I really hope everyone involved can recover from this, and for the drivers, either on time for this rally or on their own time if necessary
@peekaboo1575
2 ай бұрын
My mother has Alzheimer's disease and I quite frankly wouldn't want people out there to know what goes on 'behind the scenes'. If Schumacher's condition is anything remotely similar, I fully sympathize. As for my previous comment, shame on me for not proof-reading it. My line of thinking was: 1) Lamborghini participated in F1 organically and naturally, and they have always had a rivalry with Ferrari. Because of this, I reckon that it would make much more sense for Lambo to go there, as opposed to Audi. 2) Audi's entrance into F1 reeks of soulless marketing. I cannot shake the feeling that a bunch of out-of-touch, overly-paid men-in-suits simply saw the audience numbers of present day F1 and cancelled the endurance program to go there instead. I heard that Audi was a few months away from testing their LMDh prototype when it happened. Oof. 3) Audi made it's pedigree and identity on rallying and endurance racing, which gave us the i5 engines, quattro drivetrain, the diesels and the fancy light technologies. Those things too, occurred naturally and organically. I remember vividly the enormous LEDs of the 2011 R18, the colorful daytime running lights of the 2012 cars and the laser projectors + 'intelligent' cornering lights that would even react to the traffic ahead, introduced in 2014. Then the same stuff showed up on their road cars. You could see the identity of both the race team and the manufacturer flourishing right before your eyes, something I only ever saw from Ferrari in F1 before that. IMO Audi belongs on endurance racing every bit as much as Ferrari belongs on F1, and this choice to abandon LMDh in favor of Formula 1 makes little sense. I don't see what Audi could possibly gain from joining F1. Sorry for the long comment, lad. Cheers.
@berryblaster21
2 ай бұрын
I have nothing to add but I agree 100% lol
@gchampi2
2 ай бұрын
Point of Order! Audi didn't invent 4wd for road cars. That was Harry Ferguson, and his company FF Developments, back in the early 1960's. The first production car with 4wd was the Jensen FF in 1967 - also the first car with anti-lock brakes, using the Dunlop Maxaret system. When Audi started working on the Quattro system, one of the first things they did was to buy a Jensen FF for research purposes. It's rumored that Audi still has that car as part of their corporate collection...
@britishgaming6
2 ай бұрын
audi has shown in w2rc they are still good at making completely wacky concepts work in a motorsport, while evs may not start popping up in that they still proved you can win the dakar with one, not sure what they would do in wrc or wec since they have already advanced a lot of technologies in them but they are better in motorsports where you can mess around with the cars
@ruddgrandprix-speedrunraci8515
2 ай бұрын
Condolences.
@alaricbragg7843
2 ай бұрын
Why don't VAG revive the Horch brand for top level motorsport? Bringing back a long-dead make worked for Vanwall and Isotta-Fraschini in the WEC during the last couple of years lol.
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