Audi: Test in Morocco 🎥
VOTING Team Audi Sport is using the whole of October to thoroughly prepare for the 2024 Dakar Rally. The brand will compete in the Morocco Rally with three Audi RS Q e-tron for three driver teams in classification for the first time.
Step by step, Team Audi Sport is increasing the pace and the demands with a view to the big goal next January. Last May there was a first season test in Saudi Arabia. After further testing in Zaragoza, Spain, the team took part in the Baja Aragon.
Head of Audi Motorsport Rolf Michl: "October is marked by the most intensive work since the Dakar Rally. Now the entire team can work in competition mode again. The Morocco Rally is ideal for this in terms of duration and terrain because the terrain reflects the versatile demands of the Dakar Rally well."
Prologue and five stages
From October 13 to 18, a prologue and five rally stages await the participants of the Rally du Maroc. The schedule includes 1449 timed kilometers and a total distance of 2219 kilometers. Team Audi Sport participated outside the classification last year. Now, as a registered participant, it will face tough competition from Toyota, Ford and Prodrive, among others, at the fifth round of the FIA World Rally Raid Championship.
Rolf Michl: "An excellent field has announced itself. This is a good assessment for us. At the same time, it helps the entire team to switch back into competitive mode and verify everything we have already implemented with a view to the 2024 Dakar Rally."
Tests over 3000 kilometers
In the run-up to the event, Team Audi Sport completed six days of testing in Morocco together with Q Motorsport. Each of the three driver pairings Mattias Ekström/Emil Bergkvist, Stéphane Peterhansel/Edouard Boulanger and Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz was in action for two days. In total, the Audi RS Q e-tron reeled off more than 3,000 kilometers. In the process, the team succeeded in further improving the set-up and testing new tires and components.
