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The End. Out. Past! VW stops all motorsport activities!

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The End. Out. Past! VW stops all motorsport activities!

"The Volkswagen brand is on the way to becoming the leading provider of sustainable electric mobility. To this end, we are pooling our strengths and have decided to discontinue our own motorsport activities for the Volkswagen brand. The motorsport workforce will subsequently be integrated into Volkswagen AG. The deep technical expertise of the employees as well as the know-how gained from the ID.R project will remain in the company and will help us to develop further efficient models of the ID. Bring family to the streets", Says Dr. Frank Welsch, Board Member for Development at the Volkswagen brand. "The Volkswagen Motorsport GmbH team has achieved significant sporting successes for the brand over the decades. My sincere thanks go to all employees for the many victories, titles and records around the world and for their personal commitment", Says Wilfried von Rath, Board Member for Human Resources at the Volkswagen brand, in recognition of the workforce's performance

VW stops all motorsport activities!

The End. Out. Past! VW stops all motorsport activities!

And Wilfried von Rath adds: "We are pleased that we will be able to find employment, especially in this challenging time, and that we will be making a takeover offer to all employees.“The Volkswagen Motorsport GmbH in Hanover employs 169 people who will be integrated into Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg in the coming months. The supply of spare parts for the Polo GTI R5 and the Golf GTI TCR for the racetrack will be ensured in the long term. Production of the Polo GTI R5 customer sport vehicle for rallying will expire at the end of 2020.

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The End. Out. Past! VW stops all motorsport activities!

Volkswagen Motorsport can look back on more than five decades of motorsport history. Beginning with the heyday of Formula Vee in the sixties and seventies and the successes in Formula 3, Volkswagen became involved with near-series vehicles such as the Polo, the Golf and the Scirocco on the circuit, in rallycross and rally sport. The brand's greatest successes include three victories at the Dakar Rally with the Race Touareg (2009-2011), four World Rally Championship titles with the Polo R WRC (2013-2016), and two TCR International titles with the Golf GTI (2016, 2017) and three rallycross world championship titles with the Polo (2017, 2018, 2020). With the fully electric ID.R, Volkswagen Motorsport successfully implemented the transition to electric mobility from 2018. Volkswagen holds five international records with the ID.R sports car, including the overall record on Pikes Peak (USA), the electric record on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife (D) and on Mount Tianmen in China.

The End. Out. Past! VW stops all motorsport activities!

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  1. I didn't realize that VW had been in motorsport for 50 years. I am also a big fan of motorsport and have a tuned car. I would like to turn to a suitable contact person for motorsport to get a little closer to my passion.

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