pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/motorsports/" rel="tag"Motorsports/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/audi/" rel="tag"Audi/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/detroit-sports-car-challenge-08/1008946/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/audi-r10-dgp.jpg" //abr / div align="center"emstrongsmallClick the R10 above for a high res gallery from the Detroit race/small/strong/embr //div embr //emThe self proclaimed leader in "green racing", the American Le Mans Series, will be losing one of its premier teams for 2009. After winning nine consecutive LMP1 championships with the R8 and then the R10 TDI, Audi will no longer have a works team in the ALMS in 2009. The only official Audi appearance in North America will be the debut run of the new R15 TDI at Sebring in March. After that, the R15 will go to Le Mans and Audi will be represented by the new A4 in DTM and the R8 LMS in GT3 racing. br /br /Audi hasn't indicated whether it will make the R10s available to Champion Racing or any other team. Champion has been operating the Audi Sport North America program for several years. The current economic conditions have been cited by Audi racing boss Dr. Wolfgang Ulrich as part of the reason for withdrawing from ALMS and also the European Le Mans Series. br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/detroit-sports-car-challenge-08/"Detroit Sports Car Challenge 08/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/detroit-sports-car-challenge-08/1008978/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/08/dspc08-1280-1_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/detroit-sports-car-challenge-08/1008952/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/08/dspc08-1280-10_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/detroit-sports-car-challenge-08/1008962/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/08/dspc08-1280-11_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/detroit-sports-car-challenge-08/1008968/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/08/dspc08-1280-12_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/detroit-sports-car-challenge-08/1008939/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/08/dspc08-1280-13_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /smallspan style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"Photos Copyright (C)2008 Sam Abuelsamid / Weblogs, Inc.br /br //span/small[Source: Audi]pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/05/embargo-12-5-6am-est-audi-withdraws-from-2009-american-le-mans/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emBREAKING: Audi withdraws from 2009 American Le Mans Series/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/05/embargo-12-5-6am-est-audi-withdraws-from-2009-american-le-mans/"BREAKING: Audi withdraws from 2009 American Le Mans Series/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/05/embargo-12-5-6am-est-audi-withdraws-from-2009-american-le-mans/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1391893/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/05/embargo-12-5-6am-est-audi-withdraws-from-2009-american-le-mans/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/NnIEgc_rjeqvujFFZG1KgcXLcB0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/NnIEgc_rjeqvujFFZG1KgcXLcB0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=FdWm8Oce"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=FdWm8Oce" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=JNkKo8qP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=JNkKo8qP" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/uFA_GhBIlV0" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://www.f1-action.net/infos/IMG/arton10165.jpg" align="left" hspace="2" vspace="2" Audi ne sera finalement présent ni en LMS ni en ALMS la saison prochaine. La nouvelle R15 ne sera qu'aux 12 Heures de Sebring et aux 24 Heures du Mans. br /Après une année en LMS et neuf en ALMS, Audi ne sera dans aucun championnat d'endurance la saison prochaine. Le constructeur allemand souhaite diminuer ses dépenses. « La décision de nous retirer a été très difficile, » déclare Wolfgang Ullrich, le patron de Audi Motorsport. br /"Depuis la saison 2000, Audi a gagné le titre LMP1 neuf fois consécutivement (...) - a href="http://www.f1-action.net/infos/rubrique83.html" rel="directory"ALMS/aimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/f1action/~4/QwDtGlez1qA" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://www.f1-action.net/infos/IMG/arton10153.jpg" align="left" hspace="2" vspace="2" Audi pourrait maintenir sa présence en American Le Mans Series en 2009. En revanche, la nouvelle R15 ne viendra pas en Le Mans Series. br /La semaine dernière, Audi a dévoilé son programme 2009 avec la présence de la marque en DTM et le lancement de la R8 LMS, destinée aux différents championnats GT3. br /Pour l'endurance, la firme aux anneaux a annoncé le remplacement de la R10 par la R15 et sa participation aux 12 Heures de Sebring et aux 24 Heures du Mans. L'annonce de Audi ne mentionnait ni les (...) - a href="http://www.f1-action.net/infos/rubrique83.html" rel="directory"ALMS/aimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/f1action/~4/wgCx6rSLkqQ" height="1" width="1"/