Audi's Head of Engine Design wins award at World Motorsport Symposium.

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World Motorsport Symposium Award Winners Named

Ulrich Baretzky, head of engine design at Audi Sport in Ingolstadt, Germany and Dino Toso head of aerodynamics at the Enstone, UK based Renault Formula One team respectively won the Race Engine Designer of the Year and the Racecar Aerodynamicist of the Year awards last night at the 2005 World Motorsport Symposium in London.

Since 1997 Baretzky has led the design and development of Audi’s V8 sportscar engine. In 2005 this power unit took its sixth successive victory in the Le Mans 24 Hour race and secured its sixth successive American Le Mans Series manufacturers title.

Toso joined the Renault team in 2001 when it was till racing under the Benetton banner. At the end of 2003, by which time Renault had bought the team outright, Toso was made head of aerodynamics and in 2005 the Renault R25 on which he led the aerodynamic development programme scored eight race victories and won the Formula One Drivers and Constructors World Championships.

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Ulrich Baretzky is “Race Engine Designer of the Year”

Audi R8 winning streak convinced panel of experts
V8 power unit without single technical failure in 77 races

The Audi R8 is the most successful Le Mans prototype ever and is still the world’s only race car to combine direct fuel injection and turbo charging. For its TFSI technology, which initially established itself on the race track and, meanwhile, inspires high-volume production, Audi was honoured yet again: An international panel of experts presented Ulrich Baretzky, Head of Engine Technology at Audi Sport, with the "Race Engine Designer of the Year Award”.

"I’m very proud of this award, which I receive on behalf of my team,” explained Ulrich Baretzky at the presentation in the Royal Air Force Museum in London. "What we achieved with the R8 was genuine team effort.”

In the 77 races contested to date, the Audi R8 scored a total of 61 outright victories, won the 24 Hours of Le Mans five times and the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) six times in succession. Even more impressive is the reliability of its 3.6 litre twin-turbo V8 power unit: Since making its debut in March 2000 there was not a single engine failure during a race – an achievement, which also impressed the Race Tech World Motorsport Symposium expert panel that consists of high-profile technicians from various facets of motorsport including Formula 1.

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