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26 July 2021 10:09 am / 1 comment
Audi Sport has officially begun testing the new Audi RS Q e-tron ahead of its debut at the upcoming Dakar Rally season, set to kick off in January 2022. With this, the four rings aims to be the first automaker to use an electrified powertrain to compete for overall victory against conventionally-powered rivals.
The Dakar Rally is an exhausting long-haul race like nothing else in the world of motorsports. It lasts for two weeks and the daily stages can see participants drive over 800 km at a time. “That’s a very long distance,” says Andreas Roos, responsible for the Dakar project at Audi Sport. “What we are trying to do has never been done before. This is the ultimate challenge for an electric drivetrain.”
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Audi has unveiled the first images of the all-electric RS Q e-tron car which it will use for its maiden assault on the Dakar Rally in 2022.
The factory-supported Q Motorsport run operation has completed its first roll-out of the new car, which the brand hopes can take the fight to conventionally powered competitors on the classic rally raid in January next year.
Announced at the backend of last year, Audi’s arrival on the Dakar with an electric car marks the first entry to the event using alternative energy.
The prototype, which will compete in the new-for-2022 T1-E class for alternative energy vehicles, had its first run-out in Neuberg at the start of the month ahead of an intensive testing program across the remainder of the year.
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