Audi 2008 Annual Report Download - page 15

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MATTHEW COOK
Artist and Illustrator, London
Cook sketched his first portraits of musicians at jam sessions
he attended from an early age in his father’s tow. The 45-
year-old artist illustrated the Mileage Marathon and U.S.
musical greats for the Audi Annual Report – and came across
an old love. As part of London’s punk scene in the late 1970s,
he was mad about Blondie. PAGE 86
STEFAN NINK
Travel Journalist, Mainz
The 43-year-old journalist normally reports from the Mekong
Delta or Swaziland. For a meeting with DTM driver Martin
Tomczyk and professional gamer Sascha Appel, Nink traveled
to a world that is every bit as fascinating: the Nürburgring. Here
he experienced a race between reality and illusion. Tomczyk
and Appel piloted an Audi R8 around the Nordschleife – on the
game console and on the circuit itself. PAGE 12
CAROLE CAPITAINE
Motorsports Editor at L’Équipe, Paris
For years, the 36-year-old editor has been a fixture at For-
mula One races. But for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, she even
regularly misses out on the Canadian Grand Prix. “Nowhere
am I closer to the legend of motorsport than in the rainy
French province,” she says. PAGE 94
MARC SPITZ
Music Journalist and Author, New York
The “nerd from Long Island,” as he describes himself, rocked
as a DJ in the 1990s before dedicating himself to writing.
He worked for the rock and pop magazine Spin, among
others. The 39-year-old author, who long lived like a rock
star himself, is currently researching for a biography of
David Bowie. In the meantime, he visited the cult sites of
American music. PAGE 86
GIORGIO BARRERA
Photographer, Milan
“To discover this kind of futurism in such a rural setting was
fascinating to me,” says the 40-year-old photographer. He
took his camera in search of traces of a hot-blooded Italian:
Lamborghini. PAGE 102
JULIA KARULINA
Business Journalist, Moscow
“The rhythm of life here is much slower than in Moscow. You
don’t call anyone after 9 pm,” exclaimed the 29-year-old
journalist on her trip to Novosibirsk. The Moscow native and
writer for the business newspaper RBC daily takes a look into
the Audi brand’s success in the heart of Siberia. PAGE 32
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