As likely with most of our race fan reader base, we were surprised this morning to learn that 2011 DTM Champion Martin Tomczyk will be exiting his Audi A4 racecar for a new BMW next season , and hot off of the acquisition of his 2011 DTM Championship title. Martin will be missed, though perhaps it's not a surprise he's leaving.
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Audi News Blog , Motorsport , RennSport

You might remember a few weeks ago that Audi Sport drivers Allan McNish, Tom Kristensen and Marco Bonanomi got together for a triathlon in Allan's home town of Monaco. "Team McKristenomi" was the name of their effort, complete with team shirts sporting Audi fonts and a moniker of the Brangelina variety. More subtly, you have to wonder if this wasn't a team building exercise for Audi Sport. There's been rumor of Dindo Capello retiring after the 2011 season and while that's not yet been determined, ...

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24 Hours of Le Mans , Audi News Blog , Motorsport , RennSport , Video , Video

The ACO has announced technical regulations for the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans and the big news revolves around performance leveling for diesels, specifically 6% less flow on restrictors for diesels.

While at Le Mans, we spoke to Audi Sport engine czar Ullrich Baretzky about such a development and the German had an interesting take. We'll paraphrase that below, but first here are the 2012 regulations.
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24 Hours of Le Mans , Audi News Blog , Motorsport , RennSport

Allan McNish made a blog post late last week where he recounted the frustration of Petit Le Mans in his own words. As usual, Audi's legendary Scot shares plenty of insight into the experience. Below is the text. Below that are links to Allan's official website as well as our own photo gallery from Petit Le Mans. Enjoy. ...

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Audi Sport Team Joest and two of the R8 TDI squads are headed to Silverstone this weekend following the traditional motorsport summer break. Of course, a British round of the race is well on the radar of both AutoSport Magazine and Scottish Audi Sport factory driver Allan McNish. That in mind, the two have paired to create a quick tour of the Silverstone circuit with Allan at the wheel of Audi UK's R8 LMS demonstrator. Watch ...

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In the land of car geeks, even those not obsessed with video gaming consoles and the like have probably sampled driving sim super games such as Forza Motorsport or Gran Turismo. What you may not know though is that there's a whole online driving sim world that takes the vehicle and racing accessibility of these games and amps them by a power of ten on the geek scale if not always on the realism scale. While some of these games ...

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24 Hours of Le Mans , Audi News Blog , Motorsport , Product Placement , RennSport

Though Audi Sport partner TAG Heuer may have a better-known association with Le Mans thanks to Steve McQueen's wearing of their iconic Monaco chronograph in his equally iconic movie "Le Mans", luxury watchmaker Rolex is also quite steeped in the 24 Hours of Le Mans tradition. For Rolex, the placement is ongoing, a fixture at the Circuit des 24 Heures in the form of a swank watch store in the Village shop area and then there's always ...

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24 Hours of Le Mans , Audi News Blog , Motorsport , RennSport

With the Audi R18 TDIs running solely in the International Le Mans Cup this year, this means just two races for Audi's Le Mans-winning prototypes in the USA. One race, Sebring, happened last Sprint leaving next month's Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta your last chance to catch them Stateside. Given this, and the fact that Audi's Motorsport Experience hospitality ...

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Vintage racecars with four-ring heritage aren't terribly common. Look back prior to the modern quattro era and it gets even harder to pick up something with any sort of racing pedigree. In as much, we were surprised to find a DKW-powered formula car on Ebay and hailing from a Philadelphia suburb no less.

Granted, this car is $33,500, which will weed out tire kickers.

Here's a rundown on the ...

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Audi News Blog , Find of the Day , Motorsport , On the Market , RennSport

During our forum Q&A with Johan de Nysschen yesterday, Audi of America's chief put a question to Audi enthusiasts while chatting about motorsport. Johan wrote:

I would be interested to learn if Audi supporters would be interested to see a local equivelant of the European DTM Series as a fully fledged full season racing program on the US calendar? Post comments

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