Audi confirmed that they will be pulling out of the WEC programme last week and this morning sources are confirming that VW will end it’s WRC programme at the end of this year. The meeting was held in Wolfsburg yesterday morning where the announcement was made but also vowed to retain the 200 employees at its Volkswagen Motorsport division, with plans for them to focus on the VW Golf TCR customer car and other motorsport programmes within the Volkswagen Group, possibly including Skoda’s rally programme.
Despite developing an all-new Polo WRC to 2017 WRC regulations, Volkswagen does not intend to provide it to customer teams.
