Audi has continued to evolve in the name of innovation for over 40 years, and the victory of e-tron technology in the 2024 Dakar confirms the brand's avant-garde intuition.
For the first time an electric propulsion prototype dominates and wins the Dakar with the Spanish crew formed by Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz, who faced 7,900 kilometers of sand, dunes, stones, fords and passages both trialistic and high speed, trailing the runners-up by 1 hour and 20 minutes.
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A success that follows the many conquests of the company with the four rings gained over time, starting with quattro traction, which brought it to the fore in the world of rallies, up to electric, passing through the TDI engines, which made haul of victories in endurance racing.
An approach, that of Audi, aimed at transferring the technology developed in the race onto series products, as demonstrated by other solutions such as LED headlights and headlights with laser technology.
"Congratulations to Team Audi Sport - declared Gernot Döllner, CEO of Audi AG - once again, the cutting-edge Audi constitutes a milestone in motorsport. Conquering the toughest rally raid in the world with an electric-powered car is the realization of the claim 'Vorsprung durch Technik' (At the cutting edge of technology) and consolidates the path towards our electric future".
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