Audi has announced the signing of Ralph Boschung, who has joined the F1 team as a development driver.<\/p>\n
Audi is preparing for its first full season in F1 this year, entering its own works team for the first time.<\/p>\n
It got its pre-season preparations underway last month in Barcelona before travelling to Bahrain for the second winter test.<\/p>\n
Nico Hulkenberg and Gabriel Bortoleto form its full-time driver line-up, having been partnered together at Sauber last year as the team prepared for the Audi takeover.<\/p>\n
Assisting the duo with the development of the R26 car this year will be Boschung, who will play an active role at Audi’s factory as the German manufacturer commences a new era.<\/p>\n
\u201cNew development driver \u2013 building the future with us,\u201d\u00a0read a short statement from Audi.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are proud to welcome Swiss driver Ralph Boschung as our development driver. Congratulations on taking the next step with us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boschung is a Formula 2 veteran as he spent several seasons in the junior formulae, winning one race and taking several more podiums.<\/p>\n
He last raced full-time in 2023, which was his last season on the F2 grid.<\/p>\n
Boschung joins Freddie Slater at the team, with the latter part of the newly formed Audi junior programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audi has announced the signing of Ralph Boschung, who has joined the F1 team as a development driver.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-484132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-calendar","13":"tag-f1-live","14":"tag-f1-results","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-ferrari","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-lewis-hamilton","20":"tag-max-verstappen","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}