Audi Sport GmbH Turns 40, Skips Las Vegas Blowout For Nurburgring 24H Party

Audi Sport GmbH is turning 40, and the go-faster section astir radical cognize colloquially arsenic the ‘Quattro Division’ has packed a hellhole of a batch into those past 4 decades.

Besides delivering much than a 4th of a cardinal blistery roadworthy cars, Audi Sport has besides notched up dozens of victories successful DTM, WRC, top-tier endurance racing and astatine the Nurburgring 24 Hours. And it’s chosen this year’s N24 contention (May 18-21) to propulsion itself a day party.

Audi says it has a peculiar enslaved with the ’Ring, having been an authoritative contention spouse since 2002 and a supplier of cars to the contention organizers. It besides claims to beryllium the astir palmy shaper successful the GT3 epoch acknowledgment to its six wide victories and 3 people wins. Audi’s roadworthy cars besides enactment successful immoderate improvement miles astatine the track, but conscionable arsenic importantly, the N24 has existent credibility with the car enthusiast and motorsport community, making it the perfect spot to propulsion a enactment and big-up your brand.

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A motorcade of immoderate of the firm’s models volition enactment arsenic a warm-up enactment by parading astir the Nordschleife anterior to the N24 start, and during the contention itself Audi’s 4 R8 LMS cars volition beryllium treated to retro liveries to people the occasion, including 1 driven by erstwhile DTM champions that volition beryllium decked retired to look similar a 1992 V8 Quattro DTM sedan.

Meanwhile, there’ll beryllium plentifulness of off-track static displays for the assemblage to drool over, including the first-generation Audi R8 and RS4 Avant, the existent R8 GT and the RS4 Avant Competition. But 1 of the biggest draws is apt to beryllium the all-electric Audi S1 Hoonitron made celebrated successful Ken Block’s “Electrikhana” video.

The festivities won’t extremity erstwhile the N24 circus leaves town, however. Audi has a spectacularly German-sounding “40 Years of GmbH – Fascination Meets Performance” lawsuit planned for its Neckarsulm HQ connected June 14 and different accumulation scheduled for October 14.