the e-Golf and the Golf GTE. The new Audi TTS was in attendance as well, bringing an enthusiastic following much like Lamborghini Aventador and Huracán. Bentley offered an impressive generational comparison including the Mulsanne, Blue Train Edition and the historical Speed Six, who once won the race against a legendary train, in addition came to a Continental GT and GT Speed V8S.
(Source: DPP-car Reporter / WPR)
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