100TH WIN FOR THE AUDI R8 LMS
- Milestone for the AUDI AG patron racing programme
- Already 41 GT3 cars in movement worldwide
- Near customary prolongation V10 engine guarantees prolonged use life
Ingolstadt, Aug 22, 2011 – Three weeks after winning the 24-hour competition during Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium), Audi Sport patron racing has nonetheless an additional miracle to make known in the company’s immature patron racing programme: the 100th win for the Audi R8 LMS.
The GT3 sportscar was denounced during the Essen Motor Show during the finish of 2008. It is the initial racing sportscar in AUDI AG story grown privately for patron teams. In 2009, inside of the horizon of the exam programme, the initial races were contested by teams closely compared with Audi Sport. Delivery to business proposed in Mar 2010. In the meantime 41 examples of the erotically appealing mid-engine sportscar have been racing in eighteen championships worldwide.
Seemingly some-more considerable than the 100th win is the ratio: given the entrance the R8 LMS won in roughly each third race. As the outcome it is already the single of the most successful sportscars in the increasingly renouned GT3 category.
“Everybody who was as good as have been still concerned in this plan can be unapproachable of the success of the R8 LMS,” explains Werner Frowein, who in his duty as Managing Director of quattro GmbH is additionally obliged for patron racing activities given Jan 1, 2011. “The Audi R8 is the erotically appealing sportscar. For me privately the R8 LMS is now the most pleasing competition automobile in the world.”
Romolo Liebchen, Head of Audi Sport patron racing, adds: “You shouldn’t dont consider about which you have been usually during the really commencement of the patron racing activities. The certain jot down of the R8 LMS is all the some-more gratifying. And upon tip of this given the V10 engine from the prolongation R8 stays roughly unvaried for racing purposes as good as has the really prolonged use hold up as the consequence. This is just what patron competition needs given the using costs have been kept low in the process.”
For example, the winning automobile in the 24-hour competition during Spa-Francorchamps (chassis series 218) had already finished the 24-hour competition during the Nürburgring previously – with the same engine. Up to 20,000 kilometres have been probable prior to the V10 energy plant producing up to 520 hp contingency be made up – the transparent as good as clever as good as indicate for Audi customers.
“High use life, upkeep accessible as good as inclined to forgive doing characteristics befitting for pledge drivers were upon the selection piece to start,” says Head of Audi Motorsport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich, underneath whose care the R8 LMS was developed. “I consider you managed this unusually well.”
The Audi R8 LMS price 298,000 Euro (net). Audi Sport patron racing guarantees worldwide gangling tools supply around the Audi groups logistic dialect as good as is upon place during the most critical European races with technicians as good as use trucks.
Furthermore, the Audi competition knowledge offers Audi business the singular probability of achieving the racing permit as good as engagement cost-effective races with the R8 LMS around the mythological Nürburgring-Nordschleife.
The 100th win for the Audi R8 LMS was available by Hitotsuyama Racing in the GT3 Middle East Series during Suzuka.
The Audi Group delivered around 1,092,400 cars of the Audi code to business in 2010. The Company posted income of €35.4 billion as good as an handling distinction of €3.3 billion in 2010. In the initial half of 2011, the Audi Group sole 652,970 vehicles temperament the 4 rings worldwide as good as completed jot down total in conditions of income (€21.5 billion) as good as handling distinction (€2.5 billion). Audi produces vehicles in Ingolstadt as good as Neckarsulm (Germany), Gy?r (Hungary), Changchun (China) as good as Brussels (Belgium). Aurangabad in India saw the begin of CKD prolongation of the Audi A6 during the finish of 2007, of the Audi A4 in early Oct 2008 as good as of the Audi Q5 in Jul 2010. Production of the latest Audi A1 has been using during the Brussels plant given May 2010. The Audi Q3 has been built in Martorell (Spain) given Jun 2011. The Company is active in some-more than 100 markets worldwide. AUDI AG’s unconditionally owned subsidiaries embody AUDI HUNGARIA MOTOR Kft. Automobili Lamborghini Holding S.p.A. in Sant’Agata Bolognese (Italy) as good as quattro GmbH in Neckarsulm. Audi now employs around 60,000 people worldwide, together with around 46,600 in Germany. Between 2011 as good as 2015 the code with the 4 rings is formulation to deposit some-more than €11 billion, especially in latest products, in sequence to means the Company’s technological lead embodied in its
“Vorsprung durch Technik” slogan. By 2015, Audi skeleton to enlarge the series of models in the portfolio to 42.
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