My first day on the job full-time, I wrote a story about the video Audi made when they learned that Porsche was going to go racing in the World Endurance Championship. It might have seemed strange, seeing how Audi and Porsche fall under the same VW Group umbrella, but in truth the two companies, and even more so racing divisions, couldn’t be any more far apart, and the cordial teasing was both a welcome by Audi and a callout just the same…burnouts in the Porsche parking lot by an Audi R18 e-tron certainly wouldn’t go unnoticed or unchallenged.
However, Audi has recently announced that their WEC program is going to be shuttered in favor of Formula E, DTM touring car racing, and possibly their rally program, and Porsche has decided to wish Audi well by making a video of their very own. The same farmer, the same Porsche tractor, and possibly the same jogger in Stuttgart all make a reappearance, and the message is still very clear on the pavement in front of Porsche headquarters…
snark, expert level.