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In 1977, Röhrl apparently started losing patience with Opels. He entered eight rallies and finished only half of them. He alternated unlucky Kadetts with his personal Porsche 911 and three times, he tried a Fiat 131 Abarth. It turned out to be a perfect car for the driver who famously said that “Good rally drivers have dead flies on the side windows.”
https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/sports-society/brand-ambassadors/walter-roehrl.html
>In 1977, Röhrl apparently started losing patience with Opels. He entered eight rallies and finished only half of them. He alternated unlucky Kadetts with his personal Porsche 911 and three times, he tried a Fiat 131 Abarth. It turned out to be a perfect car for the driver who famously said that “Good rally drivers have dead flies on the side windows.”
https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/sports-society/brand-ambassadors/walter-roehrl.html
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