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I really don't think that's an issue. They've only been able to use the Quattro branding in Le Mans since 2013, and that is WAY more important to Audi's marketing than DTM. R8, R10, R15, and R18 (up through the ultra) were all RWD cars.FoxHound wrote:No, it's German saloon car racing. Besides the fact Audi have historically been competing since the 80's, and silhouette Audi saloon body shells used for the series, the link here could not be clearer hence no need for quattro badging.Jolle wrote:well.... DTM isn't 4x4....
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F1 is completely different.
at the time in the 70s when team brabham was under contract for porsche engines ecclestone defined and determined the conditions without negotiating and respecting porsche's wishes at all.foxmulder_ms wrote:Why do Ferdinand Piech and Bernie Ecclestone hate each other?
Domenicali replaces Berger as open-wheel boss
Stefano Domenicali has returned to the world of open-wheel racing.
After being ousted as Ferrari team boss, the Italian re-emerged recently at Audi, although the VW-owned brand denied he has taken on a motor sport role.
The latest reports, however, suggest he is heading a feasibility study on behalf of the Volkswagen Group regarding a potential F1 entry.
And now it emerges that the 49-year-old is working with F1's governing body.
He was on the FIA's 10-man panel that investigated Jules Bianchi's crash, and his latest appointment is as Gerhard Berger's successor on the single-seater commission.
Domenicali's role, reported by Italy's Autosprint and La Gazzetta dello Sport, involves coordinating the FIA's junior categories, including the increasingly highly-rated European F3.
Autosprint said he will keep his job at Audi, as the FIA role is unpaid and not full time.
Ties in with the rumours that Berger is headed to Woking...WilliamsF1 wrote:New Game Plan
Domenicali replaces Berger as open-wheel boss
Stefano Domenicali has returned to the world of open-wheel racing.
After being ousted as Ferrari team boss, the Italian re-emerged recently at Audi, although the VW-owned brand denied he has taken on a motor sport role.
The latest reports, however, suggest he is heading a feasibility study on behalf of the Volkswagen Group regarding a potential F1 entry.
And now it emerges that the 49-year-old is working with F1's governing body.
He was on the FIA's 10-man panel that investigated Jules Bianchi's crash, and his latest appointment is as Gerhard Berger's successor on the single-seater commission.
Domenicali's role, reported by Italy's Autosprint and La Gazzetta dello Sport, involves coordinating the FIA's junior categories, including the increasingly highly-rated European F3.
Autosprint said he will keep his job at Audi, as the FIA role is unpaid and not full time.
AutoExpress It’s understood that Audi was close to entering F1 in 2013, and was the driving force behind the sport’s aborted plan to use four-cylinder turbocharged engines. At Audi’s urging, the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council proposed, in late in 2010, to turn F1 into a four-cylinder turbo formula. Audi backflipped on joining the sport, though, and the F1 Commission changed the engine formula to turbocharged V6. Insiders insist Audi and the Volkswagen Group have now been working on a 1.6-litre V6 turbo Formula One engine since early this year.
Autocar When asked about Porsche’s motorsport plans, Mueller told us that Porsche or Audi, but not both, could compete in LMP1 prototype sports car racing; with the other brand turning to Formula 1.
However, as recently as June this year - just weeks after celebrating a third 1-2-3 finish at Le Mans in a decade - Audi’s motorsport boss Wolfgang Ullrich told German news agency SID that F1 and Audi “do not fit”.
Today Mueller said: “With LMP1, there are two classes and two brands – Audi and Porsche. We do not like to both go into LMP1 [against each other]; that is not so funny.
“So therefore we have to discuss whether it makes better sense for one of the [two] brands to go into LMP1, and the other brand into Formula 1. So we will have a round-table to discuss the pros and cons,” he said.
