Audi seven titles

yago · 28 Jun 2002, 06:40 (Ref:323334)

I am trying to remember in which year Audi won the BTCC, the French, the Belgian, the German, the Italian, the Spanish, the Australian and the South African championships. (oops that makes eight).

So in which same year did they win seven or eight touring car championships?

Thks

Yago

bestetti26 · 28 Jun 2002, 07:04 (Ref:323341)

It was 1996, but I'm not sure they won the French champ

yago · 28 Jun 2002, 12:34 (Ref:323545)

You may well be right about the French championship...

Thks
Yago

racer69 · 28 Jun 2002, 14:00 (Ref:323622)

I'm pretty sure they won 8 in 1996. After that they have only won 3? two with private teams. 1998 Australian (factory), 1999 German STW (Abt) and 2001 STCC.

redshoes · 28 Jun 2002, 17:22 (Ref:323775)

1996
Britain - Frank Biela
Italy - Rinaldo Capello
Belgium - Jean-Francois Hemroulle
South Africa - Terry Moss
Germany - Emanuale Pirro
Spain - Jordi Gene
Australia - Brad Jones

kmchow · 28 Jun 2002, 18:00 (Ref:323804)

I don't think even BMW has managed to achieve those kinds of results! OTOH, considering Audi must have spent tonnes of money to achieve those results, is it a suprise? Their motorsport budget must have been around 50-100M US, assuming they averaged 10M US each. Some more, some less??
Here are my guesses which totals 75M US??

Britain - Frank Biela - 20M US
Italy - Rinaldo Capello - 15M US
Belgium - Jean-Francois Hemroulle - 5MUS
South Africa - Terry Moss - 5M US
Germany - Emanuale Pirro - 20M US
Spain - Jordi Gene - 5M US
Australia - Brad Jones -5MUS

**touringlegend** · 29 Jun 2002, 15:35 (Ref:324253)

Ford Team Mondeo's BTCC budget in 2000 was said to be the largest ever, and that was approx £10million. What is $20m in pounds? surely more than £10m.

kmchow · 29 Jun 2002, 17:22 (Ref:324270)

20M US=13.3M pounds.

I thought Alfa had that kind of budget as well back in the '94 BTCC?
Dodge spent $20M US for each of the years they were in the NATCC as well.

**touringlegend** · 29 Jun 2002, 23:51 (Ref:324398)

Alfa Romeo spent something like £6 million back in 1994, it was collosal compared to the other teams..still, they must have had a very little budget for the 1995 BTCC going by the performance!

yago · 1 Jul 2002, 13:18 (Ref:325129)

I read recently in a French car magazine an interview with Audi's boss who said that the Le Mans effort cost as much as their past touring car involvement. So it was much more interesting to race at Le Mans.

Yago

kmchow · 29 Jul 2002, 22:27 (Ref:345795)

I wonder what exactly did the Audi boss mean? Did he mean Audi's 4 car LeMans attack costed about the same as Audi's minimum 12 (2 A4's per a championship?) car A4 attack in '96?

yago · 30 Jul 2002, 14:51 (Ref:346386)

I believe he said that one Le Mans attack cost as much as what they spent in touring car that fabulous year.

kmchow · 30 Jul 2002, 18:39 (Ref:346555)

'Cause I thought I recall reading somewhere (this forum??) that Audis' global ST campaign costed them something like 100M US??? Sound outrageous for 7 championships, and something like 15-20 cars in total?

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