Uma ningabalandeli beFormula E, nizokwazi ukuthi kuneqembu laseJalimane elibizwa ABT-Schaeffler. Abaningi benu bazokwazi labo abangabanye babaqeqeshi abasemthethweni be-Audi kusukela yasungulwa, i-ABT Sportsline.
Le nkampani yaseJalimane, ezinze eKempten, yayikhona kudalwe ngo-1970 ngu-Johann Abt, umshayeli womjaho wase-Abarth. Kwaze kwafika ngo-2002, lapho i-ABT, kanye ne-Audi, idala i-TT-R, esetshenziswe ku-DTM yaseJalimane, nokuthi umshayeli waseFrance u-Laurent Aïello wawina isihloko ngalowo nyaka.
Njengoba ezinye izinhlobo ezifana neJaguar noma iRenault sezenzile, isizini ka-2017-2018, eqala ngoDisemba, izoba imakwe ngokufakwa kwe-Audi ohlwini lwale miqhudelwano kagesi ehlala umuntu oyedwa.
I-Audi izoba, okwamanje, i uphawu lwaseJalimane kuphela emqhudelwaneni, nakuba i-BMW inokubambisana ezicini zobuchwepheshe neThimba le-American Andretti Formula E (ithimba elifanayo u-Alonso agijima nalo ku-Indianapolis 24H), futhi ngaphezu kwalokho, Imoto Yokuphepha kulesi sigaba i-BMW i8. AbakwaMercedes abakwazanga ukusala ngemuva, futhi bacabanga ukungena kuFormula E ngesizini ka-2018-2019, okungaba yizindaba ezinhle zokuqhubekisela phambili lesi sigaba esisha esinabadlali abangabodwa.
I-Audi, ebizibandakanya ngokungaqondile kuFormula E kusukela kwasungulwa lo mkhakha ngo-2014 ngokweseka i-ABT Sportsline, izolawula ngokwenza Iqembu le-Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler. Baphinde bakha igiya elisha lokugijima lesizini entsha.
"I-Audi ukuba iwuphawu lokuqala lwaseJalimane ukuzibandakanya ngokugcwele kwisizini ezayo ye-Formula E kuwukuzibophezela okucacile komkhiqizo wethu ekuhambeni kukagesi," kusho uPeter Mertens, oyiLungu loMnyango Wokuthuthukiswa Kobuchwepheshe kwa-Audi.
Isitatimende sikaPeter Mertens asilutho ngaphandle kokuqinisekiswa kwalokho ebesikukhuluma izinsuku eziningi, uhlobo lwe-Ingolstadt luzohamba ngogesi kanye ne-hybrid ngaphambi kuka-2020, ngamamodeli amasha nokuhluka okusha kwamanje.