Audi wins 2024 Dakar Rally with RS Q e-tron

Audi has made history by winning the 2024 Dakar Rally with the RS Q e-tron.

“Congratulations to Team Audi Sport on winning the Dakar Rally,” commented Audi Chairman of the Board of Management Gernot Döllner.

“Audi has once again set a milestone in motorsport. Winning the world’s toughest desert rally with an electrified drive is a visible ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ and points the way to our electric future,” he added.

For the uninitiated, the Audi RS Q e-tron is a low-emission prototype with an electric drive, high-voltage battery, and energy converter. The German carmaker has set a record in the world’s toughest desert rally race using the said vehicle.

The 2024 Dakar Rally-winning RS Q e-tron also uses residual fuel-based reFuel. The said fuel can save 60 percent of carbon dioxide emissions compared to conventional fuels, Audi pointed out.

“With our revolutionary electrified drive, we have overcome one of the biggest challenges in motorsport after just three years. We are thus continuing a long series of pioneering achievements that have always characterized Audi in four decades of motorsport. I would like to thank the entire team for this outstanding performance in a particularly tough edition of the Dakar Rally,” Audi Member of the Board of Management Oliver Hoffmann explained.

Audi reached another milestone after Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz clinched the 2024 Dakar Rally victory.

“It means a lot to me,” Sainz said in a report published by RedBull.

“Audi believed in this special car and in this special concept. We never gave up,” he added.

Sainz and Cruz have together won the Dakar Rally in 2010, 2018, and 2020. Their 2024 victory marked their fourth win allowing the two drivers to show that age is just a number even in rallying. .

“To be here at my age and to stay at the level, you need to do a lot of work beforehand. It doesn’t just come like that,” he explained.

The two have conquered 7,900 kilometers of sand and sun.

In addition, El-matador’s son and Scuderia Ferrari Formula 1 team driver Carlos Sainz Jr. flew to celebrate with his dad after the 61-year-old rally racer achieved his fourth personal Dakar Rally win.

Photos from Audi

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