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Congratulations to my friends in Canada for your team winning the gold medal in Hockey. I know that is a big deal up there. Hopefully Sidney Crosby can help my Pens win the Stanley Cup this year.
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I grew up in Pittsburgh for the first 24 years of my life, so yes I like the Pens, Steelers and Pirates. I grew up going to lots of their games and watching Lemieux play. The nice thing for me living close to DC, is I get to see the Pens 3 times a year at the Verizon Center. By the way, we don't live too far from each other, I am in Gaithersburg.
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For all GT3-lovers, here is the newest scion for the family 
I present the Lexus RC F GT3
I present the Lexus RC F GT3
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And even more pictures, the brandnew BMW M4 DTM !!
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If you would like the Lexus GT3 in Gt6, go to following thread and give it a click 
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/lexus-rc-f-gt3.304280/
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Just wanted to share this with you guys !!
The Lemans entry by Porsche, ofcourse we have seen the GT already on American soil, but the LMP is brand new, gotta love the carnumbers !!
The Lemans entry by Porsche, ofcourse we have seen the GT already on American soil, but the LMP is brand new, gotta love the carnumbers !!
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Lol, I get newsletters from Audi almost every day !!! it is part of theire strategy, here is te latest i got about the homologation of their car....
FIA and ACO homologate the Audi R18 e-tron quattro
• New LMP1 race car receives sport approval
• Homologation process started in November
• 75-page documentation for the Audi R18 e-tron quattro
Ingolstadt, March 3, 2014 Before the Audi R18 e-tron quattro is allowed to contest its first race, the FIA (Fédération Internationale de lAutomobile) has to approve it. The required homologation documents had to be submitted by February 15.
When the Audi Sport squad headed by Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich tackles the construction of a new race car, a challenging task has to be resolved. Maximum creativity is obviously a key aspect but at the same time, all the regulations must be complied with. The Technical Regulations for 2014-specification LMP1 sports cars encompass 20 chapters with 67 pages, divided into detailed sections and a comprehensive annex.
The FIA and ACO experts had the opportunity to verify that the R18 e-tron quattro complies with these regulations even before the actual homologation. Back in November, the manufacturers had to submit initial documents for an advance homologation, says Head of Audi Motorsport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich. This allowed the FIA and ACO to gain an initial impression of the planned concept.
The so-called homologation sheet of the Audi R18 e-tron quattro has 75 pages more than any of its predecessors. The level of detailing is the reason, explains Dr. Martin Mühlmeier, Head of Technology at Audi Sport. The homologation documents put new emphasis on areas such as safety-relevant components, the powertrain and the energy systems. The freedoms provided by the LMP regulations include the possibility to homologate various body versions. During the course of the season, additional variations in the sense of an evolution may be subjected to post-homologation. In contrast, the class rating which specifies the permitted amount of hybrid energy, the operation principle of the hybrid system, the type of fuel used by the internal combustion engine and the output and consumption window may not be changed anymore, says Dr. Mühlmeier. Audi relies on a hybrid system in which the kinetic energy is recuperated at the front axle and fed back into the system.
Even before the car was homologated, Audi provided proof of the accident safety of the new race car. The crash elements at the front and rear as well as the monocoque were subjected to special static and dynamic tests, adds Chris Reinke, Head of LMP at Audi Sport. In a certified test facility all these tests were successfully run in the presence of FIA and ACO delegates.
In Ingolstadt, the FIA and ACO experts subsequently performed further tests, for instance of individual functions of the race car, made measurements, checked individual geometries by means of gauges and inspected materials. Each R18 e-tron quattro car which Audi will be using in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) this year has its own folder, which contains the homologation documents and the cars chassis number. This description of the race car, which is like an ID card in a manner of speaking, has to be presented at each document and technical scrutineering session at all events. Homologation is an important, but by no means the only prerequisite for fair and thrilling competition in the 2014 season.
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Note to editors: Every Monday until the Le Mans race on June 14/15, we will be providing you with new background information on the R18 project and Audis commitment in the worlds most famous endurance race. Next weeks topic: the e-tron quattro four-wheel drive.
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And this is some allround Audi news from Sunday I think you will like the first part Dean
Big event at Tom Kristensens home
• Le Mans winner invites his team to Denmark
• Belgian Audi Club Team WRT with international driver squad
• PK Carsport to tackle title defense in Belgium
Ingolstadt, March 2, 2014 – Audi factory driver Tom Kristensen treated Audi Sport Team Joest to a day filled with excitement and variety in his native Denmark. Audi customer teams prepare for the season and announce their drivers.
Tom Kristensen gets team in the mood for 2014
Tom Kristensen invited the employees of Audi Sport and Audi Sport Team Joest, personal friends and his early supporters to an event in Denmark on Thursday. In Hobro, the home town of the Audi factory driver, his guests had the opportunity to meet the mayor. A curling competition and a karting event in Århus treated the group of about 60 invitees to experiences of fun and excitement. Ralf Jüttner, the Team Director of Audi Sport Team Joest, was presented with a gift of symbolic value by the Audi factory driver: a trophy which Kristensens late father had won in his own motorsport career. For Tom Kristensen, the gift was a way of saying thank you for having been signed by the Joest squad in 1997. The Dane back then managed to immediately win the first of his now nine Le Mans victories with the team based in the German Odenwald region.
Audi with three R18 e-tron quattro cars at Le Mans
The Selection Committee of the Le Mans organizer ACO has accepted Audis three nominations for the Le Mans 24 Hours. Lucas di Grassi (BR) together with last years winners Loïc Duval (F) and Tom Kristensen (DK) will compete in car number 1. The number 2 Audi R18 e-tron quattro will be shared by Marcel Fässler/André Lotterer/Benoît Tréluyer (CH/D/F), who won the endurance classic with Audi in 2011 and 2012. Car number 3 will be driven by Filipe Albuquerque/Marco Bonanomi/Oliver Jarvis (P/I/GB). Audi with its newly designed hybrid sports car is aiming for its 13th victory in the Le Mans 24 Hours on June 14/15.
Audi wins readers vote with motorsport program
Readers of the auto motor und sport special-interest magazine voted Audi the most successful brand in motorsport. As part of its Best Cars readers choice the magazine had surveyed the image of various automotive brands. Audi decided the Successful in motorsport category in its favor ahead of Porsche and BMW. In the 5/2014 issue, the editors have now published the results of the voting in which 115,285 readers participated. The result honors us and spurs us on to continue the success we achieved on winning last years DTM and WEC titles. And to our customers who represent the brand in GT sport around the world we wish a lot of success as well, emphasizes Head of Audi Motorsport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich.
Marcel Fässler visited trade show in Freiburg
Audi factory driver Marcel Fässler attended the 29th Automobil trade show in Freiburg im Breisgau as a guest. The two-time Le Mans winner visited the booth of Audis partner organization Baden-Auto and signed numerous autographs as a driver who is popular with many fans. The Swiss 2012 WEC World Champion was a sought-after guest in interviews as well.
Belgian Audi Club Team WRT with international driver line-up
The Belgian Audi Club Team WRT will contest the Blancpain GT series with up to four Audi R8 LMS ultra cars and a driver line-up from nine nations. In the Blancpain Endurance Series, FIA GT Champion Laurens Vanthoor (B) will compete with Marc Basseng (D) and the Brazilian César Ramos in car number 1. Number 3 will be shared by Christopher Mies (D), Frank Stippler (D) and James Nash (GB). Both squads are running in the Pro category. In the Gentleman classification, Yves Weerts (B), Jean-Luc Blanchemain (F) and Christian Kelders (B) are taking the wheel of car number 4. The two R8 crews of cars number 3 and 4 will also be contesting the Spa 24 Hours. In addition, there are two other driver teams at Spa yet to be nominated. In the Blancpain Sprint Series, WRT is fielding four cars: #1 Laurens Vanthoor/César Ramos (B/BR), #2 René Rast/Enzo Ide (D/B) and #4 Vincent Abril/Mateusz Lisowski (F/PL). Starting under the banner of G-Drive Racing will be #3 Stéphane Ortelli/Roman Rusinov (MC/RUS). Furthermore, the Belgian Audi Club Team WRT is venturing into the Green Hell. In the Nürburgring 24 Hours, the team is banking on Stéphane Ortelli/Edward Sandström/Roman Rusinov (MC/S/RUS) and another driver yet to be named.
PK Carsport ready for title defense
The Belgian PK Carsport team is returning to the Belgian Racing Car Championship (BRCC). Following its re-launch last year, the squad immediately won the title with an Audi R8 LMS. Last years champions Anthony Kumpen and Bert Longin have a new team-mate: Their Belgian compatriot Frank Beliën completes the line-up at the six BRCC endurance races.
Sébastien Loeb Racing taking delivery of two Audi R8 LMS ultra cars
The Sébastien Loeb Racing team took delivery of two Audi R8 LMS ultra cars at quattro GmbH in Heilbronn-Biberach. The squad of the nine-time World Rally Champion relies on Audis customer sport race car for the first time this year and will be competing in the French GT Tour Championship. In addition, Sébastien Loeb Racing is planning to run in the GTC class of the European Le Mans Series (ELMS).
Driver teams nominated for Sebring 12 Hours
The Audi teams competing in the GTD class of the Tudor United Sports Car Championship have nominated their driver squads for the next major classic racing event. In the Sebring 12 Hours on March 15, Flying Lizard Motorsports will be relying on Nelson Canache/Tim Pappas/Spencer Pumpelly/Markus Winkelhock (YV/USA/USA/D). They are currently the runners-up on the leaderboard of the North American Endurance Challenge. The sister car will be shared by Filipe Albuquerque/Alessandro Latif/Dion von Moltke/Seth Neiman (P/GB/USA/USA). GMG Racing will be contesting the race with Marc Basseng/James Sofronas/Alex Welch (D/USA/USA). Fall-Line Motorsports will be competing in Florida with Charles Espenlaub/Christopher Mies/Charlie Putman (USA/D/USA). The R8 LMS of Paul Miller Racing will be driven by Matthew Bell/Christopher Haase/Bryce Miller (GB/D/USA) who are currently in third place of the standings.
Six Audi R8 LMS ultra cars in Pirelli World Challenge
In North America, Audi, with currently five R8 LMS cars in the field, not only has a strong presence in the Tudor United SportsCar Championship. The Pirelli World Challenge, as the second major GT Racing series in the United States, has attracted six Audi drivers this year. Last years runner-up James Sofronas will be attacking again in his Audi R8 LMS ultra. Alongside the Californian, Andrew Palmer (USA), Bret Curtis (USA) and Bill Ziegler (USA) will be competing for Team GMG. For the season opener at St. Petersburg on March 30, two other Audi privateer drivers, Jeff Courtney (JCR Motorsports) and Elton Julian (DragonSpeed), have announced their participation. For the second round of the season held at Long Beach two weeks later six Audi drivers have submitted their nominations to date.
A word from Marco Bonanomi
This year, youll be participating in the Le Mans 24 Hours, the biggest race of the year, for Audi. To top it off, this is a year in which three manufacturers are battling for overall victory.
It feels good to return to the team of the race drivers. Ive been to Le Mans with Audi three times in 2011 as a reserve driver, in 2012 as a race driver and in 2013 as a spotter for my team-mates. Each of these activities has given me a different perspective and thats very positive. The big interest by the manufacturers can clearly be felt this year. A lot of media already started to intensify their coverage of the WEC and Le Mans in winter.
Oliver Jarvis and Filipe Albuquerque are your team-mates. How well do you get along with them?
Ive celebrated a few successes with both drivers on previous occasions. With Oliver Jarvis, I was on podium at Le Mans in 2012. Filipe and I finished the Italian GT Championship in the Audi R8 LMS as the runners-up in 2010. A year later, he helped me win the champions title in the finale, on my guest run for Audi Sport Italia. Were a well-balanced team. Our lap times are similar, were bringing some experience from our careers to the team, and we get along with each other really well. At the teambuilding event in Lanzarote, we could already tell how well the whole team of Audi Sport harmonizes with each other.
This year, completely new rules apply. You started to be involved in the tests at an early stage. What will be the biggest challenge in 2014?
Last June, I started testing the new tire generation and have reeled off many more days of testing ever since then. The car feels very good and, due to the regulations, the tires have to be clearly slimmer. This is a big challenge for our partner Michelin with whom we worked in the right direction very constructively. The tires, like many other areas, will show that those with the most efficient driving style will be the front runners. The 2014 season feels like going back to school again and learning a lot of new things thats a nice challenge for the engineers and for us drivers.
Coming up next week
04/03Geneva (CH), Audi press conference
So you see, if you wanna know something about Audi, just ask
I think you will like the first part Dean Big event at Tom Kristensens home
• Le Mans winner invites his team to Denmark
• Belgian Audi Club Team WRT with international driver squad
• PK Carsport to tackle title defense in Belgium
Ingolstadt, March 2, 2014 – Audi factory driver Tom Kristensen treated Audi Sport Team Joest to a day filled with excitement and variety in his native Denmark. Audi customer teams prepare for the season and announce their drivers.
Tom Kristensen gets team in the mood for 2014
Tom Kristensen invited the employees of Audi Sport and Audi Sport Team Joest, personal friends and his early supporters to an event in Denmark on Thursday. In Hobro, the home town of the Audi factory driver, his guests had the opportunity to meet the mayor. A curling competition and a karting event in Århus treated the group of about 60 invitees to experiences of fun and excitement. Ralf Jüttner, the Team Director of Audi Sport Team Joest, was presented with a gift of symbolic value by the Audi factory driver: a trophy which Kristensens late father had won in his own motorsport career. For Tom Kristensen, the gift was a way of saying thank you for having been signed by the Joest squad in 1997. The Dane back then managed to immediately win the first of his now nine Le Mans victories with the team based in the German Odenwald region.
Audi with three R18 e-tron quattro cars at Le Mans
The Selection Committee of the Le Mans organizer ACO has accepted Audis three nominations for the Le Mans 24 Hours. Lucas di Grassi (BR) together with last years winners Loïc Duval (F) and Tom Kristensen (DK) will compete in car number 1. The number 2 Audi R18 e-tron quattro will be shared by Marcel Fässler/André Lotterer/Benoît Tréluyer (CH/D/F), who won the endurance classic with Audi in 2011 and 2012. Car number 3 will be driven by Filipe Albuquerque/Marco Bonanomi/Oliver Jarvis (P/I/GB). Audi with its newly designed hybrid sports car is aiming for its 13th victory in the Le Mans 24 Hours on June 14/15.
Audi wins readers vote with motorsport program
Readers of the auto motor und sport special-interest magazine voted Audi the most successful brand in motorsport. As part of its Best Cars readers choice the magazine had surveyed the image of various automotive brands. Audi decided the Successful in motorsport category in its favor ahead of Porsche and BMW. In the 5/2014 issue, the editors have now published the results of the voting in which 115,285 readers participated. The result honors us and spurs us on to continue the success we achieved on winning last years DTM and WEC titles. And to our customers who represent the brand in GT sport around the world we wish a lot of success as well, emphasizes Head of Audi Motorsport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich.
Marcel Fässler visited trade show in Freiburg
Audi factory driver Marcel Fässler attended the 29th Automobil trade show in Freiburg im Breisgau as a guest. The two-time Le Mans winner visited the booth of Audis partner organization Baden-Auto and signed numerous autographs as a driver who is popular with many fans. The Swiss 2012 WEC World Champion was a sought-after guest in interviews as well.
Belgian Audi Club Team WRT with international driver line-up
The Belgian Audi Club Team WRT will contest the Blancpain GT series with up to four Audi R8 LMS ultra cars and a driver line-up from nine nations. In the Blancpain Endurance Series, FIA GT Champion Laurens Vanthoor (B) will compete with Marc Basseng (D) and the Brazilian César Ramos in car number 1. Number 3 will be shared by Christopher Mies (D), Frank Stippler (D) and James Nash (GB). Both squads are running in the Pro category. In the Gentleman classification, Yves Weerts (B), Jean-Luc Blanchemain (F) and Christian Kelders (B) are taking the wheel of car number 4. The two R8 crews of cars number 3 and 4 will also be contesting the Spa 24 Hours. In addition, there are two other driver teams at Spa yet to be nominated. In the Blancpain Sprint Series, WRT is fielding four cars: #1 Laurens Vanthoor/César Ramos (B/BR), #2 René Rast/Enzo Ide (D/B) and #4 Vincent Abril/Mateusz Lisowski (F/PL). Starting under the banner of G-Drive Racing will be #3 Stéphane Ortelli/Roman Rusinov (MC/RUS). Furthermore, the Belgian Audi Club Team WRT is venturing into the Green Hell. In the Nürburgring 24 Hours, the team is banking on Stéphane Ortelli/Edward Sandström/Roman Rusinov (MC/S/RUS) and another driver yet to be named.
PK Carsport ready for title defense
The Belgian PK Carsport team is returning to the Belgian Racing Car Championship (BRCC). Following its re-launch last year, the squad immediately won the title with an Audi R8 LMS. Last years champions Anthony Kumpen and Bert Longin have a new team-mate: Their Belgian compatriot Frank Beliën completes the line-up at the six BRCC endurance races.
Sébastien Loeb Racing taking delivery of two Audi R8 LMS ultra cars
The Sébastien Loeb Racing team took delivery of two Audi R8 LMS ultra cars at quattro GmbH in Heilbronn-Biberach. The squad of the nine-time World Rally Champion relies on Audis customer sport race car for the first time this year and will be competing in the French GT Tour Championship. In addition, Sébastien Loeb Racing is planning to run in the GTC class of the European Le Mans Series (ELMS).
Driver teams nominated for Sebring 12 Hours
The Audi teams competing in the GTD class of the Tudor United Sports Car Championship have nominated their driver squads for the next major classic racing event. In the Sebring 12 Hours on March 15, Flying Lizard Motorsports will be relying on Nelson Canache/Tim Pappas/Spencer Pumpelly/Markus Winkelhock (YV/USA/USA/D). They are currently the runners-up on the leaderboard of the North American Endurance Challenge. The sister car will be shared by Filipe Albuquerque/Alessandro Latif/Dion von Moltke/Seth Neiman (P/GB/USA/USA). GMG Racing will be contesting the race with Marc Basseng/James Sofronas/Alex Welch (D/USA/USA). Fall-Line Motorsports will be competing in Florida with Charles Espenlaub/Christopher Mies/Charlie Putman (USA/D/USA). The R8 LMS of Paul Miller Racing will be driven by Matthew Bell/Christopher Haase/Bryce Miller (GB/D/USA) who are currently in third place of the standings.
Six Audi R8 LMS ultra cars in Pirelli World Challenge
In North America, Audi, with currently five R8 LMS cars in the field, not only has a strong presence in the Tudor United SportsCar Championship. The Pirelli World Challenge, as the second major GT Racing series in the United States, has attracted six Audi drivers this year. Last years runner-up James Sofronas will be attacking again in his Audi R8 LMS ultra. Alongside the Californian, Andrew Palmer (USA), Bret Curtis (USA) and Bill Ziegler (USA) will be competing for Team GMG. For the season opener at St. Petersburg on March 30, two other Audi privateer drivers, Jeff Courtney (JCR Motorsports) and Elton Julian (DragonSpeed), have announced their participation. For the second round of the season held at Long Beach two weeks later six Audi drivers have submitted their nominations to date.
A word from Marco Bonanomi
This year, youll be participating in the Le Mans 24 Hours, the biggest race of the year, for Audi. To top it off, this is a year in which three manufacturers are battling for overall victory.
It feels good to return to the team of the race drivers. Ive been to Le Mans with Audi three times in 2011 as a reserve driver, in 2012 as a race driver and in 2013 as a spotter for my team-mates. Each of these activities has given me a different perspective and thats very positive. The big interest by the manufacturers can clearly be felt this year. A lot of media already started to intensify their coverage of the WEC and Le Mans in winter.
Oliver Jarvis and Filipe Albuquerque are your team-mates. How well do you get along with them?
Ive celebrated a few successes with both drivers on previous occasions. With Oliver Jarvis, I was on podium at Le Mans in 2012. Filipe and I finished the Italian GT Championship in the Audi R8 LMS as the runners-up in 2010. A year later, he helped me win the champions title in the finale, on my guest run for Audi Sport Italia. Were a well-balanced team. Our lap times are similar, were bringing some experience from our careers to the team, and we get along with each other really well. At the teambuilding event in Lanzarote, we could already tell how well the whole team of Audi Sport harmonizes with each other.
This year, completely new rules apply. You started to be involved in the tests at an early stage. What will be the biggest challenge in 2014?
Last June, I started testing the new tire generation and have reeled off many more days of testing ever since then. The car feels very good and, due to the regulations, the tires have to be clearly slimmer. This is a big challenge for our partner Michelin with whom we worked in the right direction very constructively. The tires, like many other areas, will show that those with the most efficient driving style will be the front runners. The 2014 season feels like going back to school again and learning a lot of new things thats a nice challenge for the engineers and for us drivers.
Coming up next week
04/03Geneva (CH), Audi press conference
So you see, if you wanna know something about Audi, just ask
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Thanks @doodlemonoply
Just thought that it did in the real world and might have been something GT had considered.
Thanks anyway for the clarification
Just thought that it did in the real world and might have been something GT had considered.
Thanks anyway for the clarification
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Handicap is how fast you are, the lower the number the better, r is result handicap and scoot and squeeze are black magic.
Guess which ones I don't understand.
Guess which ones I don't understand.
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Here's it asked and explained most recently.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...sion-and-feedback.123953/page-29#post-9358791
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...sion-and-feedback.123953/page-29#post-9358791
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Too bad it was in Hobro and Aarhus though, I live too far south.And this is some allround Audi news from Sunday
Big event at Tom Kristensens home
• Le Mans winner invites his team to Denmark
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This is a video made by 'Curbstone' a trackday organiser.... What they made here is an absolute video-beauty with footage of the current track, but also from the old (original) track of Francorchamps !!
Enjoy
Enjoy
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And for those who are intrested, here is the 2014 Audi RS 5 DTM
2014/03/04
World premiere of new Audi RS 5 DTM in Geneva
• 2014 generation of the Championship winning car clearly more aggressive
• New season is under the motto of title defense
• Audi CTO Hackenberg: Motorsport accelerates development
Ingolstadt, March 4, 2014 Audi has unveiled the new generation of the DTM Championship winning car at the Geneva Motor Show. The 2014-specification Audi RS 5 DTM with its aerodynamics package having been redesigned in practically all areas looks clearly more aggressive and features visual details bearing an even closer resemblance to the sporty production models of the RS line than its predecessor.
The task that confronted Audi Sport after the 2013 season was a real challenge: how do you make a DTM championship winning car even better? Since the strict regulations in the touring car series allow little room for maneuver, the engineers concentrated extensively on detail work. The latest result was unveiled to the public for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show. Noticeable at first glance: the new Audi RS 5 DTM appears significantly more aggressive. The reason for this is the near complete re-development of the aerodynamics.
In addition to the suspension, our main priority was to improve the aero, says Stefan Aicher, Head of Vehicle Design at Audi Sport. The RS 5 now has the honeycomb grill from the production car at the front and new air ducts feeding the engine and brakes. As a result, the race car now shares an almost identical look to the sporting RS production models.
The innovations along the flanks are also obvious: in order to make the airflow even more efficient along the outer skin, the exterior mirrors were integrated into the aerodynamic concept. The aerodynamics along the side between the front and rear wheels also reveals a new concept. The inner rear wheel arches are, in contrast to last year, closed and the rear part is now flat. Aicher: The DTM rules are strict, which is why minute detail work is required within the tight limitations.
Invisible from the outside, but crucial for the perfect set-up at each respective race track: the work invested under the carbon fiber skin enveloping the RS 5 DTM. For example, we made suspension modifications to the front and rear axles, from which we expect improvements, says Aicher, without wishing to go into too much detail about these and other new and further developments invisible from the outside.
In production development, we tackle the challenge of making good cars even better day by day, says Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Hackenberg, Member of the Board of Management for Technical Development of AUDI AG. This applies to Audi Sport as a part of Audis Technical Development as well. The most recent results achieved by hard work are an all-new R18 e-tron quattro that were aiming to stand our ground with at Le Mans and in the WEC against Porsche and Toyota, plus a largely new RS 5 DTM with which were aiming to keep our number-one spot in the tough competition with BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Of course, neither of these commitments is an end in itself: Motorsport at Audi accelerates the development of new technologies.
Audi contests two races against time year after year: one on the race tracks and the other in the Audi Sport offices in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm. Because when the DTM celebrates its season opener at Hockenheim in the spring, the engineers start working on the race car for the following year. The RC3, as the 2014 version of the Audi RS 5 DTM is known internally, was thus born in May last year. We begin with the first fundamental thoughts from every department before the aerodynamics are developed in a continuous process, says Stefan Aicher, Head of Vehicle Design at Audi Sport. The goal is to have the base for the new car finished before the year is out. The detail work follows.
There are still two official tests in Budapest and at the Hockenheimring on the agenda before Mike Rockenfeller, with start number 1, and his team-mates start the new season at Hockenheim on May, 4.
World premiere of new Audi RS 5 DTM in Geneva
• 2014 generation of the Championship winning car clearly more aggressive
• New season is under the motto of title defense
• Audi CTO Hackenberg: Motorsport accelerates development
Ingolstadt, March 4, 2014 Audi has unveiled the new generation of the DTM Championship winning car at the Geneva Motor Show. The 2014-specification Audi RS 5 DTM with its aerodynamics package having been redesigned in practically all areas looks clearly more aggressive and features visual details bearing an even closer resemblance to the sporty production models of the RS line than its predecessor.
The task that confronted Audi Sport after the 2013 season was a real challenge: how do you make a DTM championship winning car even better? Since the strict regulations in the touring car series allow little room for maneuver, the engineers concentrated extensively on detail work. The latest result was unveiled to the public for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show. Noticeable at first glance: the new Audi RS 5 DTM appears significantly more aggressive. The reason for this is the near complete re-development of the aerodynamics.
In addition to the suspension, our main priority was to improve the aero, says Stefan Aicher, Head of Vehicle Design at Audi Sport. The RS 5 now has the honeycomb grill from the production car at the front and new air ducts feeding the engine and brakes. As a result, the race car now shares an almost identical look to the sporting RS production models.
The innovations along the flanks are also obvious: in order to make the airflow even more efficient along the outer skin, the exterior mirrors were integrated into the aerodynamic concept. The aerodynamics along the side between the front and rear wheels also reveals a new concept. The inner rear wheel arches are, in contrast to last year, closed and the rear part is now flat. Aicher: The DTM rules are strict, which is why minute detail work is required within the tight limitations.
Invisible from the outside, but crucial for the perfect set-up at each respective race track: the work invested under the carbon fiber skin enveloping the RS 5 DTM. For example, we made suspension modifications to the front and rear axles, from which we expect improvements, says Aicher, without wishing to go into too much detail about these and other new and further developments invisible from the outside.
In production development, we tackle the challenge of making good cars even better day by day, says Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Hackenberg, Member of the Board of Management for Technical Development of AUDI AG. This applies to Audi Sport as a part of Audis Technical Development as well. The most recent results achieved by hard work are an all-new R18 e-tron quattro that were aiming to stand our ground with at Le Mans and in the WEC against Porsche and Toyota, plus a largely new RS 5 DTM with which were aiming to keep our number-one spot in the tough competition with BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Of course, neither of these commitments is an end in itself: Motorsport at Audi accelerates the development of new technologies.
Audi contests two races against time year after year: one on the race tracks and the other in the Audi Sport offices in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm. Because when the DTM celebrates its season opener at Hockenheim in the spring, the engineers start working on the race car for the following year. The RC3, as the 2014 version of the Audi RS 5 DTM is known internally, was thus born in May last year. We begin with the first fundamental thoughts from every department before the aerodynamics are developed in a continuous process, says Stefan Aicher, Head of Vehicle Design at Audi Sport. The goal is to have the base for the new car finished before the year is out. The detail work follows.
There are still two official tests in Budapest and at the Hockenheimring on the agenda before Mike Rockenfeller, with start number 1, and his team-mates start the new season at Hockenheim on May, 4.
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- Antwerp
- GTP_Frank
More new reveals.....
WTCC Honda livery
New Ligier JS P2
And this time the official Porsche pictures...
WTCC Honda livery
And this time the official Porsche pictures...
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Horrible,
My Clubsport Wheel and Formula Rim turned up today but I have to wait until tomorrow to hopefully be able to access the tools at work, what a terrible feeling having it in front of me and not being able to use it.
Hopefully tomorrow someone that works in the warehouse will possess a drill and be able to quick sort it out for me so that I am ready to go when I get home
If they don't have the tools then it could be a while before I get to use it.
My Clubsport Wheel and Formula Rim turned up today but I have to wait until tomorrow to hopefully be able to access the tools at work, what a terrible feeling having it in front of me and not being able to use it.
Hopefully tomorrow someone that works in the warehouse will possess a drill and be able to quick sort it out for me so that I am ready to go when I get home
If they don't have the tools then it could be a while before I get to use it.
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- Seattle
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