With Hannu Mikkola busy with the Rally Argentina it was looking like Audi Sport may be giving the Ulster Rally a miss.
Much to everyone's surprise Audi Sport entered Walter Röhrl and a Audi Sport quattro.
With Walter having never competed on the event before the all tarmac rally seemed to be the perfect place for him to so some high speed testing in the Sport quattro and iron out some of the problems encountered a few months earlier on the Corsican and Acropolis Rally's.