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Bayern Munich’s players found themselves on unaccustomed terrain in the
run-up to the 66th Hahnenkamm Race in January 2006 in Kitzbühel. At the
Audi Driving Experience, they were given an opportunity to put the Audi range
of models with quattro permanent four-wheel drive to the test under expert
guidance. Together with General Manager Uli Hoeneß, players Oliver Kahn,
Michael Ballack, Roy Makaay and their team colleagues first accomplished
a slalom course and dexterity road tests. Then Le Mans record-breaker Tom
Kristensen and 2004 DTM Champion Mattias Ekström showed the football
stars how to drive Audi cars both safely and sportily.
Australia’s Whitsunday Islands offered
the perfect surroundings for duels on
both land and sea in August 2006.
More than 150 yachts steered a course
for a regatta win in the Hamilton Island
Race, now in its 23rd year. As the offi-
cial car partner, Audi ensured that
competitors at the airport venue en-
joyed a race-course atmosphere and
also supplied the Regatta’s top prize:
an Audi A4 Avant. The keys to the vehi-
cle were presented to Australian Dave
Short, who secured a victory in both
the yacht race and the “Audi Final Chal-
lenge” on the road. Audi will attend the
Hamilton Island Race for the first time
as main sponsor in 2007.
Hamilton
Island Race
Bayern Munich on ice
Steering a successful course in the
Audi Q7: Uli Hoeneß
98 AUDI 2006 ANNUAL REPORT
in brief:
sport