Comments on: Audi announces its 2009 motorsport programme

By: rick

rick — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:43:52 +0000

The SCCA does a poor job of balancing the performance in SWC. They should do that before the first race as the SRO does it with GT3. Will Dallara help Audi with the R15? Robin Miller says that Audi is “100 percent in” with the 2011 IndyCar Series.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:24:38 +0000

Umm -

Bamba are you serious???

Clearly its NASCAR lending think tank believes a common chassis is the way to go and reduces cost (up front only) to purchase cars but not to develop them. You can see they haven’t learned ANYTHING in the Cup Series….

The 430 and M6 are built on common chassis (ie: tube chassis) these are not pure production based cars and besides the spec tire and other things are not competitive.

I thought Kool-Aid drinking was over this Holiday Season.

The game has just been raised in GT3. The Matech GT40’s was a example of starting from scratch with a car developed specifically for the job of racing in GT3 and the “Rat” seem to grow a desire to limit its performance over the season. Wait until the R8 GT turns its first officially test day times…

By: bamba

bamba — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:35:35 +0000

For real GT3 exposure they should race it in the Grand Am Rolex GT class.

Even the FIA GT’s GT3 class doesn’t even get quite the same TV exposure. The only thing is that except for the Porsches it doesn’t feature any other exotic cars.

The 430 challenge and BMW m6s entered are very underfunded privateer efforts.

But that’s where the Speed World Challenge would come in. I think the series is just fine as it is.

By: rick

rick — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:02:17 +0000

The R8 LMS will race in the FIA GT3 Championship and other series which have GT3 cars. It will not race in the GT2 class. The SCCA hasn’t done that great of a job with the Speed World Challenge series. They didn’t even want the original Trans-Am Series to become as high-profile as it was in the late 1960s and early 70s. Audi is rumored to be out of the 2009 Le Mans Series.

By: Kiki

Kiki — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:50:48 +0000

Doesn’t look like Stasis will be back in SCCA SWC.

By: James Dofelmier

James Dofelmier — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:15:16 +0000

It would be nice to see Audi compete more in North America. The GT2 catagory would be a great spot to see the new R8 LMS, competing against; Corvette, Ferrari, Porsche, Ford, Aston Martin, Maserati, and now the new BMW GT3R. It would also be a pleasure to see the new A4 compete in the SCCA. Audi does great in Europe, but the Audi enthusiasts of the USA would love to see more envolvement then just the P1 catagory of the ALMS.

By: OttoVu

OttoVu — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:48:27 +0000

Great, a new diesel! I was hoping for something more exciting (like developing the TFSI system for racing). Hopefully Audi will never win at Le Mans again. They don’t deserve it.

By: Christopher Bouchard

Christopher Bouchard — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:28:00 +0000

Can’t wait to see the New Audi R15 prototype race, it’s an open prototype. And the new Audi R8 LMS why GT3 can it be run in GT2 too. Still can’t wait until the 24 hours of LEMANS