Well the stunning Audi R8 LMS didn’t win the Nürburgring 24 hour race outright, but it did finish third and in doing so managed to win its class. The highest place #14 car was also involved in a terrific scrap with the #32 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 in the closing stages, which made for great [...]

Audi Motorsport is riding high after notching up its tenth Le Mans victory a couple of weeks back. So far at the Nürburgring 24 hour race they have shown great promise with the R8 LMS but haven’t managed a race win. Dr Wolfgang Ullrich, Head of Audi Motorsport, has his fingers crossed, “At least five [...]

Unfortunately the trip to Germany for Craig Lowndes and Warren Luff to race in a VLN endurance round at the Nürburgring turned out to be little more than a tourist visit to the Audi factory in Neckarsulm. According to a short paragraph in the latest Audi Motorsport newsletter Lowndes binned his R8 LMS in practice. [...]

The Nürburgring 24 hour race is one of motorsport’s toughest challenges. Earlier this year V8 Supercar drivers Craig Lowndes and Warren Luff got a small taste of what it might be like by driving a factory-backed Audi R8 LMS in the Bathurst 12 hour. Many Australians have competed at the Nürburgring 24 hour race. Indeed, [...]

Last weekend this radical looking Audi TT RS, prepared by Raeder Motorsport, made its race debut during the VLN round held at the Nürburgring. It was entered in the SP 4T class and a trouble-free run saw it win the class, while achieving eighth place outright. A brief statement has been released bu Audi Motorsport: [...]

When Audi saw they had four R8 LMS racecars filling the first four spots on the grid for the start of 2010 Nürburgring 24 hour race they must have had high hopes for outright success. At various stages during the race those hopes looked well founded, too. However motor racing in general, and especially at [...]

The 2010 Nürburgring 24 hour race is now well into its second half. If you’ve missed some of the action then tip your hat to the MT89Motorsports channel on YouTube. Included after the jump are five clips from the race so far: Opening lap – includes all three starting groups #98 Audi R8 LMS on [...]

Audi have claimed their first pole position at the Nürburgring 24 hour race. They did it in style, too, with the first four grid positions being held by Audi R8 LMS entries. Pole sitter and three-time Le Mans winner Marco Werner proved the R8′s dominance during qualifying even further by setting a new lap record [...]

Last year Audi very nearly won the Nürburgring 24 hour with its R8 supercar at its first attempt. This year they are back with seven cars, split between the three teams of Abt Sportline, Black Falcon and Phoenix Racing. Some of the drivers at the wheel include Hans-Joachim Stuck, Frank Biela and Markus Winkelhock. Audi’s [...]

Audi have just announced they will be offering cashed up wannabe racing drivers a seat in an R8 LMS. Two GT3 cars will be prepared by the Joest Racing Team, the guys responsible for six of Audi’s recent Le Mans victories. Joest will be entering up to six VLN races at the Nürburgring this year, [...]