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Audi R8 (2006-2024) In its 17 years, the Audi R8 captured hearts and celebrated successes in equal measure. After 45,949 units produced, the final R8 rolled off the line at Böllinger Höfe in March 2024.

Dates April 04 – July 13, 2025 “Generations of Performance – the Audi R8” Audi museum mobile, Ingolstadt, Germany June 21 – July 27, 2025 Audi Summer Concerts Ingolstadt, Germany May 2025 May 05, 2025 3M Results 2025 May 10, 2025 20 years Audi Forum Neckarsulm Germany May 18, 2025 International Museum Day Audi museum mobile, Ingolstadt, Germany June 2025 June 11, 2025 Audi Youth Choir Academy Kölner Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany June 29, 2025 Audi Youth Choir Academy Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany July 2025 July 04 – 05, 2025 Audi Tradition at the “Heidelberg Historic” rally Heidelberg – Audi Forum Neckarsulm, Germany July 10 – 13, 2025 Audi Tradition at the Goodwood Festival of Speed Goodwood, United Kingdom July 18 – 19, 2025 Audi Tradition at the Donau Classic rallye Ingolstadt, Germany July 24 – 26, 2025 Audi Tradition at the Eifel Rallye Festival Daun, Germany August 2025 August 14 – 16, 2025 Audi Tradition at the Sachsen Classic rally Dresden, Germany September 2025 September 06 – 07, 2025 Audi Tradition at the Race Land Festival Schleiz Schleiz, Germany September 13, 2025 The Night of the Museums Audi museum mobile, Ingolstadt, Germany September 13, 2025 Audi Tradition at the München Classic rally Munich, Germany October 2025 Ingolstädter Jazztage Germany October 24, 2025 Benefit concert of the Audi Philharmonic Wind Orchestra Stadttheater Ingolstadt, Germany November 2025 Ingolstädter Jazztage Germany November 09, 2025 Model car market Audi Forum Neckarsulm, Germany November 30, 2025 Model car market Audi Forum Ingolstadt, Germany December 2025 December 12, 2025 Audi Christmas Concert Audi Forum Ingolstadt, Germany

From the early beginnings with the Audi R8 LMS in the ever-growing GT3 category, the brand with the four rings expanded its customer racing program with the GT4 and GT2 versions of the Audi R8 LMS, as well as the entry-level Audi RS 3 LMS for the TCR category for touring car racings around the globe.

Since 2021, the starting field has consisted of GT3 race cars like the Audi R8 LMS.

Photo: DTM 2004, Audi A4 DTM #5 (Audi Sport Team Abt), Mattias Ekström MediaInfo: 2020: Farewell: Audi RS 5 DTM breaks numerous records Audi R8 most successful Le Mans sports car of the modern era At the end of the nineties, Audi opened a new chapter when the brand turned its attention to the challenge of sports prototypes. As before in the other disciplines, the aim here was to assert the claim of “Vorsprung durch Technik”. At its debut in Le Mans, the world’s toughest endurance race, Audi immediately made it onto the podium in 1999 with third place. In the following years, the Audi R8 was in a class of its own. From 2000 to 2002, Audi achieved a historic hat-trick, also thanks to the TFSI technology that was used for the first time in 2001 and later found its way into large scale production. In 2004 and 2005, customer teams clinched two more overall victories for Audi at Le Mans. The R8 secured its place in motorsport history with a total of 63 victories in 80 sports car races. Photo: The three winning cars of the 2000, 2001 and 2002 Le Mans 24 Hours quattro for the racetrack Making quattro all-wheel drive ready for the racetrack was Audi’s major task in the second half of the 1980s. The series of successes began in 1988 with the Audi 200 quattro and in 1989 with the Audi 90 quattro IMSA GTO in the USA. In 1990 and 1991, the Audi V8 quattro won two championship titles in the German Touring Car Championship (DTM). Subsequently, the 80 and A4 models continued the successes in the category of production-based super touring cars. In 1996, the Audi A4 quattro won the championship titles in seven countries before the FIA banned all-wheel drive in circuit races. It was not until 2012 that all-wheel drive returned to the racetrack as the e-tron quattro at Le Mans.

Memo Gidley drove the team’s Audi R8 LMS to third place in the first 40-minute race at the Austin circuit in Texas. The British team Steller Motorsport finished the second race weekend of the British GT Championship as class winners. Matt Topham/Darren Burke won the GT3SA class in the Audi R8 LMS at Silverstone by 41 seconds. Audi R8 LMS GT4 Success in Europe and Asia: At the second round of the XGT4 Italy racing series, the Lema Racing team achieved a class victory in Imola. Jodi Lambrughi overtook a rival’s Lotus in the Audi R8 LMS GT4 on the fifth of 13 laps during the FIA WEC event. In the end, the Audi privateer driver won his class by one second. At the DMV Goodyear Racing Days in Zolder, Bernd Schaible/Tobias Erdmann celebrated overall victory in the two-hour DMV NES GP race in the Audi R8 LMS GT4 from Seyffarth Motorsport. In the two DMV ST GT sprint races at the same event, both drivers also secured victory in the Cup 4 classification. The Ultimate Cup Series held its second round in Mugello. Pierre Arraou from Team Herrero Racing in his Audi R8 LMS GT4 finished third twice in his class in the four sprint races, followed by two victories. In the China GT Championship, Air Tong Yu/Chen Sitong won the GTS-Am classification in the Audi R8 LMS GT4 in both races at the season opener in Shanghai. Coming up in the next weeks 02–04/05 Sydney (AUS), round 2, GT World Challenge Australia 02–04/05 Sydney (AUS), round 2, GT4 Australia 02–04/05 Navarra (E), round 2, Campeonato de España GT 02–04/05 Misano (I), round 1, TCR Italy 03–04/05 Hockenheim (D), round 1, Spezial Tourenwagen Trophy 03–04/05 Brands Hatch (GB), round 1, GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup 09–10/05 Nürburgring (D), round 3, Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie 09–10/05 Aldo Scribante (ZA), round 3, Extreme Supercars Driven by Dunlop 09–11/05 Dijon (F), round 2, GT4 France 09–11/05 Laguna Seca (USA), round 3, IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge 09–11/05 Mandalika (RI), round 2, GT World Challenge Asia

Audi R8 LMS GT3 with victories in Australia and South Africa Successes for Audi R8 LMS GT4 in the SRO GT Cup, in Europe and Australia Audi RS 3 LMS ahead in Italy and in German club racing The Audi Sport customer racing teams recorded a series of initial successes worldwide in the 2025 season. Both the GT3, GT2 and GT4 versions of the Audi R8 LMS and the Audi RS 3 LMS touring car helped the teams to clinch trophies in international competitions and club racing. Audi R8 LMS GT3 Convincing start in the southern hemisphere: In the Fanatec GT World Challenge powered by AWS, teams on three continents continue to rely on the Audi R8 LMS. The season began in Australia with successes in the overall and class rankings. At the season opener in Phillip Island, Broc Feeney/Brad Schumacher from Kelso Electrical Team MPC won the eventful second race, in which several competitors made mistakes and received sporting penalties. The privateer driver duo celebrated their first win of the season by seven tenths of a second in the Audi R8 LMS. Brendon Leitch/Tim Miles contributed a third place for Dayle ITM Team MPC in the first race. Solo driver Renee Gracie recorded a second place and a class win in the Am classification in the Only Fans Team MPC Audi. Brothers James and Theo Koundouris completed the tally as the third-best Am team in both races in the Supabarn Supermarkets/Tigani Audi. In Asia, FAW Audi Sport Asia Team Phantom celebrated a podium in the overall standings and two class victories. The Chinese driver pairing of Franky Cheng/James Yu in the Audi R8 LMS won the Silver class in both races in Sepang and finished third overall in the second race. The podium result is remarkable as the driver duo had only started from position 15. Cheng/Yu now lead the Silver classification by 17 points. In Europe, the Saintéloc Racing team achieved a class podium in the Endurance Cup at Le Castellet.

In the legendary “March on Heilbronn,” employees fight successfully to save the plant 1975 To better utilize production capacity, contract manufacturing of the Porsche 924 begins; the Porsche 944 follows shortly thereafter 1982 The Audi 100 achieves a world-record coefficient of drag (Cd) value of 0.30 1985 Introduction of the fully galvanized car body in the Audi 100 and Audi 200; company renamed AUDI AG and headquarters moved to Ingolstadt 1988 AUDI AG enters the full-size car class with the Audi V8 1989 Introduction of turbocharged diesel engine with direct fuel injection in a passenger vehicle 1990 First DTM victory for Audi with an Audi V8 quattro driven by Hans-Joachim Stuck 1994 Start of production of the Audi A8, the first series-produced vehicle in the world with a completely aluminum body (ASF – Audi Space Frame) 2000 Production of the Audi A2, the first aluminum, large-volume production car, begins 2001 Victory in Le Mans with the newly developed FSI direct fuel injection 2005 Audi Forum Neckarsulm opens 2006 German premiere of the Audi R8 sports car; first victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a diesel engine developed in Neckarsulm 2007 Establishment of the production turntable between the Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm plants with the start of production of the Audi A4 Sedan 2008 Inauguration of the new Audi toolmaking shop 2011 Audi acquires a 23-hectare plot in the Böllinger Höfe industrial park in Heilbronn (further plots acquired in 2014 and 2018) 2012 Inauguration of the Technical Center for Fiber-Reinforced Polymers and the new Engine Test Center 2013 Audi Neckarsulm receives the J.D.