Audi: John Buffum - Audi rally racing's living legend

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Audi. quattro. Those 2 names, when combined, helped re-define performance rally racing around the world.

As amazing as the Audi Quattro rally racing cars were, the best racing car in the world still needs a top driver at the wheel. Enter John Buffum, widely regarded as the most successful rally driver in the USA.

By the time Buffum started driving the Audi factory backed A1 Quattro, he had already become one of the sport's best drivers. In 1964, while attending Middlebury College in Vermont, one of John's fraternity brothers talked him into the navigator seat in a time speed distance (TSD) rally which was run in a borrowed MGA. So began the most famous rally career in U.S. motorsports history.

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Source: AudiWorld

Audi: John Buffum - Audi rally racing's living legend

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