APR Motorsport Press Release
June 7, 2012 (Opelika, Ala.) – The APR Motorsport team reached a milestone in last weekend’s Chevrolet Grand-Am Detroit 200, when Dion von Moltke led the first laps for the Audi R8 Grand-Am in Rolex Series competition. The day before, when von Moltke recorded the team’s best qualifying effort of 4th, his teammate Dr. Jim Norman topped the practice charts for the first time in the Audi.
Although the car would ultimately finish eleventh in the race after von Moltke slid into the tire wall during a brief rain shower, the team was enthused by its breakthrough performance and now looks forward to the different challenge of the permanent circuit at Mid-Ohio.
“Our APR Audi R8 Grand-Am has been really improving, thanks to the support of Parathyroid.com, PR Newswire, and South African Airways, and I hope that trend will continue this weekend,” said von Moltke. “Mid-Ohio is about as opposite as possible from Belle Isle. There are a lot of elevation changes and the track is relatively smooth, so it will challenge the engineers as well as the drivers this weekend to adapt with only a few days’ break. There is always a lot of really tight battling around Mid-Ohio so I cannot wait to get back to racing this weekend.”
ABOUT APR
APR LLC is an automotive engineering firm operating a 36,000 sq. ft. performance campus in Opelika, Ala. APR was founded in 1997 with a corporate philosophy of Integrity, Excellence and Innovation. APR’s sole mission is to provide the highest quality and most highly engineered aftermarket performance parts available for Audi, Volkswagen, SEAT and Skoda vehicles.
Photo credit: Arin Ahnell / APR Motorsport
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