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Khatir Soltani
From Audi Motorsport

Team MS RACING is switching to Audi and will be fielding two new R8 LMS ultra cars in the 2013 ADAC GT Masters.

On Tuesday, quattro GmbH handed over the 100th race car from Heilbronn-Biberach, a facility of the Neckarsulm location, to the squad.

GT Audi R8 LMS
Photo: Audi Motorsport

Since 2009, quattro GmbH delivered 100 race cars based on the Audi R8. The Audi R8 LMS ultra meanwhile embodies the third evolution of the GT3 model. For the United States, the line-up also includes a Grand-Am version that won the GT class at the Daytona 24 Hours in January.

Sebastian Asch, last year’s champion in the ADAC GT Masters, was present at the handover of the Audi R8 LMS ultra together with his teammate Florian Stoll. Race engineer Ralph Stoll accepted the keys to the car from Dirk Spohr, Head of Customer Management at Audi Sport customer racing.


Khatir Soltani
Khatir Soltani
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