Volkswagen Brand to Cease all Motorsports Activities

[MiniDave]

Article here....  https://sportscar365.com/industry/volkswagen-brand-to-cease-all-motorsports-activities/?fbclid=IwAR1-4I2NOXoKAhrCkgVfqQVE3eoImaqdk-5a6KydlD0FXdpC0fcePFpCRbE

Wonder how long before Audi and Porsche follow suit?

[BruceK]

So all the focus at VW is on making electrons move wheeled boxes around now.

[cstudep]

Sounds like they plan to "move" all their personnel that was once involved in motor sport activities into their standard fair auto activities?

If that is the plan, I am not sure how well that will pan out in the long term. I would suspect a lot of the brains will jump ship to other motor sport teams rather than stay on board to work in the run of the mill auto market. I am sure many are in the motor sport arena because they were already part of the motor sports world and would likely prefer to remain there.

I guess time will tell.

[BruceK]

Volkswagen has lured a famous Porsche racecar engineer, (who went to Apple!?), to be their new electric conceptualizer/engineer for the big switch to electric cars.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-electric-hitzinger-idUSKBN28B555