Audi to join F1 in 2016?

[Kanejr00]

Rumor: Audi headed for F1 in 2016

Britain's Auto Express says longtime sports car superpower Audi is poised to end its involvement in endurance and touring car racing in favor of a Formula 1 engine program, to be launched in 2016. Citing unnamed "insiders" and "multiple sources," Auto Express claims the German marque is under pressure from parent company VW to leave the sports car field to sister brand Porsche. Instead, the report says, it will re-assign its Le Mans and DTM budgets to F1 and align with one of the sport's top teams, likely Red Bull Racing.

With Caterham at the end of the line and Marussia and Sauber looking for buyers it's nice to see a new team in the form of Haas and now possibly Audi to join the F1 grid.

 

[Sagara-san]

something's gotta tick. It's troublesome to see the paddock looking so unstable. Hopefully both Haas and Audi are in for 2016. that would be cool.

 

[Kanejr00]

Volkswaggon has also released a statement claiming they're considering branching out into F1.

 

[Sagara-san]

well, the guy that ran Ferrari's F1 team got fired mid year and landed at Audi. HMM

 

[Evil-i]

Volkswaggon has also released a statement claiming they're considering branching out into F1.