Audi customers aim for victory at the Nürburgring

Audi Press Release

•          24-hour race at the Nürburgring with eight Audi R8 LMS ultra cars
•          Five customer teams bank on Audi’s GT3 sports car
•          Technical support by Audi Sport customer racing

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Audi delivers 100th customer race car

Audi Press Release

•          Audi R8 LMS ultra handed over to MS RACING on Tuesday
•          Current ADAC GT Masters champion’s team to start relying on Audi
•          Car number “100” symbolizes success of the program

Ingolstadt, April 3, 2013 – Newcomer to Audi Sport customer racing: Team MS RACING is switching to Audi and will be fielding two new R8 LMS ultra cars in the 2013 ADAC GT Masters. On Tuesday, quattro GmbH handed over the 100th race car from Heilbronn-Biberach, a facility of the Neckarsulm location, to the squad.

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PK Carsport with an Audi R8 LMS in Belgian BRCC

By Tarek Ramchani

The big Audi Sport customer racing family is welcoming yet another new member. PK Carsport from Belgium announced that they are coming back to racing after years of absence. They will be returning with an Audi R8 LMS. At this stage the specification of the car is unclear, as of yet it is mentioned that the car is an R8 LMS but the press photos depict the car as an Audi R8 LMS ultra, ti,e will tell. They are now the second Belgian based Audi team along with the highly successful Belgian Audi Club Team WRT.

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von Moltke and Audi stars take Rolex 24 GT victory at Daytona

Dion von Moltke Press Release

Daytona, FL (Sunday, January 27, 2013): GRAND-AM Rolex Series young star Dion von Moltke teamed with a trio of Audi factory drivers today to take the German manufacturer to its first victory at the Rolex 24 at Daytona.

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Audi wins the Rolex 24 in Daytona GT class

By Tarek Ramchani and Johan Laubscher

Audi has just won the demanding GT class at the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The #24 Alex Job Racing Audi R8 GRAND-AM driven by Dion von Moltke, Filipe Albuquerque, Oliver Jarvis and Edoardo Mortara crossed the finish line victorious after a titanic GT battle all race long. The AJR Audi lead home the APR #52 Audi for a 1-2 finish. A great result for Audi as a brand and the whole Audi Sport customer racing program. The GT3 spec Audi R8 LMS has won almost everything in Europe and beyond, and it was great to see the "American" R16 doing the same in America's premier 24 hour endurance event this weekend.

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No Audi R8 LMS ultra GTE for Le Mans

By Tarek Ramchani

Since last year there has been a lot of talk about the possibility that Audi plans to build a GTE version of the all conquering Audi R8 LMS for both the Le Mans 24 Hours and FIA World Endurance Championship.

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Rolex 24: Audi on third row of the grid at Daytona

Audi Press Release

• Filipe Albuquerque with Alex Job Racing is best Audi driver

• Teams are mainly focused on race preparation

• All four Audi R8 GRAND-AM cars are thoroughly prepared

Ingolstadt, January 24, 2013 – The best Audi R8 GRAND-AM will be starting into the 24-hour race at Daytona (Florida) from the third row. The fastest driver of the Audi customer teams in qualifying was Filipe Albuquerque.

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Gallery: The birth of an Audi R8 GRAND-AM at quattro GmbH

By Tarek Ramchani

The Audi R8 GRAND-AM was specially developed for the American based Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series. The car is very different from its original FIA GT3 specifications and needed very special treatment to meet Rolex Series set of rules.

Like all the R8 cars, both for road and track, the R8 GRAND-AM is built by quattro GmbH. The in-house high end performance subdivision of the Audi AG is responsible for the Audi Sport customer racing department. Here is an impressive look at the "American" R16 racer at the quattro GmbH factory in Neckarsulm: The birth of an Audi R8 GRAND-AM.

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Audi Sport vs. Audi Sport customer racing: The difference

By Tarek Ramchani

Many have been confused about Audi’s motorsport efforts when reading and hearing of Audi Sport and in other cases Audi Sport customer racing. In fact these are two separate organizations within the same family at Audi. Yet they share the name and even the logo, however their work is done separately.

Audi Sport is of course the motorsport arm of the Audi AG brand. The racing department has been busy since 1980 with the first ever Audi quattro rally car. Audi Sport is exclusively responsible for full factory racing. At the moment this means, building and handling the Audi R18 e-tron quattro for the Le Mans 24 Hours and the FIA World Endurance Championship as well the Audi A5 DTM R17 for the German DTM touring car series. The head of Audi Sport is Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich, who has held this position since November 1993.

Established in 2009, Audi Sport customer racing on another hand is only responsible for the customer racing projects. You may not know this, but Audi Sport customer racing belongs to Audi’s top subsidiary, quattro GmbH, who are famous for the road going RennSport "RS" models, as well all the R8 road cars. In fact at quattro GmbH the Audi race cars, which are dedicated to privateer teams, are built on site. Right now Audi Sport customer racing is responsible for three projects, the Audi R8 LMS ultra, the Audi R8 GRAND-AM and the race version of the Audi TT RS. In addition to building the cars, Audi Sport customer racing also provides technical support for the different privateer Audi teams during the racing seasons. The head of Audi Sport customer racing is Mr. Romolo Liebchen.

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Phoenix Racing has entered the 12H Bathurst 2013

24H Series Press Release

Phoenix Racing prepared the race-winning Audi R8 LMS that won the 2012 race with drivers Darryl O'Young, Christopher Meis and Christer Jons and has entered the latest 2012-specification Audi R8 LMS Ultra for 2013. The team also ran the ‘Aussie Audi' driven by Bathurst champion Craig Lowndes, with Mark Eddy and Warren Luff. Phoenix is yet to confirm drivers or sponsors for next year however has officially entered one car and is ready to challenge for another Bathurst crown.

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