XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Audi A5 B8 SPORTBACK 4WD 2009-2016

The B8 A5 Sportback’s quattro drivetrain hauls a chunk of extra mass over the front axle compared with the two-wheel-drive cars in the range, and on a sealed-stage rally route that weight wants to keep travelling in a straight line long after you’ve turned the wheel. XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover is built around that exact problem: fast, repeated direction changes over surfaces that are rarely as smooth as a circuit.

Where a track-focused set-up chases minimum lap time on a known, clean surface, this kit is calibrated for the unknown – crests, camber changes, and mid-corner bumps that arrive without warning on a stage. It’s the right pick for the A5 Sportback owner running tarmac rally events rather than track days, where compliance under load matters as much as outright stiffness.

What this coilover does for your 2009-2016 Audi A5

Fitted to a 2009-2016 A5 Sportback, the damper’s job is to keep the tyre in contact with a surface that changes texture corner to corner. Hit a broken edge mid-stage and the damper absorbs the strike rather than passing it straight into the chassis, which keeps the contact patch loaded instead of skipping. That matters on quattro power especially, because traction out of a stage corner is where time is made or lost, and a suspension that’s still settling from the last bump can’t put power down cleanly. The reduced shock transmission also protects the rest of the car – subframe, bushes, the driver – over a stage distance that a fast-road set-up was never asked to cover. You get a chassis that stays composed jump to jump rather than one tuned purely for a smooth, closed circuit.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

This is XYZ Racing’s damper built specifically for sealed-stage tarmac rally use, and its tuning reflects lessons pulled directly from that discipline rather than adapted from a circuit product. The valving is set to soak up sharp, high-frequency impacts – the kind you get crossing a pothole or a broken repair patch at speed – without the body pitching or the rear stepping out of line. That control keeps the tyre’s contact patch working rather than skittering, which is where the traction gain actually comes from on loose or uneven tarmac. Every setting on this damper traces back to XYZ’s own tarmac rally programme, not a generic road-and-track compromise, so the compression and rebound curves are shaped for stage-speed hits rather than smooth-track cornering loads.

Fitment for the Audi A5 B8 Sportback (2009-2016)

This kit is built for the Audi A5 B8 Sportback in quattro (4WD) configuration, chassis code AU28, covering the 2009 to 2016 production run. Confirm your car sits within that model year span and drivetrain before ordering, as the B8 range also includes front-wheel-drive variants that this specification is not set up for.

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Configure your Tarmac Rally spec for the AU28 Sportback below.