World Rally Championship 1982 — all rallies

The first Group B season was a year of transition: the old Group 4 cars ran alongside the first new homologations, and Audi’s four-wheel-drive Quattro met Walter Röhrl’s rear-wheel-drive Opel Ascona 400. Röhrl took the drivers’ title; Audi won the manufacturers’ crown.

12
rallies
7
different winners
7
Audi wins
0
Lancia & Peugeot wins

Every round of the 1982 World Rally Championship has its own page, with the route, the key entries, how the rally unfolded, the top-10 result and the most important retirements. For the season story, standings and the main players, see the 1982 season overview.

Rd. Rally Dates Surface Winner Car
1 Monte Carlo Rally 16–22 January 1982 Tarmac and snow Walter Röhrl Opel Ascona 400
2 Swedish Rally 12–14 February 1982 Snow Stig Blomqvist Audi Quattro
3 Rally de Portugal 3–6 March 1982 Tarmac and gravel Michèle Mouton Audi Quattro
4 Safari Rally 8–12 April 1982 Gravel Shekhar Mehta Nissan Violet
5 Tour de Corse 6–8 May 1982 Tarmac Jean Ragnotti Renault 5 Turbo
6 Acropolis Rally 31 May – 3 June 1982 Gravel Michèle Mouton Audi Quattro
7 Rally New Zealand 26–29 June 1982 Gravel Björn Waldegård Toyota Celica
8 Rally of Brazil 11–14 August 1982 Gravel Michèle Mouton Audi Quattro
9 1000 Lakes Rally 27–29 August 1982 Gravel Hannu Mikkola Audi Quattro
10 Rallye Sanremo 3–8 October 1982 Tarmac and gravel Stig Blomqvist Audi Quattro
11 Ivory Coast Rally 27 October – 1 November 1982 Tarmac and gravel Walter Röhrl Opel Ascona 400
12 RAC Rally 21–25 November 1982 Gravel Hannu Mikkola Audi Quattro
Monte Carlo Rally 1982The first Monte Carlo Rally of the Group B era was a duel between old and new: Walter Röhrl’s rear-wheel-drive Opel Ascona 400 against the four-wheel-drive Audi Quattro.Read more →Swedish Rally 1982Stig Blomqvist’s Swedish Rally win was the Quattro’s first victory on snow — exactly where four-wheel drive was expected to be decisive.Read more →Rally de Portugal 1982Michèle Mouton and Fabrizia Pons won in Portugal by more than 13 minutes — and showed that their win in Sanremo the previous autumn had been no one-off.Read more →Safari Rally 1982Shekhar Mehta won his fourth Safari in a row — and the fifth of his career — in a Datsun/Nissan Violet.Read more →Tour de Corse 1982Jean Ragnotti gave the mid-engined Renault 5 Turbo a home win on asphalt, the surface where the Quattro was still vulnerable.Read more →Acropolis Rally 1982Michèle Mouton’s most dominant performance: 26 stage wins and a lead held from stage 7 to the finish of the 57-stage Acropolis.Read more →Rally New Zealand 1982Björn Waldegård led a Toyota one-two in New Zealand on the debut of the new-shape Celica.Read more →Rally of Brazil 1982Only 22 cars started and four finished; Michèle Mouton won, Walter Röhrl was second.Read more →1000 Lakes Rally 1982Hannu Mikkola won his home rally by just 30 seconds from team-mate Stig Blomqvist — an Audi one-two on the fastest event of the year.Read more →Rallye Sanremo 1982Stig Blomqvist won Sanremo in a Quattro entered by the Swedish Audi team, ahead of Mikkola — but Röhrl’s third place kept him in control of the championship.Read more →Ivory Coast Rally 1982Walter Röhrl clinched the 1982 drivers’ title by winning in Abidjan; Michèle Mouton crashed out.Read more →RAC Rally 1982Hannu Mikkola’s RAC win sealed Audi’s first manufacturers’ title, with Mouton second.Read more →

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Sources

  1. Jonkka's World Rally Archive (juwra.com), season 1982 — https://www.juwra.com/
  2. Wikipedia (EN), 1982 World Rally Championship — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_World_Rally_Championship

All text is original writing for Grouve Sports Management Group, based on the sources above. Facts checked on 21 October 2026.

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