Anticipation ran high last Thursday evening along the brightly lit, red carpet walk at Hollywood’s legendary Mann’s Chinese Theater. The moment had arrived for ‘Truth in 24′ the documentary on Audi’s 2008 Le Mans motorsports teams, to launch into its world premiere at the highly regarded AFI Fest film festival. Continue reading ‘Audi’s Truth in 24 Wins Ft. Lauderdale Festival Prize’
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Four rings, four wins. Enough said! Seriously, name another brand with this amount of motorsport effort across the globe, sometimes on the same weekend.
- End of season party at Audi Forum Neckarsulm
- Motorsport involvement important for brand’s image
- Victory for both the A4 DTM and R10 TDI
Four rings, four wins. The end of season party at the Audi Forum Neckarsulm was celebrated under this motto, and at which Audi thanked its teams and drivers for the most successful motorsport season in the company’s history. Chairman of the Board of Management Rupert Stadler and Michael Dick, Member of the Board of Management with responsibility for Technical Development, emphasised the importance of motorsport for the brand. Continue reading ‘Audi celebrates most successful motorsport season’
The final race of the 2008 Le Mans Series will be a huge one for Audi. Since the start Peugeot has dominated the Audi R10 TDI’s. Yet, at the same time Audi has kept up in the points. We think the overall title is more important to Audi than power + speed. 2pts behind in Driver Champ’s and 6pts behind in Manufacturer Champ’s.
Audi competes in a second race in Great Britain only 14 days after Timo Scheider’s victory at Brands Hatch in the Audi A4 DTM: The finale of the European based Le Mans Series (LMS) is held on 14 September at Silverstone where Audi Sport Team Joest still has chances of winning the title. Continue reading ‘Le Mans Series: Audi with title chance at Silverstone’
At the eighth DTM round at Brands Hatch, Audi celebrated their fourth win of the 2008 season. In unstable weather conditions Timo Scheider defended an extremely narrow lead against Mercedes driver Paul di Resta on the British circuit. In front of 26,800 spectators (throughout the weekend) Timo Scheider thus extended his leadership of the standings to nine points. Mattias Ekström shone with a brilliant recovery from seventh to third place. Continue reading ‘DTM: Audi wins at Brands Hatch and extends DTM lead’
Ok. We don’t like to swear on this site but sometimes it requires some… HOLY M***** F***** !!!! In the back of everyone’s mind we are sure there was this vision, hope, dream that an Audi R8 would be made into a race version! We here it is!!! BAM! Will we see this put into a DTM version. It is RWD.
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For the first time, Audi Sport will offer a racing sports car specifically developed for customer use in the form of the powerful 500 hp plus GT3 version of the Audi R8 which will be available from autumn 2009. The logistics and factory space required for the AUDI AG customer programme will be created over the next few months in Ingolstadt, Neckarsulm and Györ. Continue reading ‘Audi develops race version of the R8′
