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[Jimisgod]

Audi/VW never entered F1 when it was way more manufacturer friendly. Why bother now?

Even Subaru has more F1 history.

[William Hunt]

VAG won't enter as long as Bernie is running the sport and as long a Piëch is alive.

[LORDBYRON]

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[RubberKubrick]

Audi entering F1 right now not imaginable like Alonso going back to McLaren?

So I guess, it is perfectly possible Audi entering F1.

[WhiteSGPlayer]

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Check the date on the article. Audi have already poured cold water on this rumour

[ClubmanGT]

Audi entering F1 right now not imaginable like Alonso going back to McLaren?

So I guess, it is perfectly possible Audi entering F1.

 

Alonso to McLaren was perfectly obvious if only because of how the game of musical chairs was panning out.

[Ar558]

Be good to get another Manufacturer in F1. Don't think it is imminent and Audi would need to start building an engine now to have a hope of being competitive in late 17/early 18. I guess the money they spend in WEC and DTM probably means it is unlikely but it would make sense for them. I would guess if they pull out of WEC at the end of the  year (which would make sense as they put a lot in and get v little marketing value out of it) then it might be on.

[Paco]

I still haven't seen a single valid arguments for Audi to come in as a works team, even less as just an engine supplier and even less as a constructor buying someone else's engines...

What.. Audi Ferrari or Audi Renault... No way Audi Mercedes.. So what Audi Honda hahahahahah...

So after watching Renault and Ferrari and Honda all have major teething issues...sure, let's hope right in.. Coupled with no chassis experience...

Wow, what a brilliant idea. With a major set of new rules in place yet to be defined before we even get started with a horrendously complicated power unit to boot.

PURE MADNESS...... I don't get where people come up with this crap or ridiculous ideas. This isnt 1997-2000s... Very different. People think for a second.. Just a second and you'd realize how truly impossible it is for such a scenario to happen for a works auto manufacturer to come in right now.

Privateers sure, buying others engines with technical help like with haas is doing with Ferrari and the Dallas chassis with design and input from haas and Ferraro but anything else for a works auto manufacturer is just plain madness..

Edited by Paco, 21 March 2015 - 22:58.

[Peter0Scandlyn]

A more accurate rumour would be Red Bull Racing interested in Audi buying them, surely?

[Paco]

A more accurate rumour would be Red Bull Racing interested in Audi buying them, surely?

Still, foolish IMO as it doesn't address the engine issue,,, what, gonna rebadge a Renault and call under performing engine with an Audi badge... Won't help the image or marketablity of the VW Lamborghini Audi brand.... So.. They gonna build their own engine.. Really, nonsense. Renault want to buy a team and go full works again.. So VW would end up being a customer engine,. Good luck ever winning in that scenario.

[Peter0Scandlyn]

Renault have neither the balls nor the brass.

[peroa]

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Very sure

 

Der Plan, das Team an Audi abzutreten, ist vorläufig gescheitert. Audi selbst hat ein Formel 1-Projekt in einer Studie positiv bewertet. Aber Firmenpatriarch Ferdinand Piëch senkte einmal mehr den Daumen nach unten. 

 

http://www.auto-moto...en-9326791.html

 

As long as Ferdi is calling the shots and Bernie is running the show (into the ground) no VW in F1.

[Rasputin]

A more accurate rumour would be Red Bull Racing interested in Audi buying them, surely?

Indeed, though I would suspect that Mateschitz would hand over the keys for free to anyone, only to get out of his responsibilities.

[aramos]

Indeed, though I would suspect that Mateschitz would hand over the keys for free to anyone, only to get out of his responsibilities.

 

Why would he?

 

Red Bull have negotiated quite a substantial payment from FOM, like Ferrari they get historic money, plus their consistently high WCC positions. When you consider all the non Red Bull sponsorship on the car contributing tens of millions more to their budget and the fact they get the Renault engines for free as a works team there really isn't that many costs involved.

 

Sure, he might be dumping 100 million a year into the team, but I still think it easily gets that in advertisement value.

[Rasputin]

...

 

Sure, he might be dumping 100 million a year into the team, but I still think it easily gets that in advertisement value.

I doubt it, just ask the typical teenager Red Bull consumers how much they bother with F1, or one of Ecclestone's Rolex-watchers if he guzzles the juice frequently?

[rhukkas]

Thats worrying for F1. Not that he wants out if their results don't improve, but he wants out all together.

Red Bull currently run 4 cars on our ever shrinking grid and more importantly fill all 4 of them with drivers picked on talent, not backing. Red Bull in many ways is one of the few sanctuarys for drivers without large amounts of backing.

You do kbow Ricciardo's dad owns a mining company and thus is exceptionally wealthy? Sorry to burst your bubble

[aramos]

You do kbow Ricciardo's dad owns a mining company and thus is exceptionally wealthy? Sorry to burst your bubble

 

Ricciardo's parents own an earth moving company in Perth. Not a 'mining company', but they didn't pay for his seat. They helped him in the very early days in the junior Formula and Red Bull supported him from then on in.

[Rasputin]

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That would make perfect sense, tired of winning in LMP1, Audi would rather spend it's marketing-money on being a backmarker in F1?

[Nemo1965]

I think Audi can easily run LMP1 and F1 at the same time, if they let the LMP1 project run by a decent independent organisation, like Porsche did in the late 60's and 70's with Wyers and Penske.

 

I would be intrigued...

[Paco]

I think Audi can easily run LMP1 and F1 at the same time, if they let the LMP1 project run by a decent independent organisation, like Porsche did in the late 60's and 70's with Wyers and Penske.

I would be intrigued...

Yes obviously they could do both but the real question is still just a simply there's no place for Audi in F1 as the start engine makes it impossible.. Requires years of lead time and frankly... To significant a risk, for next to no return.