AUDI AG competed on two motorsport-fronts again in 2007Audi participates in the most technically interesting motorsport category, which gives the engineers an enormous degree of freedom and also devotes huge resources to the subject “environmental compatibility”. With the A4, Audi is involved in production car based motorsport at the highest level. Vorsprung durch Audi TDI PowerAudi wrote another chapter in motorsport history with the R10 TDI last year. The Le Mans Prototype, powered by a near 650 hp V12 TDI engine, went unbeaten in all eight races during its debut season, won the American Le Mans Series and became the first Diesel powered race car to win the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 2007, Audi repeated the Le Mans exploit and clinched four more victories in the ALMS.
As a result, Audi demonstrates impressively on the race track just why an increasing number of Audi customers around the world choose TDI: TDI engines are significantly more efficient, more economical, produce more torque, have an extraordinary power delivery and are also quiet – characteristics that are just as much in demand in motorsport as on public roads.
Audi Sport further developed and improved innumerable details of the R10 TDI in preparation for the 2007. Despite regulation changes that disadvantage TDI engines Audi once again stepped-up to the challenge and competed at Le Mans - successfully: For the second time a Audi R10 TDI has won the most challenging race of the world. Successful transition year in the DTMThe DTM 2007 was a transition year for Audi: For the last time prior to the production model change, the current A4 was used before being replaced by the new A4 in 2008. Although the competition already contested the series with a new model this year, the squad of Head of Audi Motorsport Dr Wolfgang Ullrich brought the DTM title back to Ingolstadt in 2007. To achieve this objective, a revised DTM car, bearing the internal project name “R13“, was created. | |
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