The extreme battle between Lancia and Audi on the 1983 World Rally Championship will characteristic in a brand new film by Lionsgate.
Race for Glory: Audi vs Lancia focuses on the true life occasions of the extreme rivalry between the 2 marques as they competed for the producers’ title.
Directed by Stefano Mordini (The Invisible Witness and Metal), the movie will deal with the “actual life David vs Goliath” story. Right here’s all the pieces you could find out about Race for Glory: Audi vs Lancia forward of its launch…
What’s the launch date for Race For Glory: Audi vs Lancia?
Race For Glory: Audi Vs Lancia can be launched on 5 January 2024. The movie is impressed by the true rivalry between Audi and Lancia for the 1983 World Rally Championship.
Tips on how to watch Race For Glory: Audi vs Lancia
Race For Glory: Audi Vs Lancia can be launched in US theaters on 5 January however may even be obtainable on demand and on digital streaming platforms.
Though a UK launch is but to be confirmed by Lionsgate, the movie firm has its personal streaming platform, Lionsgate+ so it’s possible the film can be streamed on there. UK viewers can subscribe to the platform for £5.99 by way of the Lionsgate+ app or Virgin TV and Amazon Prime.
Who will star in Race For Glory: Audi Vs Lancia?
Actor Daniel Brühl will star as German engineer Roland Gumpert, who helped safe 24 rally wins and two rally world championship titles for the Audi workforce underneath his management as race director. Brühl is a well-known face after portraying three-time Formulation 1 world champion Niki Lauda within the 2013 film Rush. The Spanish-German actor has additionally appeared in Captain America: Civil Warfare and Inglorious Basterds.
Italian actor Riccardo Scamarcio may even star as Cesare Fiorio, the previous workforce supervisor of Lancia’s WRC workforce.
Fiorio was additionally the previous Formulation 1 sporting director for Ferrari. Scamarcio has beforehand starred in John Wick: Chapter 2, The Summer time Home and The Final Paradiso.
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Attilio Bettega, Maurizio Perissinot, Lancia 037 Rally
The movie may even star Volker Bruch as German rally legend Walter Röhrl. After driving for Fiat, Opel, Lancia and Audi, Röhrl scored 14 victories, together with two World Rally Championship titles and the GTP +3.0 class within the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Race For Glory: Audi Vs Lancia additionally options Katie Clarkson-Hill, Bruno Gouery and Esther Garrel.
What’s Race For Glory: Audi Vs Lancia about?
It options the actual life story of the 1983 World Rally Championship. Audi have been the favourites to dominate the season with their Quattro, a four-wheel drive automotive towards Lancia’s two-wheel drive 037.
The Audi Quattro started manufacturing in 1980 following the same design to a automobile produced by Volkswagen for the German navy, the Kind 183 Iltis coupe. The automotive had gained Audi the producers’ title race throughout the 1982 season, and the workforce’s drivers Michèle Mouton and Hannu Mikkola took second and third within the drivers’ race.
Lancia additionally debuted their 037 in 1982 however had little success, with the workforce ending in the direction of the underside of the grid. German driver Röhrl took the championship victory for Opel earlier than becoming a member of Lancia for the 1983 World Rally Championship.
Lancia went into the championship with Röhrl and Markku Alén main their workforce of seven drivers. The pair would face off towards the profitable Mouton and Mikkola who drove alongside Audi’s eleven drivers of their Quattro A1 and A2 vehicles.
Audi went into the championship very nicely funded and had the chance to maintain creating their automotive over the course of the season underneath the watch of German engineer Gumpert. Lancia was led by Fiorio however the workforce have been the underdog of the season, with a decrease funds than its rival.
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Hannu Mikkola, Arne Hertz, Audi Quattro A1
Lancia had beforehand gained the WRC 4 instances, beforehand operating the Stratos and Fulvia which had seen them grow to be a a number of rally winner.
SPOILER ALERT!
The primary occasion of the 1983 World Rally Championship happened in a snowy Monte Carlo, the place the Lancia 037 gave the impression to be at an obstacle from its Audi rival.
Fiorio stated: “I feel the most important shock was for us to win the Monte Carlo occasion. It was the primary occasion of the 12 months and usually it was a rally that we must always have misplaced as there was snow, however we managed to take it away in some way. That’s after we knew we have been aggressive.”
Fiorio had ordered 300 tons of salt from Italy and had unfold it over the completely different levels of the course, which melted the snow. The workforce have been then ready to make use of slick tyres and altered their tyres within the mid-stages of the rally to make the most of the unseasonably dry roads.
Audi didn’t know concerning the melted snow and despatched their vehicles out on snow tyres to find that a big portion of the roads have been clear. This tactic from Lancia helped them achieve an 11-minute benefit by the top of the rally and secured them the victory.
The 2 groups gained 10 out of the 12 rounds between them and in addition secured 30 of the championship’s 36 podium positions. Lancia secured the 1983 producer championship for the primary time for the reason that workforce’s three consecutive wins between 1974 and 1976 regardless of selecting not to participate in a number of occasions within the calendar.
Audi had made a slight comeback in the direction of the second half of the season and gained three out of the ultimate 4 occasions, nevertheless it was not sufficient as Lancia wrapped up the title with two rounds to spare.
Lancia’s victory within the 037 was additionally the final time a two-wheeled drive automotive gained the World Rally Championship.
Different World Rally Championship movies
Race for Glory: Audi Vs Lancia is just not the primary time the World Rally Championship has been captured for movie and TV. In 2021, Mouton’s life and profession was the topic of a Sky unique documentary, Queen of Pace.
The programme informed the story of how Mouton fought to compete within the male-dominated motorsport throughout the Nineteen Seventies and 80s which noticed her win 4 WRC races, making her the one girl to have performed so.
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Michele Mouton, Fabrizia Pons, Audi Quattro
The documentary is on the market on Sky Documentaries, in addition to NOW TV and sees a private account from Mouton herself, in addition to interviews with co-driver Fabrizia Pons and her rivals Ari Vatanen and Walter Rohrl.
RedBull TV additionally has a documentary titled Sebastien Ogier – The Remaining Season. The 80-minute movie appears to be like on the Frenchman’s 2021 season – his final full WRC season of his profession.
Ogier stated: “I used to be very vital about many particulars to maintain it as correct as potential, however it’s all the time a problem to suit 15 years of a profession into an hour and 20 minutes. However I’m very pleased with it”
The documentary appears to be like at Ogier’s complete profession together with the motive force receiving his first go-kart on the age of eight and his desires of following within the footsteps of Ayrton Senna. Finally the monetary realities led to the Frenchman deciding to pursue a profession in rallying which resulted in 4 consecutive WRC titles between 2013 and 2016.
Sebastian Ogier – The Remaining Season might be seen on-line on RedBull TV.
