Volkswagen: Joining forces
NO MORE WORKSHOP SPORTS As part of the realignment and further focusing of the company, the Volkswagen brand will discontinue its motorsport activities. The workforce of the sports department will be integrated into Volkswagen AG. The Wolfsburg-based company is joining forces for the transformation into the mobile electric age. The Volkswagen brand is on track to become the leading provider in sustainable electromobility [...]
The Wolfsburg-based company is joining forces for the transformation into the mobile electric age. The Volkswagen brand is on its way to becoming the leading provider in sustainable electromobility, according to the announcement. For this reason, the company is discontinuing its own motorsport activities.
Know-how from the ID.R project
The motorsport workforce will subsequently be integrated into Volkswagen AG. The employees' in-depth technical expertise and the know-how gained from the ID.R project will thus remain within the company and help to put further efficient models of the ID. family on the road.
Volkswagen Motorsport GmbH in Hanover employs 169 people, who will be integrated into Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg in the coming months.
Only spare parts for Golf TCR customers
The supply of spare parts for the Polo GTI R5 and the Golf GTI TCR for the circuit will be secured in the long term.
Production of the Polo GTI R5 customer sports vehicle for rallying will end at the end of 2020.
More than five decades of motorsport history
Beginning with the heyday of Formula Vee in the 1960s and 1970s and the successes in Formula 3, Volkswagen became involved in circuit racing, rallycross and rallying with production-based vehicles such as the Polo, the Golf and the Scirocco.
The brand's greatest successes include three Dakar Rally victories with the Race-Touareg (2009 to 2011), four World Rally Championship titles with the Polo R WRC (2013 to 2016), two TCR International titles with the Golf GTI (2016, 2017) and three World Rallycross Championship titles with the Polo (2017, 2018 and 2020).
Five-time record holder with electric prototype
Volkswagen Motorsport successfully made the transition to electric mobility with the all-electric ID.R from 2018. Five international records are on the books, including at the Pikes Peak hillclimb in Colorado, on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife, at Bilster Berg, at the Goodwood Festival of Speed Hillclimb and at Mount Tianmen in China.
