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Gernot Döllner (Audi CEO): “The plan to arrive in F1 in 2026 is still relevant”
Gernot Döllner has been CEO of Audi since September 2023. Photo Audi Communications
Rumors have been rife since the end of the summer: Audi is thinking of backpedaling and no longer committing as a racing team. Formula 1 in 2026. The German manufacturer has not communicated on its rumors, fueled by the silence of the brand at the Rings this fall.
A strategy that hid nothing worrying according to the Presiding Managing Director of Audi AG, Gernot Döllner. He took office in September 2023 following Markus Duesmann; it was the latter who pressed the green button to launch the F1 team project, in August 2022.
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It is only for a few weeks that Gernot Döllner has been able to speak on the F1 subject, once after having respected a media reserve deadline of 100 days following his promotion. “The board of directors, supervisory boards of Audi and Volkswagen have clearly decided that Audi will participate in Formula 1 in 2026”, he declared this December 14 to German newspaper Handelsblatt. “The plan to arrive in F1 in 2026 is still relevant. »
A little further on, Gernot Dollner explains that the decision pyramid has been simplified in order to improve the functioning of the F1 project. “We had a very complex commission landscape. This is why we removed an entire level of committees below the board of directors. In short: we are now faster and important decisions are once again made by the entire board team. »
Audi must enter F1 by taking over the Sauber team, which was associated with Alfa Romeo and between 2018 2023.
Medhi Casaurang
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