Audi Sport North America
The Audi R8 has gone down in history as one of the most dominant sports car prototypes ever created. At its final race in Lime Rock, it captured its 50th overall win before its retirement. It has been replaced by a new technology, a turbo diesel car named the Audi R10. At the 12 Hours of Sebring, the car debut and won the first time out before being shipped back to Europe to test for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The car will come back to the American Le Mans Series at the Utah Grand Prix to finish the end of the season. The American public will get a different view of an alternate to gasoline with this powerful and quiet car. In the very successful driver lineup is Frank Biela, Rinaldo Capello, Tom Kristensen, JJ Lehto, Allan McNish, Emanuele Pirro, and Marco Warner.
Another Honor for TDI Power
The revolutionary Audi R10 TDI has won the “Pioneering and Innovation Award” from the British magazine “Autosport” for the most important innovation of the 2006 motorsport season. Head of Audi Motorsport Dr Wolfgang Ullrich accepted the prestigious trophy Sunday evening in London in front of more than 1,000 guests. Also in attendance at the prestigious awards evening were Audi Sport “factory” drivers, Allan McNish, the 2006 American Le Mans Series champion, and Emanuele Pirro.
Audi R10 TDI Ends Debut Season Undefeated
With a 1-2 victory in the finalé of the American Le Mans Series at Laguna Seca (California), AUDI AG yet again has written a piece of motorsport history: The Audi R10 TDI is the first Le Mans Prototype to remain unbeaten in its début season. The revolutionary diesel sportscar competed in eight races since the début in March, crossing the finish line eight times as the outright winner.
Audi R10 TDI Also Wins “Petit Le Mans”
For the first time, a diesel-powered sportscar has won the American Endurance classic “Petit Le Mans”. With victory at Road Atlanta (US state of Georgia), Audi prematurely clinched the Manufacturers’ Championship in the LM P1 “top class” of the American Le Mans Series having already won the Drivers’ and Teams’ titles. The new Audi R10 TDI remains unbeaten in the seventh race of its début season, having now won the third most important Endurance race of the year after the 12 Hours of Sebring in March and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June.
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Audi Claims American Le Mans Series Title
With victory in the eighth race of the season at Mosport (Canada), Allan McNish (Scotland) and Dindo Capello (Italy) in their Audi R10 TDI clinched the LM-P1 title in the American Le Mans Series ahead of time. With their fifth outright race victory of the season, the two Audi “works” drivers now have an unassailable championship lead with the final two races at Road Atlanta and Laguna Seca remaining. The Audi R10 TDI, that celebrated a race-winning début at Sebring in March and then won the Le Mans 24 Hours in June, remains unbeaten and is the first diesel-powered sportscar to win an important championship. After the success with the legendary R8 it is the seventh title in the prototype class for Audi. While Allan McNish was already ALMS champion in 2000, his co-driver Dindo Capello wins the championship for the first time on this occasion.
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Audi R10 TDI on the Front Row at Mosport
The Audi “works” drivers Allan McNish (Scotland) and Dindo Capello (Italy) will start their Audi R10 TDI from the front row in the eighth race of the American Le Mans Series at Mosport (Canada). Due to heavy rain, the 20 minute qualifying on Saturday was cancelled. For Sunday’s starting grid, the organisers took into account each car’s best lap time achieved in any of the three free practice sessions on Friday and Saturday. The ALMS championship leaders Allan McNish and Dindo Capello will sit next to the Lola drivers and 2005 Mosport race winners, James Weaver and Butch Leitzinger, on the front row. Their Audi team-mates Frank Biela (Germany) and Emanuele Pirro (Italy) start the race on the 2.549 miles circuit, located about 60 miles east of Toronto, from sixth place.
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Fifth Victory for the Audi R10 TDI
The Audi R10 TDI remains unbeaten: Frank Biela (Germany) and Emanuele Pirro (Italy) celebrated together with their team-mates Dindo Capello (Italy) and Allan McNish (Scotland) a double victory in the fifth race of Audi’s new diesel sportscar. In the seventh round of the American Le Mans Series at Road America (US state of Wisconsin) Biela and Pirro clinched their third victory of the season – including the Le Mans 24 Hours – by a margin of just 0.4 seconds.
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Audi R10 TDI Claims Victory in US Comeback
Only four weeks after its historical victory as the first diesel sportscar at the Le Mans 24 Hours, the Audi R10 TDI celebrated another success: In the comeback in the American Le Mans Series on the new race track at Salt Lake City (US state Utah), Emanuele Pirro (Italy) and Frank Biela (Germany) triumphed in an exciting finish with a gap of only 0.318 seconds ahead of the Porsche drivers Lucas Luhr and Sascha Maassen.
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Third Start, Third Pole for Audi R10 TDI
The new Audi R10 TDI remains the sportscar to beat at its first race after its historic victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans: The two diesel sportscars of Frank Biela (Germany) and Emanuele Pirro (Italy) and their team-mates, Allan McNish (Scotland) and Dindo Capello (Italy), start the fifth round of the American Le Mans Series in Salt Lake City (US state Utah) from the front row once again.
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Audi R8 Claims Victory in Farewell Race
The final chapter held a fairytale ending for the “old girl’s” last ever race: Dindo Capello (Italy) and Allan McNish (Scotland) steered their Audi R8 home to an amazing and emotional victory at Lime Rock Park (US state of Connecticut) – the final race for the most successful Le Mans Prototype of all time.
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Audi Extends American Le Mans Series Lead
Audi will return to American Le Mans Series action in six weeks time leading the LM P1 class following a third consecutive maximum score. Dindo Capello (Italy) and Allan McNish (Scotland) claimed a hard earned class victory – third place overall – in their Audi Sport North America “factory” Audi R8 in the third round of the 10-race series at Mid-Ohio (US state of Ohio) on Sunday.
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