10 Oct 2023

40 Facts About 40 Years of Audi Sport GmbH

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="91085"] source: Audi AG To mark the 40th birthday of Audi Sport GmbH, which evolved from quattro GmbH founded in 1983, the company presents 40 exciting facts. quattro and quattro GmbH: Audi registered the quattro brand in 1979. The term quattro (Italian for “four”) stands for the drivetrain of an automobile that transfers power to all four of its wheels. In March 1980, the brand with the four rings presented the quattro sports co...
Tue, Oct 10 , 2023 Bill
27 Jun 2022

Audi Celebrates First Victories of the Season in NLS and FIA WTCR

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="73221"] source: Audi AG First success for Audi R8 LMS in Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie Podium results for the Audi R8 LMS GT4 Audi RS 3 LMS with victories in FIA WTCR, on the Nordschleife and in Poland Audi Sport customer racing had every reason to celebrate with its customers on the last weekend in June: GT3 victories on the Nordschleife and in Poland, a GT4 success in the USA and six TCR wins in three countries characterized the race wee...
Mon, Jun 27 , 2022 Bill
4 Aug 2021

Lap Record on the Nordschleife: Audi RS 3 Fastest in the Compact Class

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="62923"] source: Audi AG 7:40.748 minutes: a new top speed in the compact segment Ideal setup: torque splitter, semi-slicks, and RS sport suspension plus At the wheel: Frank Stippler, Audi Sport racing and development driver With a time of 7:40.748 minutes, the new Audi RS 3 Seda1 is the fastest compact model on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. In June, Audi Sport racing and development driver Frank Stippler beat the previous lap record in...
Wed, Aug 04 , 2021 Bill
29 Jun 2018

Timo Bernhard and the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo Smashes Nordschleife Record

[words: Bill Cho, source: Porsche] This has been a record breaking week for the extended Volkswagen family. Earlier, the Volkswagen I.D. R Pikes Peak and former Audi driver, Romain Dumas, ran the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in 7:57.15...beating the previous record by a full 16 seconds. Now another record has fallen and also by another former Audi driver. This morning, Timo Bernhard and the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo lapped the Nurburgring in 5:19.55. This time smashes the previ...
Fri, Jun 29 , 2018 Bill