After months of rumors and hypothesis, Audi confirmed it’ll be a part of System 1 for the 2026 season. The corporate’s entry into the collection will place it head-to-head towards rivals like Mercedes-AMG, and the announcement comes as Audi ends its LMDh endurance racing program.
Audi defined upcoming System One rules that put an even bigger give attention to preserving prices in test and on electrification satisfied it to throw its hat into the ring. FIA guidelines already restrict the sum of money that every group can spend on its racing program, and rules scheduled to come back into impact in 2023 will place a price cap on energy unit producers as properly. On the technical facet, vehicles constructed for the 2026 season will use a brand new energy unit whose electrical motor will make almost as a lot energy as its 544-horsepower 1.6-liter turbocharged V6.
Engineers at Audi Sport’s Neuberg an der Donau, Germany, manufacturing facility are accountable for growing the ability unit. The ability already homes take a look at benches for System 1 engines, electrical motors and battery packs, and Audi will increase the positioning as wanted over the approaching months.
“System 1 is the following main milestone in Audi’s motorsport historical past,” says Julius Seebach, the present managing director of Audi Sport. Audi will announce the group it’ll kind a partnership with by the top of 2022, although unofficial stories declare it’ll hyperlink arms with Sauber.
In the meantime, the German firm has its sights set on successful the 2023 Dakar Rally with the plug-in hybrid RS-Q E-Tron.
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