From the race trackAudi motorsport news
- Aug 7, 2011
Audi driver Mattias Ekström commandingly wins
In the duel against Mercedes-Benz Audi has raised the score of victories to 4-2.
Read news - Aug 6, 2011
60th pole position for Audi in the DTM
Jubilee for Audi: Mattias Ekström clinched the 60th pole position in the DTM for the brand with the four rings at the Nürburging.
Read news - Jul 31, 2011
Audi R8 LMS wins the most important endurance race for GT cars
The Audi R8 LMS won the most important endurance race for GT cars ahead of BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Audi Sport Team WRT overcame the strongest competition during the 63rd running of the 24 hours of Spa (Belgium).
Read news - Jul 29, 2011
24h Spa: Two Audi R8 LMS in the top ten
Qualifying for the 24-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium) provided a foretaste of what the spectators could well expect on Saturday and Sunday: a fascinating exchange of blows between the world’s best GT3 sportscars in which the result is completely unpredictable.
Read news - Jul 29, 2011
Two German Audi drivers chase Bruno Spengler
Only three points separate Audi driver Martin Tomczyk from the leader of the standings Bruno Spengler after the first half of the 2011 DTM season. And the tracks which the 29-year-old German is particularly looking forward to are just now coming up: Nürburgring, Brands Hatch, Oschersleben, Valencia and Hockenheim.
Read news - Jul 22, 2011
Audi R8 LMS faces stiff competition at Spa
Premiere in the Belgian Ardennes: the GT3 class is the top tier for the first time at the 63rd running of the 24-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps. Audi uses the opportunity to send four factory backed R8 LMS into the battle for overall victory on July 30/31. On top of this come three customer cars with high-caliber driver line-ups.
Read news - Jul 17, 2011
Audi racer Mortara shines at sports arena
Edoardo Mortara has confirmed that his victory at the DTM’s debut in Munich’s Olympic Stadium on Saturday did not happen by chance. The Italian Audi racer in the Playboy Audi A4 DTM of Audi Sport Team Rosberg reached the finale on Sunday as well.
Read news - Jul 16, 2011
Audi wins “race of marques”
Fireworks for Edoardo Mortara: In front of an outstanding crowd the Italian won the "race of marques” at the DTM debut in Munich’s Olympic Stadium for Audi. At the thrilling finale for the day’s victory he defeated DTM leader of the standings Bruno Spengler.
Read news - Jul 15, 2011
DTM 2012: Audi banks on A5
Model change in the DTM: From 2012 on, Audi will bank on the A5 in the most popular international touring car racing series. The coupe, which is internally named "R17,” will replace the four-door A4 DTM with which Audi has won the prestigious DTM title four times since 2004.
Read news - Jul 15, 2011
Manuel Neuer to visit Audi at the DTM
Audi will be a crowd puller at the eagerly awaited DTM debut in Munich this weekend by hosting prominent guests from other sporting disciplines and featuring numerous other attractions.
Read news - Jul 12, 2011
Audi driver Martin Tomczyk – success factor coolness
First “yabba dabba doo”, then “yippee-ki-yay”: Audi factory driver Martin Tomczyk and Audi Sport Team Phoenix currently ride the crest of a success wave in the DTM and spring from one shriek of delight to the next. Five races, four times on the podium, two particularly sweet victories – for the first time after ten seasons in touring car racing’s premier league Tomczyk competes for another team and with equipment from an older model year. The 29-year-old has found a new sporting home with the Audi factory team located on the Nürburgring’s doorstep. Not forgetting the coolness required to covert his number one status into regular top results. A portrait of the amiable Bavarian who has established coolness as success factor in the toughest DTM season of the new age.
Read news - Jul 8, 2011
Audi is ready for DTM debut in Munich
Show event instead of summer break. On July 16 and 17 racing fans can experience a highly special spectacle that has never existed like this before: At Munich’s Olympic stadium the DTM stars from Audi will compete against their rivals from Mercedes-Benz – in races featuring a knockout format and in their original cars from the current DTM season.
Read news - Jul 3, 2011
Audi R18 TDI in third place at Imola
Audi Sport Team Joest finished the round of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup (ILMC) at Imola, Italy, in third and fourth place. Only three weeks after Audi’s victory at Le Mans Marcel Fässler and Timo Bernhard took third place in the #1 Audi R18 TDI at the six-hour race near Bologna. Their team-mates Allan McNish and Tom Kristensen in the diesel sports car designated as number "2" finished the fourth ILMC round on position four.
Read news - Jul 3, 2011
Rows one and two for Audi at Imola
A good starting base for the Le Mans revenge: Audi is starting into the 6-hour race at Imola, the fourth round of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup (ILMC), from positions two and four. Only three weeks after the triumph with the R18 TDI at the legendary 24-hour race at La Sarthe Le Mans winner Marcel Fässler (CH), who will be running together with Timo Bernhard (D) for the first time, set the second-fastest time of 1m 32.354s and secured a position on the front row of the grid.
Read news - Jul 3, 2011
Tomczyk shines again in year-old Audi
The dream of achieving victory at its "home round" on the Norisring did not come true for Audi this year either. Still, the squad around Head of Audi Motorsport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich had good reasons to be happy with its performance at the fifth round of the 2011 DTM season and another podium result for Martin Tomczyk (Audi Sport Team Phoenix).
Read news - Jul 2, 2011
Audi on second row at “home round”
At Audi’s "home round" in the DTM at the Norisring, Mattias Ekström set the quickest qualifying lap (48.058 seconds). Nevertheless, the Swede from Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline had to settle for fourth place in the final shoot-out.
Read news
