Showing posts with label LMS Engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LMS Engineering. Show all posts

Saturday, March 14, 2015

24H Series: Unlucky race for Audi TT RS and Audi R8 teams at the 12H Italy-Mugello

  Saturday, March 14, 2015      

By Johan Laubscher

The International Endurance Series (24H Series) hosted the 12H Italy-Mugello this weekend, round two of the season. Two Audi teams entered one car each in the SP2 class for this endurance race at Mugello in Italy.

This 12-hour event was split into two parts, the first four hours were run on Friday and the final eight hours on Saturday after the cars were parked overnight.

Regular 24H Series entrant, Red Camel Racing, entered its #159 Audi R8 driven by Robert Nearn, Henk Thijssen and Ivo Breukers. It is one of the two privately built Creventic Audi R8 V8 race cars, which are also known as “CR-8”. These Audis were built by Creventic and the first one debuted at the 2008 24 Hours of Dubai. Red Camel Racing later acquired one of the cars and has been competing with it for a number of years.

Red Camel Racing was joined on the grid by LMS Engineering. The German team entered one of its Audi TT RS cars that normally competes in the SP3T class of the VLN Endurance Series. The #96 Audi TT RS was driven by Chris Tiger, Ulrich Andree and Patrik Kaiser. This car was originally entered in the A3T class of the 24H Series, but it was moved up to the SP2 class following its pace in qualifying.


Qualifying saw LMS Engineering listed as taking pole position in the A3T class, setting the thirty-second fastest time overall. The car was run in the SP2 class during the race. Red Camel Racing was fourth in class, thirty-eighth overall.

Both Audi teams ran well during the opening four hours on Friday. LMS Engineering ended the first segment of the race third in class and Red Camel Racing was fourth, twenty-second and twenty-fifth overall respectively.

Eight more hours of racing got underway on Saturday and LMS Engineerig continued to run well and moved forward through the class. With less than three hours to go the LMS Engineering Audi TT RS moved into the SP2 class lead and everything looked good until tragedy struck for the German team at the ten-hour mark. A gearbox failure unfortunately put an end to LMS Engineering's race whilst the #96 Audi TT RS was leading the SP2 class.

Red Camel Racing ran into gearbox linkage and crankshaft sensor issues during Saturday and dropped back down the order. The team soldiered on and finished fifth and last among the SP2 class runners, fifty-fourth overall.


Round three of the 24H Series will be the 12H Zandvoort from 29-30 May.

Photo credit: 24H Series


Monday, June 23, 2014

Nürburgring 24 Hours: 1-2-3 Audi TT RS victory in SP3T class

  Monday, June 23, 2014      

By Tarek Ramchani

It was an emotional 2014 edition for the Audi brand a the Nürburgring 24 Hours. Not only Phoenix Racing gave the Four Rings a second outright victory at the Green Hell, the privateer Audi TT RS teams also performed very well.

The Audi TT RS simply dominated the field with a brilliant 1-2-3 victory in the end. The Audi team beat the strong full factory effort from Subaru Tecnica International and their Impreza WRX STi.

It was Raeder Motorsport who took the SP3T class honors. The #111 Audi TT RS in the hands of Elmar Deegener, Jürgen Wohlfarth, Christoph Breuer and Dieter Schmidtmann dominated the class and was able to finish twentieth overall. The four drivers covered 145 laps in the Nordschleife 24-hour race.


Second place in SPT3 and twenty-first overall was the #120 Audi TT RS from team LMS Engineering. The car driven by Daniela Schmid, Christopher Tiger, Roland Botor and Constantin Kletzer was a lap down to the winning TT RS from Raeder Motorsport

The final podium spot was taken by Scuderia Colonia e.V. with their #123 TT RS. The Audi was shared by Matthias Wasel, Thomas Wasel, Marcos Löhnert and Roman Löhnert.

Photo credit: Autorennsport

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Nürburgring 24 Hours: Audi TT assault in SP3T and SP4T classes

  Wednesday, June 18, 2014      

By Tarek Ramchani

The legendary Nordschleife will play host to the demanding Nürburgring 24 Hours this upcoming weekend. In addition to the Audi R8 LMS ultra cars in the upper SP9 class, the race will feature many Audis in SP3T and SP4T classes.

In SP3T five Audi TT, TTS and TT RS cars will fight for class honors. The Audis will have to fight against the factory Subaru Impreza WRX STI from Subaru Tecnica International as well privateer entries from Volkswagen, Seat and Ford teams.

#111 Audi TT RS - Raeder Motorsport:
Elmar Deegener, Jürgen Wohlfarth, Christoph Breuer and Dieter Schmidtmann.

#116 Audi TT - MSC Sinzig e.V.i ADAC:
Rudi Speich, Roland Waschkau and Klaus Hormes

#120 Audi TT RS - LMS Engineering:
Daniela Schmid, Christopher Tiger, Roland Botor and Constantin Kletzer

#123 Audi TT RS - Scuderia Colonia e.V.:
Matthias Wasel, Thomas Wasel, Marcos Löhnert and Roman Löhnert

#124 Audi TT KM:
Professor Jörg Wellnitz, Manfred Krammer junior, Johann Wanger and Thomas Mühlenz


In SP4T three Audi TTS and TT RS cars will enter the class. The three Audi entries will face a single rival, a Ford Focus.

#108 Audi TT RS – Rotek Racing:
Rob Huff, Robb Holland, Richard Meins and Kevin Gleason

#110 Auddi TT RS – Besaplast Racing Team:
Franjo Kovac, Martin Tschornia, Fredrik Lestrup and Kurt Thiim

#112 Audi TTS – Pro Handicap e.V:
Wolfgang Müller, Walter Nawotka, Jutta Kleinschmidt, Carlos Arimon

Photo credit: Nürburgring

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