Audi sports cars news

  • Dec 20, 2011

    Audi R8 LMS ultra to fight for World Champion’s title in 2012

    The new Audi R8 LMS ultra will also be competing in the FIA GT1 World Championship next year. Two vehicles of the brand new customer sport race car will be independently fielded by Team WRT in the world’s highest-caliber GT racing series.

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  • Dec 19, 2011

    Dieter Gass to reinforce Audi Sport

    Audi is tackling the 2012 motor sport season with an extended leadership team. Dieter Gass (48) will reinforce the squad led by Head of Audi Motorsport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich as of January 1. The native of the German state of Hessen will assume the newly created role as Head of Racing Commitments.

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  • Dec 17, 2011

    Audi tests LMP1 sports car for 2012

    Audi Sport is intensively preparing for the 2012 sports prototype season. A test team has started the next trial phase of the LMP1 sports car for the 2012 season in the United States this week.

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  • Dec 16, 2011

    Award-winning presence by Audi Sport

    As part of its factory commitments, Audi in 2011 won the Le Mans 24 Hours, the DTM and the Spa 24 Hours while Audi’s private customer teams clinched six international titles with the R8 LMS. Yet the list of honors goes far beyond this: off the race tracks Audi received high recognition in motorsport as well.

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  • Nov 25, 2011

    Strong Audi presence at 2011 Race of Champions

    Audi will be represented at the 2011 Race of Champions at the ESPRIT arena in Düsseldorf on December 3 and 4, 2011 with its strongest line-up ever. As many as four Audi “factory” drivers will compete with Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel & company. In addition, the brand with the four rings is deploying the 525-HP Audi R8 LMS to the meeting of the world’s best race and rally drivers as the most powerful competition vehicle in the field.

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  • Nov 18, 2011

    Audi as title defender at Bathurst in 2012

    The Audi R8 LMS will return to Australia as the title defender. After the one-two result at the Bathurst 12 Hours last February, the successful GT3 sports car will again compete at the endurance classic from February 24 to 26. The high-caliber driver line-up has already been confirmed.

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  • Oct 2, 2011

    Disappointing Petit Le Mans for Audi

    The 1,000-mile "Petit Le Mans" race at Road Atlanta (U.S. state of Georgia) was extremely disappointing for Audi. In the battle for the lead Romain Dumas in the Audi R18 TDI #1 on lap 297 became fautlessly entangled in an accident that forced him to retire. After several collisions, Audi Sport Team Joest took the second Audi R18 TDI out of the race early for safety reasons.

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  • Sep 11, 2011

    Audi with good performance but lack of fortune

    The 6-hour race at Silverstone (Great Britain) in which the two Audi R18 TDI cars of Audi Sport Team Joest on positions two and seven were beaten below their performance potential was perfect advertising for the new FIA World Endurance Championship to be launched in 2012.

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  • Sep 10, 2011

    Audi on front row at Silverstone

    The two Audi R18 TDI cars from Audi Sport Team Joest will start into the 6-hour race at Silverstone (Great Britain) on Sunday at 11:35 a.m., local time ( 12:35 CEST) from the two front rows of the grid.

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  • Sep 2, 2011

    Last European stop for the Audi R18 TDI

    The 6-hour race at Silverstone (Great Britain) marks the beginning of the final sprint for Audi in the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup (ILMC) - the racing series that will become the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2012.

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