Hear Audi’s Newest Race Car Roar From Behind The Wheel

Racing is an expensive endeavor, and in the United States at least, there are few series that allow budding young racers to climb the ladder, learn from professionals that have been there and done it, hook up with an automaker, and, most important, not break the bank. This coming weekend I’ll be facing some highly motivated youths in such a series — Audi Sports’ TT Cup.

The race is at a track called Oschersleben, which I stupidly thought was in Austria — until my plane landed in Germany. Fortunately geography won’t help me tackle this challenge, taking the TT Cup car — which is based on Audi’s new TTS road car, a machine arriving stateside soon — and competing against the 18 regular drivers, all aged between 17 and 25 (the championship victor receiving a works drive with Audi in its R8 GT3 car), and five guest drivers, two of which previously competed in Germany’s esteemed DTM series.