Volkswagen Motorsport International Newsletter

With Volkswagen participating in so many forms of Motorsport around the world, it’s often difficult to keep track of their performance. Luckily for us, Volkswagen Motorsport goes through the trouble of rounding up all of the key information from their various race series, and puts it all in one press release. Let’s get started.

FIA World Rally Championship

Portugal: “JML” triumphs in historic one-two-three for Volkswagen

Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila (FIN/FIN) won the Rally Portugal, finishing ahead of their team-mates Sébastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia (F/F) and Andreas Mikkelsen/Ola Fløene (N/N). This is the third time Volkswagen has claimed all three podium positions since it joined the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). The win was also the first for the ‘Flying Finn’ since October 2014 (Rally France). Volkswagen also finished first, second and third on the Power Stage to become the first manufacturer in the history of the World Rally Championship to score 122 points at one event. Ogier picked up three bonus points, Latvala two and Mikkelsen one. Kris Meeke (GB/Citroën), Ott Tänak (EST/Ford) and Dani Sordo (E/Hyundai) completed the top six. In the overall standings, Ogier moved to 105 points to extend his lead over Mikkelsen, who climbed into second place on 63 points. Latvala now travels to the Rally Italy (11-14 June) in Sardinia in fifth place overall with 46 points to his name.

FIA World Rallycross Championship

Podium for Kristoffersson at Lydden Hill

Johan Kristoffersson (S) produced an impressive display in the Volkswagen Polo RX Supercar at Lydden Hill to claim his second top result of the current season in the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The Swede finished third in the final at the iconic English circuit, earning a place on the podium for Volkswagen Team Sweden. After four of 13 race weekends, Kristoffersson currently lies second in the Drivers’ Championship behind Petter Solberg (N), who was victorious at Lydden Hill. In contrast, Marklund Motorsport, with drivers Toomas “Topi” Heikkinnen (S), Per-Gunnar Andersson (N) and two-time Global Rallycross Champion Tanner Foust (USA), failed to qualify for the semi-final races. The next race weekend will be held at the Estering in Germany from 19 to 21 June.

Volkswagen Polo Cup Russia

Lotvinov wins in Pushkinskiye Gori

Victory on the second weekend of the Volkswagen Polo Cup Russia in Pushkinskiye Gori went to Ilya Lotvinov (RUS). The driver from St. Petersburg emerged victorious after six special stages covering a total distance of 82.12 kilometres on Saturday. Denis Rostilov (RUS) and Yuriy Arshanskiy (RUS), the winner of the opening round in Moscow, had to settle for second and third. Nine of the ten participants finished the gravel rally. The next round of the Volkswagen Polo Cup Russia, the “White Nights 2015”, will be held from 26 to 27 June in the historic Karelia (RUS) region.

Next up:

29/05–31/05/2015
FIA Formula 3 European Championship, Monza (I)

30/05–31/05/2015
Volkswagen Racing Cup UK, Silverstone (GB)

31/05/2015
Global Rallycross, Fort Lauderdale (USA)

30/05/2015
Volkswagen Fun Cup UK, Snetterton (GB)

30/05–31/05/2015
Volkswagen Fun Cup France, Val de Vienne (F)

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Waterfest Moves to Atco Dragway

Waterfest 24 will be held at Atco Dragway, in Atco, New Jersey. The summer event will take place at its new venue on July 21 and 22. Long held in Englishtown, New Jersey, the festival has been such a large part of the VW scene that the latest iteration of the Golf even comes with optional “Englishtown” wheels . The new venue, however, is an NHRA drag track a scant 52 miles southwest of Englishtown. The ¼ mile drag track opened in 1960, which makes it the oldest drag strip in New Jersey. The announcement came today on a social media post that announced the new location. Waterfest is North America’s largest VW/Audi show. As many 20,000 people show up for the annual show, making the second largest show in the world—with Worthersee being number one. 2018 will be Waterfest’s 24 th year in existence. The post Waterfest Moves to Atco Dragway appeared first on VWVortex . from VWVortex http://ift.tt/2GQjkuc via IFTTT

Macau Gets Messy with 16-Car Pileup

The Macau Grand Prix is always good for an accident or two or 16— you may remember Audi’s race ending crash last year —and this year’s event didn’t disappoint. It didn’t take long for things to get messy on the tight road circuit. On the opening lap of the qualifying race a 16-car pileup caused the race to be suspended. Things kicked off when Daniel Juncadella hit a wall on the exit of Police bend, one of the tightest parts of the already tight circuit. The following car of Raffaele Marciello was able to avoid the carnage, but Laurens Vanthoor, who was in the upside-down Audi that ended the race last year, could not avoid Juncadella and together they blocked up the road pretty much completely. “I couldn’t see him [Juncadella] at first. Then I saw the car standing still,” Vanthoor told Motorsport. “I tried to brake but it was just understeering and I couldn’t do anything. There’s room for one car there and you’re blind.” Fourteen more cars would eventually crash into the corner c

The First of its Kind: Integrated Engineering Releases Highly-Anticipated IE450T MK6 Golf R Turbo Kit

After two long years of development, the team at Integrated Engineering has finally announced the release of their IE450T kit for the MK6 Golf R. With their turbo kit bolted on right out of the box, the sport AWD hatch is transformed into a 450bhp monster, with hardly any noticeable increase in spool time. In fact, 435 ft-lbs of torque are achieved at all four wheels, at a mere 3300rpm! By now you are probably asking yourself how this is even possible on a 2.0L engine that made nearly half that power from the factory. By employing true twin-scroll technology into the cast turbo manifold and pairing it with a state-of-the-art BorgWarner EFR turbocharger, IE was able to keep spool time at a minimum and bring the fastest-spooling big turbo setup to the market. “We wanted to offer a kit that would dramatically increase the power output without making the car lose its amazing street-friendly drivability,” mentioned one of the IE engineers. We are told the IE450T leaves the car driving jus

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