Audi F1 Team

Baron Hohenzollern said:
They won't be allowed to compete by name only. It's punishable by prison terms in Europe to even praise the man of anything. Ask David Irving....lol.
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Lol was a joke.

I Think VW will be best, They can take on Toyota Renault and Honda.
They can build their name in the US, they look down on VW.

I will definatley support them win or lose!!
But I think they have everything already, the finances, the technology everything, I wonder what their reason?
 
Baron Hohenzollern said:
Yes, and Prodrive has the former BAR technical director in it's team, along with many previously employed Formula 1 engineers etc.
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Good at making rally and GT cars ... the last time a winning rally team entered F1we had the money sucking disaster that is Toyota F1.
 
JK8 said:
Lol was a joke.

I Think VW will be best, They can take on Toyota Renault and Honda.
They can build their name in the US, they look down on VW.

I will definatley support them win or lose!!
But I think they have everything already, the finances, the technology everything, I wonder what their reason?
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There was an interview in one of the car magazines a few months ago with the CEO of the VW group who said something along the lines about it been to expensive and to exclusive and there was no benefit for the company ?
 
tibby.dude said:
Good at making rally and GT cars ... the last time a winning rally team entered F1we had the money sucking disaster that is Toyota F1.
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Hah, that's true, I have no refute on that fact. :D

Web said:
There was an interview in one of the car magazines a few months ago with the CEO of the VW group who said something along the lines about it been to expensive and to exclusive and there was no benefit for the company ?
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Yep that is their reasoning. Don't get me wrong I'd love to see them on the grid. And in my view that's a poor excuse it took them just as much if not more money to build Bugatti Veyron's...lol
 
web said:
There was an interview in one of the car magazines a few months ago with the CEO of the VW group who said something along the lines about it been to expensive and to exclusive and there was no benefit for the company ?
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Costs are coming down with the new technical regs.

South Korea is hosting their first F1 race in 2010 and I would not be too surprised if Hyundai get's involved then with monetary backing from the likes of Samsung or LG.
 
killadoob said:
hmmm how would an audi pwn a ferrari hahahahah or mclaren, both 2 of the fastest cars in world on both roads and F! race track

im surprized a huge company like audi does not have a f1 team to be honest
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beeep wrong, the fastest road car atm is none other than the Bugatti Veyron, with an average top speed of 253.81 mph (thats 408.46km/h) it makes Ferrari owners blush and hide hide the keys lest anyone knows they drive one.

What does that have to do with Audi?

Well other than being Ferdinand Piëch's from Ferdinand to Ferdinand retirement gift, it sports an VW designed W16 1001 horsepower engine (and this one doesn't only last two races)

And you get three guesses what company would design the engine for an Audi F1 car.
 
tibby.dude said:
Costs are coming down with the new technical regs.

South Korea is hosting their first F1 race in 2010 and I would not be too surprised if Hyundai get's involved then with monetary backing from the likes of Samsung or LG.
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Hyundai in F1? Now this threads gone to the dogs lol!
 
onlyme said:
beeep wrong, the fastest road car atm is none other than the Bugatti Veyron, with an average top speed of 253.81 mph (thats 408.46km/h) it makes Ferrari owners blush and hide hide the keys lest anyone knows they drive one..
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No it's not...Barabus TKR is the worlds fastest car. With an average top speed of 270 Mph. And a 1005 Bhp engine.

http://www.autoblog.com/2006/07/21/barabus-tkr-0-60-mph-in-1-67-secs-270-mph-top-speed/

But yes, it still does make any ferarri blush. In both style and it's astoundingly fast acceleration.
 
@ Baron Hohenzollern

unrelated to the posts, aside from the german link to the audis ... that's a cool nick. Have you ever been to Schloß Hohenzollern ? When I was there last, the baron was unfortunately out for lunch.
 
Baron Hohenzollern said:
No it's not...Barabus TKR is the worlds fastest car. With an average top speed of 270 Mph. And a 1005 Bhp engine.

http://www.autoblog.com/2006/07/21/barabus-tkr-0-60-mph-in-1-67-secs-270-mph-top-speed/
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Read the comments on that page, seems like a bunch of BS. These are claimed figures, not actual tested figures. 1.67 seconds for 0-96km/h is virtually impossible, traction being the main problem. A few comments from there:
“I can't find a weight claim for this thing. Anybody else as skeptical as I am about that 1.67 seconds to 60?”

Yes, very much so. I’m not concerned with power to weight as much as I am about actually translating all that HP to the ground, especially if the car happens to be light.

“I'd like to see the tires able to handle 270 mph from a heavy road car. They must be using slicks to acheive that number for the 0-60.”

Yup, considering the Veyron is capable of traveling faster, and VW has repeatedly indicated it’s governed at it’s top speed because of tire technology (the same limit Brabus and the rest keep running into with large cars and high rates of travel), I’m going to call BS.

“Another Vector.”

Yup, another in a long line of blown American v8s with huge promises. Silly VW using that crazy W16, they should have just used a v8 with a pair of turbos, what were they, a few hundred million dollars and dozens and dozens of engineers thinking?

I’m not holding my breath on this one. Especially given the company is incapable of filling out the ‘about Barabus’ section on their site? Erm… what’s wrong, didn’t have that extra 10 minutes free while scrambling to go live last night?

Not to mention it looks like ass.
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"Can you name another sub 2 second 0 to 60 supecar?"

Nope, hence the large amount of doubt given the R&D resources and funding Lambo, Bugatti, Pagani, Ferrari, Porsche, and everyone else have, not to mention all the factory supported tuners like Ruf, MTM, etc. But one lone company, who can't even be bothered to mention anything about themselves on their site, any details about power delivery or even the weight of their car has bested every other car maker on the planet. Erm. Yeah sounds pretty plausible given my understanding of cars and the industry as a whole and the limitations placed on reaching v-max and specific 0-60 times. I'm going to go ahead and release a car and claim it hits 100mph in 1 second, just for kicks. no one will be able to name another sub 1.5 second 0-60 supercar, so what? what relevance does that bare on any of our concerns?
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I wonder if you could drive this from alba in italy to london without it having any problems? This is just pointless, The veyrons amazing becuase it weighs as much as the moon but will still beat an F1 car. This weighs as much as leaf so no wonder it can do 270mph. Also how the hell is this luxurious, imagine pulling up to the dorchestor or in your cases the waldorf in this. What a prat you will look like.
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And so on and so forth. Killadoob this comment is related to the link you posted:
I imagine all of their numbers are based on simple math = X RPM with X gear = 270 mph top speed! Just like the SCC or SSC or whatever the American big-horsepower supercar from a few months back was.

The point is that there's nothing particularly clever about making 1000hp. What's clever is making 1000hp and still being able to drive the car in the real world, where there's traffic and rain and stop lights. Ferrari, Lamborghini or any other big name marque could make a 1000 hp engine if they were just looking to boast the number.

That said, I agree, it'd be fun if it made it to Top Gear. However, I imagine once there it would break quite often, won't perform nearly as well as predicted and the manufacturer will soon disappear.
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Seems like they based the figures on that SSC thingy on rpm's and gear ratios, not actual real world performance. All very nice to quote figures, but how does it actually perform? Heck my 2.0i Polo could probably do 250km/h if we go on revs and gear ratio estimates.

These articles are dated last year sometime - plenty of time for them to have made the mainstream media. So why haven't they? Seems like nothing more than a publicity stunt with these manufacturers trying to put themselves on the map. Especially considering that Barabus couldn't even fill out the About Us section of their website, makes it seem like a very shoddy operation.
killadoob said:
if audi would rock at f1 why are they not in it?

the money is F1, tons of money actually alot more than some 24 hour race

le mans is chump change for companies like ferrari
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I'm afraid to say that if you refer to Le Mans as "some 24 hour race" then you don't know much about motorsport. Just because we get more television coverage of F1 in this country does not mean that it's the same everywhere. Le Mans is one of the biggest motorsport events - manufacturers spend millions on R&D, just as they do in F1. It's a manufacturers choice where they want to compete, just because they don't compete in F1 does not make them any less capable. I suppose that Porsche is a crap company too for competing in Le Mans and not in F1.

But never mind, keep wearing red every second Sunday at 2pm, we all know that that's really what makes one knowledgeable when it comes to motorsport. ;)
 
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Did you know a Bugatti comes with 2 keys?
1 for driving verrrrry fast, and one fro normal driving!:)
 
umm i dont really like ferrari, i actually support alonso

not sure why i would be wearing red, i dont even wear mclaren's colours

i support drivers not cars

i never said anyone was crap, le mans is small fry A1 is bigger than le mans

no i dont know alot about motorsport i only watch f1 because all the rest is just boring

also we where talking about the fastest production car, not the fastest car that works from day to day
 
They aren't even the fastest production cars, until they are independently tested. Claimed figures count for nothing. Claimed figures based on estimated calculations count for even less than nothing.

lol @ A1 being bigger than Le Mans. rofl.

By your own admission, if you don't know much about motorsport, how would you know how Audi would perform in F1?
 
i never said i knew how they would perform

i just said i dont think they would walk into f1 and own everybody because f1 is much more than a fast engine or le mans greatness

if you dont have a good aerodynamic package your fast engine means crap, i thought you would know this considering how much you know about motorsport

it would take audi 2-3 years to even mount a challenge, they still might be a second rate car after 3 years like toyota

toyota have the biggest budget in f1 or they did when they first entered and look where they

so i dont think audi in their first 3-5 seasons would be any good, i would say the same thing if you swopped audi and ferrari around

yes i dont much about motorsport as a whole but i do know alot about f1 and i know you cannot walk into f1 with a great car
 
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