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Sport Asia Team Phantom won the Silver classification. Cheng Congfu and Yu Kuai drove their Audi R8 LMS to fourth place overall in a field of 31 participants on the way to their fourth class victory. As a result, they remain the leaders of the Silver standings in the championship table. They have a 17-point lead with two events still to go. Second place in the Silver category went to the Uno Racing Team and its driver duo Rio/Shaun Thong in another Audi R8 LMS. In the GT America powered by AWS, SKI Autosports achieved two podium results on the fifth race weekend. Memo Gidley crossed the finish line in second place in both races on the Virginia circuit in the team’s Audi R8 LMS. Saintéloc Racing achieved a podium result on the fifth weekend of the International GT Open. The driver pairing of Michael Blanchemain/Marcus Påverud was the second-best Pro-Am driver pairing in the first race in Le Castellet. Team Bio-Circle & HSG by SWAG celebrated an endurance victory in Baltic club racing.

The quattro drive has been a technical core area and pillar of Audi for 40 years now. The great success story ranges from the manually lockable center differential in 1980 to the three electric motors that drive the new e-tron S models in Audi’s e-tron product line. Four rings and four driven wheels, 40 figures from 40 years – a small collection of facts that not everybody 2020 knows.

the self-locking center differential in Audi models with longitudinally mounted engines. When necessary, the center differential can divert up to 70 percent of the torque to the front, or up to 85 percent to the rear. 45.3 percent of all Audi customers worldwide opted for a quattro in 2019, i.e. almost half. The 75th Geneva Motor Show was where Audi presented the original quattro for the first time on March 3, 1980. Internally, it had the designation model 85. 80 percent was the incline of the ski jump in Kaipola, Finland, where Audi filmed a legendary commercial in 1986. Professional rally driver Harald Demuth mastered the snow-covered 47-meter (154.2-ft) ascent in the Audi 100 CS quattro. More than 80 percent of the roughly 20 models that Audi will present in 2020 will be launched on the market with at least one quattro variant. 92.2 percent of all cars that Audi delivered to customers in Canada in 2019 had a quattro drive. As a result, the country in North America has the highest proportion

apply its principles across the entire organization. We call it “The Radical Next.” So design is no longer just a creator of form but also a driving force? Massimo Frascella: Exactly! We understand design in its broadest sense: embracing every aspect of the Audi experience. We want to shape a brand capable of inspiring desire and creating cultural impact. Will Vorsprung durch Technik remain a central brand promise? Massimo Frascella: Of course! In the 1980s, when the Audi 100 quattro drove up a ski jump, it was a symbol of technical advancement and the will to make the impossible possible. For us, technology is a means to progress, not an end in itself. We neither want to hide it nor show it off – it should inspire without being dominant. For Audi, technology is a given, unobtrusive and yet functional and present when the customer wants it. It is a seamless part of the experience. The Audi TT has fans all over the world. You also seem to have a very special relationship with this car. Massimo

Privacy Mode, the display cannot be seen from the driver’s seat while the car is in motion. Relaxed road trip with the Audi A6 Sportback e-tron performance{ft_a6-sb-e-tron-performance-sd}: destination Oslo It takes us around seven hours to cover the more than 600 kilometers from Copenhagen to Oslo – and we’ve arrived. Our night’s accommodation in the Norwegian capital is a hotel on its most famous mountain, the Holmenkollen. Right nearby we find the oldest ski jumping facility in the world. Athletes have been soaring into the skies here since 1892. Our interest is piqued – we want to know more about the history of this time-honored facility and about Oslo, so we ask ChatGPT, which is integrated into the self-learning voice assistant called Audi assistant((( Further information about infotainment and the Audi assistant can be found here: https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/the-new-audi-a6-avant-business-class-meets-sports-elite-16