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Audi Sport
30 years of success
Audi Sport was founded 30 years ago and is affiliated to
Audi’s Technical Development (TE) division under the auspices
of Board Member Michael Dick. The division has celebrated
victories and won numerous titles around the world in all
the disciplines it has entered, be it in relation to rallying,
touring cars of any kind or sports cars. Audi has realised 16
different racing projects since 1980 and the division currently
counts some 200 employees involved in the research and
development of racing cars at its sites in Ingolstadt and
Neckarsulm. Qualified mechanical engineer Dr Wolfgang
Ullrich has been the head of Audi Sport since 1993.
Three pillars of motorsport
Audi has been involved in sports car racing since the 1999
season and, with eight Le Mans victories under its belt, is
once again rising to the biggest endurance racing challenges
around in the 2010 season, with its advanced R15 TDI. Audi
has also been involved in the DTM since 2004, in which
it has won four titles in six years, including a hat-trick
The Audi A4 DTM is one
of three Audi Sport racing cars
between 2007 and 2009. The automobile manufacturer
then established a third pillar in the 2009 season with
the Audi R8 LMS, its first ready-to-run privateer racing car,
which won three titles in its debut season as well as 23 out
of 76 races. A dedicated privateer centre was inaugurated in
Ingolstadt in the spring of 2010 in order to secure supplies
for 30 privateer vehicles delivered around the world, with
all the teams benefiting from the company’s international
logistics structure for the delivery of spare parts.