For the 6 Hours of Bahrain, Audi switched the team lineup to race with two Audi R18 e-tron quattro hybrid race cars. In prior 2012 endurance races, the team had raced with a split lineup: The Audi R18 ultra is a conventional LMP sports car with a TDI engine, while…
In the 6-Hours of Bahrain, in the FIA World Endurance Championship series, Audi won the 1st and 2nd podium spots with the Audi R18 e-tron quattro. The team had switched to an all-hybrid team for the Bahrain race, and while the regular Audi R18 race car was giving excellent results, the…
Audi is the latest automaker to set an electric car lap speed record at the Nürburgring. This week the company brought a pair of Audi R8 e-tron’s to the fabled 20.8-kilometer (12.92-mile) race track to have a go at the lap record for series production electric cars. They achieved success with a 8:09.099…
At the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race, Audi made a historic achievement with the first hybrid cars to win that race. While the title of this site is Electric Race News, we’ll mark this achievement under the rubric of “Electrified Vehicle Racing” because it was an electrified…
