Sentences with phrase «clienti customer racing»

And let's face it, no matter what top your R8 has, it's never going to be eking out the last tenth of a second for the win at your local club race (and if it is, you should buy an Audi customer racing car, or at least a Spec Miata).

It's less than an hour into the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway, and Brad Kettler already looks bored as he lounges on a cushioned bench in front of a flat - screen TV in the cab of an Audi Sport customer racing big rig filled with roughly $ 2 million in racing car parts.

Four years later, when Audi decided to create a customer racing operation of its own in the United States, Kettler was the obvious choice to put it together.

Toyota's motorsports division has already entered the GT86 / Scion FR - S into customer racing in the past, starting the TMG GT86 Cup with its GT86 CS - V3 racecar which launched in 2013.

Now, Porsche is bringing the same magic, and more, to the customer race car version.

Sponsored by Springer, Kettler spent six months on and off in Germany, learning the Porsche way, returning home with a Porsche - designed parts trailer to run the automaker's stateside customer racing program.

Production - car - based customer racing is a giant part of the game in sports - car competition, with Audi Sport — it's responsible for the RS street cars and customer racing programs — so far delivering more than 200 R8 GT3 - spec cars worldwide (60 in the U.S.).

The Panamericana grille is the centerpiece of the new front end, with 15 chrome - plated vertical bars designed to mimic the grille of the customer racing Mercedes - AMG GT3 race car.

The 2018 RS 5 is one of the first standard bearers of the new - look Audi Sport division, which has reorganized the brand's RS street car and customer race car efforts under one flag.

«The newly created TCR category provides a promising platform for customer racing — on a national and international level.

The car is intended to be an entry in the world of Audi Sport customer racing, and as such has a relatively modest price tag of 129,000 euros plus VAT.

Being a customer race car, the GT3 RSR can be purchased by just about anyone.

Designed to act as the company's entry - level customer racing car, the CLA 45 AMG Racing Series has been fitted a new front bumper, carbon fiber splitter and massive air intakes.

Besides the aggressive aero kit, the most noticeable styling upgrade is the new AMG Panamericana grille with chrome - plated vertical fins, similar to the one fitted on the AMG GT3 customer racing car.

Powering the entry level customer race car is the world's most powerful four - cylinder engine in series production, the turbocharged AMG 2.0 - litre unit generates265 kW (360 hp) and maximum torque of 450 newton metres.

«The TCR market has even larger potential than that of the GT3 category,» says Chris Reinke, Head of Audi Sport customer racing.

The Audi RS 3 LMS is being developed by Audi Sport customer racing for the TCR category which is still relatively new.

In terms of safety, Audi Sport customer racing is not making any compromises.

Audi Sport customer racing will start delivering the first Audi RS 3 LMS cars to customers this December, in time before the seasons of the major TCR racing series open in 2017.

BMW Motorsport is expanding its range of cars within the BMW Sports Trophy Customer Racing programme: from 2014, privateer BMW teams and drivers will have the opportunity to line up at events with the new BMW M235i Racing.

With the brand new Leon Cup Racer, SEAT is stating its unequivocal commitment to motorsport and to customer racing teams at the legendary GTI Wörthersee meet in the Austrian region of Kärnten.

It even has more power than the factory - produced customer race car, according to Audi, with which it shares about 50 percent of its parts.

For the first time in the compact's career, BMW opted to develop a customer race car under the M235i Racing moniker.

In 2009, the R8 LMS customer racing car began its success story which would lead it to more than 190 victories and 23 championship titles worldwide.

«Our customers directly benefit from these advantages,» said Head of Audi sport customer racing Chris Reinke.

Audi Sport customer racing has reached another significant milestone, having produced the 50th Audi R8 LMS GT4 car amid increased demand for the new - for - 2018 model.

We are also pleased that several teams from the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo have decided to move on to the GT3 program, marrying our strategy regarding customer racing.

It's called the Golf GTI TCR - riffing off the customer racing car of the same name - and its 2.0 - litre inline - four will shove 286bhp to the front wheels only via VW Group's «VAQ» electronic locking differential.

«The whole squad of Audi Sport customer racing is happy to see the new R8 LMS instantly delivering on our promise of it being a competitive, attractive and reliable race car our customers can look forward to starting this fall,» said Liebchen.

In addition to developing and manufacturing the Audi R8 andRS models, the division is responsible for customer motorsport — Audi Sport customer racing.

The new German model was designed to evaluate a potential customer racing program and comes with a new body kit and a more powerful engine.

In 2009 Audi Sport launched the Customer Racing program with the Audi R8 LMS GT3 race car, offering customers vehicles specifically designed to compete in international GT3 racing.

This new poster car for customer racing is now undergoing a final round of fine - tuning prior to its race debut in the coming year.

Along with the development and manufacturing of the Audi R and RS models, the Audi Sport brand now extends to corporate motorsports, customer racing, Audi Sport collection, and performance parts.

In 2016, the RS 3 LMS was launched as a more accessible entry point into customer racing, eligible to compete in the TCR series worldwide.

«The high technological standards are spurring us on to push to take pole position with our new customer racing car.

In 2009, the R8 LMS customer racing race car began its success story which would lead it to more than 190 victories and 23 championship titles worldwide.

Jost Capito, Volkswagen Motorsport Director «The Golf GTI TCR allows customer racing teams to partake in reasonably - priced motorsport with a Volkswagen.

Eduard Weidl, Head of Customer Racing and Special Projects «The use of the Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR in customer racing is a great opportunity, the likes of which we have not seen before on the motorsport scene at Volkswagen.

Since it was first unveiled in July 2015, the Golf has been hugely popular on the racetracks of this world: all the customer racing models for the 2016 season had already been snapped up by mid-January.

Together with the customer racing teams, we now face the challenges in the various TCR championships.

(For the Time being this Model is for Europe only) BMW Motorsport is expanding its range of cars within the BMW Sports Trophy Customer Racing programme.

Audi began a new chapter in 2009 with the introduction of the Audi Sport customer racing program.

BMW of North America's customer racing program supports privateer BMW drivers across North America with racing cars, engineering, parts and contingency.

Since deliveries began on December 15, 2017, Audi Sport customer racing has produced 50 race cars and further orders are on hand.

«We're excited to have so many of our Audi Sport racing partners competing in PWC this season and proud to be the presenting sponsor of the VIR race in the home state of our Headquarters», said Tristan Herbert, Senior Manager, Audi Sport customer racing, located in Herndon, VA..

At this stage it's little more than a litmus test to see how interested the customer racing market responds to the car.

The Pirelli World Challenge GTS events at St Petersburg will see the newest of BMW's customer racing cars, the BMW M4 GT4.

Sonoma, Calif. — As part of a continued expansion of its customer racing program, Flying Lizard Motorsports has confirmed it will be adding a two car entry to its Pirelli World Challenge efforts for 2017, entering two Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR race cars in the Grand Touring Sedan (GTS) class.

Two Audi R8 LMS customer race cars purchased by Flying Lizard Motorsports entered the GT Daytona class of 2014 United SportsCar Championship.