Team Audi Sport has optimized the pioneering rally car prototype that has an electric drivetrain, a high-voltage battery and an...
Watch this video featuring an Audi R8 GT3 LMS Ultra while being driven by Marcus von Oeynhausen during the Masters...
An updated version of the Audi Sport Quattro – given the ‘S1’ moniker – was introduced at the end of 1984. To meet homologation requirements for the improvements, Audi first had to produce an additional 20 examples per Group B regulations. After this was completed, Audi debuted the Sport Quattro...
In the recent decades, Audi has established itself as a household name both in motorsports and on the luxury car...
Audi will be releasing a new family of concept vehicles and recently, they’ve just unveiled the first and newest member,...
The game-changing Audi quattro made its UK debut, in London, in 1980. Here, five former members of the Audi UK Rally Team recall how it changed the world, and we take a look back at the numerous iterations of the quattro rally car. Harald Demuth – Rally driver Two-time German...
Auto Union (Audi) history at a glance (left to right): 1938 Horch 830 B; 1953 DKW3=6F91; 1959 NSU Prinz 30; 1937...
WSC Giants: Audi R8 By Ian Wagstaff In recent years, German carmaker Audi has dominated the 24 Hours of Le...
Walter Röhrl, the two-time World Rally Champion driver who was voted Rally Driver of the Millennium and called “a genius on wheels” by Niki Lauda, will return to the scene of his dominant win in the 1984 Ulster International Rally. The occasion is Titanic Déjà Vu Ulster, another of Déjà...
The Mecum Chicago 2017 collector-car auction held this past weekend, October 5-7, at the Schaumburg Convention Center in suburban Chicago...
August has again arrived, and the collector car auctions of Monterey Classic Car Week will soon be providing the industry with its annual reality check. The five main auction companies will all stage showcase sales during the week, each with its own selection of desirable machinery over a broad range...
Nine-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner, six-time 24 Hours of Sebring winner and 2013 FIA World Endurance champion Tom...
Electric vehicles are suddenly all the rage. Showing one’s “green” credentials is very popular in this low or zero emission...
Johnny of the ready smile and blonde hair was a motor racing shooting star who might have aspired to becoming the new Jim Clark. His rise to fame, however, came to a sudden—even if temporary—standstill after a horrendous 10-car, 150 mph Formula 3000 accident while driving Jordan Racing’s Reynard-Ford Cosworth...
Saying someone is/was the world’s greatest racing driver is a mug’s game. So many circumstances —not least of all technology—change...
Vaso Bill Vukovich Sr. John Cobb 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car...
This past February, the fifth annual Leadfoot Festival was held at international rally champion Rod Millen’s ranch on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand. Rod has semi-retired there after his championship-winning career, including toppling the Unser dynasty from Pikes Peak in the United States. Photo: Mark Dunstan What started five...
When John Sanderson, a pupil of the famous English landscape architect Lancelot “Capability” Brown, initially laid out the Claydon...
The inaugural Cars in the Claydons will take place Saturday September 3 at The Claydon Estate in Buckinghamshire, featuring a...
Cars in the Claydons, the UK’s major new motoring and motorsport festival, will take place for the first time this September 3 at the Claydon Estate in Buckinghamshire. Event organizers aspire to grow Cars in the Claydons into a full moving event by year three, but for this maiden running...
Touring car racing has usually been seen as the court jester to the serious stuff of single-seaters, but in a...
Brian RedmanPhoto: Mike Jiggle Jacques Villeneuve.Photo: Michael Casey-DiPleco 2 Gilles Villeneuve wins the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in...
A.J. Foyt Mike Costin 1 A.J. Foyt drives a Coyote-Foyt to victory in the USAC Championship race at Pocono, Pennsylvania, (1973). 2 Pierre Veyron wins the voiturette race at Albi, France, driving a Bugatti Type 51A (1933). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota...
Michael Andretti Al UnserPhoto: Jim Hatfield 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African Grand Prix (1975). 2 Michael Andretti drives a Swift-Ford to victory in the CART Marlboro Grand Prix of Miami at Homestead, Florida. First CART win for Swift in their first...
Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin...
Pete Lyons Got paper and pen at hand? Or simple fingers will do: Try coming up with a list of...
Audi has recently reacquired an extremely rare Auto Union Silver Arrow racing car consisting largely of original parts. It is the Auto Union twin-supercharger Type D dating from 1939, one of the two legendary “Karassik cars.” Audi AG now owns three of the five Auto Union racing cars that can...