Audi has unveiled the new generation of the DTM Championship winning car at the Geneva Motor Show. The 2014-specification Audi RS5 DTM with its aerodynamics package having been redesigned in practically all areas, looks clearly more aggressive and features visual details bearing an even closer resemblance to the sporty production models of the RS line than its predecessor.
Noticeable at first glance, the new Audi RS5 DTM appears significantly more aggressive. The reason for this is the near complete redevelopment of the aerodynamics. The RS5 now has the honeycomb grille from the production car at the front and new air ducts feeding the engine and brakes.
The innovations along the flanks are also obvious - in order to make the airflow even more efficient along the outer skin, the exterior mirrors were integrated into the aerodynamic concept. The aerodynamics along the side between the front and rear wheels also reveals a new concept. The inner rear wheel arches are, in contrast to last year, closed and the rear part is now flat.
Audi contests two races against time year after year - one on the race tracks and the other in the Audi Sport offices in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm. Because when the DTM celebrates its season opener at Hockenheim in the spring, the engineers start working on the race car for the following year. The 'RC3', as the 2014 version of the Audi RS5 DTM is known internally, was thus born in May last year.
There are still two official tests in Budapest and at the Hockenheimring on the agenda before Mike Rockenfeller, with start number '1', and his teammates start the new season at Hockenheim on 4th May.
