28 Dec 2023

Find of the Day: 2008 Audi A4 DTM Driven by Tom Kristensen

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="94845"] photos: Fiskens, Audi AG It's a fun job looking for Finds of the Day and while we mostly look for unique Audi street cars, lately we've been finding unique Audi race cars. This 2008 Audi A4 DTM (chassis no. 504) was driven by Tom Kristensen. Tom is a friend of Audi Club. He's been to several of our events including this year's Legends of the Autobahn and as the guest speaker during the 2019 Audi Club National Event in Washington...
Thu, Dec 28 , 2023 Bill
29 Nov 2023

Quadruple Victory for NSU Type 6/60 PS Racing Car at the German Grand Prix on the AVUS Circuit

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="93642"] source: Audi AG Each month during the year of NSU’s 150th anniversary, Audi Tradition presents a different NSU model, including brand classics on both two and four-wheels, prototypes, and one-of-a-kind models. If you want to delve deeper into the complex product history of the traditional NSU brand, we recommend the Audi Tradition Edition book “NSU-Automobile. Typen – Technik – Modelle”, written by Klaus Arth and published by De...
Wed, Nov 29 , 2023 Bill
14 Jun 2022

Find of the Day: 1992 Audi S2 Coupe Race Car

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="72841"] words: Bill, photos: Hoffman via eBay.de One word...whoa. I drove a 1985 Audi 4000S quattro Brock Yates Cannonball edition in this year's One Lap of America (read about it in Q3 2022 quattro Magazine) and we pretty much came in dead last (at least the events I drove in). However, if I had this Audi, the results may have been different. Here's the ad (translated from German): [gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="7284...
Tue, Jun 14 , 2022 Bill
20 Jan 2021

Find of the Day: 2006 Champion Racing Audi RS 4

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="57306"] words: Bill, photos: Hank Franczak I know I've used this before but do you know who Walter Mitty is? He was a meek man with a wildly vivid imagination in the short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. With our Find of the Day, you can imagine yourself as a famous race car driver and you wouldn't be that far from the truth. Here's the ad: [gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="57310"] Built to SCCA Pro-Racing World Challenge ...
Wed, Jan 20 , 2021 Bill
24 Apr 2019

New Volkswagen ID. R Makes Its Debut at the Nürburgring Nordschleife

source: Volkswagen Motorsports Following last year’s record at Pikes Peak, the ID. R has been redeveloped to set the electric lap record on the Nürburgring Volkswagen launches ID. R virtual racing simulator on RaceRoom Wolfsburg —The Volkswagen ID. R electric race car makes its world debut today, having been in continuous development following last year’s success at setting the outright record at the 2018 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Denver, Colorado. The racing ...
Wed, Apr 24 , 2019 Bill
16 Mar 2018

Fully Integrated: 50th Audi R8 LMS GT4 Produced at Böllinger Höfe

source: Audi AG Audi Sport customer racing’s most recent product a sales success Highest level of synergies between production and racing Neuburg a. d. Donau/Neckarsulm - In close vicinity to the Neckarsulm location, the 50th Audi R8 LMS GT4 was driven out of the assembly hall at “Audi Böllinger Höfe” in Heilbronn in mid-March. The GT4 model is a worldwide sales success and, like no other race car at Audi, benefits from synergies in terms of its technical concept ...
Fri, Mar 16 , 2018 Bill