With this recurring column, ooooIYKYK aims to summarize activities of Audi racing campaigns and competition endeavors. This weekly series brief updates of results, preparation, happenings and rumors pertaining to on track activities. See a full calendar of motorsport activities involving Audi Sport factory, customer and Sauber F1 teams maintained HERE.
RALLY & HILLCLIMB RACING
BROADMOOR PIKES PEAK INTERNATIONAL HILLCLIMB 🇺🇸
Michèle Mouton Inducted into Pike’s Peak International Hillclimb Hall of Fame
A highlight of this year’s 103rd Pike’s Peak International Hillclimb (PPIHC) was the induction of Audi Sport driving legend Michèle Mouton. 2025 marked the 40th anniversary of Mouton’s record-breaking victory at the wheel of an Audi Sport quattro.
The PPIHC describes her as, “A true inspiration and a name that will live on forever, Mouton exhibits the spirit of Pikes Peak: unwavering determination and pure grit to overcome any and every challenge.”
Michèle overcame chips stacked against her to win that year, and remains the only female “King of the Mountain” overall winner to this day.
photo: Revving Pixel Automotive Photography
Pike’s Peak International Hillclimb Results
Though Audi Sport hasn’t officially competed at Pike’s Peak since the 1980s, the open nature of the race means that Audi-driving competitors are not an uncommon occurrence. Less common though are the quantity of competitors, this year marking no less than nine teams fielding an Audi model of some sort – all of them in the Pike’s Peak Open Class.
Given that, here are the results. Worth noting, high winds and debris on the road caused organizers to shorten the run during this year’s race. In as much, overall times will be much shorter than previous years.
Congratulations to all who participated.
| Overall Result | Class Result | Time | Car | Driver (R designates Rookie) |
| 36 | 8 | 4:45.090 | #12 2010 Audi TTS | Matus Huska |
| 39 | 9 | 4:46.287 | #2 1983 Audi quattro | David Hackl |
| 40 | 10 | 4:47.630 | #117 1984 Audi 4000 quattro | Trevor Aweida |
| 44 | 12 | 4:52.333 | #342 2012 Audi TT RS | Christian Ghimbos-R |
| 49 | 13 | 4:57.287 | #970 1991 Audi 200 20V Avant | Scott Anderson-R |
| 56 | 16 | 5:09.043 | #10 1986 Audi Sport quattro S1 E2 Replica (Listed as 4000) | Emmanuel Cecchet-R |
| 59 | 18 | 5:12.314 | #75 1986 Audi quattro Group S Replica | David Rowe |
| 62 | 21 | 5:19.346 | #246 2012 Adui TT RS | Josh Tenge-R |
| 67 | 25 | 5:35.240 | #16 1985 Audi Sport quattro S1 E2 Replica | Alex Kim-R |
OPEN WHEEL RACING
FORMULA 1 ROUND #4, PIRELLI GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 🇨🇦
Hulkenberg Sauber in the Points Again at Canadian Grand Prix
With a second consecutive round of points scored for Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg, the Stake F1 squad has achieved something that hasn’t happened for two years. With this back-to-back points result, improvements at Sauber are breathing into a team many have written off as just filling time until Audi F1 shows up next season.
In reality, there’s no “just filling time”. Sauber is taking this season to work on its strategies, team performance and acclimating its two new drivers to the squad.
Canada is the third round where Nico Hulkenberg has scored points, moving the German and the 20 points he’s accrued to 11th place in the overall standings and ahead of the likes of the likes of Carlos Sainz, Jr. (Williams), Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin), Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull) and Pierre Gasly (Alpine) to name a few.
NEXT ROUND F1 MSC CRUISES AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX, RED BULL RING, AUSTRIA 🇦🇹
Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Italy (Jun 27 – Jun 28)
FORMULA 1 ACADEMY ROUND #4, MONTREAL 🇨🇦
Emma Felbermeyr Scores Victory in Montreal
KICK Sauber F1 Team driver, Emma Felbermayr, delivered a dominant performance including a victory at the F1 Academy round during the Canadian Grand Prix weekend at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. The podium finish marked her first in the F1 Academy.
There were three F1 Academy rounds in Canada, with Felbermayr exhibiting a dominating performance in each of them. In the first round, she finished third but then was painfully disqualified when her car was found to be below the minimum weight.
Emma turned that frustration into determination in round 2, where she fought her way to her first F1 Academy result on the top of the podium.
In race 3, she was again dominating when contact with another driver put her out of contention for the victory. Even still, a penalty issued on the car who made contact promoted Emma into the final Top 10 of that third round.
In case you weren’t aware, F1 is a spec feeder series run on Formula 1 weekend designed expressly to promote women drivers into motorsport. Last year’s champion, Abbi Pulling recently made news by signing a multi-year deal with Nissan’s Formula E team.
You can learn more about F1 Academy via a documentary series F1: The Academy produced by Reese Witherspoon ands streaming on Netflix.
SPORTSCAR RACING – GT3, GT4 & TCR CUSTOMER RACING
Worth noting, Audi Sport has begun publishing weekly customer racing race summaries. As a result, the race updates on ooooIYKYK will become even more inclusive now that updates on all customer racing activities are emanating from the team itself. Thanks to Audi Sport customer racing for continuing to keep fans up to date on Audi Sport customer racing activities around the world.
NORTH ISLAND ENDURANCE SERIS (GT3) ROUND 3 HAMPTON DOWNS 🇳🇿
First Title Successes of Season in New Zealand
[source: Audi]
The North Island Endurance Series completed the last two of its three championship rounds in the space of just one calendar week. After 2016, 2017 and 2023, the title in the 3-hour category was decided in favor of an Audi customer team for the fourth time. Sam Fillmore and Jonny Reid won both races with Team International Motorsport (IMS) in the Audi R8 LMS, having already prevailed in the season opener. This is Fillmore’s second title after 2023 and Reid’s third after 2016 and 2023. The second event at Hampton Downs turned out to be a thrilling comeback race. After a spin and a safety car period, Fillmore was one lap down. One of the strategic moves that made the success possible was a pit stop during which the team only changed the tires on the left side of the car, which were subject to higher loads. After three hours of racing, Sam Fillmore/Jonny Reid achieved a narrow victory with a lead of 0.851 seconds. Second place went to another Audi team: Steve Brooks/Ryan Wood were the best pursuers in the Audi R8 LMS from Wolfbrook Motorsport. Wood continued to close the gap, but was unable to overtake the leading Audi. The final race, again held at Hampton Downs, took place a week later. At 21.1 seconds, Fillmore/Reid’s lead was bigger than ever before this season. The two New Zealanders then celebrated their title win with a 23-point lead. Steve Brooks/Bill Riding finished third and clinched the class title in the drivers classification for amateur crews.
CHINA GT CHAMPIONSHIP (GT3) ROUND 3 🇨🇳
Victory in China for R8 LMS GT3 Team
[source: Audi]
Yang Baijie and Li Zhicong made a strong debut as a new driver pairing in the third round of the China GT Championship. The Chinese pairing celebrated overall victory in the second race from eleventh on the grid in the Audi R8 LMS of the 610 Racing team after finishing third in the first race. Their brand colleagues Dennis Zhang/Liu Kaishun completed the podium in the second race in third place for Team Harmony Racing. There were also successful Audi customer teams in the amateur classification. Liu Hangcheng/Lu Zhiwei won this class in the first race for 33R Harmony Racing ahead of Pan Deng/Yang Xiaowei from 610 Racing and Jiang Nan/Yang Haojie from 33R Harmony Racing. In the second race, Chen Yechong/Song Yiran with the Uno Racing Team were the second-best amateur team with an Audi R8 LMS.
CAMPIONATO ITALIANO GT ENDURANCE (GT3) ROUND 2 MONZA 🇮🇹
Tresor Attempto with Another Podium at Monza
[source: Audi]
Tresor Attempto Racing were delighted with a second place in class in the Campionato Italiano GT Endurance. At the second round of the series in Monza, Riccardo Cazzaniga/Rocco Mazzola/Fabio Rauer crossed the finish line in second place in the Pro class after three hours of racing, 25.4 seconds behind the leader.
P9 CHALLENGE (GT3) ROUND 3 LAUSITZRING 🇩🇪
Team CCS with Two Victories at Lausitzring
[source: Audi]
Team CCS Racing recorded two victories in the third round of the P9 Challenge. Thomas Westarp won the second sprint and the one-hour endurance race at the Lausitzring in the Bavarian team’s Audi R8 LMS.
EXTREME SUPERCARS (GT3) ROUND 3 ZWARTKOPS 🇿🇦
Victory and Podiums Collect in South Africa
[source: Audi]
At the third round of the Extreme Supercars in Zwartkops, South Africa, Paul Hill finished third, first and second in the Audi R8 LMS in Class A in three races.
TCR ITALY (TCR) ROUND 3 MONZA 🇮🇹
Audi Tops the Standings in TCR Italy
[source: Audi]
At the top of the TCR Italy standings, a change in the lead between Audi’s best customer teams at the halfway point of the season is providing fans with plenty of excitement. Nicola Baldan in the Audi RS 3 LMS of Aikoa Racing took over the top position in Monza from Canadian Nicolas Taylor, who is now 29 points behind the Italian after a retirement. Pietro Alessi and Matteo Poloni, two other Audi privateer drivers, follow in the next positions in the standings. In the first race, Matteo Poloni in the Gear Works Audi took his first win of the season ahead of Pietro Alessi from BF Motorsport. Poloni had best grasped an unclear situation in the middle of the race and overtook two rivals in quick succession on his way to victory. Nicolas Taylor completed a one-two-three for Audi customers with PMA Motorsport. In the second race, Nicola Baldan saved a narrow lead of 0.858 seconds over Aikoa teammate Francesco Cardone after a five-second penalty. The time penalty was imposed because Baldan had cut through the first chicane at the start to avoid his teammate. Audi privateers were also successful in other categories: Francesco Cardone won the Masters classification on Saturday and Sunday, followed by Sandro Pelatti from PMA Motorsport in third and second place. The best rookie in the first race was Carlo Alberto Bocca from BF Motorsport ahead of Zekai Özen from the Texaco team. On Sunday, Özen was second ahead of Bocca. Pietro Alessi from BF Motorsport won the age group up to 25 years with a lead of three tenths of a second over Nicolas Taylor on Saturday. The following day, Filippo Barberi from Aikoa Racing was the best Audi driver in this classification in third place.
TCR ITALY DSG (TCR) ROUND 3 MONZA 🇮🇹
Once again, the TCR Italy DSG for racing cars with dual-clutch transmissions also made a guest appearance at Monza. Gustavo Sandrucci was the best driver of an Audi RS 3 LMS in third place on Sunday. The Italian from Casals Motorsport also won the Masters classification in the first race ahead of Alessandro Berton from Planet Motorsport in another Audi. Sandrucci remained unbeaten on Sunday, with Berton finishing third. Carlotta Fedeli from RC Motorsport won both races in the women’s classification, while Seda Kaçan from the Texaco team, also in an Audi, was second best on Saturday. The female racing driver from Turkey won the rookie classification ahead of Giacomo Prandelli from Aikoa Racing, before Prandelli prevailed in his Audi on Sunday. In the group for drivers under 25, Mattia Lancellotti was third best for Planet Motorsport in his Audi on Sunday.
CAMPIONATO ITALIANO GT ENDURANCE (GT3) ROUND 2 MONZA 🇮🇹
Podium for RS 3 LMS at 24 Hours of Nürburgring
[source: Audi]
At the Nürburgring 24 Hours, Team Goroyan RT by Sharky Racing made it onto the podium in the TCR class with an Audi RS 3 LMS. In hot weather and asphalt temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius, Nathanaël Berthon/Danny Brink/Artur Goroyan/Roman Mavlanov completed a distance of 3,070 kilometers. As the best private team, they finished third in their class behind two factory competitors.
In the supporting program, Manfred Lewe won his class in the Cup und Tourenwagen Trophy in the Audi RS 3 LMS in the first race. Ivars Vallers won this classification in the second race in an Audi.
TCR SPAIN (TCR) ROUND 3 VALENCIA 🇪🇸
TCR Trophies in Spain
[source: Audi]
Two Audi customers won trophies in their classes on the third weekend of the TCR Spain. In the first race in Valencia, Guillaume Salvodelli took second place in the Masters classification in his Audi RS 3 LMS. Sébastien Thome was third in his class in the first and second sprint in another Audi RS 3 LMS.
GT4 FRANCE (GT4) ROUND 3 sPA SPEED WEEK 🇧🇪
GT4 Podium Results in France
[source: Audi]
Best result of the season in French GT4 racing: The third of five race weekends in the GT4 France racing series was Philippe Thalamy’s most successful to date. The amateur driver from Team Speedcar was the best Am driver on the grid of the first race in Spa in his Audi R8 LMS GT4. As a solo driver, he finished in second place for Team Speedcar after just over an hour of racing.
CAMPIONATO ITALIANO GT ENDURANCE (GT3) ROUND 2 MONZA 🇮🇹
Class Win for South African R8 LMS GT4
[source: Audi]
In the third round of the Extreme Supercars, Jimmy Giannoccaro was successful in an Audi R8 LMS GT4. The South African won Class D in the first two races.
RALLY RAID RACING
DAKAR RALLY DAKAR CHRONICLES PREMIERE 🇫🇷
Dakar Chronicles Premieres in Paris
[source: Audi]
Dakar Rally
Debut in Paris: The film “Dakar Chronicles” had its event premiere in the capital of France. The documentary accompanied the protagonists of the 2023 Dakar Rally. In addition to director Jalil Lespert, former Audi Dakar driver and 14-time rally winner Stéphane Peterhansel was also present. An Audi RS Q e-tron was the prominent eye-catcher in front of the mk2 Bibliothèque cinema in the south-east of Paris.
UPCOMING ROUNDS WEEK 25 (JUN 14-JUN 22)
Sidenote: See full season calendar HERE.
25-29 – GT World Challenge / Intercontinental GT Challenge / GT World Challenge Europe / British GT Championship / GT4 European Series / FFSA French GT, Crowdstrike 24 Hours of Spa, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium – GT3, GT4
27 – TCR Europe, Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano Adriatico, Italy – TCR
27-29 – F1 MSC Cruises Austrian Grand Prix, Red Bull Ring, Austria – F1
29 – Coppa Italia Turismo, Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano Adriatico, Italy – TCR
04-05 – 24H Series Europe, Michelin 12H Paul Ricard, Circuit Paul Ricard, France – GT3
04-06 – DTM, Norisring, Germany – GT3
04-06 – F1 Qatar Airways British Grand Prix, Silverstone Circuit, UK – F1
05 – TCR UK, Oulton Park, Cheshire, UK – TCR
05-06 – International GT Open, Hungaroring, Hungary – GT3
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