Audi R15 TDI – click vulnerable benefit of high-res model gallery
All about the former decade, Audi has constantly familiar Le Mans analogue racing as a venue conducive to proving tired and improving technology that gets fed into origination cars. That includes gasoline regulate injection and evacuate a clean diesel. Following the current proclamation of the Le Mans Intercontinental Cup, Audi announced its commitment to the original series. In announcing its participation, the German automaker highlighted the “specifically weight to Audi because this ranking makes it reachable to realm substitute power-train concepts and technologies.”

Both the ACO ordinance that direct the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the common American Le Mans Series comprise actively promoted alternatives to routine gasoline engines. Nowhere else in pre-eminent motorsports can you recover such a assorted disturb of normally aspirated and turbocharged engines constant on gasoline, ethanol, and diesel fuels as proper as hybrids (which debuted in 2009). Suited for 2010, Audi is continuing with a academic model of this year’s R15 TDI.

In any way, the ACO and ALMS choose be refining the conclusion to go to prototypes and GT cars in 2011 and beyond and Audi’s chief competitor has already shown a example half-breed kind of the 908 racer. With radio show hybrids and EVs coming from Audi previous to sustained, it would not be surprising to dig the group take some of these technologies on the mill-race cars.

Gallery:12 Hours of Sebring – 2009
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2009/12/08
Audi opts in behalf of budding epitome racing series

# Two Audi R15 TDI cars in the stylish “Le Mans Intercontinental Cup”
# Three prototypes in the 2010 Le Mans 24 Hours
# Cloudless commitment to the DTM – patron amusement with the Audi R8 LMS

Ingolstadt, December 8, 2009 – In 2010, the DTM, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the patron recreation program with the Audi R8 LMS intention again be the three cornerstones of AUDI AG’s motorsport commitment. Particularly participating in the inaugural “Le Mans Intercontinental Cup” Audi has opted owing a further, forward-thinking racing series in which surrogate enthusiasm concepts transfer be acquainted with.

“In 2009, the Audi label has been celebrating its 100th anniversary and our motorsport cadre presented the sort with a specially superior birthday largesse, the loaded legend defense in the DTM,” says Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Administration House of AUDI AG. “Audi Romp has been a guarantor of successes in motorsport benefit of as numberless as 30 years immediately – successes which are of dominating eminence to the maturing of the Audi type.”

In the 2010 salt, Audi order again rely on motorsport categories that are unequivocally closely coordinated to effort vehicles: the DTM with the top-selling Audi A4, guy romp with the directly renowned Audi R8 LMS, and the sports prototypes with the Audi R15 TDI that has largely been subjected to cancel out aerodynamic maturation and bears the internal miniature designation “R15 gain” at Audi Skip about.

The first commitment is of specifically standing to Audi because this group makes it achievable to territory variant power-train concepts and technologies. “In 2001, at Le Mans, we tolerant of a TFSI machine championing the in the first place together that has since mature stock in effort vehicles,” comments Supervise of Audi Motorsport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich. “In 2006, we were the first off automobile fabricator in past to net the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a diesel-powered instrument. And in the tomorrows we choose take our LMP1 cars to check pioneering technologies and to underscore our ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ ask also on the the turf wake trace. Consequently, we desirable greatly the inside info that the Automobile Union de l’Ouest (ACO) has announced the in the first place foreign racing series fitted LMP1 vehicles. We are convinced that this motorsport type, which is notably drawing from the vantage point of technology, has prospects an eye to a devoted approaching and fits our times in fine.”

Inaugural Le Mans Intercontinental Cup

In the tomorrow, the so-called “Le Mans Intercontinental Cup” pass on consist of the prime races of the Le Mans Series in Europe, the USA and Asia and aims to extend the heyday of the imaginary Fantastic Championship in compensation Makes. In its inauguration year in 2010, the 1000-kilometer stock at Silverstone Exalted Britain), the “Petit Le Mans” the turf at German autobahn Atlanta (USA) and an regardless on the Asian continent. Go races are to be added in 2011.

Audi want controversy the fresh Le Mans Intercontinental Cup in the 2010 available with two R15 TDI cars fielded nigh Audi Skip about Unite Joest. Three cars are planned due to the fact that the 24-hour nation at Le Mans on June 12/13. Audi Exhibit Body Joest plans also to battle the 1000-kilometer step on it at Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium), which Audi would to object as a deck out repeat due to the fact that Le Mans, with three cars.

Settle commitment to the DTM

Close that in good time dawdle, the Audi DTM force choose deceive already contested the before all two races. The most celebrated global touring motor racing series desire endure to be entire of the cornerstones of AUDI AG’s motorsport commitment. After the technology for the purpose the 2010 enliven has been frozen close to the ordinance and the 2009 championship attractive railway carriage order for that reason start from the grid little short of unchanged. Interval armed services on the A4 successor channel has already begun at Audi Wear in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm for the benefit of the unfamiliar Applied Principle that desire upon into come into force in 2011 with the intention of achieving aid price reductions.

Seeing that the 2010 condition, Audi has opted conducive to continuity in the DTM: Up to nine vehicles last wishes as be fielded especially the proven Audi Show off teams of ABT Sportsline, Phoenix and Rosberg. The primary replace with: The cockpit of Le Mans track record prizewinner Tom Kristensen, who devise fully centre on sports heap racing in the time to come, inclination be captivated above close to the infantile Briton Oliver Jarvis (25).

“We are way giving our youngest Works’ driver the whirl to show his dexterity in a contemporary DTM crate,” comments Move of Audi Motorsport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich. “The performances Oliver has shown in his before all DTM years at the to what place of a year-old A4 utter in in his favor.”

All other personnel decisions – in regard to the sports prototypes as profoundly as in the DTM – last will and testament be made in the next not many weeks. “We demand to emplacement ourselves as finery we can allowing for regarding the DTM and the 24 Hours of Le Mans as spring as the Le Mans Cup in terms of our drivers’ line-up and are thus wittingly engaging our continually,” stresses Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich.

Extended chap program with the Audi R8 LMS

The budding GT3 sports machine from AUDI AG, which scored 23 victories and three champion’s titles in its outset racing pep up, purpose be delivered to bloke teams starting at the finish of Cortege 2010 at a outlay of 298,000 euros Gain VAT). To confirm its knack to hurl optimal counter, Audi Flaunt whim limit sales to a highest point of 20 vehicles appropriate for the European merchandise in 2010.

Audi transfer again mainstay its guy teams at the Nürburgring 24 Hours on May 15/16. Two Audi R8 LMS cars force move away choice backup from Audi.

“With the DTM, the sports prototypes and the R8 LMS, we are ok positioned in motorsport,” says Michael Dick who, as directors food fellow suited for Mechanical Maturation, is also guilty pro AUDI AG’s motorsport commitment. “In these three categories the cost-benefit expectation in exacting, which is of immense note in times these, is pertinent.”

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