Audi has announced that it will delay its North American involvement for 2014 due to the sheer volume of work currently underway at Audi Sport. The team ran at the Sebring 12 hours in March this year with its 2012 and 2013 cars, and Audi’s head of motorsport, Dr Wolfgang Ullrich, stated that he wanted to find a way to return in 2014. However, with the United Sports Car Racing series having LMP2 as its top category next year, Ullrich was also quoted as saying that he wanted to develop a Daytona Prototype.
‘It's difficult to say when we will know what we do in North America next year,’ said Ullrich. ‘The hold up is that we are too busy, we have too much other work to do. If it is going to be an additional programme there is only a small chance that we can do it next year anyway. So it's more likely to be delayed a bit, that’s not a problem. But for sure we will push and perhaps improve the activities with the customer racing programme, the R8s, and we are discussing how we can do that now.
’It could be that Audi is waiting to see how the proposed DTM America championship develops. If it takes off in 2015 then it is likely that the German marque would not feel the need to run in USCR beyond its customer programme.
Audi has announced that it will delay its North American involvement for 2014 due to the sheer volume of work currently underway at Audi Sport. The team ran at the Sebring 12 hours in March this year with its 2012 and 2013 cars, and Audi’s head of motorsport, Dr Wolfgang Ullrich, stated that he wanted to find a way to return in 2014. However, with the United Sports Car Racing series having LMP2 as its top category next year, Ullrich was also quoted as saying that he wanted to develop a Daytona Prototype.