A new and promising opportunity in motorsport opens up for Audi: as announced at a press conference today in New York, the organizers of NASCAR and GRAND-AM plan a US based race series for DTM racecars like the Audi RS 5 DTM.
For André Lotterer, a childhood dream came true. The UK special interest magazine Octane invited the Audi factory driver and winner of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in cooperation with Audi Tradition to a special test. As a teenager, Lotterer was fascinated by the Audi Sport quattro S1. Last December, he had the opportunity to try out the 476-hp Group B rally car on an original special stage of the San Remo Rally. The story will appear in the April issue of the magazine which is available from February 27.
The two-time DTM champion Timo Scheider and an Audi A1 quattro experience a spectacular construction site gymkhana style at the the world’s first Audi center in Munich (Audi Gebrauchtwagen Zentrums in München). Continue reading ‘Timo Scheider and an Audi A1 – Audi Mud Dub’
Audi factory driver André Lotterer was in action on Saturday in the historic rally ‘Legend Boucles de Spa’ as ambassador for the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC): his Audi quattro Group 4 from the 1981 season advertised for the 6-hour race at Spa on May 4.
The Audi R10 TDI and the Audi R18 e-tron quattro have gone down in Le Mans history. Now they have been selected to join the illustrious circle of the ten most iconic Le Mans sports cars of all time by a panel of expert judges and the fans.
Continue reading ‘Audi sports cars selected as Le Mans icons’
DTM driver Filipe Albuquerque tested the 188 kW (256 hp) powerful Audi A1 quattro on the various Großglockner high Alpine roads at the beginning of December.
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With more than 1.34 million worldwide deliveries, Audi equaled last year’s sales record after only eleven months. And in motorsport, the brand with the four rings continues to charge full speed ahead too. The title defense in the FIA World Championship (WEC), the commitment in the DTM and extended activities in US racing are particularly in focus in the 2013 season.
“Successful motorsport is part of our brand DNA,” stated Wolfgang Dürheimer, Member of the Management Board for Technical Development at AUDI AG, on Wednesday night at the “Audi Sport Finale” held at the Audi Forum Ingolstadt. “The victories on the world’s race tracks underscore our technical expertise in a particularly authentic way – and they strengthen our position on the most important world markets.” Continue reading ‘Audi Sport announces exciting plans for 2013′
Audi unites its endurance race winning quintet. Five Audi race cars that from Bathurst to Le Mans won four 24-hour races plus a 12-hour race in the 2012 season came together for the first time at a photo shoot.
The class meeting of the 2012 endurance race winners saw the united innovation, powerful performance and maximum efficiency of five race cars from Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm. Combined, the four Audi R8 LMS cars and the Le Mans winning R18 e-tron quattro had gone almost halfway around the globe. In five racing commitments, at Bathurst (Australia), Le Mans (France), the Nürburgring (Germany), Zolder and Spa (both in Belgium), they covered an overall distance of 17,767.898 kilometers, which corresponds to around 44 percent of the circumference of the earth at the equator. Added to this are the successes achieved in the new FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) with four more victories besides Le Mans, plus the drivers’ and manufacturers’ title wins.
In what was a race-free week for them, the Audi factory drivers were in high demand as interview guests, participants and partners at trade fairs, awards ceremonies and a TV event.
Continue reading ‘Motorsport Newsletter 39/2012: Audi factory drivers in worldwide demand’
Continue reading ‘Audi’s Le Mans winning trio extends lead of the Championship standings in Brazil’
