Audi trainer Ullrich says no to F1
Audi has obviously deserted speculation the name might soon crop up on top of a formula a single garage doorway.
It has been Informed for some time which a German carmaker’s primogenitor Volkswagen could be meddlesome in entering the competition as an engine supplier.
VW’s motor racing trainer Kris Nissen pronounced a month ago: “Within the organisation, for certain, (the branding) could be Audi, it could be Porsche as well as competence also be Volkswagen.”
But Audi’s sporting boss Wolfgang Ullrich is not meddlesome, according to a German news group SID.
“We believe formula a single as well as Audi do not fit, so long as a record has no aptitude to the development of the production cars,” he pronounced.
Audi antecedent sports cars accomplished initial, second and third during a recent Le Mans 24 hour race, as well as the marque additionally competes in a premier German furloughed automobile array DTM.
“The technologies have been closely associated to those used by the clients, so they without delay good from our engine racing. In F1 that is not currently a box,” Ullrich insisted.
And despite recent as well as stream efforts to revoke a costs in regulation one, top teams still require some-more than EUR 150 million to be competitive.
But in DTM, a budgets have been underneath about 30m, as well as “a brand new regulations for 2012 target to revoke a budgets by about 50 per cent,” he said.
“So, the DTM continues to be the benchmark in cost-versus-benefit,” pronounced Ullrich.
Source: GMM
