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Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc
What do you guys think ?
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I'm not seeing it end well.. Right now Audi/VW are in financial trouble and they're probably gonna be limited in how much more they can invest while laying off workers and not selling as well. Those are not short term problems since we handed over the keys to the kingdom to China's EVs with our silly ICE bans in europe, and also tariffs on the US market, not gonna help the VW group recover quick..
From a purely F1 standpoint, Audi's glory days in sports car were largely thanks to benefiting from the Joest team experience initially, and then Dr ulrich took it to the next level. F1 IMO is another ball O wax, and over and over history shows it's much harder to succeed if you are away from great britain where a lot of labor/subcontractors are. Ok, maybe if you are Ferrari, once in a decade, and Renault managed it for about 2 years with alonso when they had the best engine ;-) But Hinwill, Switzerland? Good luck... Finally all the news from them have been bad thus far, repeat management change, rumors of a badly born engine, etc... So no, not seeing it.
IMO all this time was wasted, F1 was trying to attract audi for years and the move to Hybrid was largely "for" them, and in the end they may even throw in the towel before they are competitive... Shoulda stayed with V10s and lighter smaller cars.