Looks like Audi will be alone this year at Le Mans. I wonder if they'll quit as well.
Not just pulling out , they won't even consider letting the cars outside the factory to let someone else campaign ! New 2012 tubs yet to be assembled just going to sit & collect dust , a test team pretty much just abandoned , with a mere trip home from Sebring with no future employment ahead with the company . No reason for Audi to forge ahead , not much value in racing amongst your own team . GS's Corvetter team did that for one year and it may had well just been a testing program run on racing weekends.
I don't know enough about it, but I doubt they would quit. 'X in-a-row winner at LeMans' has marketing value, most of the folks car shopping have no idea they have no real competition there.
Waiting to see what Toyota and later on, Porsche have to offer. Shame about the Pugs, Pollock seems ready to pounce on the leftovers for his 2014 F1 turbo engine bid.
Our only hope is Toyota (which i doubt) can actually take the fight to Audi. Then Porsh comes along in 2014, and hopefully the Pugs will be back in 2015. At least we'll have 4 manufacturers competing for the 24 hours honours, not letting Audi just cruise to it (i'm a huge Audi fan)
Agree: this could be an opportunity for Ferrari and would send a strong signal to F1 to stop messing around with the regulations.
