Audi headed for F1 in 2016...

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Audi headed for F1 in 2016...

Post by [KRAFTIG] » Fri Oct 24, 2014 11:35 pm

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Britain's Auto Express says longtime sports car superpower Audi is poised to end its involvement in endurance and touring car racing in favor of a Formula 1 engine program, to be launched in 2016. Citing unnamed "insiders" and "multiple sources," Auto Express claims the German marque is under pressure from parent company VW to leave the sports car field to sister brand Porsche. Instead, the report says, it will re-assign its Le Mans and DTM budgets to F1 and align with one of the sport's top teams, likely Red Bull Racing.

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Re: Audi headed for F1 in 2016...

Post by J-B » Sat Oct 25, 2014 5:25 am

I'm skeptical of the rumour, and would certainly hope this doesn't happen. I can see how Audi could build a good F1 car, but the relevance (and entertainment factor) in my opinion is far less than in the increasingly popular WEC series.

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Re: Audi headed for F1 in 2016...

Post by StratosWRC » Sat Oct 25, 2014 4:12 pm

Gay...

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Re: Audi headed for F1 in 2016...

Post by [KRAFTIG] » Sat Oct 25, 2014 4:56 pm

StratosWRC wrote:Gay...
They will dominate as they have at Le Mans! Viva AUDI! :woot:

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Re: Audi headed for F1 in 2016...

Post by StratosWRC » Sat Oct 25, 2014 5:06 pm

Yeah but it's just the engines. Who's gonna make the rest? If the car was built by Audi as well, that'd be perfect. But engines only? Meh

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Re: Audi headed for F1 in 2016...

Post by Kwando » Sat Oct 25, 2014 10:53 pm

I guess they've gotten bored of dominating Lemans. Skeptical but I guess I'll wait and see. Diesel F1 engines, maybe?

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Re: Audi headed for F1 in 2016...

Post by StratosWRC » Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:20 am

Why would they leave Le Mans just when it's about to have the most populated LMP1 grid in 2015?

And they're still in second place, behind Toyota in the World Endurance Championship. No one mentions that lol

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Re: Audi headed for F1 in 2016...

Post by StratosWRC » Mon Oct 27, 2014 12:40 pm

Haha yeah. Had me laughing when I read that the undertray has to make more sparks when the cars bottom out.

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