Wolfgang Ullrich (motorsport official)

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Wolfgang Ullrich 2008 in Hockenheim
Wolfgang Ullrich 2015

Wolfgang Ullrich (born August 27, 1950 in Vienna , Austria ) is an Austrian engineer , former director at Audi Sport and consultant at ACO .

education

After graduating from high school, he studied automotive engineering in Vienna. He then worked in various companies in the automotive industry in the field of research and development. Ullrich is a doctor of technical sciences.

Sports boss at Audi

In 1993, Ullrich became head of the department for sports and special developments at Audi. In this role, he is responsible for many different projects at Audi Sport, including: a. for the Audi A4 Supertouring, the Le Mans prototype Audi R18 , the Audi RS5 DTM and the development of the diesel hybrid engine. From 2009 he was responsible for the development and expansion of customer racing with the Audi R8 LMS .

In August 2015, during the last lap of the DTM race at the Red Bull Ring , he instructed Timo Scheider over the radio to push championship- leading Mercedes driver Pascal Wehrlein off the track. Scheider followed this instruction. Ullrich was then denied access to the pit lane and active access to the pit radio for the remainder of the season, Scheider was banned for two races. Audi also received a fine of 200,000 euros and point deductions.

On January 1, 2017, the previous Head of Audi Motorsport Wolfgang Ullrich handed over the office to his successor Dieter Gass after 23 years . Ullrich himself remained with Audi in an advisory capacity until the end of 2017.

Consultant at the ACO

After retiring as head of sports at Audi, he has been working as a consultant for the organizer of the Le Mans 24 Hours, the French Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), since 2018 . In the new position created for him, he is to contribute to the further development of endurance racing around the Le Mans 24-hour race and the FIA World Endurance Championship and to support it with his experience in sport, marketing and technology.

Others

He is married to his wife Antje and has a son. They live together in Oberstimm . In his spare time he does sports on his mountain bike , goes skiing or hiking.

literature

  • Audi magazine 02/2012; A. Wrede, B. Spöttel, Why here? - Head of Audi Sport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich in the Berggasthof Biberg, pp. 102-104

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Ullrich (motorsport official)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DTM: Motorsport gentleman Wolfgang Ullrich celebrates his milestone birthday ( memento of March 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Baltic Rundschau; Retrieved June 21, 2012.
  2. ↑ DMSB sports court condemns unsporting behavior. www.dtm.com, August 26, 2015, accessed September 26, 2015 .
  3. ↑ DTM radio scandal: Bans against Ullrich and Scheider - record fine for Audi. Focus Online , August 26, 2015, accessed September 26, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich stops: Dieter Gass is the new Audi Sport boss. Motorsport-Magazin.com, December 16, 2016, accessed May 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Michael Höller: Ex-Audi boss Ullrich will be a consultant for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Motorsport-Magazin.com, February 9, 2018, accessed May 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ullrich, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian engineer and head of sports at Audi
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna