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Despite not finishing the city street race in Detroit, the two German Audi “factory” drivers Lucas Luhr and Marco Werner have already clinched the Drivers’ title in the LM P1 class of the American Le Mans Series. Continue reading ‘Lucas Luhr and Marco Werner win ALMS Championship title’
Audi drivers Marcel Fassler and Emanuele Pirro achieved their first victory in the LM P1 class of the American Le Mans Series in the city street race in Detroit (U.S. state of Michigan). After a faultless drive they finished third overall with their Audi R10 TDI. Lucas Luhr and Marc Werner retired early following an accident and, after seven consecutive victories, for the first time this year did not score any points. Continue reading ‘First victory of the season for Audi drivers Fassler/Pirro’
Like last year, the Audi drivers are facing an extremely difficult task in the race of the American Le Mans Series on the “Belle Isle Street Circuit” in Detroit (U.S. state of Michigan). Team Audi Sport North America’s pair of Audi R10 TDI prototypes will start Saturday’s race from the fourth and fifth row of the grid on the bumpy city street circuit. Continue reading ‘ALMS: Audi drivers facing difficult task at Detroit’
Well done and congrats but Petit Le Mans and Peugeot are around the corner in America!!! We hate saying this but LMP1 is like GT1… unless its Sebring, Le Mans and Petit.
Audi have prematurely clinched the LM P1 Manufacturers’ Championship in the American Le Mans Series with their third consecutive 1-2 victory. Before the last three races, the brand with the four rings is out of reach in the classifications for engine and chassis manufacturers.
Continue reading ‘ALMS: Audi clinches Championship titles in America’
Audi driver Dindo Capello has turned the former Canadian Grand Prix circuit at Mosport into the fastest racetrack of the American Le Mans Series. In Saturday’s qualifying, he beat last year’s pole time with the over 650-hp Audi R10 TDI by almost two seconds. With an average speed of 138.116 mph, Capello recorded the fastest lap ever in the history of the American Le Mans Series thus beating the record which his team-mate Lucas Luhr had established just a fortnight ago at Road America. Continue reading ‘ALMS: Pole and new record lap for Audi at Mosport’
The Audi R10 TDI has won the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans three times in succession. For the first time the ground breaking diesel sportscar competes in the 1000-kilometre race at the Nürburgring on 17 August in the country where it was designed: Germany. Continue reading ‘Audi R10 TDI races for first time in Germany’
Audi has clinched the second consecutive 1-2 victory in the American Le Mans Series. At Road America (U.S. state of Wisconsin), the German duo Lucas Luhr and Marco Werner celebrated their sixth victory of the season thus taking a further step towards the title. Marcel Fässler completed the Audi triumph in his first race with the Audi R10 TDI alongside Emanuele Pirro. Continue reading ‘ALMS: Audi TDI Power triumphs again’
The Audi R10 TDI is the most successful car in the 2008 American Le Mans Series with three overall victories. The Audi drivers are particularly looking forward to the next race on 9 August: Road America in Wisconsin is not only regarded as one of the world’s most picturesque and challenging circuits. The track is also the fastest on the American Le Mans Series calendar. Continue reading ‘ALMS: Audi drivers hunting records in the USA’
The Swiss racing driver Marcel Fässler (32) gets the chance to contest two races in the American Le Mans Series with the Audi R10 TDI. The former DTM driver starts at Road America (9 August) and Detroit (30 August) for Team Audi Sport North America as team-mate to Emanuele Pirro. Continue reading ‘Marcel Fassler drives Audi R10 TDI in America’
Wow! Great work by the Audi teams! While we were at Barber Motorsports Park we were able to gets updates on the race and I believe it wasn’t more than 40min that the Audi’s took over the lead. Great to see them back in the overall!
Audi Sport North America’s two Audi R10 TDI prototypes were in a class of their own in round six of the American Le Mans series at Mid-Ohio (U.S. state of Ohio). Lucas Luhr/Marco Werner and Dindo Capello/Emanuele Pirro achieved a comanding 1-2 victory for Audi – on a track which in the past favoured the lighter LM P2 cars and on which Audi last scored an overall victory in 2004. Continue reading ‘ALMS: Commanding 1-2 victory for Audi at Mid-Ohio’
