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  1. Volkswagen News Blog
    This wretched year has taken another one of our joys. The Volkswagen Motosports team is being disbanded with another Volkswagen realignment to blame for the move, according to Chief Development Officer Frank Welsch. "The Volkswagen brand is on its way to becoming the leading supplier in...
  2. Volkswagen News Blog
    The coronavirus’s second wave has led Volkswagen to cancel its planned appearance at Goodwood SpeedWeek. The event—itself a replacement for the corona-canceled Festival of Speed and Members Meeting—will take place this coming weekend, October 16-18. Although Volkswagen Motorsport had planned to...
  3. Volkswagen News Blog
    It seems like the Volkswagen Motorsport crew got bored waiting for Goodwood, so they’ve gone ahead and quietly set another track record, this time at Bilster Berg.   With a time of 1:24.206, the ID.R easily the previous lap record, set in 2016 by Step-1 MiKar C201B prototype, whatever that is...
  4. Volkswagen News Blog
    Friend of the site and all around VW wizard, Jamie Orr will be taking over Volkswagen Motorsports’ Instagram feed throughout the day tomorrow, Wednesday, June 3. Orr is one of the only personalities to take over the feed who isn’t a world- or series-champion, so it’s a big deal that VW...
  5. Misc. Professional Racing
    It perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise that one of the biggest companies on earth could set some records when it decided that it wanted to. But the accomplishments of Volkswagen Motorsport and the ID.R shouldn’t be downplayed. It’s easy to forget just how fast the ID.R really is and just...
  6. Volkswagen News Blog
    Volkswagen Motorsport is a lot like the rest of us. When there’s no Motorsport going on, they get a little bored. So the team in India took two weeks to build itself a little project. What it ended up with was a mid-engine Polo RX track toy making 240 hp and 255 lb-ft of torque. The team is...
  7. Misc. Professional Racing
    The 2019 World Rallycross Championship will be without its champions for the 2019 season. PSRX, Volkswagen Motorsport’s partner in the series, has announced that it will not race this coming season. “The important thing to understand here is that this is a pause – a pause and not an end,” said...
  8. Volkswagen News Blog
    Racing, no matter how passion-fueled, is almost always a marketing exercise. But VW’s decision run for the record at Pikes Peak will be more than just a way to advertise the I.D. brand. The technological breakthroughs made on Sunday's record-breaking Pikes Peak run will actually find their way...
  9. Volkswagen News Blog
    There are a lot of things about running an electric race car that a team has to contend with, but one of the big ones, at least at Pikes Peak, is charging time. It may seem like, since it’s just an 8-minute run that has to be completed but once, the team shouldn’t have to be in too big a rush...
  10. Volkswagen News Blog
    Although making your propulsion electric solves one of the problems presented by the altitude of Pikes Peak, it still only solves one of the problems. Aerodynamicists face serious problems at altitude because the air becomes less dense the higher up you go (that’s why naturally aspirated...
  11. Misc. Professional Racing
    Volkswagen is revealing full details on its Pikes Peak record hopeful, the I.D. R. Watch the full livestream below:
  12. Misc. Professional Racing
    Volkswagen Motorsports will end its involvement in popular feeder series Formula 3 in 2018 to focus instead on rallying and touring car racing. The announcement marks the end of an era in which numerous German drivers rose to the highest ranks of motorsport via VW. Between 1982 and 1991, all...
  13. Misc. Professional Racing
    When Volkswagen updated the Golf family, they didn’t forget any members. Now, everyone from the humblest Golf buyer to the fastest racer can drive the Mk7.5 Golf. Although it spent its last couple of years worrying about big things, like winning racing trophies across the European continent...
  14. Misc. Professional Racing
    For the first time ever, American rallycross fans will be able to see the FIA World Rallycross Championship at home, as the series has announced that next year’s calendar will include a race at the Circuit of the Americas. For years, the closest American fan could get to seeing the European...
  15. Misc. Professional Racing
    The FIA World Rallycross Championship’s biggest race of the season, as far as attendance goes at least, was the site of another record from VW hotshoe, Johan Kristoffersson. The young Swede has had a charmed season, leading the championship from his team-mate Petter Solberg, but this weekend he...
  16. Misc. Professional Racing
    Johann Kristoffersson and Petter Solberg, Volkswagen’s dynamic duo of Scandi rallycrossers, took control early and completely during the Canadian leg of the World Rallycross Championship. Despite being the only North American leg of the championship, the drivers were anything but exhausted by...
  17. Misc. Professional Racing
    With all the fuss that’s going on over at Formula E lately, it’s only natural that other racing series want to introduce an electric series of their own. Rallycross is next, with the FIA World Rallycross Championship announcing that it will add an electric sub-series as early as 2020. “We’re...
  18. Misc. Professional Racing
    As anyone who is a fan of Rallycross will already know, Rallycross cars accelerate violently, decelerate violently, corner violently, and do just about everything with a ferocity that would put a Grizzly bear on steroids to shame. Naturally then, you’ll have asked yourself how easy it is to do...
  19. Misc. Professional Racing
    Continuing its dominance of mixed-surface racing, VW defended its lead in the FIA World Rallycross Championship. A lead in the European series means that Volkswagen tops the standings in the two major rallycross series currently operating. This weekend, in Holjes, Sweden, Johann Kristoffersson...
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