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Audi completed its preparations for the most important endurance race of the year with a test in France that was largely held in rain. Two weeks before the Le Mans 24 Hours, Audi Sport Team Joest set up the long-tail version of the Audi R18 e-tron quattro for the high-speed track onon the eight-hour test day.
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Audi Le-Mans Team © Audi[/caption]
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A week before the Champions League final, London will be under the banner of motorsport. On its European tour, the DTM will stop on the outskirts of the British capital on May 18 and 19. Following the disappointing season opener, the Audi squad is dying for rectification and in pursuit of this aim is also banking on newcomer Jamie Green, who will be contesting his first ‘home round’ for Audi at Brands Hatch.
The first race of the new season showed that the fans are experiencing even more action, overtaking maneuvers and moments of surprise this year due to option tires and a rear wing flap (DRS) that can be adjusted by the driver on the track. Now the fans and the drivers are equally eager to see what effect the innovations will have on the 1.929-kilometer, and thus shortest, circuit on the DTM calendar, and how the relative strengths will pan out on this race track with its unique characteristics.
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Audi RS 5 DTM #12 (Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline), Jamie Green © Audi[/caption]
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With an Audi RS 5 DTM at the front of the field, the new DTM season started at Hockenheim with 87,000 spectators (throughout the weekend) in attendance. After 42 spectacular laps with plenty of on-track action and gripping overtaking maneuvers the opening round ended in a disappointment for Audi. With Timo Scheider and Mike Rockenfeller in positions six and eight, only two Audi drivers scored points.
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AUTO TEST Audi RS 5 DTM #23 (Audi Sport Team Abt), Timo Scheider © Audi[/caption]
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CIRCUIT ZOLDER, Belgium – Round Two of the 2013 FIA GT Series takes to the track at Zolder in Belgium this weekend and it’s going to be a very special event for one of the NISMO Athletes. 2012 GT Academy Europe winner, Wolfgang Reip, is from Brussels and this will be his first-ever home race and the first opportunity to show his family and friends what he can do in the Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3.
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Wolfgang Reip, is from Brussels and this will be his first-ever home race and the first opportunity to show his family and friends what he can do in the Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 © Nissan[/caption]
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April 15 – MONZA, Italy – The Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 is a car that likes a bit of room to stretch its legs. At Monza – the Cathedral of Speed – there is plenty of room for that, albeit shared with 59 other cars racing in the Blancpain Endurance Series.
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The Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 © Nissan[/caption]
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