Gallery: Audi at the 2013 Essen Motor Show

By Johan Laubscher

The annual Essen Motor Show kicks off this weekend and many Audi race cars are represented at the event.

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“RaceSeries” - 2014 Audi Tradition calendar

Audi Press Release

•           27 racing and series-production versions of historical Audi cars and motorcycles
•           Sophisticated studio photos by Stefan Warter
•           Calendar available online and at the Audi museum mobile shop from 29 November

The new wall calendar from Audi Tradition has arrived. Under the theme of “RaceSeries”, it shows 27 automotive specimens from the history of AUDI AG.

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DTM: All nine Audi DTM champions pictured 1990 - 2013

By Johan Laubscher

The 2013 DTM season yielded the ninth drivers' title for a driver behind the wheel of an Audi race car.

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DTM: Audi championship winning cars at the Essen Motor Show

Audi Press Release

All Audi and DTM fans are in for a real treat: The Essen Motor Show will be presenting a special exhibition on the DTM that features winning cars from nearly the past three decades. 

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Outstanding T-Shirt featuring Audi race cars

By Johan Laubscher

A tasteful selection of silver and red colours combine to form what is a very special looking T-Shirt. Add to that the fact of four legendary Audi race cars, and then you have an outstanding T-Shirt. The T-Shirt is being offered by 8380 Laboratories and we found it via the Motorsort Retro Facebook page.

The Image looks stunning as it combines the Audi V8 DTM, Audi A4 STW, Audi A4 DTM R11 and the Audi R10 TDI. It also includes a nice spin on Audi’s slogan as the T-Shirt states: Vorsprung Durch RennSport, we cannot agree more.

You can view the T-Shirt listing HERE.

More information:

8380 Labs website
8380 Labs FB Page

Motorsport Retro website

Motorsport Retro FB Page

The images are hosted at the 8380 Laboratories website.

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The sound of Audi Sport - Der Klang Der Ringe

By Johan Laubscher

Audi have produced many iconic race cars. All of the Audi cars have their own unique sounds, many of which, like the five cylinder turbo cars, have become legendary. Below are nine YouTube videos featuring Audi race car sound recordings. The soundtrack is from the “Der Klang Der Ringe” which has driver interviews and recordings from eight legendary Audi race cars. Imagery of the specific car has been included by the YouTube user who uploaded the soundtrack as videos. The sounds from these recordings which all include onboard and outside recorded sound, are brilliant, enjoy: 

Each video begins with a short interview followed by trackside and then in-car recordings and ends with a closing interview.

Introduction 

Auto Union Type C 

Audi Sport quattro S1 E2

Audi 90 IMSA GTO

Audi V8 DTM

Audi A4 STW 

Audi R8 LMP

Audi A4 DTM

Note: Not all of the images in the videos are correct, especially the Audi R8 video which shows the Audi R15 plus. These images were included in the videos by the user who uploaded them onto YouTube. These incorrect images are not from the Audi Motorsport blog.

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All the Audi DTM Champions

By Johan Laubscher

Audi debuted in the DTM during the 1990 season with the Audi V8. Since then they have achieved a total of eight drivers championship titles. The victorious seasons were achieved with three different types of Audi: the Audi V8, ABT-Audi TT-R and Audi A4 DTM (R11, R13, R14, R14 plus). The official Audi Sport media have released very nice images of all the Audi DTM championship winning cars which have been included below. Enjoy this quick trip down memory lane through the victorious years of Audi in the DTM. 

1990 

Year: 1990

Driver: Hans-Joachim Stuck

Team: Schmidt Motorsport SMS (Audi Sport)

Car: Audi V8 DTM

1991 

Year: 1991

Driver: Frank Biela

Team: Audi Zentrum Reutlingen AZR (Audi Sport)

Car: Audi V8 DTM

2002

Year: 2002

Driver: Laurent Aiello

Team: Abt Sportsline

Car: ABT-Audi TT-R

2004

Year: 2004

Driver: Mattias Ekström

Team: Audi Sport Team Abt

Car: 2004 Audi A4 DTM (R11)

2007

Year: 2007

Driver: Mattias Ekström

Team: Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline

Car: 2007 Audi A4 DTM (R13)

2008

Year: 2008

Driver: Timo Scheider

Team: Audi Sport Team Abt

Car: 2008 Audi A4 DTM (R14)

2009

Year: 2009

Driver: Timo Scheider

Team: Audi Sport Team Abt

Car: 2009 Audi A4 DTM (R14 plus)

2011

Year: 2011

Driver: Martin Tomczyk

Team: Audi Sport Team Phoenix

Car: 2008 Audi A4 DTM (R14)

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Video: Audi V8 quattro revolution in the DTM

By Tarek Ramchani

1990 Audi was back to Europe after two very successful years in North American road racing. For their return to Europe Audi entered the most popular touring car series, the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft or simply the DTM. The V8 quattro DTM competed for two and a half seasons in the demanding German series taking two championship titles. In 1990 Hans-Joachim Stuck was crowned champion and a year later it was the Audi youngster Frank Biela as champion. The Audi squad also featured rally legend Walter Rohl. The other team drivers also included: Frank Jelinski and Hubert Haupt

Audi V8 quattro DTM - 1990

For many fans the 1990s will forever be the golden era of the DTM, with the Audi V8 quattro among the most popular touring cars ever. Have a look at the very successful 1990 season with team Audi Sport dominating the German rivals from BMW and Mercedes-Benz in the videos bellow. Enjoy:

More information:
Audi V8 quattro DTM on Facebook

Part 1

Part 2

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Audi Sport "R" Number History For Racing Cars

By Johan Laubscher

At Audi Sport each factory built racing car carries its own internal "R" code name. It all started with the "R1", the Audi quattro rallye in 1980. Since then many more Audi race cars were introduced. Many of these cars have gone onto win numourous championship titles and become legends in their own right. Here is a list representing the full details of the “R” numbers, from the "R1" rally car all the way to the brand new Audi R18 e-tron quattro and the R18 ultra.

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