Audi Testament terminate its FIA Nature Endurance Title commitment, including the 24 Hours of Le Guy, at the end of the 2016 opportunity and instead cynosure on the all-electric Rubric E racing broadcast.
Speaking to 300 wage-earner of the motorsport section today, Chairperson of the Board of State Rupert Stadler highlighted the actual burdens on the make, pointing out that it was exceptional to focus on the item that would detain Audi competitory in the years up ahead.
“We’re leaving to contest the wash for the future on charged power,” maintain Stadler.
“As our creation cars are decent increasingly galvanising, our motorsport motor car, as Audi’s discipline spearheads, sustain to even added so.”
Audi’s motorsport budget cut is the current fallout of the Volkswagen egress scandal, an accident that has emphatically impacted the bundle’s financial bearings and sent shockwaves completed its many type, including Audi.
The passing from the FIA Macrocosm Endurance Patronage (WEC) marks the end of a efficacious era for the Audi. For 18 agedness, the brand was industrious in Le Mans original racing. During this phase, it scored 13 overcoming in the 24 Hours of Le Gentleman and set numerous practical milestones. At Le Male, Audi tight the first overcoming of a TFSI apparatus (2001), the elementary success of a wash car with a TDI apparatus (2006), and the first achievement of a sports car with a half-breed powertrain (2012).
Audi now gos the footsteps of Cat and Renault into the burgeoning cosmos of Formula E, which is thoroughly regarded as the racing broadcast with the largest potential for the impending. The company affirm the first all-car racing broadcast perfectly matches its programme to offer full battery-galvanising models gathering by year turn in 2018.
The company faculty continue to contend in the DTM touring car title and FIA World Rallycross Title.
