Audi will celebrate its achievements in motorsport at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed with an eclectic mix of iconic vehicles. Audi’s headline act, the S1 e-tron quattro Hoonitron, will make its UK debut and tackle the famous Goodwood hillclimb with Le Mans racing legend Tom Kristensen behind the wheel.
“Audi and Goodwood both have motorsport at their heart, so being able to showcase icons from our past alongside Audi Sport’s latest creations at this year’s Festival of Speed will be a special occasion,” commented Director Audi UK Andrew Doyle. “Success at the Dakar Rally is our current focus before we turn our attention to the pinnacle of motorsport and Formula 1 in 2026. Both disciplines will go a significant way to strengthen our motorsport pedigree.”
Designed and developed for motorsport legend Ken Block, who tragically passed away earlier this year, the Audi S1 e-tron quattro Hoonitron is a one-of-a-kind, all-electric racer. Inspired by the legendary Audi Sport quattro S1 from the nineteen-eighties, the modern-day interpretation was developed at Audi Sport’s headquarters in Neckarsulm and created by Head of Design Marc Lichte and his team.
Under the skin, the S1 e-tron quattro Hoonitron is based around a carbon fibre chassis and powered by two motor-generator units – one on each axle. As the electric motors reach maximum speeds of 28,000rpm, the engineering team defined a gear ratio of about 12:1 to enable high-speed drifts. Taking losses into account, this results in around 3,000 Nm of torque on each axle, or 6,000 Nm in total.
Tom Kristensen, six-time Le Mans winner and Audi ambassador, will tackle the Goodwood hillclimb in the S1 e-tron quattro hoonitron.
