Head of Audi Motorsport Dieter Gass will travel from Italy on to Spain on Saturday night. At the Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona, the FIA World Rallycross Championship that is also planned to be held with electric race cars starting in 2020 kicks off this weekend. On Thursday, Thomas Biermaier, Director Sport at ABT Sportsline, and his Technical Director, Florian Modlinger, arrived in Rome directly from the pre-season DTM tests at Hockenheim.
Daniel Abt and Dieter Gass answered the questions of media representatives at the press conference of the Zurich E-Prix on Tuesday. All seats in the grandstands for the circuit race in Switzerland since 1955 are already sold. The organizers are expecting some 100,000 spectators. Audi DTM driver Nico Müller: “There’s a real Formula E hype in my native Switzerland.”
Next week, the second official group test of the second-generation Formula E cars will be held on the Spanish race track at Calafat near Barcelona. After Lucas di Grassi performed the first test at Monteblanco, Daniel Abt will be at the wheel of the new Audi e-tron FE05 this time.
Three of the most successful drivers from Audi’s Le Mans era are meeting in Rome: Allan McNish is Team Principal of Team Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler. Dindo Capello is driving the Audi e-tron Vision Gran Turismo. Emanuele Pirro, as an expert, is providing background information on Formula E and the Vision Gran Turismo electric sports car concept to Audi’s guests.